Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clark, Clare [Clark, Clare]

When her father telephoned the flat Jessica demanded to know what was wrong. Her alarm made him irritable. He told her brusquely to be quiet and listen, that he meant ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Luiselli, Valeria [Luiselli, Valeria]

THE FIRST TIME I felt horror in the presence of a clown was at the age of fifteen or sixteen. I was in Balderas metro station with my friend El ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Patrick Modiano

BACK AT HOME, HE LISTENED TO THE ANSWERING machine to find out whether Chantal Grippay or Gilles Ottolini had left a message. None. The black dress with swallows was still ...
( Category: French October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Coel, Margaret [Coel, Margaret]

18 A CIRCLE OF light fell over the stacks of papers, notebooks, and laptop that littered the surface of the desk. At the edge of light stood the chair Father ...
( Category: Literary October 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Gramont, Nina de [Gramont, Nina de]

9 Someone must have told us how much work a restaurant required. Not to mention a new baby. In that muggy, exhausted summer, I often wondered why we didn’t listen. ...
( Category: Family Life October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Boyd, William [Boyd, William]

The Vertical Poets, Oxford, 1942. Left to right, Herbert Percy, V. L. Lindon and Xan Clay. ‘Premonitions’ by Xan Clay Stars foretell the fall of czars. Strummed guitars lead to ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hearth, Amy Hill [Hearth, Amy Hill]

Fourteen I got a frantic call from Jungle Larry’s Safari, hoping I would help them with an ailing snake. “But I don’t do snakes,” I reminded Larry, a nice-enough man ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Donald Bain

Part Three Chapter Fourteen I knew that probing into the Leboeuf murder would have to be done tactfully, as always. When I become involved in a case—unofficially, of course—I have ...
( Category: Mystery October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:John Harvey & Harvey [Harvey, John & Harvey]

Twenty-Seven Resnick spent forty minutes with a sixty-eight-year-old man who was convinced he had come about his stolen bike. “Locked the bugger up in the entry an’ everything. Right t’the ...
( Category: Heist October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:John Harvey [Harvey, John]

Eighteen When the phone rang, Harold Roy was sitting with a tomato juice, trying to concentrate on his camera script. If it wasn’t going to take them half the morning ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Alasdair Gray

CHAPTER 26. Chaos He waited a long time next morning for an impulse to get out of bed, and at last crawled to the larder, and to the lavatory, and ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-18 | Author:Cullin, Mitch [Cullin, Mitch]

13 AS AT THE Atom Bomb Dome, a high fence surrounded Shukkei-en Garden, put there in order to prevent entrance. Mr. Umezaki, however, was undeterred, and, as had apparently been ...
( Category: Historical Mystery October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Henri Bergson [Bergson, Henri]

CHAPTER III THE COMIC IN CHARACTER I We have followed the comic along many of its winding channels in an endeavour to discover how it percolates into a form, an ...
( Category: Social Philosophy October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Diane Chamberlain [Chamberlain, Diane]

CHAPTER TWENTY Zoe awakened before the sunrise Wednesday morning with her stomach churning. She lay on her air mattress, staring at the rotting wood in the ceiling of the shanty. ...
( Category: Suspense October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-10-12 | Author:Diane Chamberlain

CHAPTER NINETEEN There was no better way to let you know you had no friends than spending a birthday alone, Joelle thought. It was early Saturday morning, July fourteenth, and ...
( Category: Friendship October 13,2015 )