Literary
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Alexi, Sara [Alexi, Sara]

Juliet has come to love waking in her cotton-sheeted bed, looking up at the roof beams with the sun peeking in stripes through the slats of the shutters. Now the ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Lauren Grodstein

NINE The girl’s name had been Anita Lim. She was the daughter of Korean immigrants who had established a small grocery store in Brooklyn during the first year of the ...
( Category: Contemporary September 9,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-02 | Author:Saki (H. H. Munro)

THE SEVENTH PULLET “IT’s not the daily grind that I complain of,” said Blenkinthrope resentfully; “it’s the dull grey sameness of my life outside of office hours. Nothing of interest ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

XV. AT AMALIA’S Finally—it was already dark, late afternoon—K. had cleared the garden path, piled the snow on both sides, beaten it down, and was now finished with the day’s ...
( Category: Classics September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Paul Beatty [Beatty, Paul]

9- THE READING Winston paused at the auditorium’s entrance. The stragglers hurried by, and he saw very few neighborhood faces. Whatever their ethnicity, these were people who only came uptown ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

FIVE Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man TO LOOK AT HIM, you would never have believed he was an intellectual. That was the nice thing about Jim Barnett. ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Catherine Chung [Chung, Catherine]

He had met my mother shortly after his service. My mother had been an organizer at her school for the student democratization movement, and my father was on the fringes ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Junichiro Tanizaki [Tanizaki, Junichiro]

The Tattooer It was an age when men honored the noble virtue of frivolity, when life was not such a harsh struggle as it is today. It was a leisurely ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 9,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-05 | Author:Soseki Natsume

6 The bell rang and the instructor left the room. Sanshirō shook the ink from his pen and was closing his notebook when Yojirō turned to him. “Hey, let me ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

14 Because it supposedly tied up with her interest in dance and dramatics, I had permitted Lo to take piano lessons with a Miss Emperor (as we French scholars may ...
( Category: Classics September 9,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Walker, Julie Ann [Walker, Julie Ann]

Chapter Eleven A door opened down the hall. Frank knew that squeaky hinge. Becky was up. He snatched his diver’s watch from the bedside table and glanced at the softly ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense September 9,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Pearce, Kate [Pearce, Kate]

Christian left Elizabeth with Marie-Claude and went down to the kitchen. Paul arrived through the back door, his blond hair damp and curling from the drizzle. His boots left muddy ...
( Category: British & Irish September 9,2017 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:K.A. Mitchell

Chrissy was on a mission to make up for Peter’s behavior. Operating under the illusion that any cuddling would compensate for the loss of Hubert, she barely waited until Quinn ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:John Birmingham [Birmingham, John]

15 The minion had no name of its own. A lowly creature, it knew what it was and what it served: its hunger and its queen. It snarled at the ...
( Category: Fantasy September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

2 They sat on the beach by moonlight, Sharon and Elmer, the night before the opening service. All of Clontar, with its mile of comfortable summer villas and gingerbread hotels, ...
( Category: Classics September 9,2017 )