Contemporary
epub |eng | 2004-04-05 | Author:Mary Higgins Clark [Clark, Mary Higgins]

Laura Her knees weak, Jean sank onto the bed. Then, crying with relief and joy, she dialed Sam's cell phone. *** Jean's call jolted Sam from the peaceful nap he ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Night Train to Rigel [Rigel, Night Train to]

FOURTEEN : The morning work crews dribbled into the ready room as I sat on the far side of a nearby lounge pretending to read the latest Quadrail-delivered Intragala News. ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Night Work [Work, Night]

the narrators sang. They hit me. They hurt me. They stripped me. The guards. Over and over the last four lines were chanted, faster and faster. The guards sprouted gray ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:Meagan McKinney [McKinney, Meagan]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN "Wait!" Brienne laughed, and her breath trailed behind her in frigid little puffs. She ran through the dormant kitchen gardens and headed toward the waiting coach. Beneath her ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-09 | Author:Tess Monaghan 09 - No Good Deeds (v5) [Deeds, Tess Monaghan 09 - No Good]

18 Miss Monaghan?” Tess was used to being accosted anywhere, anytime in Baltimore, her personal and professional identities forever overlapping. Relatives crashed meetings with clients when she was foolhardy enough ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Jane Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Jane]

David Taylor rode in wearing a smile on his face. He looked at Oltipa as though she were a well-loved flower. Color rose on his neck when he saw her, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]

Chapter 6 A CHRISTMAS MEMORY MISS QUINN woke with a start, and sat bolt upright in bed. Close at hand a church clock was striking midnight, and its pulsing rhythm ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Neil Gordon [Gordon, Neil]

3. By 8:45 the entrance to Union Station was thick with people, a line of taxis perhaps fifteen long dropping off and picking up in front, buses arriving down the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

Chapter V WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING BETWEEN TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS OF MIRGOROD Ivan Ivanovich had only just finished his household chores and gone out, as usual, to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Dorothea Benton Frank [Frank, Dorothea Benton]

Part Three CHRISTMAS DAY I knew it was Christmas morning as the warm first light of day washed across the foot of my bed. Something was different; I mean beyond ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-09-04 | Author:Robin Jenkins [Robin Jenkins]

CHAPTER EIGHT Lady Runcie-Campbell burst out laughing; she was still astonished, but she was also fond and proud. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘aren’t you the complete democrat? But don’t overdo it, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-12-14 | Author:John Irving (author) [Irving, John]

When Homer Wells read the questionnaire sent him by the St. Cloud's board of trustees, he did not know exactly what made him anxious. Of course Dr. Larch and the ...
( Category: Literary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1981-05-14 | Author:Morris West [West, Morris]

“It’s a gentle thought.” “You know Monsieur Duhamel perhaps? He’s a very important man, the President’s right hand, they say.” “By repute,” said Jean Marie carefully. The child slipped from ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Nella Larsen & Charles Larson & Marita Golden [Larsen, Nella & Larson, Charles & Golden, Marita]

Ninteen That night riotous and colorful dreams invaded Helga Crane’s prim hotel bed. She woke in the morning weary and a bit shocked at the uncontrolled fancies which had visited ...
( Category: United States September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Flannery O'Connor [O’Connor, Flannery]

You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )