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Couples by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

capac. for self-decep. Foxy said sharply, “I won’t believe it. Everything people have ever built up, Freddy, you’d let slide and fall apart.” “I do my job,” he answered. “It’s ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can't Make It Scuba Dive) by Robert Bruce Cormack
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Robert Bruce Cormack

Chapter 42 My dreams come in Technicolor these days, like those old Alfred Hitchcock movies: everything bright, crisp and clean. Ever noticed how good they all look, even when birds ...
( Category: Humorous December 27,2014 )
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2000-12-26 | Author:Larry McMurtry

1 I EXPECT one reason most boatmen are stumpy little fellows is that there’s no great amount of room on a boat. There were four boatmen on our boat, besides ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
The Condition
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Haigh

FOR TWO nights in a row she ate dinner alone on her balcony. Balmy air brushed her bare arms and shoulders, lingering like a human touch. The second night the ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Stormchasers: A Novel by Blum Jenna
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Blum, Jenna [Blum, Jenna]

31 But then, two days later: July fourteenth, the twins’ eighteenth birthday, and Karena is in the kitchen, cubing cheese for pea salad. Normally the Hallingdahls go to the Wagon ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers December 27,2014 )
I Am Having So Much Fun Without You by Courtney Maum
epub |eng | | Author:Courtney Maum

13 I DROVE back to Hemel Hempstead grateful to have the steering wheel to still my shaking hands. It hadn’t gone like I’d planned, none of it. Lisa—I’d gotten in ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
A Mother's Love by Mary Morris
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Mary Morris [Morris, Mary]

FIFTEEN EVERYTHING I DO is in doses. Measured restraint. Pieces at a time, as if I am fitting together a mosaic that is becoming more and more my life. A ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejidé
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Morowa Yejidé

Heart and Mind Beginning with the coldness of his uncle’s basement when he was seven years old, Horus had the eerie sense that the heart could make a decision long ...
( Category: African American December 27,2014 )
Finding the Dream (For the Love of Music #1.5) by Mia Josephs
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Mia Josephs

The ache in Sierra’s gut was so tight, it was hard to breathe. One short text from Van saying: I have a lot to explain to you. See you at ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 27,2014 )
The Color of Heaven (The Color of Heaven Series) by Julianne MacLean
epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Julianne MacLean [MacLean, Julianne]

Chapter Thirty-four “It doesn’t matter,” I said. “Just drive.” Without a word, we continued west along Central Street. Every so often, Matt angled a glance at me. I met his ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Pakistani Bride
epub |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Bapsi Sidhwa

The officers were already gathered in the Mess, awaiting the visitors. The sun had slipped behind the hills and Carol and Farukh, after snuffing out the candles in their room, ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Michael Crummey [Crummey, Michael]

It was difficult to say, looking back, when he’d made up his mind to stay. He didn’t announce or discuss it, barely acknowledged the notion in his own head. Simply ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding (Millworth Manor) by Victoria Alexander
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Victoria Alexander [Alexander, Victoria]

Chapter Thirteen The following day, The British Museum . . . “. . . and so,” Teddy continued, “I do think this is the best course. We continue this farce ...
( Category: Victorian December 27,2014 )
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Frances Itani [Frances Itani ]

TWENTY-FOUR And that, Lilibet, is the real story of my marriage. Can I help it if the celebration part was short-lived? Is it my fault that sorrow lurks around every ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter by Craig Lancaster
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Craig Lancaster [Lancaster, Craig]

The concierge called a cab for me, and when I told the driver that my friend was somewhere in East London with a lot of flowers, he said, “Columbia Road,” ...
( Category: Sports December 27,2014 )

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