Contemporary
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Tryon, Thomas [Tryon, Thomas]

4 The young fry of Pequot Landing often occupied themselves with a pastime, an amusing charade in which Old Lady Rowe played a central role, one which some might think ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

Part II Wind Drives Us Crazy AT THE FALLS SHE leaned over the railing. The wind blew cold spray into her face, clothes. Within seconds her clothes were soaked and ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-15 | Author:Golding, William [William Golding]

Simon stayed where he was, a small brown image, concealed by the leaves. Even if he shut his eyes the sow’s head still remained like an after-image. The half-shut eyes ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-19 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

On Saturday morning, next day, I went resignedly with my mother to the Town Hall. We entered from the big doors at the west end, and three people were waiting ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Kang, Han [Kang, Han]

She stands and looks out at the rain-swept road. She is at the bus stop across from Maseok terminal. Huge goods vans thunder past, speeding along in the fast lane. ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-30 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

My affair with Consuela lasted for a little more than a year and a half. Only occasionally did we ever again go out for dinner or to the theater. She ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1963-01-15 | Author:West, Morris [West, Morris]

“It’s a leap into the dark,” said Ruth Lewin gravely. “I’m not sure I can make it.” “Is it any less hard to stay where you are?” “It’s harder, I ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-12 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

FOURTEEN A NEW DAY. Ettinger telephones, offering to lend them a gun ‘for the meanwhile’. ‘Thank you,’ he replies. ‘We’ll think about it.’ He gets out Lucy’s tools and repairs ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

Chapter 12 Thank the Lord those next four days are behind me instead of ahead. I admit that there are operations and situations where the best you can do is ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

13 The doors of the theater were to be opened at nine. We had dinner first with the Silvanis, and set out at a quarter to the hour. The piazza ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-21 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

DEAR CELIE, At first there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest. A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging. Then a ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-18 | Author:McCammon, Robert R. [McCammon, Robert R.]

2 The Magic Box THE SATURDAY NIGHT of the Zephyr arts council awards ceremony arrived. We all put on our Sunday clothes, jammed into the pickup truck, and headed for ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE NEXT DAY CAME gray and still with unfinished rain of summer and the sky pressed low over the valley heavy with its burden of the rain, and the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

6 May 1942–June 1942 Their Country May 22, 1942 Dear Mr. Roth: In compliance with a request from Homestead 42, Office of American Absorption, U.S. Department of the Interior, our ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )