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Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic, The by Joaquin Nick
epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Joaquin, Nick [Joaquin, Nick]

CÁNDIDO’S APOCALYPSE Telephones are latest in a house to wake up, which they do only after breakfast or in the forenoon. A household is in trouble whose telephone rings before ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Call of the Wild, The White Fang (B&N) by London Jack
epub |eng | 1903-01-01 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

V The Law of Meat The cub’s development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then ventured forth from the cave again. It was on this adventure that he ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Ghost of Guir House, The by Beale Charles Willing
epub |eng | 1897-01-01 | Author:Beale, Charles Willing [Beale, Charles Willing]

Chapter 6 It was past midnight, and the house quiet, when Paul determined to have another look at the mysterious door at the foot of his closet stairs. He had ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
Color Purple, The by Walker Alice
epub |eng | 1982-01-21 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

DEAR CELIE, At first there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest. A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging. Then a ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Adventures of Augie March, The by Bellow Saul
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Hundred Secret Senses, The by Tan Amy
epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

13. YOUNG GIRL’S WISH My first morning in China, I awake in a dark hotel room in Guilin and see a figure leaning over my bed, staring at me with ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
Mother, The by Buck Pearl S
epub |eng | 1933-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE NEXT DAY CAME gray and still with unfinished rain of summer and the sky pressed low over the valley heavy with its burden of the rain, and the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
House of Mirth, The (B&N) by Wharton Edith
epub |eng | 1905-02-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

Alone with her cousin’s kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts. He had kissed her before—but not with another woman on his lips. If he had spared her that she could ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
American, The by James Henry
epub |eng | 1877-12-17 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

Chapter XV. Valentin de Bellegarde’s announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile, and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Road Through the Wall, The by Jackson Shirley
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

CHAPTER FOUR It was dreadful; they moved in during a hot morning and everyone was there. Harriet Merriam and Marilyn Perlman walked arm in arm up and down the block, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Valley of Amazement, The by Tan Amy
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

He had loved me then. He had been so careful to keep his feelings from me. I turned the pages and saw only the blur of my tears. At the ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (B&N) by Emerson Ralph Waldo
epub |eng | 1903-01-10 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 12,2018 )
Agnes Grey (B&N) by Bronte Anne
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Anne [Bronte, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Unnoticeables: A Novel, The by Brockway Robert
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Brockway, Robert [Brockway, Robert]

FOURTEEN Unnamed. Unknown. I see a man on television, a politician on some local access channel, and I know just by looking at him that he is secretly homosexual and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Walden Civil Disobedience (B&N) by Thoreau Henry David
epub |eng | 1849-01-15 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )

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