Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Ursula Hegi

1904–1907 Chapter 18 IT WAS RAINING like that the afternoon Frau Abramowitz hoisted Thekla onto her desk in the living room and told her the most beautiful word in all ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:R. K. Sewall [Sewall, R. K.]

MINORCAN POPULATION. Says the historian, “A military government succeeded, together with a sparse population, who barely subsisted on their pay, who neglected improvements,—who suffered their gardens and fields to grow ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Katerina Bray [Bray, Katerina]

✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ “Thank you for coming.” I force the words out between gritted teeth. The stands before me smiling as she shoves my legs apart with hers. ...
( Category: Literary March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

It was a good campaign that we made in that Valley of Holiness, and I was very well satisfied, and ready to move on now, but I struck a disappointment. ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 17,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Nick Alexander [Alexander, Nick]

The postcards had started about a month after her disappearance. They’d arrived quite regularly at first, sometimes just a week or two apart. But as time went by they became ...
( Category: Family Life March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Thanksgivings Andrew’s letter and Jean’s letter were in Mrs. Morrison’s lap. She had read them both, and sat looking at them with a varying sort of smile, now motherly ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Christine Feehan

11 Malichai lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling, Amaryllis cuddled close to his body. He hadn’t been a man who ever slept with a woman close. Or at ...
( Category: Literary March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1993-07-15 | Author:Nancy Pickard

( Category: Literary March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

of the relief that appeared upon the butler's face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when he set it down to follow. It was a ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Verne, Jules, 1828-1905

Captain Nemo, Conseil, Ned Land, and I took our places in the stern of the boat, and we moved off. Our course was in a southerly direction. The rowers did ...
( Category: Science Fiction Adventures March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Hattie Tyng Griswold [Griswold, Hattie Tyng]

ALFRED TENNYSON. It is related by Miss Thackeray that the grandfather of Alfred Tennyson, when that poet was young, asked him to write an elegy on his grandmother, who had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 17,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Fernanda Melchor [Melchor, Fernanda]

VI. Mamaaaaaaa, the man was screaming, forgive me, mama, forgive me, mamita, and he yowled like the dogs that drag themselves, run-over but still breathing, to the roadside: Mamaaaaaaa, Mamiiitaaaaaa. ...
( Category: Suspense March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:James McBride [James McBride]

Next to that was a sketch, in his father’s hand, of a tiny box. Inside the box was a wooden stove, with small bits of firewood, crudely drawn, and a ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Therese Anne Fowler [Fowler, Therese Anne]

* * * Chris had called Valerie prickly, and we would agree that this was a fair descriptor for how she’d been behaving in recent days. She’d agree, too, and ...
( Category: Family Life March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-03 | Author:E. Phillips Oppenheim [Oppenheim, E. Phillips]

II. THE JUDGMENT OF FORTUNE Table of Contents Bryan left the farmyard by the gate in the ordinary way, but once in the fields, he strode along regardless of footpaths ...
( Category: Literary March 17,2020 )