World Literature
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Melanie Milburne [Milburne, Melanie]

CHAPTER SEVEN JADE woke to the sound of a knock on the door. She scrambled upright and, hauling the sheets over herself, asked who was there. ‘It’s me, Nic.’ She ...
( Category: World Literature September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Evelio Rosero [Rosero, Evelio]

But first I go and look for and chase—in the Brazilian’s garden—one of the hens, my hens, who have decided to keep on living in the neighbors’ garden. I am ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Alain Mabanckou

‘If the twins are running away, that’s great, we can relax at last, we’ll be the masters of the orphanage!’ ‘Bonaventure, you don’t get it: this is our chance to ...
( Category: Literary September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Rachel Kadish [Kadish, Rachel]

The rabbi was waiting for her upon her return. He sat in silence until she’d hung her cloak. “To Daniel Lusitano,” he said. The rabbi had had Rivka set out ...
( Category: Literary September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Brynn Kelly

CHAPTER 17 Tess bolted through the doorway, her brain registering a blur of movement. Several men. Big men. Security contractors? Oh God. Pain shot through her feet. Footsteps sprinted after ...
( Category: Military September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:G. K. Chesterton

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Steve Sem-Sandberg [Sem-Sandberg, Steve]

Five days after the eighth and final day of Hanukkah, the Chairman of the ghetto held bar mitzvah for his adopted son, Stanisław Rumkowski. The ceremony took place in the ...
( Category: World Literature September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Jean-Christophe Grange

PART VII 38 The telephone bell exploded into his ears. "Yes?" No answer. Eric Ackermann slowly hung up, then looked at his watch: 3:00 PM. The twelfth anonymous call since ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Alexis Landau [Landau, Alexis]

19 Berlin, Friday, June 10, 1927 On Friday mornings, Josephine went to Dr. Dührkoop, a psychoanalyst with a private practice on the top floor of an imposing stone town house ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Muriel Barbery & Alison Anderson [Barbery, Muriel & Anderson, Alison]

5. A Pleasant Impression But Manuela, not terribly sensitive to the little steps of Japanese women, is already steering us toward another territory. “That Rosen woman is in a regular ...
( Category: Contemporary September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Hans Christian Andersen [CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, HANS]

8. What the Parlour Cat had to tell ‘Here’s what you asked for!’ said Rudy, coming into the miller’s house in Bex and putting a large cage down on the ...
( Category: World Literature September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-24 | Author:Jillian Cantor

Wales, 1989 GIUDITTA,” MIRIAM SAYS, snapping her fingers, as if it has just come to her again. “That was the name of the opera we saw that night in Vienna.” ...
( Category: Literary September 1,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon [Zafon, Carlos Ruiz]

23 Fermín could feel the lorry slowing down and negotiating the last obstacles along the dirt track. After a couple of minutes of potholes and groans from the lorry, the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Shouhua Qi

The Two Patients Jiang Zilong Professor Zhuang, forever proud, can’t take it anymore. As an eminent professor of a prestigious university, he’s never received such treatment, even when he became ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Horacio Quiroga

Juan Darién Herein is told the tale of a tiger who was raised and educated among men and whose name was Juan Darién. Dressed in pants and a shirt he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )