Home > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary
Contemporary
40.02 The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
mobi |eng | 1971-12-31 | Author:Roger Zelazny

Chapter 6 Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
99.32 Two to the Fifth by Piers Anthony
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Piers Anthony

Chapter 11: Play I just had the wildest dream," Cyrus exclaimed as he carefully let go of Rhythm so as not to seem to be clasping a child. "I think ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
06.01 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
mobi |eng | 1988-01-31 | Author:George Orwell

Chapter V Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
80.01 Wicked by Gregory Maguire
mobi |eng | 2002-11-10 | Author:Gregory Maguire

4 A few weeks later, when the children were having snowball battles, and Sarima was concocting some medicinal toddy in the kitchen, Elphie left her room at last and skulked ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
Target by Brian Freemantle
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Freemantle

24 Gerda was already waiting in Dr. Muller’s suite when Bohler arrived. For the first time since they met, she was wearing her hair loose, falling to her shoulders. Bohler ...
( Category: Mystery August 23,2017 )
32.01 Watership Down by Richard Adams
mobi |eng | 2000-08-30 | Author:Richard Adams [Adams, Richard]

28. At the Foot of the Hill Marvellous happy it was to be Alone, and yet not solitary. O out of terror and dark, to come In sight of home. ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
Charlotte by David Foenkinos
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:David Foenkinos [FOENKINOS, DAVID]

5 The Salomon family is eating lunch in silence. There’s a knock at the door. Charlotte looks at her father. Every sound is a menace. It cannot be otherwise. They ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
A Taste for Love by Marita Conlon-McKenna
epub |eng | | Author:Marita Conlon-McKenna

Chapter Twenty-five ‘What about a walk and lunch on Saturday?’ suggested Sally, as the three friends left the Monkstown parish fundraising coffee morning. ‘Hugh’s off playing golf most of the ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
The Silver Darlings by Neil M. Gunn
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Neil M. Gunn [Neil M. Gunn]

CHAPTER XV STORM AND PRECIPICE All through the night they fought the sea, manning the pump in turns, though they shipped little more than lashings of wave-tops, for Roddie’s hand ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
Mr. Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
epub |eng | 2003-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Aston

Mr. Portal asked me to explain the situation to you myself, and I refused, which was wrong of me. It might have been easier for you to have received the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
My Soul to Keep by Sharie Kohler
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:Sharie Kohler

THIRTEEN So,” Darby began mildly as Sorcha selected things from her luggage that she would need for her shower. Sorcha glanced at the younger woman where she lounged on the ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Yasunari Kawabata

5 The entertainers were carrying the same luggage they had hauled through Amagi Pass. The puppy rested his paws on the woman's arm, looking like a seasoned traveler. Just outside ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 23,2017 )
Mr. Darcy's Dream by Elizabeth Aston
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Aston

The minute that Mrs. Makepeace realised that the delay to the postboy and Mr. Rutland meant that Lady Redburn would arrive at any minute, she had flown into action. Rounding ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
epub |eng | 2006-08-23 | Author:Alessandro Baricco [Baricco, Alessandro]

Sarpedon • Telamonian Ajax • Hector Sarpedon There was that trench all around the wall that the Achaeans had built to protect their ships. Hector shouted to us to cross ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
Writing by Duras Marguerite
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:Duras, Marguerite [Duras, Marguerite]

I saw the sky and sunlight streaming through the trees; mutilated, black trees, also killed in the fields. I saw that the trees were still black. And then there was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )

First Prev [957] [958] [959] [960] 961 [962] [963] [964] [965] [966] [967] Next Last