Literary
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Margaret Irwin [Margaret Irwin]

CHAPTER TWELVE The light burnt all night in Lambeth Palace, where Archbishop Cranmer sat, writing the new English Prayer Book that was to make a new land of saints from ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Thomas Bernhard [Bernhard, Thomas]

ALSO BY THOMAS BERNHARD FROST A young man has accepted an unusual assignment, to travel to a miserable mining town in the middle of nowhere in order to clinically—and secretly—observe ...
( Category: World Literature August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Eggers

When I came to, everyone was gone, except for Mattie and Nora. Get up, Mattie said. He had the toe of his boot under my skull. Nora was still on ...
( Category: United States August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

Basil studied the address book with care. “Finding a new home for the Connollies,” he said. “Basil, we must do something to that poor child’s head before we pass her ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [WAUGH, EVELYN]

Eight Constantine’s Great Treat No one had really expected the Empress Dowager to come to the Jubilee. The invitation had been sent as a matter of form. The acceptance caused ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:T.C. Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

Chapter 5 Kellogg’s Kink Will had been hung over before—in fact, given the slow spiritual death of his managerial position at his father’s plant, combined with Eleanor’s descent into the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Magris, Claudio [Magris, Claudio]

44 WHAT’S THAT RED GLOW, a huge lit cigarette in the already darkened room? Oh, the closed-circuit television, the announcement of the group session, in the large auditorium on floor ...
( Category: Literary August 16,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Ungar, Hermann [Ungar, Hermann]

When Polzer returned from the bank a few days later, Dora was sitting in his room with Frau Porges. Dora was crying. Karl had been sent to the sanitarium. Although ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Erica Bauermeister [Bauermeister, Erica]

The WALKABOUT Christ, Abby sighed, looking at the glacial impasse of her mother’s closet, she’d never get her moved out of here. She’d heard stories from her friends—they were all ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Swanson, Denise [Swanson, Denise]

CHAPTER 15 Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Skye backed slowly away from the door, afraid the stress of the wedding had finally made her lose her mind and she was ...
( Category: Mystery August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Barnhardt, Wilton [Barnhardt, Wilton]

Jeannette When her granddaughter shot her new husband, Jeannette Jarvis was down for her afternoon nap, which extended into evening because she had taken Christmas Dinner at Lattamore Acres—exiled from ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Providence Rose had a dream about Anna. This was after she had gone away and left Anna behind. She dreamed she met Anna walking up Gonzales Hill. She knew she ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:David Vann

13 DESERT THE HOME OF THE BIBLE. WE COME FROM DESERT. We’re meant to walk across dry ground, meant to breathe dry wind. This open glade of dry grass grown ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Lodge, David [Lodge, David]

PART IV 1 whhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the ...
( Category: British & Irish August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:J. A. Johnstone

Dr. McNally was waiting for them when they got back that afternoon. With a worried frown on his face, he said to Morgan, “I don’t know if gallivanting around all ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )