Literary
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Elizabeth Strout

Pedicure It was November. No snow had fallen yet in Crosby, Maine, and because the sun was out on this particular Wednesday there was a kind of horrifying beauty to ...
( Category: Family Life October 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-26 | Author:Neil Olson

* * * The town’s contact with the sea was primarily via a large inlet, surrounded by streams, marshes and dunes. All low ground north to Plum Island, except for ...
( Category: Murder October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ludmila Ulitskaya

AS SOON as Martin left, she was inundated with work. She got two new customers for massage; the director of the Pioneers’ Club wanted her to knit a dress in ...
( Category: Literary October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Ludmila Ulitskaya [ULITSKAYA, LUDMILA]

5. October 1978, Vilnius LETTER FROM TERESA TO VALENTINA FERDINANDOVNA Dear Valentina Ferdinandovna, Over the past month so many completely astounding things have happened that I really don’t know where ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-02 | Author:The Speed of Dark [Dark, The Speed of]

Chapter Twelve THE OTHERS ARRIVE IN A BUNCH, WITHIN JUST A COUPLE of minutes. We move to the backyard, then stretch and put on our gear and start fencing. Marjory ...
( Category: Technothrillers October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Blackout [Blackout]

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds, ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Jeff Vandermeer [Vandermeer, Jeff]

04: IMMERSION Everything I knew about the psychologist came from my observations during training. She had served both as a kind of distant overseer and in a more personal role ...
( Category: Dystopian October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-06 | Author:Sofia Grant [Grant, Sofia]

Chapter 34 Francie Charlie called at three o’clock to say he’d arrived and checked in. “You’ll come to dinner tonight, won’t you? Arthur is making reservations.” Since Alice had managed ...
( Category: Family Life October 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Mulligan

NORTH AGAIN 14 Ayesha had set Maria’s handbag in front of her, on the table. She hadn’t wanted to touch it at first and she certainly didn’t want to look ...
( Category: Absurdist October 13,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Levy, Deborah

14 There were at least nine women wheeling prams around the fountain in Alexanderplatz when I finally said goodbye to Walter Müller. Everywhere I looked there were women steering babies ...
( Category: Political October 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacqueline Harpman

I sat looking at her for a long time, then I lay her on the bench and crossed her hands on her chest, carefully placing her palms downwards. I didn’t ...
( Category: Literary October 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-01 | Author:Luiza Sauma [Sauma, Luiza]

14. Say Something, Anything The night before Iris flew to Los Angeles, she said goodbye to her family. Eleanor insisted on going to a fancy restaurant in town, to make ...
( Category: Dystopian October 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Milan Kundera

2 It was ten o'clock, and, as she did each day, Olga had just received a large white sheet and a key from Ruzena. She went into a cubicle, took ...
( Category: Satire October 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Laila Ibrahim [Ibrahim, Laila]

Mei Ling and Bo explored Chinatown for several days. She looked for an open field or empty lot with children playing but didn’t find any space where Bo could run ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 11,2019 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Moyes, Jojo

She looked at the card, from which a crisp fifty-dollar bill slid onto the tablecloth. She stared at it where it lay. ‘That what I think it is?’ said Sven, ...
( Category: Family Life October 10,2019 )