Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick

Mud-streaked and laughing, stripped to his shirt and hose, Hugh avoided the leap of the Welsh youth and in the nick of time tossed the ball to his brother Ralph ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Thomas Mallon

Chapter Twenty-Five APRIL 30, 1973, 7:40 P.M. WHITE HOUSE SOLARIUM Pat Nixon stubbed out a cigarette before picking up a phone she was certain had no tape recorder attached to ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Kathryn Stockett

We lay the battered raw chicken on the rack. Then I have to remind the ding-dong for the bobillionth time to wash her hands before she kills us both. I ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Sara Houghteling

Chapter Fourteen WHEN I WROTE NEXT TO MONSIEUR LETHEZ, I received a reply in a feminine hand that he was now well enough to see me. So it was that ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Brooks, Geraldine [Brooks, Geraldine]

XII I woke to a clatter of feet above my head, followed thereafter by a bustle of young bodies jostling each other down the narrow stairs. When the last pupil ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Hannah Kent

Reverend Tóti left Björn Blöndal’s study with a pounding head. He could not stop thinking of Agnes’s pale face, her low voice in the dark, and the image of red-headed ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Fannie Flagg

THE MISHAP PULASKI, WISCONSIN WORKING AT A FILLING STATION COULD BE REALLY DANGEROUS. GAS was highly flammable. Hubcaps could pop off and hit you in the face. You could burn ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

THE NOBLE TALE OF SIR LANCELOT OF THE LAKE (And noble it is.—J.S.) AFTER A LONG AND TURBULENT TIME, King Arthur, through fortune and force of arms, destroyed or made ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Rindell, Suzanne [Rindell, Suzanne]

Today O and I stopped in at the beauty parlor. O got usual trim to keep her bob tidy. I got a wave. She suggested I might get my hair ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Amanda Coplin

She stole a horse in a neighboring town—it was easy enough, outside a tavern at night—and discovered the next morning, having ridden the better part of the night, a venison ...
( Category: Westerns March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Erin Morgenstern

Tête-à-Tête LONDON, AUGUST 1896 The Midnight Dinner is rather subdued tonight, despite the number of guests. The circus is preparing for a stretch near London, having recently departed Dublin, so ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:E. L. Doctorow

TWELVE When I was through she didn’t say anything. She handed me the wine bottle. I tilted my head up to drink from it and when I looked again she ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Chapter 27 Today when I woke up there was a beautiful pink sunrise, with the mist lying over the fields like a white soft cloud of muslin, and the sun ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:John Irving

"Yes, I see," Dr. Dolder said. "Are you tired now? Are you getting tired?" "It's the spelling," I told him. "The spelling and the reading." There were photographs on the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

Part Nine VARYKINO 1 In the winter, when there was more time, Yuri Andreevich began to take various kinds of notes. He noted for himself: “How often during the summer ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )