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The Centaur by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

This sign and the lesser signs—an arrow, a trumpet, a peanut, a tulip—seemed to possess reflections in mid-air, to shimmer on the transparent plane that extended over the square at ...
( Category: Family Saga December 27,2014 )
Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard [Knausgaard, Karl Ove]

There are two pictures of the kitten. In one he’s standing in front of the television with a raised paw, trying to catch a swimmer. In the other he’s lying ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-28 | Author:Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Chocolates with Liqueur 1 The Housing Question Nikita left his wife, Lelia, but for the time being he let her and their children stay in their two-room apartment. He didn’t ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Spoonwood by Ernest Hebert
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hebert

SPOONWOOD DOCUMENT: Radioactive We came down off the El Capitan Mountains on Route 380 in New Mexico in a celebratory mood, down through the tiny town of Carrizozo onto flat ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Cate Kennedy

Thirteen Questioning your spirit guide, read Sandy. Greet your guide with whatever greeting you choose. Telepathic communication with spirit is known as clairaudience. When you receive an answer, you may ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
Casebook by Mona Simpson
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Mona Simpson [Simpson, Mona]

* * * * Though not nearly as antipolice as we would get. Then it was just style. The substance(s) came later. 49 • Not Looking But I didn’t google ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 27,2014 )
Parents and Children by Ivy Compton-Burnett
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Ivy Compton-Burnett

quoted Faith, with rising feeling. ‘Faith does have points in common with Heaven,’ said Hope. ‘Not a cage,’ said Nevill. ‘A nice, glass case.’ ‘We needn’t kill a robin,’ said ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Fragile World by Paula Treick DeBoard
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Paula Treick DeBoard

olivia For the first few minutes the next morning, I felt a hundred pounds lighter than the day before, as if I’d shucked off my whole worrisome self. I woke ...
( Category: Suspense December 27,2014 )
Amanda's Wedding by Jenny Colgan
epub |eng | | Author:Jenny Colgan [Jenny Colgan]

I took a deep breath and walked out there. All the girls were huddled together, obviously talking about us, ignoring their spiky-looking salads. Our main courses were being kept on ...
( Category: Single Women December 27,2014 )
The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Maya Lang

Eleven Everything good down here?” Leo ducks into the kitchen, where the warm air hits him like a wall. The staff look up like startled penguins in their bow ties ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Class by Erich Segal
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Erich Segal [Segal, Erich]

When the Pulitzer Prizes for 1967 were announced, there was particular joy in the Harvard University news office. While it was hardly novel that two Harvard men won awards in ...
( Category: Family Saga December 27,2014 )
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Herman Koch [Koch, Herman]

Sometimes you run your life back to see at what point it could have taken a different turn. But sometimes there’s nothing at all to run back—you yourself don’t know ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
This is the Water by Yannick Murphy
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Yannick Murphy

The next day at practice you wish you had not fallen asleep so early the night before. You wish you had moved close to Thomas and reached out for him ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers December 27,2014 )
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Peter Orner

PART III In Moscow Everything Will Be Different The time I said it was only an emotional affair and you took your clothes off in front of a train. Not ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa
epub |eng | | Author:Bapsi Sidhwa

Jo took up with the state trooper who had given Feroza’s driving test. But so far as she was concerned, it was an uninspiring alliance, despite the uniform. “He’s the ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )

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