Literary
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Dave Eggers

18 Most prophecies go unfulfilled. It’s just as well. The expectations Father Matong put upon me took many years to fade from the forefront of my mind. But thank God ...
( Category: Curricula December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Michael Morpurgo

Thursday, December 30th 1943 I still can’t find Tips. I’ve been looking for her all day today – and all yesterday too. I looked in every barn, every shed. Grandfather ...
( Category: Military & Wars December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1959-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Twelve Ma Joong and Chiao Tai stood waiting in the courtyard with three horses. After Judge Dee had inspected the horses, the three men swung themselves into the saddle, the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Colin Cotterill

17 Second Sunrise The second sunrise came at around 8 a.m. It was when the first sun had risen high enough to reflect from the golden dome of Xiang Thong ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Pauline Melville

McKinnon gave a whoop and put down the paper. He went over to a drawer where he kept a calendar. The trouble was he had no idea what the date ...
( Category: Literary December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Andrea Hirata

23 From my Room, Your Face Will not Take Flight In a book, I saw him riding a horse, holding onto the animal’s stomach like Kublai Khan. His eyes gleamed ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Matthew Pearl

Seventeen Dear Sir,—There is a gentleman, rather the worse for wear, at Ryan’s 4th Ward polls, who goes under the cognomen of Edgar A. Poe, and who appears in great ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Magnus Mills

8 “Vandalism,” said a voice nearby. “Sheer vandalism.” Glancing round I saw that I’d been joined by Horsefall. He was standing just behind me, gazing thoughtfully at the yellow mark. ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Unity Dow

Ten Just as rumours about Frieda and the bad things that she had done died down, my own sister Mmadira came home from Johannesburg, South Africa, with a distended belly ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1968-12-31 | Author:Henri Charrière

24 Solitary The boat was ready. Of the nineteen of us, ten were to go in the first lot. I was called. Dega said crisply, “No, he goes on the ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Jeanette Winterson

6 Joshua “There,” declared my mother, laying down the vacuum cleaner. “You could keep a coffin in here without feeling guilty, not a speck of dust anywhere.” Mrs White came ...
( Category: LGBT Literary Fiction December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1973-12-31 | Author:Bessie Head

Thirteen Kenosi came speeding down the small dusty brown road with the long, loping strides of a cat in haste. Her bent head nodded a little quicker than usual. It ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 8,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1959-12-31 | Author:Alan Sillitoe

Noah’s Ark While Jones the teacher unravelled. the final meanderings of Masterman Ready, Colin from the classroom heard another trundle of wagons and caravans rolling slowly towards the open spaces ...
( Category: Short Stories December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Deborah Moggach

6 The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself – the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair. ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Ross Raisin

16 It was mighty early, before the sun was all risen, when the first ewe dropped her young. We’d been up hours already, waiting for the start – me, Father ...
( Category: Literary December 8,2014 )