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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Sandra Gulland [Gulland, Sandra]

[Undated] “Yeyette?” Mimi set a tray down on the table beside the bed. “I got the cook to make some plantain bread for you.” She handed me a piece. “Oh ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
The Pupil by Caro Fraser
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Caro Fraser [Fraser, Caro]

It seemed to Anthony, when he awoke the following morning, that his brain had reached some hard-fought decision while he had slept. He knew, with a sudden certainty, that, given ...
( Category: Mystery September 10,2017 )
Pieces by Chbosky Stephen
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Chbosky, Stephen [Chbosky, Stephen]

BLACK COWBOY Carmen Elena Mitchell At my door is Jesse, all grown up. Six feet tall, with dark curls, wearing presents on his head. The 1930s leather cowboy hat and ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 10,2017 )
Life Support by Robert Whitlow
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Robert Whitlow

25 What authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ACT 4, SCENE 1 Alexia had twelve messages on her answering machine. Number ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
Fortune Cookie (Culinary Mystery) by Kilpack Josi S
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Kilpack, Josi S. [Kilpack, Josi S.]

Chapter 20 Is this woman seriously hitting on my fiancé right in front of me? Sadie thought before trying to focus on the fact that Shasta was the new tenant ...
( Category: Mystery September 10,2017 )
Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

13 HORTY LAUGHED. HE LOOKED at his left hand, at the three stubs of fingers which rose, like unspread mushrooms, from his knuckles, touched the scar-tissue around them with his ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 10,2017 )
An Unexpected Guest by Anne Korkeakivi
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Anne Korkeakivi [Korkeakivi, Anne]

“Voilà,” the assistant said, as though she’d just finished explaining something to a child. “J’ai fait un bon conditioning aussi.” She wrapped a towel around Clare’s shoulders and, with a ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 10,2017 )
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith by Keneally Thomas
epub |eng | 2013-04-06 | Author:Keneally Thomas [Keneally Thomas]

10 By now the Blacksmith brothers had crossed to the rainy side of the mountains. Dying trees wore long mosses, the tree ferns were tall, and underfoot was deep lush ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )
The Visitor by Katherine Stansfield
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Katherine Stansfield

Three Her screaming wakes her. The dream again. In it she’s walking on the beach below the drying field, her feet cut and bleeding. She doesn’t know where she’s been ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
Higher Hope by Robert Whitlow
epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Robert Whitlow

18 “NOT NECESSARILY,” THE WOMAN REPLIED, GIVING ME A STRANGE look. “It means she hasn’t been admitted. She may be with one of the triage nurses.” “How can I find ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Barbara Gowdy [Gowdy, Barbara]

THE CALL comes in not five minutes after the news conference. Celia and the deputy chief of police are drinking coffee in the dining room. The powder-fine fingerprint dust, which ...
( Category: World Literature September 10,2017 )
Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Mary Renault [Renault, Mary]

CHAPTER XVI “ARE YOU SURE,” ASKED Helen, pausing in final doubt in front of the Corner House, “that you’ll really be all right?” “Of course I will. Really.” Elsie spoke ...
( Category: History September 10,2017 )
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Barbara Gowdy [Gowdy, Barbara]

She smells fresh water but not fresh dung nor any kind of creature. She hears, far off to the west, the cry of geese, nothing else. The gerenuk warned her, ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )
Be Safe I Love You: A Novel by Hoffman Cara
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Hoffman, Cara [Hoffman, Cara]

Twenty-one THE HOUSE PHONE was ringing when she walked in the door with her packages and she was too distracted to remember not to pick it up. “I’m so glad ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
Indecision: A Novel by Kunkel Benjamin
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-29 | Author:Kunkel, Benjamin [Kunkel, Benjamin]

I had never said this last thing to her before and didn’t mean it in any binding sense. But in light of the morning’s whole Santa Claus–esque experience, plus being ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 10,2017 )

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