Literary
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Roger Scruton

Bill MY FATHER WAS LOCAL MANAGER of an insurance firm, my mother a part-time secretary. I was an only child, and the three of us led a quiet middle-class life ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roxanne Veletzos

There was nothing out of the ordinary at first. As she and her father made their way home through the clatter of streetcars and billboards of factory workers swaying joyfully ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Lisa Yaszek

Leigh Brackett All the Colors of the Rainbow IT had rained in the valley, steadily and hard, for thirty-six hours. The ground was saturated. Every fold in the rough flanks ...
( Category: Literary October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Martin Solares [Solares, Martín]

Then he gave an address at the outskirts of the city. “You’re working for Mr. Chuy?” “Hey, yeah. That’s right. We’re with you, whatever you need.” “And how’s it going?” ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Jenni Ogden

SIXTEEN Early May and the island was emptying ahead of the cooler weather. The noddy terns had disappeared and the last of the adult shearwaters were leaving, abandoning their fledged ...
( Category: Literary October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:Virginie Despentes

When she told him, he had hesitated for a moment. Before speaking, he put on his Bénard pants, his T-shirt. A strange precaution. She took advantage of his silence. “The ...
( Category: Literary October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Rodrigo Fresán

II The Space between This Planet and the Other Planet The space between this planet and the other planet is small enough for us to be able to watch you ...
( Category: Literary October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Froderberg

6. THE SUMMIT No one wanted to talk about it. For if they were to talk about it they would need to call upon logic and reason. They would have ...
( Category: Literary October 23,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER 12 One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emma—its being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill’s ...
( Category: Classics October 22,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER 15 Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty dignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he and Elizabeth were ...
( Category: Classics October 22,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Stig Dagerman [Dagerman, Stig]

The Rivals It is convenient but not necessarily helpful to regard Germany as a patient, Europe’s ‘sick man’, in desperate need of injections of anti-Nazi serum. There is no doubt ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:Louise Beech [Beech, Louise]

27 The Second Thing If bad things came in threes, did good things? Ben wondered. Andrew Fitzgerald, The Lion Tamer Who Lost The next day Andrew handed Ben a birthday ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-21 | Author:Alyson Hagy [Hagy, Alyson]

She knew the way to Billy Kingery’s store as well as she knew the lines on her own face. She would go there first. She could cross the river and ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Stephen McCauley [McCauley, Stephen]

24 As soon as she stepped onto the street, Mandy had an urge to comment on the heat and humidity, just like every predictable customer that came into Beachy Keen. ...
( Category: Literary October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-13 | Author:Forrest Reid & Michael Matthew Kaylor [Reid, Forrest & Kaylor, Michael Matthew]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN TOM waited until Pascoe was out of sight before turning away. But he did not go back to the house, he followed the road for some fifty yards ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 22,2018 )