Contemporary
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Waugh, Evelyn [Evelyn, Waugh]

III In the last week before the birth of her child, Lucy began for the first time to betray impatience; she was never, at any time, at all apprehensive—merely bored ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Graham McNeill [McNeill, Graham]

Dining room and comprising several courses, a wide selection of wines, and a grand fire burning in the iron grate. Angus Mengsk sat at one end of the long rosewood ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-12-31 | Author:Judith Gould [Gould, Judith]

Snake was in a rage. His tawny eyes blazed with a crazed light and he roared curses into the wind. The killing fever that gripped him in a chokehold was ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Arthur Schnitzler

I WAS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD at that time, and it was my seventh duel-not my own, but the seventh in which I participated as a second. You can smirk if ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]

Amery had emerged, irate and intent on retribution. The young Churchill had apologized, “I”m sorry,” he explained, “but I mis-took you for a Fourth Former. You are so small.” His ...
( Category: British & Irish September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:John Gardner

5 It was Doc Cathey who brought up the question of funeral arrangements. When he’d finished looking Simon over he sat with his hands on his knees, opposite his patient, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Lahaye, Tim & Jenkins, Jerry B. [Lahaye, Tim & Jenkins, Jerry B.]

* * * Rayford was on the phone with Amanda. She had filled him in on everything. “I miss you more than ever right now,” he told her. “Having me ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-02 | Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]

The departure of Sam and Bella Curdle had repercussions in the community. John Donne's dictum about no man being an island is truer in a village, perhaps, than in any ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Linda Lael Miller [Miller, Linda Lael]

* * * Twenty I remained hospitalized until the following Wednesday morning—a long time, by today's HMO, Gong Show standards. Considering that the medical establishment had been known to perform ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Edie Claire [Claire, Edie]

He smiled, but not sincerely. It seemed more of a polite gesture. "There's one thing I have to know, though. And I'm not asking for my own petty reasons. I'm ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Eddings, David & Eddings, Leigh [Eddings, David & Eddings, Leigh]

C H A P T E R T W E N T Y - S E V E N We’ve got work to do,” Althalus told the others in a ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Parshall

36 WILL CHAMBERS DECIDED TO SPEND the rest of the afternoon visiting some old haunts in New York, since he had not been there for several years. The last time ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Lisa T. Bergren

CHAPTER 19 It was well past midnight when we returned to camp, me riding behind Lord Greco. He positioned guards on the outside of all four sides of the tent. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Rex Stout [Stout, Rex]

“That will do.” Wolfe turned to her. “That, mademoiselle, was a courteous and reasonable appeal. I do not often appeal to anyone like that; I am too conceited. I did ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:M. J. Rose [Rose, M. J.]

Chapter 36 Sophia Lombardo interrupted before Malachai could stop her. “She’s always played this little game that she’s a woman named Claudia.” “For how long?” “Ever since she could talk.” ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )