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South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel by Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel [Murakami, Haruki & Gabriel, Philip]

10 The river flowed swiftly past cliffs, in places forming small waterfalls, in others coming to a halt in pools. The surface of these pools faintly reflected the weak sun. ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers September 29,2014 )
Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Chang-Rae Lee [Lee, Chang-rae]

A L O F T 187 "Will you stop that? Anyway, I've started. I'm taking lessons." "From Richie?" "No. The pro at his club. Though Richard is a pretty good ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
The informers by Bret Easton Ellis
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-14 | Author:Bret Easton Ellis [Ellis, Bret Easton]

8 LETTERS FROM L.A. Sept 4 1983 Dear Sean, Guess you didn't expect to hear from me. Talk about getting away from it all! Here I am-all away across the ...
( Category: Suspense September 29,2014 )
Christmas At Timberwoods by Michaels Fern
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Michaels, Fern [Fern, Michaels,]

Amy Summers watched her husband pick at the food on his plate. She had taken extra pains to make his dinner attractive: roast beef, sliced extra thin the way he ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Susan Choi [Choi, Susan]

180 S U S A N C H O I “A lie-detector test implies the person being tested is suspect,” Lee said after a moment. Despite being on the defensive, ...
( Category: Suspense September 29,2014 )
The Condition: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jennifer Haigh [Haigh, Jennifer]

For two nights in a row she ate dinner alone on her balcony. Balmy air brushed her bare arms and shoulders, lingering like a human touch. The second night the ...
( Category: Domestic Life September 29,2014 )
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Dana Spiotta [Spiotta, Dana]

BREAKING EVENT #3 It happened as I was eating in front of the television news. I know this was asking for it, I know, but this is what people who ...
( Category: Domestic Life September 29,2014 )
The River King by Alice Hoffman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Alice Hoffman [Hoffman, Alice]

PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGE OF HAD DAN HAD LONG memories, but they usually forgave transgressions. Who among them hadn't made a mistake? Who had never run aground of good sense ...
( Category: Mystery September 29,2014 )
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Julia Glass [Glass, Julia]

The drama king is the first to reach my bed. “Honeybee, they confiscated your flowers!” He saves me the difficulty of a reply when he kisses me, long and tender, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-11-04 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

18. The Lifeguard Charlotte had never been in a building like the Dupont Center for Neuroscience before, although she had seen pictures of such places, all lean and clean and ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
The March by E.L. Doctorow
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:E.L. Doctorow [Doctorow, E.L.]

IN THE EARLY hours of the morning, Emily Thompson was called to assist when a black woman was brought in unconscious on a stretcher. The woman’s garments were half torn ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2014 )
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Scott Spencer [Spencer, Scott]

“Oh God, they have the best names. Hampton what?” “Welles. He’s Ivy League,Wall Street, so bourgeois he makes Martha Stewart seem like Karen Finley.” “And does he think O. J. ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
The Names by Don DeLillo
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Don DeLillo [DeLillo, Don]

In the light of a lowering sky the city is immediate and sculptured. None of summer’s white palls, its failures of distance and perspective. There are shadow-angles, highlighted surfaces, areas ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
Jonathan Lethem by The Fortress Of Solitude
epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:The Fortress Of Solitude [Solitude, The Fortress Of]

chapter 17 Stately Wayne Manor is scheduled to go on between Miller Miller Miller & Sloane and the Speedies, the whole lineup a battle of high-school bands, the members all ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

From the window of my office, I watched Hank turn east toward Portsmouth and then jumped in my car and drove immediately in the opposite direction, toward their house. I ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )

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