Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Bernard du Boucheron [DU BOUCHERON, BERNARD]

Nightfall. Two men were bickering on the ice. “Where did you see the great umiak?” “We were hunting seal, at the hole in the ice,” said the younger one. “Where ...
( Category: Historical January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Mohamed El-Bisatie

11 That afternoon I took the car out for a drive. Earlier, the women cleaned the villa and prepared dinner to take to the tents. Then they went swimming—we could ...
( Category: Psychological January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheri Holman

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The night of Pastor Vaughn’s doctor’s appointment, the sky let forth a fantastic autumn thunderstorm. Maybe it was the sycamore tree lashing his bedroom window that woke him, ...
( Category: Satire January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken McGoogan

Early in May, after an absence of six months, snowbirds returned to the encircling bay, restoring hope and optimism. The increasing daylight melted the snow from the sides of the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Stephen H. Foreman

“Mr. Jubal Pickett, meet Mr. Jack Savage,” said Abilene, smiling broadly as she introduced the two men. “And this is Gideon,” she said with her arm around the boy’s shoulders. ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Sandro Meallet

9 For seventeen straight days Goldie didn’t leave the apartment, making my life a rightquicking headache all over again. Could I get a packa smokes, right quick?; I’m feelin’ like ...
( Category: Satire January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-17 | Author:Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

( Category: Short Stories January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Elizabeth McKenzie [McKenzie, Elizabeth]

Once, at a yard sale in Medford, Mac’s mother had spotted a tribal kilim spread out upon the grass, on sale, with various items also up for grabs scattered haphazardly ...
( Category: Romance January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-15 | Author:Pickard

15 ONE-HALF HOUR LATER, I WAS RIDING IN ANOTHER CAB down a street in Greenwich Village when I realized I had nobody to eat dinner with that night. It was ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Kira Henehan

40 Dame Uppal herself greeted me at the door on my next trip to the Uppal estate. She offered a bright smile after subtly glancing about my person for satchels ...
( Category: Humor January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Fernanda Eberstadt [Eberstadt, Fernanda]

When they get back from the market, Rat can tell at once that someone has visited their camp. Her and Morgan’s sleeping area smells of dope, and there’s an imprint ...
( Category: Romance January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-15 | Author:Jack Womack

“Even now, I like to come in and fix dinner myself for my men,” Nadze said, grinning as if he were deliriously happy. “I was a cook in the Army, ...
( Category: Humor January 28,2023 )
pdf | | 2007-08-18 | Author:Rex Stout

( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Kalisha Buckhanon [Buckhanon, Kalisha]

PART TWO EIGHT HE LIVED ON the fourth floor. We had talked about the building and the block, out in the cold, for about ten minutes because he couldn’t smoke ...
( Category: Black & African American January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Marc Estrin

He was even less encouraged when, a week later, enraged over rising prices and putative plots to starve the people, a crowd lynched an official named Foulon and paraded his ...
( Category: Biographical January 27,2023 )