Literary
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Eileen Goudge [Goudge, Eileen]

Chapter 15 BRIAN ACCEPTED THE PINT of Glenlivet that Dan Petrie offered him. He tipped his head back in a long swallow, the whiskey burning its way down his throat. ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Eílís Ní Dhuibhne

She is trying to find her way out of the bathroom section when Tomas appears. She knows it is him, even though she has not seen him for thirty-odd years. ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1932-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

When the board was seated magisterially, their wives came in and found seats at the back of the room, behind the children. The pupils squirmed uneasily. They felt that they ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Jim Shepard

8 “It’s all right to be queer, you know,” Michelle tells Flake and me at lunch the next day. I’m not in the best of moods and neither is he. ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Vladimir Bartol [Bartol, Vladimir]

Abu Ali was waiting for them outside the entrance to the supreme command. He noticed that their faces were feverishly preoccupied. If only they knew what they’re getting into! was ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Bukowski

A DOLLAR AND 20 CENTS he liked the end of Summer best, no Fall, maybe it was Fall, anyhow, it got cold down at the beach and he liked to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:McCall Smith, Alexander [McCall Smith, Alexander]

“Teddy’s disappeared!” shouted one of the film men. “We don’t know where he is.” Precious joined the throng of people from the camp who started looking for the missing lion. ...
( Category: Animals March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Ben Dolnick [Dolnick, Ben]

From: <Thomas Pell> To: <Adam Sanecki> Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:01 AM Subject: re: (no subject) … Here’s something I don’t think you know, I kept her obituary ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-10-06 | Author:Laurie J. Marks [Marks, Laurie J.]

“This is a very peculiar imprisonment,” commented Arel as Zanja ate the meat pie he had brought for her supper. When he first arrived, the door to his rooms had ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Ivan Vladislavic [Vladislavic, Ivan]

Rosco Dunn was an echo chamber in which I kept hearing things. It was the perfect name for a boxer, not a champion mind you, but a contender. Finally I ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian McDonald

Monday-Tuesday morning ROISIN DUNBAR HAS A professional resolution never to be murdered. It’s not the thought of dying violently she hates — she hates the thought of dying in any ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Knut Hamsun

XIII A COUPLE OF DAYS went by. Nagel stayed at the hotel, wandering about with a gloomy air and looking harassed and suffering; his eyes had in the course of ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Penelope Lively

Transatlantic A few years ago, I met up with a woman I had known when we were both young. She had gone to work in the United States when she ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Gail Godwin

“YOU ARE SO good at this,” Flora would say, shaking her head in awe. Not during our class practices anymore, because during those I had pretty successfully weaned her from ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

Chapter Twelve THE VILLA THAT BELONGED to Arnold Oppenheim, Councilor of Commerce, lay close to Lucerne. It was a white house perched like a castle above the Lake of the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )