Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 1991-03-01 | Author:Jance, J. A. [Jance, J. A.]

Chapter 15 I hurried up to the fifth floor and sat at my desk poring over the AFIS report as if reading the same black-and-white words over and over again ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Hénaff, Sophie [Hénaff, Sophie]

Lewitz cast his spirit level to one side and went to fetch the plumb line from his toolbox. He held it up to the top corner of the bookcase that ...
( Category: Humor September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:James, M. R. [James, M. R.]

Grateful as Humphreys was to the memory of his uncle, he could not quite forgive him for having burnt the journals and letters of the James Wilson who had gifted ...
( Category: Short Stories September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Carré, John le [Carré, John le]

Reluctantly Smiley approached the group. Rode was rather to one side, the D’Arcys were there, and three or four members of the staff. No one was talking much. “Mr. Rode?” ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-06 | Author:Ava Becker [Becker, Ava]

Chapter 26 - Scarlett Sweetie, can you come see us? We’re in New York till tomorrow night. I read my mother’s text with a sense of dread and indignation. She ...
( Category: Romance September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 1840-09-01 | Author:Jr., Richard Henry Dana & Kinder, Gary [Jr., Richard Henry Dana & Kinder, Gary]

CHAPTER XXVII The only other vessel in the port was a Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we found to be Quakers,) and having on ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-29 | Author:Donoghue, Emma [Donoghue, Emma]

Virgin, n., a woman unacquainted with men. Scrat, n., a goblin, monster, devil, hermaphrodite. Love, n., the passion between the sexes. Grubble, v., to feel in the dark. She’s blushing, ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Cohen, Stuart Archer [Cohen, Stuart Archer]

2 Green-Screen Universe The jet lag was not working in his favor. When Charlie called about meeting at the bar, he was so tired he could barely get out of ...
( Category: Satire September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Doctorow, E. L. [Doctorow, E. L.]

TWO YEARS LATER, Jolene was living alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had heard from a truck driver at a whistle stop in north Texas, where she was waiting tables, that ...
( Category: Short Stories September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-23 | Author:Jonasson, Jonas & Willson-Broyles, Rachel [Jonasson, Jonas & Willson-Broyles, Rachel]

CHAPTER 34 Two days before the formal opening of the Church of Anders, it was time to launch the latest priestly idea—that is, another donation with national uproar as the ...
( Category: Satire September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-23 | Author:Ellison, J. T. [Ellison, J. T.]

She paced until Simeon Chase sent her a text that he had the data ready. She sent him Lincoln’s way, knowing between the two of them, they’d find something worth ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Doctorow, E. L. [Doctorow, E. L.]

There had to be an end to winter or an end to us. By the time March came in I was ready, like Isaac Maple, to bet with the winter. ...
( Category: Sagas September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Keneally, Thomas [Keneally, Thomas]

Welcoming the Camel EVEN BEFORE TED’S death, I had returned to Eritrea to make another documentary, this time about the war and the sort of society the Eritreans seemed to ...
( Category: Biographical September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Kennedy, A. L. [Kennedy, A. L.]

drop Once he’d calmed himself, the being a stretcher-case job was not half bad. Alfred was bumped about and clattered down here and there for the best part of the ...
( Category: British & Irish September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 1859-11-26 | Author:Dickens, Charles & Shuckburgh, John [Dickens, Charles & Shuckburgh, John]

XIX. An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the ...
( Category: Historical September 12,2024 )