Literary
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Flanagan, John

27 THE BITTER COLD OF THE DESERT NIGHT WOKE HIM. HE WAS FACEDOWN, shivering violently as the heat leached from his body. It wasn’t fair, he thought. The blinding heat ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Peter Temple [Temple, Peter]

Mick’s mobile trilled. He had a brief conversation, then he said, ‘Vinnie, me own Gestapo’s on the way. Let’s have a lightnin round for the survivors.’ The dog joined me ...
( Category: Murder November 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dorothy Allison

Dede finally found the limits of the Datsun one summer night on the Bowle River overpass. She was allowed to drive the Datsun now and then, but only when Delia ...
( Category: Domestic Life November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Mason Currey [Currey, Mason]

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) “My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993. “It’s something that I have never been able to understand, but I accept it.” ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:McKenzie, Mia [McKenzie, Mia]

Mother Haley had been dead four years, but she stood in the kitchen, by the stove, wearing the hat and dress she had been buried in. Regina had been at ...
( Category: African American November 7,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Rachel Joyce [Joyce, Rachel]

A happy day IT’S LATE October. One of those beautiful mellow days when the light is blue-gold and the trees haven’t yet lost all their leaves. The greens are tinged ...
( Category: Family Life November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ford

SALLY AND I SOLD OUR BEACH HOUSE ON POINCINET Road, Sea-Clift, in the late selling-season of ’04. We’d thought about it for a while. Someone, though, just came driving past ...
( Category: Contemporary November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-11-16 | Author:Batchelder, Dennis [Batchelder, Dennis]

I woke at four and switched on the GPS. Bob had driven us halfway down the New Jersey Turnpike already. “Jeez, you’ve made great timing,” I said. Bob smiled into ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense November 7,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Kimberly Belle [Belle, Kimberly]

21 EVEN ASLEEP, MY father looks angry. Brows knitted, eyes squeezed shut, teeth clenched. His lips are scrunched into a hard line that drives both corners downward, and his hands ...
( Category: Family Saga November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Mo Yan [Yan, Mo]

3. Gao Ma spent the night among the mulberries and acacias, not emerging from the world of ghosts and goblins until dawn broke, and then feeling chilled all over—except for ...
( Category: Chinese November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

7 THREE SIMPLE STORIES I IWAS A NORMAL eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting. At least, all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like ...
( Category: Native American November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

GNOSSIENNE LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR that I never attend literary conferences. I know that they’re held in art deco hotels close to legendary museums; that sessions on the future ...
( Category: Short Stories November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Joseph O'Neill [O'Neill, Joseph]

I visited RCF’s site. Under the “Our Team” tab, Ted Wilson was designated “Team Leader, Country Branding Visions and Operations.” The photograph showed a smiling Wilson. Resting neatly on his ...
( Category: Humorous November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Powers, Richard [Powers, Richard]

IT BECOMES THEIR rolling litany. Let’s make something. Make what? Something good. Good how? Good and grumpy? No: Good and gentle. Good and treelike. Good like a bird. Maddy catches ...
( Category: Literary November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Aminatta Forna [Forna, Aminatta]

CHAPTER 26 My first reaction, upon my release, was to rid myself of the odours of that vile place. I showered twice, then shaved. Later I called and arranged to ...
( Category: African November 7,2014 )