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The Wolf of Allendale by Spencer Hannah
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Spencer, Hannah [Spencer, Hannah]

25 Bert put his knife down, flexed his aching fingers a few times, then held up his handiwork. The savage visage of a wolf glared back at him. He narrowed ...
( Category: Fantasy September 9,2017 )
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
epub |eng | | Author:Vita Sackville-West

Part Three This Life we live is dead for all its breath; Death’s self it is, set off on pilgrimage, Travelling with tottering steps the first short stage. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
The Understory by Pamela Erens
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Erens [Erens, Pamela]

Ten I awakened at dawn on Christmas Day after a broken sleep and looked out onto the empty street, anxious to go out. The snowplows had been through, but on ...
( Category: Literary September 9,2017 )
Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Mark O'Flynn

EVENING Ava fetches down a sheet of cardboard from her pile of Weeties boxes on top of the tall cupboard. She lays it flat on the table, face down, and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 9,2017 )
Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land
epub |eng | 2017-01-12 | Author:Ali Land [Land, Ali]

20 After school yesterday Mike told me he’d booked us two nights at a hotel, a place called Tetbury. We’re going on Monday. He mentioned he’d like to catch up ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 9,2017 )
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be by Joe Lansdale
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Joe Lansdale

“THAT’S HOW YOU CLEAN A SQUIRREL” JOE R. LANSDALE INTERVIEWED BY TERRY BISSON Where does East Texas end? (And don’t say the Louisiana line.) It doesn’t stretch as far as ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 9,2017 )
At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald Penelope]

Sitting half way down the stalls, in N22, from which supposedly very little could be heard and which therefore served as a test for all the others, Ed Voysey was ...
( Category: British & Irish September 9,2017 )
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld
epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Aharon Appelfeld

40 When I awoke, the sunlight was already streaming into the room. Everything was in its place. My crutches were propped up against the dresser. The green shirt that I’d ...
( Category: World Literature September 9,2017 )
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald [Penelope Fitzgerald]

5 WHEN Waring Smith reached home he felt so battered, so much more knowledgeable and so much less confident that he scarcely knew what he was supposed to do next. ...
( Category: Mystery September 9,2017 )
Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Simpson

Arizona 18:07 NEEDLES ‘Can you feel that?’ ‘Ouch. Yes.’ ‘Good.’ ‘A sort of pulling sensation. Is that right?’ ‘“The therapeutic ache.” Yes.’ She felt like a violin being tuned, she ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 9,2017 )
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald

6 RPD had hit a snag in his design for lightweight recording equipment with an adequate – that was all he asked, heaven knew, that it should simply be adequate ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 9,2017 )
The Banks Sisters 3 by Nikki Turner
epub |eng | 2017-01-05 | Author:Nikki Turner [Turner, Nikki]

Chapter 20 The Shake Down Tallhya was left alone in the room. She used the time away from her abductors to pray. One after the other, she prayed to God, ...
( Category: United States September 9,2017 )
2084 by Sansal Boualem
epub |eng | 2016-12-12 | Author:Sansal Boualem

And so, two weeks before the fateful day, early in the morning, at the hour of the mockba crier, carrying their bundles and armed with richly stamped documents testifying to ...
( Category: Jewish September 9,2017 )
Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J.M.]

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: Authors September 9,2017 )
Foe by J. M. Coetzee
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

III The staircase was dark and mean. My knock echoed as if on emptiness. But I knocked a second time, and heard a shuffling, and from behind the door a ...
( Category: Contemporary September 9,2017 )

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