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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Machado de Assis
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Machado de Assis

FATHER AGAINST MOTHER We come at last to a story by Machado de Assis in which a slave plays a central role: “Pai contra mãe.” Even in this story, the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
Vanity Insanity by Mary Kay Leatherman
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Mary Kay Leatherman [Leatherman, Mary Kay]

In Omaha in 1985, my clients were talking about Enron, a result of Houston Natural Gas merging with InterNorth, which had brought many job opportunities for Omaha. In the same ...
( Category: Contemporary January 29,2015 )
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Pancake Breece D'J
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Pancake, Breece D'J [Pancake, Breece D'J]

As she went down the steps, Reva did not look for the crushed tunnel of the mole. Instead, she made her way through clouds of gnats toward the river as ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Malcolm Bradbury [Bradbury, Malcolm]

6 I IT WAS the last tutorial of the Michaelmas term, and Professor Treece sat at his desk, his back to the window, while the dull December light shone on ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
The Ravagers by Donald Hamilton
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Donald Hamilton [Hamilton, Donald]

13 The Voyageur Club is to Montreal, I guess, what Stallmästaregården is to Stockholm or Antoine’s is to New Orleans—to drop the names of a couple of classy restaurants I’ve ...
( Category: Crime January 29,2015 )
The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul E. Hardisty
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Paul E. Hardisty [Paul E. Hardisty]

Clay looked up at Rania and Hussein. They sat watching him, their faces grave, expectant, as if waiting for some reaction, a rebuttal. He looked down at the paper again, ...
( Category: Crime January 29,2015 )
Nightingales on Call by Donna Douglas
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Donna Douglas [Douglas, Donna]

Chapter Twenty-Five IT WAS SISTER Sutton’s day off, and she was preparing for it like a military operation. Jess had never known the Home Sister have a day off, but ...
( Category: Family Saga January 29,2015 )
The Douglas Kennedy Collection #1 by Douglas Kennedy
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Kennedy

EIGHT THE DOCTOR WAS right. Just as there is no such thing as a free lunch, so there is no instant cure for depression—no fizzy Alka-Seltzer evaporation of the black ...
( Category: Contemporary January 29,2015 )
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
epub |eng | | Author:Anita Diamant

A girl should always have her own money. Where I grew up, it would have been bad manners to sit in a woman’s kitchen without asking about her children and ...
( Category: Jewish January 29,2015 )
Bradbury Stories by Ray Bradbury
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Bradbury

THE SOUND OF SUMMER RUNNING LATE THAT NIGHT, GOING HOME from the show with his mother and father and his brother Tom, Douglas saw the tennis shoes in the bright ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
epub |eng | 2007-01-28 | Author:Janice Kulyk Keefer [Keefer, Janice Kulyk]

“What do you suppose she was sick with—asthma?” offers Nastia. “Of course not. She would have had some kind of terrible fever. They would have had to watch at her ...
( Category: Canadian January 29,2015 )
Bermuda Schwartz by Bob Morris
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bob Morris

42 By nine o’clock the next morning, Fiona and I are in downtown Hamilton, sitting across the desk from Chief Inspector Worley. “I assure you, Ms. McHugh, we are not ...
( Category: Humor January 29,2015 )
Slate by Nathan Aldyne
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Nathan Aldyne

Chapter Ten AS VALENTINE ROSE SLOWLY in the ancient cage elevator, the cables and the pulleys shook and wheezed and screeched as if they had not been oiled since their ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction January 29,2015 )
The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Leyner Mark
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Leyner, Mark [Leyner, Mark]

WARDEN Pretty intense, huh? MARK (voice-over) I checked my watch. From the time we returned from the Contraband Control Room and drank the Gravy to now, only thirty seconds had ...
( Category: Humorous January 29,2015 )
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Hilary Mantel [Mantel, Hilary]

Colette had taken on the task of contacting Al’s regular clients, to let them know about the house-move. She made a pretty lilac-coloured card, with the new details, which they ...
( Category: Occult January 29,2015 )

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