Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Giordano, Paolo [Giordano, Paolo]

26 Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. When he was nineteen, Denis found an advertisement ...
( Category: Family Life May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

11 THE WINTER WAS DRAWING ON in New York and for Dr. Liang the best part of the year was at hand. Now that he had got used to a ...
( Category: Literary May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Peg Cochran

Chapter 11 Gigi watched as the two patrol cars slowed to a stop in front of Martha’s house. She ordered herself to run, but her feet refused to move. Of ...
( Category: Literary May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Pat Conroy

Chapter Twenty-five If I had to say what I loved most about the city of Charleston, I would say that I loved the stillness and leisure of its early Sunday ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Peter Mayle

Twelve The following morning, Max confronted his battered reflection in the shaving mirror, lifting the strip of dishcloth to inspect the livid welt above his left eye. Apart from some ...
( Category: Mystery May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

PARIS WAS IN THE MIDST OF AUGUST HEAT. It was a changeable city, and he had loved it immediately, partly because it was changeable and difficult to understand and therefore ...
( Category: Literary May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Virgin Earth

John stayed with the Hoberts for eight nights and when he left, the field before their house was cleared of all big roots, and they had a crop of tobacco ...
( Category: Family Saga May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-27 | Author:Wilbur Smith

threat of the English guns his forces in those possessions have remained loyal to him, and have resisted our efforts to cast down the tyrant." "In God's name, you and ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Walter Wangerin Jr.

There was movement there in the dim light, as if the animals were waking up. But that movement was all pretending, since not one of them had been asleep. No ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Walter Wangerin Jr.

[Fifteen] John’s Pure Joy Oh, the Weasel was in his element now! There was nowhere where the winter was not, nor anywhere where Critters did not worry about their next ...
( Category: Epic May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Wilton Barnhardt

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: Literary May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:William Trevor

14 Miss Connulty’s overnight lodgers one by one awoke in answer to the clamour of the alarm clock supplied in every room. Each stilled the peremptory summons, stretched and yawned, ...
( Category: Literary May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wally Lamb

My mother and I have the same hands. I stretch mine across the visiting room table and we touch fingertips. “My nails are all broken,” I say. “My nails are ...
( Category: Criminology May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Wayne Johnston

FIELDING’S JOURNAL, JANUARY 17, 1932 Dear Father: You were a doctor, a “chest man,” scornful of your profession because you loved your patients and pitied them for having no one ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William T. Vollmann

He had read Snow Country long ago one Arctic summer in Pond Inlet when people were hunting narwhals. Pond Inlet lies considerably north of Churchill, and the landscape is different. ...
( Category: Short Stories May 7,2014 )