Literary
epub |eng | 1989-08-25 | Author:Carver, Raymond [Carver, Raymond]

"Stunned him?" the barber said. "You know, stun him," the guard said. "It was a gut shot. It just like stuns him. So he drops his head and begins this ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Yan, Mo [Yan, Mo]

———— 2 ———— Zhao Jia flagged down a donkey-drawn coal cart and accompanied the injured official to a broken-down little temple outside Xizhi Gate, where a tall, lanky young man ...
( Category: Historical November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Filipacchi, Amanda [Filipacchi, Amanda]

I skip work again the next day. I stay home, sit on my couch, and think about what I should do. Eventually I handcuff myself to the refrigerator. After a ...
( Category: Literary November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]

Chapter 8 IT WAS what a prince did. “We both know that I won’t be the maahes of this tribe once Jin leaves,” Crane argued. “I’m leaving with him.” “I ...
( Category: Fantasy November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Black, Benjamin [Black, Benjamin]

13 Phoebe had moved the previous winter from a bed–sitting room in Baggot Street to a flat in Herbert Place. She had hesitated over moving there, since that was where ...
( Category: Historical November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Conant, Susan [Conant, Susan]

Stranger stop as you pass by As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you shall be Prepare for death, and follow me. I scanned ...
( Category: Mystery November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:Shelley Adina [Adina, Shelley]

Chapter 18 Andrew Malvern had not known that James, always so hearty and hail-fellow-well-met, was a proud man. But it was quite plain that he possessed that vice, and that ...
( Category: Steampunk November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Alan Bennett [Bennett, Alan]

October 1981 The curtain is drawn aside this morning and Miss S. still in what I take to be her nightclothes talks of ‘the discernment of spirits’ that enabled her ...
( Category: British & Irish November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

The Kolynos Kid FROM AYAH TO WIDOW, I’ve been the sort of person to whom things have been done; but Saleem Sinai, perennial victim, persists in seeing himself as protagonist. ...
( Category: Family Saga November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 1984-08-25 | Author:Carver, Raymond [Carver, Raymond]

The two essays were written in 1981, and I was asked to write them. In one case, an editor at the New York Times Book Review wanted me to write ...
( Category: United States November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

Now trees their leafy hats do bare To reverence Winter's silver hair; A handsome hostess, merry host, A pot of ale now and a toast, Tobacco and a good coal ...
( Category: United States November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Boyle, T. C. [Boyle, T. C.]

The Tortilla Curtain 3 SMOKE ROSE FROM THE BARBECUE IN FRAGRANT ginger-smelling tufts as Delaney basted the tofu kebabs with his special honey-ginger marinade and Jordan chased a ball round ...
( Category: Movements & Periods November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

ON THE DAY OF Miss Tamblyn’s death it happened that Louisa was staying in the Commercial Hotel. She was a traveller then for a company that sold hats, ribbons, handkerchiefs ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Richard Russo [Russo, Richard]

27 My father liked to wait until he was sure winter was finished before he went back to work on the road. That meant May, even when spring came in ...
( Category: Literary November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Maupin, Armistead [Maupin, Armistead]

North to Alaska PRUE GIROUX WAS WEARING HEELS, FRANNIE NOTED. Stiletto heels on which she tottered precariously as she made her way along the rain-slick Promenade Deck of the Sagafjord. ...
( Category: LGBT November 6,2014 )