Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:Eudora Welty [Welty, Eudora]

So last week it came up on the docket—it hadn't been anything much of a docket before that, and they shoved a few things out of the way for it. ...
( Category: Short Stories October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-10-30 | Author:RICHARD MARCINKO & John Weisman

( Category: Espionage October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Gardam

“We always say, you know,” said the assistant in the small Knightsbridge store much classier than Harrods, “that the wedding hat should be chosen after the hairdo. I hope I’m ...
( Category: Short Stories October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Flann O'Brien

After Hours (1967) by Brian O’Nolan At ten o’clock on week nights, at half-nine on Saturday the tide ebbs suddenly, leaving the city high and dry. Unless you are staying ...
( Category: Short Stories October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Richard Marcinko [Marcinko, Richard]

Chapter 13 IT WAS COOL OUT—THE SORT OF BONE-CHILLING DAMP MORNing for which Paris is famous in the autumn. But Paris, even cold and wet, beats Moscow—or just about anyplace ...
( Category: Espionage October 31,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-30 | Author:Gear, W. Michael & Gear, Kathleen O'Neal [Gear, W. Michael]

FEAR I long for that quickening of the blood. How light my limbs become; what a wonder my steps are, so filled with air. If I could choose any companion, ...
( Category: Native American October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1969-11-02 | Author:Angela Carter [Carter, Angela]

5 The tribe no longer protected itself against Marianne with signs, for marriage had secularized her. She was still a stranger and hence fearful but now she was specifically Jewel’s ...
( Category: Contemporary October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Gear, W. Michael & Gear, Kathleen O'Neal [Gear, W. Michael]

Thirty-one After each of the chiefs had entered his lodge, Rain Bear took a moment to ensure that the guards obeyed him and stayed at least fifty hands away. They ...
( Category: Native American October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-10-30 | Author:Kidman, Fiona [Fiona Kidman]

‘You have not asked me why I’m here,’ Betty says, after a silence. Adie is cooling herself with a silk fan that had belonged until yesterday to Charlotte Pugh (who ...
( Category: Contemporary October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Gear, W. Michael & Gear, Kathleen O'Neal [Gear, W. Michael]

Finding a replacement for the bow Lotus Root had stolen hadn’t been easy. Smoke Shield had used the bow Fast Legs had given him during the Chahta raid, but it ...
( Category: Family Saga October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Stephanie Siciarz [Siciarz, Stephanie]

It was nearly midnight when the bakery quieted down. Most of the flood of customers had come and gone by ten, but the next two hours witnessed a steady flow ...
( Category: Contemporary October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Grace Metalious

8 IN PEYTON PLACE, the black-tarred sidewalks softened in the summer sun and were scarred with U-shaped heel marks that would show forever. Green Meadow Pond was filled with screaming, ...
( Category: Classics October 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:William S. Burroughs

WE ARE THE LANGUAGE As I was reading the Cities of the Red Night text, the Iguana sister brought some books and put them down on the table. I laid ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Ferrante, Elena [Ferrante, Elena]

17 I parked, went through the pinewood, dripping with rain. I came to the dunes. The bath house was deserted, Gino wasn’t there, nor was the manager. The beach, in ...
( Category: Women Authors October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-08-07 | Author:John Berger

6 Le Pont d’Arc Month of February. Slight frost at night. 21° C at midday. Cloudless sky above the village of Vogué on the east bank of the Ardèche. The ...
( Category: Literary October 31,2014 )