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Savage Theories by Pola Oloixarac
epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Pola Oloixarac

2.1.2 The purity of the horror involved should not, must not, be assuaged. I must act upon him so as to inspire armies of organized brutality sent vectoring toward me. ...
( Category: Humor August 15,2017 )
The Afterlife of Stars by Joseph Kertes
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Joseph Kertes

When we got to Paris late in the morning, Attila helped our father carry the man out. They laid him down on a bench. Our father stared the driver down, ...
( Category: World Literature August 15,2017 )
One Heir...or Two? by Yvonne Lindsay
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Yvonne Lindsay

Ten It was quiet when Kayla came back downstairs after her shower. She knew Imelda wouldn’t be far away when she left the kitchen, so she wasn’t too worried about ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 15,2017 )
Water by Rachel Zadok
epub |eng | 2016-02-26 | Author:Rachel Zadok

Zvichadzokera turned out to be an anti-climax. When I entered her hut, it took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkness of the room and the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 15,2017 )
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Gilmore

Seven days after the Terrier’s trial, Pauline Brodsky and her son vanished. Into thin air, the Post reported. Many women left New York and changed their names to avoid gangster ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 15,2017 )
The Character of Rain by Amelie Nothomb
epub |eng | | Author:Amelie Nothomb [Nothomb, Amélie]

I SPENT MY NIGHTS standing on my pillow, gripping the bars of my crib, staring at my father and mother as if preparing notes for a behavioral study about them. ...
( Category: Contemporary August 15,2017 )
The Paradise Ghetto by Fergus O'Connell
epub |eng | 2016-08-11 | Author:Fergus O'Connell

28 Julia puts down the pencil. It’s been one of the longer chapters and took her the best part of a week to write. She sits up in bed using ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 15,2017 )
Motherland Hotel by Yusuf Atilgan
epub |eng | | Author:Yusuf Atilgan

MONDAY He sat up. A bell was ringing. The alarm. He reached out to the bedside table and pressed the button to silence it. Seven-thirty—he’d brought in the clock at ...
( Category: Mystery August 15,2017 )
At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Katherine Mansfield [Mansfield, Katherine]

8 The sun was still full on the garden when the back door of the Burnells’ shut with a bang, and a very gay figure walked down the path to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 15,2017 )
Lotus by Lijia Zhang
epub |eng | | Author:Lijia Zhang

CHAPTER 16 天高皇帝远 Heaven Is High and the Emperor Is Far Away In Mulberry Gully, Bing felt at home. The landscape was beautiful, with pristine mountains, limpid waters, and an ...
( Category: Literary August 15,2017 )
Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Rikki Ducornet

Any number of birds are performing on the branches. But for their bellies—these birds have white bellies just like some fish—they are a dirty brown. Dr. Ash thinks they look ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 15,2017 )
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi
epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Teffi

2 I had glimpsed Rasputin once before. In a train. He must have been on his way east, to visit his home village in Siberia. He was in a first-class ...
( Category: World Literature August 15,2017 )
The Good People by Hannah Kent
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Hannah Kent

That night Nóra dreamt she was by the Flesk, washing Martin’s clothes with the heat of the sun on her back. It was summer. The banks of the river were ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 15,2017 )
Lucy & the Lieutenant by Helen Lacey
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Helen Lacey

Chapter Eight I’ll be around... Brant had been hearing those words in his head for three days. Even with a busy weekend, traveling back and forth to the hospital to ...
( Category: World Literature August 15,2017 )
The Wars by Timothy Findley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Timothy Findley

Hear thou my prayer—unto thee shall all flesh come… ‘It’s comforting, isn’t it,’ she says. But you wonder. 12 Transcript: Lady Juliet d’Orsey—1 ‘They met—my sister and Robert Ross—because of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 15,2017 )

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