Literary
mobi, epub | | 2008-10-12 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

YET IT WAS MY DUTY first to visit Daniel Westbrook in his prison cell, and offer him what comfort I might provide. On the next morning I made my way ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Emily Arsenault

After Mona left, I decided I’d give my bedroom a try. I was growing tired of the sleeping bag setup in my living room. So I lay awake on the ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1988-06-01 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver

There may have been a world of things I didn’t understand, but I knew when rudeness passed between one human being and another. The things Mrs. Parsons had said about ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-10-16 | Author:Alice Sebold

“What?” “You said Sarah’s number was over the phone. Is Emily’s?” “Not after Leo. Emily asked me to take it down.” “She had a way with kids, your mother.” “I ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Lisa Kleypas

* * * Chapter 8 « ^ » Logan blinked as a shaft of sunlight moved across his eyes, rousing him from the depths of sleep. Stirring and stretching, he ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Yann Martel

VIRGIL: And if I had one, I would give it to you. (Silence.) “That’s the end of the opening scene,” he said. “Beatrice hasn’t ever eaten a pear in her ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Muriel Barbery

5. A Pleasant Impression But Manuela, not terribly sensitive to the little steps of Japanese women, is already steering us toward another territory. “That Rosen woman is in a regular ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-10-01 | Author:Tobias Wolff

Desert Breakdown, 1968 Krystal was asleep when they crossed the Colorado. Mark had promised to stop for some pictures, but when the moment came he looked over at her and ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-04 | Author:Llosa, Mario Vargas [Llosa, Mario Vargas]

Eleven. Midyear exams at the university were approaching, and because I had attended classes less since my romance with Aunt Julia and written more (Pyrrhic) stories, I was ill-prepared for ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:Ian McEwan

PART TWO THERE WERE HORRORS enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterward would not let him go. When they reached the level crossing, after a ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-02-24 | Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I’m here as a patient,” I said. I wanted roles to be clear. Cynthia Jalter’s daytime offices were in a private medical building in a sunny, modern complex near downtown ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Garrett Cook

VII Bernard pushed himself harder than he had before. The deluge of bodies walking and the universe of possibilities made the Objectivity quiver with excitement, twitch in him and torment ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Waldman, Amy [Waldman, Amy]

14 The Committee to Defend Mohammad Khan, the Mohammad Khan Defense Fund, the Mohammad Khan Protection League—all of them lacked only one ingredient, which was Mohammad Khan. He didn’t want ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:Keith Donohue

I did not confess to Smaolach the reason for my agitation. Speck had all but abandoned our friendship, withdrawing into some hard and lonesome core. Even after we made the ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Charles Baxter

19 THE ZOO SHOULD HAVE BEEN loud and smelly, with children milling around taunting the big cats for having been caught and caged, their kiddie-mockery accompanied by peanut shells launched ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )