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The Season of Migration by Nellie Hermann

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nellie Hermann

December 10 Dear Theo, No doubt you remember my friend Harry Gladwell, whom I lived and worked with in Paris—the one who took over my position when I left Goupil’s? ...

( Category: Biographical January 29,2015 )

West of Sunset by O'Nan Stewart

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:O'Nan, Stewart [O'Nan, Stewart]

INFIDELITY He hated coming home to an empty place, the still silence a reproof. The only mail was an overdue bill from the cleaners. He’d left the stove light on, ...

( Category: Biographical January 14,2015 )

Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Megan Mayhew Bergman

Even inside the convent walls we felt the threat of typhus and malaria, the stress and strain of political turmoil. We washed our hands raw. The last of winter was ...

( Category: Short Stories January 14,2015 )

The Shadow Queen: A Novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Rebecca Dean

epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Rebecca Dean [Dean, Rebecca]

By early 1917 her life as a Navy wife had settled into a well-established routine. Though the bungalow she and Win had been allocated was small—so small it could have ...

( Category: Biographical January 13,2015 )

Roughneck (1954) by Jim Thompson

epub |eng | 1998-02-15 | Author:Jim Thompson [Thompson, Jim]

"Now, do I walk downstairs or do you take me on the elevator?" We rode down on the elevator. Diffidently, each of us hurt by the other, we parted at ...

( Category: Biographical January 13,2015 )

Life & Times of Michael K by Coetzee J. M

mobi |eng | 1983-10-15 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

Her sister joined her. The two stood pressed together; K closed his eyes; the baby continued to kick and whine. They were made to line up at the gate and ...

( Category: War January 6,2015 )

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee

epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

ELEVEN YEARS AGO, WHEN he was still a child in a family trying its best to be normal, his parents used to go to Saturday night dances. He would watch ...

( Category: Authors December 29,2014 )

Spoonwood by Ernest Hebert

epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hebert

SPOONWOOD DOCUMENT: Radioactive We came down off the El Capitan Mountains on Route 380 in New Mexico in a celebratory mood, down through the tiny town of Carrizozo onto flat ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Conversations with Beethoven by Sanford Friedman

epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Sanford Friedman

I grant you that he is our flesh and blood—on the other hand she is my wife. Be careful, Ludwig—scum is what you called her fourteen years ago when she ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

African Stories by Doris Lessing

epub |eng | | Author:Doris Lessing

The Antheap BEYOND the plain rose the mountains, blue and hazy in a strong blue sky. Coming closer they were brown and grey and green, ranged heavily one beside the ...

( Category: Cultural Heritage December 27,2014 )

A Thousand Stitches by Constance O'Keefe

epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Constance O'Keefe

The winds had tossed burning embers and debris into the air and whipped the fires from the incendiary bombs into a storm that had devoured the flimsy dwellings along with ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Wyatt in Wichita

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:John Shirley

* * * They had a fire built from snags and dead tree limbs that Sanchez had somehow scavenged from a nearly barren hillside, and Wyatt was sitting on a ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Time Is Noon by Pearl S. Buck

epub |eng | | Author:Pearl S. Buck [Buck, Pearl S.]

He did not even know. He had not heard. She tore the letter into small pieces and left the heap upon the table. … So what could she do? The ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution by James Tipton

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:James Tipton [Tipton, James]

A Triple Disgrace My looks did not inspire confidence. Claudette, who answered the door, immediately thanked Mary and Joseph that I had indeed arrived there, then really looked at me ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Francine Prose

All of Paris is talking about the case of Lou Villars, the talented auto racer currently suing the French government and the French Women’s National Athletic Association to force them ...

( Category: Biographical December 15,2014 )

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