Contemporary
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Bakker, R. Scott [Bakker, R. Scott]

TEN August 24th, 8:55 p.m. Why did Daddy have to go? The air mattress beneath him felt cold and wobbly, unsteady like his belly. “Why did Daddy have to go?” ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense May 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-11-03 | Author:Ballard, J. G. [Ballard, J. G.]

1964 The Illuminated Man By day fantastic birds flew through the petrified forest, and jewelled alligators glittered like heraldic salamanders on the banks of the crystalline rivers. By night the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 18,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-09-06 | Author:Valerie Sherwood

CHAPTER 24 At breakfast Ben kept his head turned away from her and could not meet her eyes. “I am sorry,” he burst out at last. “I am not a ...
( Category: Contemporary May 18,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-07-01 | Author:Jodi Thomas

In the darkness Kora felt like a light flashed on in her mind. Suddenly she knew what she’d never thought to guess. Win was jealous. The knowledge made her feel ...
( Category: Historical May 17,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Robinson, Kim Stanley [Robinson, Kim Stanley]

Ahead of us the headwall of the glacier, the crux of our climb, the heart knot of our pilgrimage. A most serious case of kao-yuan perspective. I’ll practice silence now, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 17,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Toni Morrison

WHEN THE FOUR horsemen came—schoolteacher, one nephew, one slave catcher and a sheriff—the house on Bluestone Road was so quiet they thought they were too late. Three of them dismounted, ...
( Category: Literary May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Chris Claremont & George Lucas

Late the next day, newsboys were in full cry with the news from Tregare. The fort had fallen. Comments over supper that evening in Giles Horvath’s loft were grim and ...
( Category: Fantasy May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Dennis Etchison

MUSIC CHRISTMAS MUSIC. THRU TO: EPISODE SCORE. FADE DOWN. SOUND INT. – JAMES’S AND LORI’S HOUSE. [NOTE: WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ALTERNATE VERSION OF THE FIRST SCENE IN THIS SCRIPT. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction May 15,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:John Shirley

Spector walked out onto the stage, just glancing at the cameras and the studio audience beyond the bulletproof glass. He pointed the pistol loaded with blanks at the grinning man ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Jack Finney [Finney, Jack]

She liked the portrait: I could tell that she really did by the way she looked at it again and again; and some color came back to her face. My ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jack Finney [Finney, Jack]

16 * * * OUT ON THE WALK with the Jotta Girl, I could see she expected me to ask her to lunch, but I didn’t. Wouldn’t. Stood smiling, nodding, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Janet Chapman

Chapter Fifteen The clouds had thickened and lowered by the time Winter crossed Bear Brook and entered the high meadow, the wind blowing at gale force and a wet snow ...
( Category: Time Travel May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Janet Chapman

He was planning a lecture, most likely. Sadie lay in the warmth of Morgan’s embrace and stared up at the ceiling of her tent, most of which Morgan MacKeage was ...
( Category: Contemporary May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Diana Norman

Chapter Thirteen ‘ONLY a little cheese and fruit tonight.’ After the landlord’s funeral, she had been required, for form’s sake, to partake of a pasty or patty, or whatever they ...
( Category: Women's Fiction May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-03 | Author:Holly Ringland

When Alice got back to Thornfield, everyone was in a frenzy, securing the house, dorm and workshop, tying things down and ferrying anything untethered inside. The rain had eased but ...
( Category: Contemporary May 12,2018 )