Literary
epub |eng | 2019-07-31 | Author:Benn, Marlowe

CHAPTER 16 The brush of knuckles against her door woke Julia on the morning of her twenty-fifth birthday. Anticipated for years, the occasion now soured her throat even before she ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths August 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Richard Russo

* * * — “MINT?” Lincoln offered. Instead of going directly to Marty’s office, he’d stopped to buy a large roll of them and a package of Wet Wipes, having ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Kalisha Buckhanon

ONCE HOME, I DID REMEMBER to transfer a payment to Children International for my “child.” I fiddled with my online portfolio, only to switch its font and some colors really. ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths August 3,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Elizabeth Hill

Chapter 38 Sunday, 27 December 1970 I ran through the house and out of the front door. I’d killed my precious, darling man. He’d never hold me again, or tell ...
( Category: Psychological August 3,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Perumal Murugan

14 SOMETHING HAPPENED THE next day that caused Poonachi’s grief to melt away. On the third day after they set out from Poovan’s house, they had halted in an open ...
( Category: Literary August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-19 | Author:Natalia Ginzburg

13 January 8, 1971 Dear Michele, Yesterday was the reading of your father’s will. Lillino had been holding onto it. Your father wrote it right after he got sick. I ...
( Category: Family Life August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Deborah Goodrich Royce

31 Wednesday, August 13, 2014 Boston Special Agent Provenzano nods his head, granting permission for Susan and Jack Jr. to go. He adds a postscript and asks her to remain ...
( Category: Murder August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Steinhagen

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN A GIFT FRANZ RETURNED TO Frau Alt’s in a condition he would have embraced three days ago, when he was lying on his deathbed: hot, tired, frustrated, and ...
( Category: Mystery August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alvydas Šlepikas

The dog attacked. The boy and the beast were entwined, the dog yelped pitifully, there was blood on the snow – the boy had cut the dog’s throat. The boy ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Joanna Kavenna [Joanna Kavenna]

Later, Varley waited in the Boardroom for Guy, who was stuck in traffic. ‘We’re in China,’ said Sarah Coates. When Guy finally arrived, he said: ‘How have you been, Varley?’ ...
( Category: Satire August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Kate McQuade

“And what happened next?” the little girl will say. “Did we get away?” Though of course she already knows. She will tilt her dark, tousled head on the pillow, curl ...
( Category: Coming of Age August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:John Hersey

* * * — EVENTS AUGUST 11, 1942. ENTRY AUGUST 12, 1942. FROM RACHEL APT. Yesterday Rachel, Rutka, Berson, and Mordecai Apt, our Hashomer contingent, received summons by urgent message ...
( Category: Spies & Politics August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:John Hersey

* * * — IN ONE day we passed the first two of the twelve peaks of Witches’ Mountain, and we were deep in the gorge. The water level was ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Virginia Moffatt

Nikki When James takes my hand and suggests a walk, I am only too happy to agree. I have been hoping he would ask me for the last hour; I’m ...
( Category: Friendship August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Pablo Medina

They arrived well after the roosters had tired of crowing and the cows had been milked and the vendors had passed, hawking leftover fruit as they returned to their shacks ...
( Category: Satire August 3,2019 )