Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Rebecca Rotert

CHAPTER 23 THE NEXT MORNING Mother feels terrible. David talks quietly and sweetly to her, brings things to her room—coffee, water, magazines, scrambled eggs. In the afternoon, Rita appears. Well, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Herman Melville

* * * * * * * * There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history. Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby’s interment. ...
( Category: Classics September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Rebecca Harrington

“Bad news,” Henry Wills-Mather intoned like a bass bell. The cast was just starting to get into places for Act 4, Scene 1. This was one of the few times ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Richard Matheson

THE LAST DAY HE WOKE UP AND THE FIRST THING HE THOUGHT was—the last night is gone. He had slept through half of it. He lay there on the floor ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Roger Scruton

CHAPTER 15 LITTLE BY LITTLE I came to understand that it was for each of us to sift the garbage in search of knowledge, freedom, and hope, and that there ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Robin Pilcher

Chapter TWENTY Sam Culpepper chucked the briefing document onto the boardroom table and sat back in his high-backed leather chair. He glanced down the table at the pensive looks on ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Yu Hua

CHAPTER 39 JUST AS Baldy Li was being fired by Tao Qing, he himself was seated at Mama Sus snack shop next to the bus depot. Holding a ticket to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Ghahremani, Zohreh [Ghahremani, Zohreh]

PART THREE The Paint Seventeen WHEN I HAD FINISHED MY LAST EXAM, I called Shireen's mother to let her know I'd be visiting later. She sounded as if she had ...
( Category: Literary September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Ralph Cotton

In the afternoon, the two federale trail scouts finally rode into the City of Bad Men and stepped out in front of the adobe church. They looked down the street ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susan Minot

Smooth stones hung in the air and one by one dropped down. She’d not known how much the sound of stones clicking together meant to her till she heard them ...
( Category: Literary September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Laura Pritchett

We’re running toward our land, toward our trees. We fly alongside them and they scrape against our legs. Finally we stop and I’m trying to breathe, but I can’t, really, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Laura Pritchett

The package from Tess is wrapped in newspaper with a headline that reads “TESS ESCAPES!” And in smaller print below, “KID SISTER CROSSES BORDER TO NEW LIFE!” It takes me ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Sally Koslow

23. Her mother was keeping the thermostat low to save money. Nicola threw a robe over her nightgown and knocked on Luey’s door. “I come in peace,” she said. “Can ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Canty

“I’m just so fucking tired of it,” Jordan says. “All the fucking sad faces. I can be sad on my own. I don’t need their fucking help.” “I know what ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-09-28 | Author:Susan Vreeland

From The Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers On the day Aletta Pieters was hanged, I came to recognize the tenacity of superstition, even in an enlightened age. And on the ...
( Category: Contemporary September 2,2017 )