Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Laura Catherine Brown

THE NEXT DAY, I walked up Steinway Street to a hardware store, where I bought cans of white paint, plaster, spackle, scraper, brushes, and a drop cloth. Dad would’ve been ...
( Category: Sagas January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Conrad Richter [Richter, Conrad]

FOR some time sleep had not come easily to Stone Girl. It must be the strange sleeping place, she told herself, or the bed she lay on. The beds in ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Viola Di Grado

I didn’t leave the house again. Stretched out on the couch, I watched stupid sitcoms and read the catalogs and fliers they threw against the door. The sitcoms offered a ...
( Category: Humor January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Alice Tawhai

Open Your Mouths FENCING ON THE EAST COAST is the best job in the world. We get out of bed in the dark, and the sun comes up over the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caraway Carter [Carter, Caraway]

When they arrived at the store, Ujaruk went in alone while Anders waited in the car. As he walked in, one of the regular checkers waved at him. "Where's your ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:H. Rider Haggard [Anonymous]

The man bowed, stretching out his arms till the backs of his hands touched the ground. Then, taking an earthenware lamp from a side table, he lit it and disappeared ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Anne Cuneo

With some relief, I quickly realised, from our acquaintances, that while the Dutch are a deeply religious people, and while religion is omnipresent in everyday life, and although Holland is ...
( Category: Biographical January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Carole Cadwalladr

There was an official period of mourning. We all grieved for our aborted holiday. Our holiday that would never have the chance to exist. The memories we would never have ...
( Category: Sagas January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Peter Sheridan

It took a moment for the penny to drop. When it did, Tommo smiled at her; he pointed at his eyes and nodded in recognition of the observation.-I presume you ...
( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jim Lewis

47 SPEECH FOR WALTER SELBY: DRAFT My friends, my colleagues, fellow statesmen, lawmakers, soldiers, lovers, husbands, fathers and sons; you teachers and priests, bosses and toilers, outcasts, prisoners, slaves; my ...
( Category: Sagas January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Noelle Greene [Greene, Noelle]

Chapter 14 The tall Russian hadn’t said much. They’d been driving since the pre-dawn and it was now mid-afternoon. Every time Markus asked him questions, Alexei Pushkin cranked up the ...
( Category: Romance January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan McMonagle

That night I can’t sleep. And once I know nobody else is still up, I get out of bed and go downstairs and occupy myself in the kitchen, then take ...
( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Drabble

Liz Headleand has got round to it at last. She has been avoiding it for as long as possible, but evasion no longer seems possible. She is forcing herself to ...
( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Trainor

Like I said, Scott broke up with me shortly after he had this dream. I tried phoning him a couple of times, but he clearly wasn’t interested in having a ...
( Category: Satire January 19,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Keith Heller

One day soon after, just at the beginning of a spell of blackthorn winter, Rita Venden, the BBC Garden Paths expert, appeared unannounced at the Houghtons’ door. She stood quaking ...
( Category: British & Irish January 19,2023 )