epub |eng | 2022-09-27 | Author:Anca L. Szilágyi

* * * Binnie couldn’t sleep. It was well documented that Cornell liked the company of young women—, actresses, college students—and rarely admitted men into his basement studio to see ...

epub |eng | | Author:Antonio Lobo Antunes [Antunes, Antonio Lobo]

— We’ll send you a money order as soon as we get our pension we’ve never owed anyone ever not one penny lit by a single weak bulb in the ...

epub |eng | 1989-03-20 | Author:Louis Auchincloss

Well, Althea’s second marriage did last a year, but when it broke up it did so in a manner more sordid than even Adrian could have foretold. Once established in ...

epub |eng | 2021-12-09 | Author:Sophie Haydock [Haydock, Sophie]

Egon works for another hour. She gazes through the windows at the overgrown garden and watches the wind blow through the deadened shrubs. It has been a few years since ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerrard Tickell [Tickell, Jerrard]

13 Marie-Josephe ran quickly up the stairs and along the passage to her grandmother’s room. The grandmother was sitting in her high-backed chair by the window, her hands lightly clasped ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Bernard du Boucheron [DU BOUCHERON, BERNARD]

Nightfall. Two men were bickering on the ice. “Where did you see the great umiak?” “We were hunting seal, at the hole in the ice,” said the younger one. “Where ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mike Bond

* * * TROY CAME IN FROM THE COLD brushing ice off his clothes and inhaling the kitchen’s warm woodsmoke air. In the orphanage there was never any warmth. He ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-23 | Author:Roberta Kagan [Kagan, Roberta]

Chapter Thirty-Six Aiden needn’t have worried. Cyrus didn’t get the job. He returned to Mudwater Creek a little dejected but relieved at the same time. “I tried,” Cyrus told Aiden. ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Bao Ninh [Ninh, Bao]

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epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Claire Robertson

12 IN THESE LAST DAYS OF THE UNION, CAPTAIN TEICHERT IS gripped by the idea that something will happen to spoil or thwart the coming first day of the new ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Simon Finch [Simon Finch]

19 The Ceres set out from Platea the next morning, travelling along the southern periphery of the Mediterranean. Vesuvio noticed that Lucco kept his oarsmen at a leisurely pace, that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tanya E Williams [Williams, Tanya E]

Chapter 18 Monday, May 16, 1927 “Hazel Greenwood?” Ms. Thompson’s voice rises with her head from her clipboard and papers. The girl called Hazel steps forward. The slight hesitation in ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Susan Doherty Hannaford

CHAPTER THIRTEEN there was no obituary in the The Gazette or the Montreal Star. The private funeral was to be officiated by Father Gavin McMahon at eleven a.m. on Thursday, ...