Literary
epub |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:Marguerite Duras [Duras, Marguerite]

She comes back from seeing the Beugners to the door. She comes in, slowly, and leans against the French doors. With bowed head, her hands behind her gripping the curtains, ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Robert Hellenga [HELLENGA, ROBERT]

In the evening, when the sun finally went down, he grilled a pork chop and drank a couple of beers, and then he went out to the barn to say ...
( Category: Single Women March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford [Bradford, Barbara Taylor]

A LITTLE LATER, when she was back at her hotel, sorting through the samples of the fabrics she had found earlier, Jessica thought about Alain Bonnal’s stunned disbelief, his total ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:DOMINO

Sitting in the small diner I watched college guys walk in, laughing and talking among themselves. I looked at Rio, he appeared to be studying them. "You'll be a college ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

"I don't mean that I shall. I'm too much of a coward, I fancy." A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Shelley Noble

Chapter 16 I was born in California,” Abbie said when they were sitting at the nearly empty bar at the inn. “But we moved a lot.” She paused, took a ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-06 | Author:Chang-Rae Lee

The Korean restaurant had two floors. The main floor was for casual diners, lone businessmen and couples and families. The upstairs was reserved for quieter meals and private parties. The ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

Feeling sick at what I had done, I handed Nazrullah the directive. He read it twice, showed it to Stiglitz and Nur Muhammad, and folded it carefully. “We’ll leave in ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Jon Land

Part Four The O.K. Corral Tehran: Thursday, May 11; eight P.M. Chapter 20 “I’D BETTER LEAVE YOU here,” Kourosh told Evira, and she felt reluctant at this point to go ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Susan Choi

That winter, I destroyed what was left of Casper’s struggling career as a scholar. Grief made me coarse, a perverse predator. I snared Casper as sidekick in part with my ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Miroslav Penkov [Penkov, Miroslav]

CROSS THIEVES A girl with no breasts storms inside the café to tell us the government has fallen and there will be no school today. Someone throws a beer bottle ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Damon Galgut [Galgut, Damon]

20 In the café in the town the proprietor leaned on his dirty fridge while he counted change into the till. Late afternoon sun came in through the door. There ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Elizabeth Frank [Frank, Elizabeth]

Night after night, the light stayed on in Veevi’s room. When Jake and Dinah turned off their own light and closed the door connecting Jake’s office with the dressing corridor ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Sherman Alexie [Alexie, Sherman]

John tore the note from the door, crumpled it into a ball, and shoved it into his pocket. He found the apartment key his mother had sewn into his pants. ...
( Category: Native American March 25,2014 )