epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:Deb Spera [Spera, Deb]

* * * The first birth I ever did by myself with Mama looking on was when Buck slid out of Miss Annie so fast I had to catch him. ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:Edward A. Farmer

CHAPTER 20 The pain grew in that certain part of Mr. Kern, deepening that summer, though the prideful man mentioned nothing of it until Silva discovered him half alive in ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-31 | Author:Laila Ibrahim [Laila Ibrahim]

Momma wasn’t back by the time May needed to eat, so Sadie decided to manage on her own. First she unwrapped the little girl to give her a clean diaper. ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Michael Hiebert [Hiebert, Michael]

CHAPTER 15 By the time we pulled into Holly Berry Ranch, my mother had fully regained her composure. She got out of the car and put on her hat. My ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde [Hyde, Catherine Ryan]

When I got to Connor’s house, things only went from bad to worse. His mom came to the door, then turned and walked away down the hall without saying a ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Johnson

VIII ~ ON THE DAY FOLLOWING OUR night at the “Club” we slept until late in the afternoon; so late that beginning search for work was entirely out of the ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Charles W. Chesnutt

XVII TWO LETTERS Warwick awaited events with some calmness and some philosophy, - he could hardly have had the one without the other; and it required much philosophy to make ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Seventeen Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, alone at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn’t see ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

FOOTNOTES: [36] In a manuscript record of the province, dated 1659, Library of the New York Historical Society, is the following mention of Indian money:—"Seawant, alias wampum. Beads manufactured from ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

And now for a time affairs went on swimmingly; money became as plentiful as in the modern days of paper currency, and, to use the popular phrase, "a wonderful impulse ...

epub |eng | 1999-02-24 | Author:Clarke, Breena

River, Cross M\ Hear: - U3 a root doctor has got a special charge to try to save a cat. Because a cat will take up youi bond if it ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rita Woods [Woods, Rita]

27 Winter When Josiah appeared at the door to her cottage, hours before sunrise, Winter had asked no questions, simply followed him into the dark woods. She’d have gone mad ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Jeffrey Colvin

Part Three Crowing Lyons and Crows Burlington, Vermont, November 1961 Why the hard face?” Luela asks Etienne as she exits the taxi in the driveway of his house. “Aren’t you ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Lawrence Reid Bechtel

With a good night’s sleep I felt better, and I came through the shop door the next mornin’ firmly resolved. “Well, look,” said Shady, “the one-handed cripple is back.” But ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-06 | Author:Daniel V. Meier Jr [Meier, Daniel V. Jr]

CHAPTER 21 SISTER ANGELINA I had been in Liberia long enough to feel the novelty wearing off. When I first arrived, there was something new every day. My senses were ...