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Ten Tales Tall and True by Alasdair Gray
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-16 | Author:Alasdair Gray

On the brink of melancholy madness the prisoner found a pencil on the floor behind the lavatory pan. When this had been carefully nibbled to a sharp point it might ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
The Handsome Road by Gwen Bristow
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Gwen Bristow [Bristow, Gwen]

Chapter Ten When Gilday offered to take a house for her Corrie May felt a thrill that ran from the back of her neck down to the end of her ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )
More Ketchup Than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman by Joe Cawley
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Joe Cawley [Cawley, Joe]

He was right. Faith was threatening to leave Tenerife for good. After she had regained a little composure, she apologised to the rest of us and admitted she needed a ...
( Category: Humor August 16,2017 )
Misty by Allison Hobbs
epub |eng | | Author:Allison Hobbs

CHAPTER 23 Misty waited patiently for Gavin’s tears to subside, watching as he dabbed his eyes and returned the handkerchief to his pocket. Deciding that he’d sufficiently pulled himself together, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
The Accidental Mother by Coleman Rowan
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Coleman, Rowan [Coleman, Rowan]

The tramp sitting on her doorstep took the shine off Sophie’s triumphant glow. When she saw him, she sighed and considered walking past her own home and lurking about around ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 16,2017 )
Esther's Inheritance by Marai Sandor
epub |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Marai, Sandor [Marai, Sandor]

13 There are three conversations I should note here. That was precisely how many took place that afternoon. Éva was first at my door, followed by Lajos, and lastly by ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Carlos Fuentes

4 Now you know why Aura is living in this house: to perpetuate the illusion of youth and beauty in that poor, crazed old lady. Aura, kept here like a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 16,2017 )
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (Middle Eastern Fiction) by El Saadawi Nawal
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:El Saadawi, Nawal

I sat beside him on one of the big stones forming the base of the pyramid, straining my eyes to the distant horizon and watching the sun’s red disc as ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
The Golden Country by Shusaku Endo
epub |eng | | Author:Shusaku Endo

INOUE: I wonder if Christ had a face like this. TOMONAGA: I don't know. But all the paintings brought over by the Fathers have this same kind of face. INOUE: ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 16,2017 )
The Dunning Man by Fortuna Kevin
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Fortuna, Kevin [Fortuna, Kevin]

Flogging Maggie There she is in her glory, sitting in my torn-up La-Z-Boy, wearing nothing but the bra I lent her. Her legs are drawn up sideways so her knees ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Miss Julia Stands Her Ground by Ann B. Ross
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Ann B. Ross

Chapter 24 Two days later I tapped on the open door of Hazel Marie’s room, the downstairs one that used to be a guest room no one ever used, and ...
( Category: Mystery August 16,2017 )
Mothers and Daughters by Fleming Leah
epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Fleming, Leah [Fleming, Leah]

17 23 November 1963 ‘I hear the runaway came back to Division Street and got short shrift from that Susan … quite right too. Now the girl’s up at Esme’s, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
epub |eng | | Author:Sefi Atta [Atta, Sefi]

1995 People say I was hot-headed in my twenties. I don’t ever remember being hot-headed. I only ever remember calling out to my voice. In my country, women are praised ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 16,2017 )
The Cocktail Club by Pat Tucker
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Tucker

30 DARBY “I don’t want no stupid waffles!” Taylor screamed. If he was gonna have a fit, he’d have to have it alone. I was not in the mood. I ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Thomas Mallon [Mallon, Thomas]

Hugh read the injunction an hour or so later, and he did stay much later than he had intended, but only because he fell asleep at the little table near ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )

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