Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Carol Birch [Birch, Carol]

‘To Jaf,’ he said, knocking it back. ‘Wil you real y retire?’ I asked. We were back on the fo’c’s’le deck. Simon had gone down and got his fiddle and ...
( Category: Biographical September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]

Mhouse sat on the mattress, cross-legged, facing him, munching crisps and drinking wine from the bottle. It was like a midnight feast, Adam thoughtthen, a second later, the school analogy ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Don Delillo [Delillo, Don]

"I'm David Bell," I said. "I got confused. I meant Dick Davis." "Freudian slip," I said. "They say if you use somebody's name like that by mistake it means you ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Teju Cole [Cole, Teju]

TEN I was running across Lagos with my sister. We were doing a marathon, and having to push vagrants and street dogs out of our way. But I have no ...
( Category: Urban Life September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Elizabeth Berg [Berg, Elizabeth]

19 Late Monday night, John peers at his bedside clock and tells Amy, “It’s after one, on a school night. We should go to sleep.” “First tell me just a ...
( Category: Family Life September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Hannah Pittard [Pittard, Hannah]

13 Of course Nora got pregnant again. Of course the only two times she’d ever had sex she ended up pregnant. Because if sex wasn’t for pleasure, then it had ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

On the feast-day of Jean-Etienne Delacour, the following dishes had been prepared on the instructions of his daughter-in-law, Mme Amélie: bouillon, the beef which had been boiled in it, a ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Kim Edwards [Edwards, Kim]

Aristotle’s Lantern 129 “I know how you feel,” I said, trying to stay calm. “You can’t possibly,” he snapped, and something in me broke loose. “You’re right,” I said, preparing ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-24 | Author:Jo Ann Beard [Beard, Jo Ann]

“Stop giving me subliminal suggestions,” I tell Maroni that afternoon. “You’re the one who had the dream, not me,” she says. We’re sitting out gym class, waiting for Felicia to ...
( Category: Coming of Age September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-06 | Author:Leila Meacham [Meacham, Leila]

Chapter Thirty-seven The old year ended, and 1922 brought about improvements and acquisitions for the various enterprises of Howbutker’s triumvirate. In Mary’s absence, Hoagy Carter had managed Somerset with surprising ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-16 | Author:Jim Lynch [Lynch, Jim]

21 BRANDON FOUND it hard to track what Patera was saying. We need to be on full alert, as usual. Nothing has changed, understand? So be ready. His words seemed ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Olga Grushin [Grushin, Olga]

Some hours later, reclining in the backseat of his Volga, Sukhanov watched lit rectangles of lower-floor windows emerge from the evening shadows and then slowly glide backward and out of ...
( Category: Political September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Aimee Bender [Bender, Aimee]

23 My brother’s first formal disappearance—formal meaning someone else was around besides me—happened right before his high-school graduation. The day of. It was a gloomy June afternoon, skies a dirty ...
( Category: Coming of Age September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-11-15 | Author:Diane Setterfield [Setterfield, Diane]

Halfway through a game, she tilted her head. She couldn’t exactly hear it, but her inner ear, which was tuned constantly to her twin, told her Adeline was calling her. ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver [Kingsolver, Barbara]

The New York Times, August 25, 1940 U.S. Forbids Entry of Trotsky’s Body No Specific Reason Is Cited, but Fear of Demonstration Is Believed Cause SOVIET CALLS HIM TRAITOR PRESS ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2014 )