Literary Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Lesley Hamilton

16 The Mountain of Mists sheltered me. I ate as the wild beasts, feeding upon summer’s fallen bounty, upon ripe berries and herbs and those roots and plants which Dubh ...
( Category: Biographical January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-26 | Author:Unknown

* * * She’d considered it. On the night she’d been taken, she was dragged shouting and struggling to the captain’s cabin, pushed inside and the door closed on her. ...
( Category: Romance January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Ricardo Bare

Chapter 20 JACK’S GOING FISHING. A long cane pole swishes at his side. A bucket hangs from his other hand, containing a clump of string and a sack full of ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jackson Ellis

Chapter 15 My eyes popped open wide, and a chill ran down my spine. Had I dreamed that deep, booming roll of thunder? No. A second clap echoing the first ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Rosamond Lehmann

A Sea-Grape Tree A Novel For Hugo and Mollie with love Every evening, before the hour of sunset, Princess, the young maidservant, starts to light the lamps in the hotel: ...
( Category: Psychological January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-11 | Author:Lars Mytting

A Waterlogged Bell Rope Breakfast passed rather too quietly. The melancholy of parting and the thrill of a forthcoming journey should have filled the moment, Victor was leaving tomorrow, with ...
( Category: Sagas January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Reilly

Chapter Fifteen “Tell me, Brendan, have yeh finished yer Christmas shopping?” Maw said, as Gavin and I helped her clear the table for the last do of the night. “‘Finished’ ...
( Category: Humor January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Beryl Bainbridge

Lt. Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers July 1911 Mid-winter night fell on June 22nd. We had an orgy, and no wonder, for on that date the sun began to turn back. ...
( Category: British & Irish January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Loewenstein

CHAPTER TWENTY “BUSY?” “Very funny,” Etha said, putting down a shabby copy of Radioland. Temple’s topcoat released a billow of fresh air as he strolled into the bedroom. Etha, trapped ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Preston

Dear Scott, Forgive me for being a “Romantic Egoist,” but I thought I recognized myself in your wonderful new book. The meeting between Isabelle and Amory at the Minnehaha Club ...
( Category: Biographical January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Rosamond Lehmann

Part Two It was then the time began when there wasn’t any time. The journey was in the dark, going on without end or beginning, without landmarks, bearings lost: asleep? ...
( Category: British & Irish January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Joan Wilking

EIGHT Nothing new took root. That season a scar remained on the earth where the Amanita once stood. At first the cluster was shocked by the sudden disappearance. The spot ...
( Category: Sagas January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-17 | Author:Mari Anne Christie

Chapter Forty * * * Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 19, 1863 The unloaded gun clattered onto the hard-packed dirt at the far end of the outdoor shooting gallery—the third such incident ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Lorene Cary [Cary, Lorene]

13 In half an hour, I composed myself enough to call Bill on the telephone and postpone our date. We waited a week, during which I worked and treated myself ...
( Category: Black & African American January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Patty Dann

Chapter 15 “It’s a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch.” —Ecuadorian Proverb The next day was Saturday. I still had six weeks to prepare for Mrs. ...
( Category: Humor January 16,2023 )