Literary
epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]

On the morning after the Lovelocks' disturbed night, Violet rang the surgery to ask if Doctor Lovell would call to see her sister. 'Doctor Lovell,' said the new young receptionist, ...
( Category: British & Irish August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amit Chaudhuri

School had begun again, the first troubles were behind them, and, in addition to the faint moustache that had formed on Mohit’s upper lip and proclaimed his gradual farewell to ...
( Category: British & Irish August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Ali McNamara

Twenty-One Sean and I stood on the pavement in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe. We’d been in Paris for most of the day, visiting the many Louis Vuitton ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Lauren Fox [Fox, Lauren]

Chapter Eighteen “Does anyone really know how to pick out a cantaloupe?” Ben lifts a leathery melon, strokes it gently, brings it to his face. “Are you ripe?” he whispers. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-11 | Author:Sjon [Sjon]

It is time to introduce a contemporary of Jónas Pálmason the Learned, a man who not only authored the natural history treatise, ‘The account of an animal which falls from ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kennedy

KURT UNPLUGS You know who else was as moody as Madonna? Kurt Cobain. If you wore cardigans, knocked up a heroin-addled Courtney Love, and tried unsuccessfully and repeatedly to kick ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-18 | Author:Kate Jacobs [Jacobs, Kate]

The only thing she could keep up with was the recycling—all the empty takeout boxes had to go. That much Darwin could keep straight. Because if she didn't do even ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Margo Catts

18 Mindy had insisted on paying me back for my minimal babysitting by taking both children the next afternoon. She said she had some yard work to do and Kevin ...
( Category: Literary August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anita Hughes

chapter fifteen Serena slipped on her yellow Lilly Pulitzer dress and strapped on white leather sandals. She tied her ponytail with a yellow ribbon and coated her lips with lipgloss. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Sarah Faber

HUGO In the morning, Hugo wakes early, but Dora has already left the house. Quietly, he goes into the office, locks the door behind him, and again forces open the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:Arthur Schnitzler

AFTERWORD A LONGING for late fame awakes in Eduard Saxberger at an advanced age, when the Wanderings, the lyrical work of the early years in which he wrote poetry, is ...
( Category: World Literature August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cathleen Schine [Schine, Cathleen]

28 The first night alone was long and she paced from the living room to the bedroom in her nightgown, like a ghost, a skinny, crabby old ghost. The sirens ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Sarah Meehan Sirk

A ROAD IN THE RAIN It was the crack of her voice in the message that made me go. Raspy, sleepless. Asking could I please get the rest of the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Jessica Brockmole

Francie and Beryl lie on a blanket beneath a sky overflowing with stars. FRANCIE (wondering) There isn’t room up there for heaven. BERYL You can’t say things like that, Fran. ...
( Category: Literary August 21,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

Orwell of course could be discouragingly pessimistic at times. But for light relief there was always Evelyn Waugh, who in his Decline and Fall had taught me that even original ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 21,2017 )