Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Rupert Thomson

24 There was a name he could no longer avoid. It had come to him on Friday, when he sat in his car and listened to the news, and then ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Diane Johnson

23 “Yonder,” I said to myself, “some poor wretch may be struggling on in grief, or wrestling with death . . . the certain end which brings neither consolation nor ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jonathan Miles

5 A MONUMENT WAS RISING in his dreams. Sometime around the end of April, three months after Elwin’s first meeting with the Waste Isolation Project Markers panel and two weeks ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Roth

BOOK IV The Rail I TRANQUILLY the months had passed. Summer had come and the advanced grade and the glowing, incalculable and unlimned vista of the school vacation—that had remained ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1984-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXVI Impulsive I trust my readers will all remember how Puck the pony was beaten during that drive to Hogglestock. It may be presumed that Puck himself on that ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

• • • THE TELL When John Cullinane lived in Chicago he attended Catholic mass occasionally and funerals rather often, but whenever he worked overseas he tried to attend local ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Telep, Peter [Telep, Peter]

THIRTY-SIX ‘It could’ve happened to anyone,’ Kozak told 30K as they rushed to repack the weapons pallet and get the forklift back in operation. Pepper had already jumped behind the ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-03 | Author:Mark Slouka

There are times, sitting up to my chin in a warm pond watching a damselfly the precise iridescent green of cheap tinsel perch on a spear of weed protruding above ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1947-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck & Gary Scharnhorst [Steinbeck, John & Scharnhorst, Gary]

CHAPTER 10 The San Ysidro River runs through the San Juan valley, turning and twisting until it discharges sluggishly into Black Rock Bay under the protection of Bat Point. The ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Ronald Frame

TWENTY-SEVEN A few weeks later. * * * ‘I hear’, I said, ‘that your knowledge is very impressive, Mr Compeyson.’ ‘Met a brewer once. Things’ve stuck in my head.’ ‘I’ll ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Sackville, Amy [Sackville, Amy]

She turns, moans, sighs. Pulls the bedding about her in a cocoon. A body wrapped in a sail for a winding sheet. She murmurs. I can’t make out the words. ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Douglas Coupland

The next thing I remember is being in Seattle. Judging by beard stubble it was maybe two nights later. I was on Interstate 5 entering downtown, riding shotgun in an ...
( Category: General Broadcasting March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chang-Rae Lee [Lee, Chang-rae]

10 ON ANY SATURDAY MORNING in the Village of Bedley Run, one can see everywhere the prosperity and spirit and subtle industry of its citizens. There are the running, double-parked ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Lao, She [Lao, She]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The sky seemed to lighten a bit earlier, thanks to the gleaming snow. The old year was coming to an end, and many families had begun raising chickens, ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Ayres, Jedidiah [Ayres, Jedidiah]

CHOWDER Irm arrived at the cabin huffing. Chowder watched her crest the hill and then awkwardly descend. The physical effort broke down some of her attitude. When she reached him, ...
( Category: Crime March 25,2014 )