Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Darcy Woods [Woods, Darcy]

20 Sucking in a breath, I crush my ear harder to the door. Footsteps! My heart flutters like a caged bird. I jump to my feet. “Help!” Pound-pound-pound. “Help! I’m ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Claire North [NORTH, CLAIRE]

Chapter 36 Sit upon a stone outside the hearth door, and watch the dinner guests depart. Krima vaMiyani talks to Yue, low, urgent, her eyes moving to every face. Krima ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-27 | Author:Maria Mutch [Mutch, Maria]

* * * This is no small thing, the spitting. The custom of which becomes the burnishing of otherness, a shorthand for fear, disgust, abhorrence. Rejection, formed in the mouth, ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-20 | Author:Hermione Hoby [Hoby, Hermione]

* * * — The first time I heard them shouting at each other, I woke to a room floodlit by the moon. They sounded ready to rip each other’s ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Alison Booth [Booth, Alison]

Not long after dinner that evening there was a ring at the front door. Zidra turned on the verandah light before opening the door. Her old friend Stella Papadopoulos stood ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-03 | Author:Jane Killick [Killick, Jane]

Chapter Twenty-One The whole of ThorGate’s operations on Mars were in turmoil after the shutdown of the Noctis site. The corporation still had a lot of projects running, but the ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-08 | Author:N.D. Roberts & Michael Anderle [Roberts, N.D.]

Ezekiel and Mary-Anne ran toward Lilith’s cavern with the Kurtherian’s screams rebounding off the walls around him. Esme looked the worse for wear when he entered the main cavern. Bruised ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-30 | Author:Margot Hunt [Hunt, Margot]

No one spoke much while we ate the pizza Nick had ordered. I didn’t take more than a few bites. The cheese was oily and congealed, and it sat heavily ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:P. J. Sky [Sky, P. J.]

Ari’s lungs contracted. In the darkness, tumbling beneath the waves, she lost all sense of direction. Desperately she clawed, and the heavy water dragged through her fingers. She struck a ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-28 | Author:Jack Vance [Vance, Jack]

*Kiv: five banks of resilient metal strips, fourteen to the bank, played by touching, twisting, twanging. *Stimic: three flute-like tubes equipped with plungers. Thumb and forefinger squeeze a bag to ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-09 | Author:Margot Radcliffe

CHAPTER NINE COLE SHOULD HAVE been in Spain. But then besides the death of his brother, he wasn’t really a man who particularly dealt in recriminations. He’d left Blair the ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-01 | Author:Jeff Young [Young, Jeff]

The blade turned toward him, and Avalem caught the other man’s wrist with both hands, once again feeling the slippery hot sensation of the Greal at work. The makers inside ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-02 | Author:Rupert Thomson [Thomson, Rupert]

* * * — RONNIE’S HOUSE didn’t disappoint me. Screened by a mature umbrella pine and a high stone wall topped with lavish sprays of bougainvillea, it wasn’t visible from ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-14 | Author:Laura Greene [Greene, Laura]

Almost there, she thinks, her heart is pounding and now the worst part is over. She is standing in the basement hallway. Good, no one saw me. Not wasting a ...
( Category: Children's Growing Up & Facts of Life Books September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-31 | Author:Tania Chandler

SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 1989 I don’t believe Shelley Cola. Dean doesn’t like me. He probably hates me. I don’t know why, but I think he does. Why can’t I forget ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 13,2021 )