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The Portable American Realism Reader by Various
epub |eng | | Author:Various

Rita Lash and Cousin Nan planned to go to Vermont on their way to the Adirondacks. They found they would have three hours between trains, which would give them time ...
( Category: Classics January 20,2023 )
The Lonesome Dove Series by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Larry McMurtry

( Category: Native American January 20,2023 )
Bones of Holly--A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery by Carolyn Haines
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Haines

21 After the shock of that pronouncement faded, I pressed Janet harder. The two women were each other’s literary heirs and would control the books and whatever came. I still ...
( Category: Southern United States January 20,2023 )
Red Ants by Pergentino José
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Pergentino José

Dry Branch A PAIR OF BODIES DANCED naked across the dais. It was the dance for the autumn full moon, always held in the village to invoke the spirit of ...
( Category: Native American January 20,2023 )
The Greenwood Legacy by Jacquelyn Cook
epub |eng | | Author:Jacquelyn Cook [Cook, Jacquelyn]

On an April afternoon as Thomas and Tommy were leaving for town with a wagon to bring back supplies, Lavinia ran after them, calling, “Be sure to check if the ...
( Category: Southern United States January 20,2023 )
Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Denise Crittendon

14 “Problems are wobbly miscreations generated by fear. You can solve them by decluttering your mind.” – From the Sacred Doctrines of The Uluri Lileala could hear the sound of ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 20,2023 )
Who I was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Perabo

When I woke up in the morning she was already gone to work. I looked in on my father and saw him asleep on his stomach, his bruised face buried ...
( Category: Short Stories January 20,2023 )
Wanting Radiance by Karen Salyer McElmurray
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Karen Salyer McElmurray

Russell Wallen Wellsprings 1957 15 Flights above the Earth The first time he saw her he was in the diner and hungry. He’d been hungry ever since he set foot ...
( Category: Southern United States January 20,2023 )
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Gish Jen [Jen, Gish]

Later it will turn out that this is not exactly the Underground Railroad. Later it will turn out that this is the Underground Railroad remade into a passageway for a ...
( Category: Asian American January 20,2023 )
The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen
epub |eng | 2001-06-19 | Author:Thisbe Nissen

AT THE EMMONS School, a short local bus ride from the house, Ben is in the eleventh grade, Miranda the ninth, and Jenny eighth. Jenny is nice enough, if somewhat ...
( Category: Jewish American January 20,2023 )
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Thirteen NOONE CAME to confession on Wednesday, and Xinia didn’t appear in the vestry. There had been days in the past when only a few people came to confession, but ...
( Category: Hispanic January 20,2023 )
The Brooke Miller Series by Brenda Janowitz
epub |eng | | Author:Brenda Janowitz [Janowitz, Brenda]

“And the best part is,” I tell Noah Goldberg, one of the founding members of the firm and the “G” in the SGR, “she’s still designing my dress!” “Well, she ...
( Category: Jewish American January 20,2023 )
Playing Fastball by Rachelle Ayala
epub |eng | | Author:Rachelle Ayala

TWENTY-NINE Timmy was fast losing control over his raging body. Every sense of his was heightened under the cool desert sky, wrapped in Tina’s tight heat. She was white hot, ...
( Category: Asian American January 20,2023 )
Rice Girls by Emily A. Kim
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Emily A. Kim [Kim, Emily A.]

I sometimes think of Halmoni when I see an old Asian lady in Koreatown, and I wonder whether I inherited the Lee’s omen, like my uncle who committed suicide. In ...
( Category: Asian American January 20,2023 )
A Way to the Manger by Susan Slater
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Slater

ELEVEN “I think it’s the dumbest idea I’ve heard yet.” Ben wasn’t trying to mask his anger. She was being impossible. Irresponsible. Putting her life in danger and maybe Charlene’s. ...
( Category: United States January 19,2023 )

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