Literary
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Mazo de La Roche

XI THE ROOF IT WAS WONDERFUL to see the roof begin to spread above the walls. It was music to hear the tap-tap of the carpenters’ hammers as they made ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

These were evil years, indeed, in Hawaii. Before the coming of the white man, leprosy had been unknown. Then, in some unfathomable way, the alii contracted it, possibly from a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Thomas Christopher Greene [Greene, Thomas Christopher]

From Basra they take Ethan Winthrop to Baghdad and then fly him to a hospital in Germany, where he lives nine long days made less miserable by pillowy morphine dreams. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Severo Sarduy & Mark Fried [Sarduy, Severo & Fried, Mark]

“Lethargy cubensis,” diagnosed the intern, excessively learned like all apprentices, “a typical case.” He glanced out of the corner of his eye at the spot where his idle supervisor stood ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-26 | Author:The bean trees [trees, The bean]

There may have been a world of things I didn’t understand, but I knew when rudeness passed between one human being and another. The things Mrs. Parsons had said about ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-08-15 | Author:Pigs in heaven: a novel [novel, Pigs in heaven: a]

"You can’t find a Robert? No, wait," she commands the operator, shifting the receiver to her better ear. "It’s Roland, I think. Roland Hornbuckle. Look up that one." She waits, ...
( Category: United States August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Edan Lepucki [Lepucki, Edan]

This time, things went differently. This time, I undressed him. All the lights were on, and we didn’t speak. I began with his shirt, pulling it over his head. It ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Lazar

II. Messengers With more than a hundred of us, it was more than a day’s travel to Heian-kyō. Captain Tokikazu introduced the samurai who would accompany us. One was so ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Prodigal summer: a novel [novel, Prodigal summer: a]

224 { P r o d i g a l S u m m e r } Lois snorted, breathing smoke out her nose like a dragon. “After the second ...
( Category: Contemporary August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Clarice Lispector

Translator’s Afterword In 1954, when she was living in Washington as the wife of a Brazilian diplomat, Clarice Lispector received the French translation of her first book, Near to the ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Lisa Grunwald [Grunwald, Lisa]

Henry started dancing, keeping the baby's chin on his shoulder and singing along at the top of his hoarse, unused voice: And I wonder I wa wa wa wa wonder ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Charlotte Brontë

( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1930-01-01 | Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]

The Camera Eye (17) the spring you could see Halley’s Comet over the elms from the back topfloor windows of the Upper House Mr. Greenleaf said you would have to ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Yiyun Li [Li, Yiyun]

12 The celebration in Tiananmen Square on October 1 came and went; eventless, Moran could not help thinking with disappointment, as she had wondered if people would find ways to ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Eileen Smith

18 Deborah managed to avoid another confrontation with Rebekah the rest of the day, though she knew her mistress would not allow her to keep silent for long. The time ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 28,2017 )