Literary
epub |eng | 2020-05-26 | Author:Elliot Ackerman [Ackerman, Elliot]

* * * The street was empty and Peter hiked along its center. The mist had slickened the cobblestones and asphalt. The grade was steep. He lost his footing once ...
( Category: Family Life May 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-18 | Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde [Hyde, Catherine Ryan]

Chapter Fourteen Molly: Special Delivery I thought about going back, but I didn’t go back. I don’t mean to that awful foster family, because I never thought about going back ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Wayson Dinan

11:00 P.M. Boyd, asleep on the ground. A smell on the air. The sea. The ancient animals passing through, stopping to gaze at the pool of trapped river perch. And ...
( Category: Magical Realism May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Joe Siple [Siple, Joe]

Chapter Twenty Benedict Cashman and I didn’t get off on the right foot, that much I can tell you. If it was up to me, I’d have nothing to do ...
( Category: Family Life May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Lionel Shriver

Eight “I’m not saying we’re about to split up,” she blurted to her father-in-law in March, after yet another painful pause. When at a total loss for conversation, she ended ...
( Category: Family Life May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Dale Pendell [Pendell, Dale]

April 10, near Boca We passed a Precle highway sign, very large and high, supported by heavy steel girders, which said “weigh station,” so we must be near the old ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary May 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Jane Mount [Mount, Jane]

Viking Kestrel 1988 hardcover, art by Quentin Blake “My favorite book of all time is Matilda by Roald Dahl. I was already a well-established ‘reader’ by the time it found ...
( Category: Renaissance May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Şebnem İşigüzel [İşigüzel, Şebnem]

“Istanbul, don’t forget me. If you do, damn you to fucking hell!” “I may not have had that panoramic view, but when I closed my eyes, I could see it.” ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Scott Harrison [Harrison, Scott]

Charities never did that. Charities shamed you for having money, and then begged you to hand it over. They didn’t seem to spend much time thinking about the wants and ...
( Category: Study Guides May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-23 | Author:O. Henry

A Little Talk About Mobs “I see,” re­marked the tall gen­tle­man in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that an­other street car mo­tor­man in your city has nar­rowly ex­caped ...
( Category: Short Stories May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Herman Melville

Benito Cereno In the year 1799, Cap­tain Amasa De­lano, of Duxbury, in Mas­sachusetts, com­mand­ing a large sealer and gen­eral trader, lay at an­chor with a valu­able cargo, in the har­bor ...
( Category: Short Stories May 23,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Maggie O'Farrell [O'Farrell, Maggie]

gnes is sitting on the floor by the pallet, next to Judith, a cloth in her hand. She has been there all night: she will not rise, she will not ...
( Category: Biographical May 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Curtis Sittenfeld [Sittenfeld, Curtis]

* * * — On the weekend before the semester started, my brother Tony and I went to a movie—we saw Bugsy, starring Warren Beatty—and afterward, over cheeseburgers, Tony said, ...
( Category: Family Life May 21,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Nancy Turner

July 31, 1885 Savannah and I cleared the table and did dishes while the men talked. Later we sat on the porch and watched the south hills, as the sky ...
( Category: Westerns May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Susan Higginbotham [Higginbotham, Susan]

Palm Sunday Field, they called it when they could bear to talk of it—that terrible battle near Towton on March 29, 1461, that cost us—and England—so dear. For hours upon ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2020 )