epub |eng | 2022-12-01 | Author:Caroline Laurent [Laurent, Caroline]

They knew, and they didn’t speak up. They could have helped, and they didn’t. They bled bodies and minds dry. Their indifference was a crime. They’re powerful, Mama, these ghostly ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-25 | Author:Renée Rosen [Rosen, Renée]

* * * — ONE DAY, AFTER a colleague at the jewelry counter had assured me that my prongs were fine and that my stone was secure, I went to ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Phyllis H. Moore [Moore, Phyllis H.]

epub |eng | | Author:Lona Manning

Chapter Sixteen Fanny lay on a wicker chaise under the trees, watching the children play nearby with the nursery maids. She was able to read and talk to them a ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Dan Scanell [Scannell, Dan]

Chapter 13 News From Home and a Difficult Encounter Journal Entry “The next morning, I roused myself at first light, and silently, so as not to awaken Gaudin, pulled on ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Alice Greenway [Greenway, Alice]

Iron Bottom Sound, Off Guadalcanal, En Route to the Solomon Islands, October 1942 The problem was that he saw those islands differently. To the other men, the Solomons were savage ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:John Broughton [Broughton, John]

Eighteen Pickering and Little Driffield, Yorkshire At Pickering police station, a pleasant modern building, Jake was disappointed not to have the reassuring presence of the sergeant at his interview. Instead, ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Tarjei Vesaas

Frank and Freda are both there when he comes in. They are hungry and are waiting for him impatiently. Freda is keeping their scanty meal warm. But they do not ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Štiks, Igor [Štiks, Igor]

On we went in silence. I didn’t have the courage to look at her. I told myself that an intelligent person should draw a conclusion from this. Hadn’t Alma allowed ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-02 | Author:Marianne Wiggins

FREEDOM of Speech. FREEDOM of Worship. FREEDOM from Want. FREEDOM from Fear. Well that’s a fucking laff, Svevo had said: WHOM ARE YE KIDDING? On his desk this morning there ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Michelle Aung Thin

Rain On that first night, the first night of the rioting, Jonathan woke abruptly. He had been dreaming of plums, the yellow plums his mother used to put out for ...

epub |eng | | Author:CK Stone

Chapter Six “Guys, breakfast is ready!” Martha shouted from the bottom of the steps. Her husband, Dave, walked into the kitchen holding Alice and placed her in her chair before ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Johnston

‘I heard y-y-y-ou. Are you all …?’ She crouched down gathering pieces of glass ineptly into her hand. ‘It was the thunder. The lightning. Such a flash of lightning. It ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Glenn Trust

Leaving the courthouse, the sheriff walked to his patrol car parked across the street. He spoke briefly into the radio. A few minutes later, Stringer and Collins pulled up and ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Nadene LeCheminant [LeCheminant, Nadene]

17 THINK NOT WHEN YOU GATHER TO ZION Think not when you gather to Zion, Your troubles and trials are through, That nothing but comfort and pleasure Are waiting in ...