World Literature
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Mary Glickman

EIGHT Spring, 1964 AT SPRING BREAK, JACKSON AND Stella drove south for her premiere encounter with the Sassaport family. It was uncertain whether Jackson’s car could make the trip. Stella ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-19 | Author:Anton, Maggie [Anton, Maggie]

Joheved calculated that her baby was due in mid-June, but Miriam took no chances and insisted her older sister move to Troyes early in the month. This turned out to ...
( Category: Contemporary December 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Anton, Maggie [Anton, Maggie]

Across the courtyard, alone in her bed, Rachel wasn’t sleeping either. Her breasts were too swollen and sore to lie on her belly, which meant that her flowers would start ...
( Category: Contemporary December 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Katharina Hagena

Chapter VIII ALTHOUGH IT WAS ONLY A short distance to my house I didn’t want to walk it in Max’s blue dressing gown. So I got into his car and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Kimberley Freeman

First thing Monday morning, Libby phoned Ashley-Harris Holdings, gave her name and asked to speak to Tristan. A few moments later a man’s voice was on the line. “Tristan?” “No, ...
( Category: Literary December 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:L. L. Fine [Fine, L. L.]

* The sound of helicopters landing had long since ceased to disturb Eva's daily routine. That is what happened, it turned out, when you lived on a military base long ...
( Category: Mystery December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-05-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

XII The Grandmother was in an impatient, irritable frame of mind. Without doubt the roulette had turned her head, for she appeared to be indifferent to everything else, and, in ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)]

CHAPTER XII She reached home in the evening. The Phillips’s old rooms had been twice let since Christmas, but were now again empty. The McKean with his silent ways and ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

IV The soldier was silent during two or three double bars of the tune. ‘When were you to have been married to the said Mr. Bartholomew Miller?’ he inquired. ‘Quite ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XIV An Action for Libel When the man had asked him that question,—Is there any secret you can tell?—Cousin Henry did, for half a minute, make up his mind ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XV. MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER. The company at the rector's house consisted of the Senator, the two Mortons, Mr. Surtees the curate, and old Doctor Nupper. Mrs. Mainwaring was ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Jim appeared in the ring stripped to the waist, with a coloured handkerchief tied round his middle. A shout of admiration came from the spectators as they looked upon the ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-09 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

The commander sighed, thought a moment, and said in a loud voice: "I am thinking of going to see Alexandra Yevgrafovna. I must call on her. Well, good-bye. I shall ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-01 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

V Then was completed the passion of the mighty fugue. The golden tubes of the organ, which as yet had but muttered at intervals—gleaming amongst clouds and surges of incense—threw ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:David Hair [Hair, David]

INTERLUDE The Vexations of Emperor Constant (Part 5) On Monarchy What is a king? Someone not just bred and raised to reign over others, but divinely ordained to do so? ...
( Category: Fantasy December 17,2017 )