Literary
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Lisa Jewell [Jewell, Lisa]

34 1920 ONE MONDAY MORNING in early May, Mrs Stamper invited Arlette into her office behind the curtain at the back of the shop floor. She seemed twitchy and uncomfortable, ...
( Category: Historical July 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Katharine Ashe [Ashe, Katharine]

Chapter 15 OCEAN. That vast collection of salt and navigable waters in which the two continents are enclosed like islands. —Falconer’s Dictionary of the Marine Tavy clung to Ben’s shoulders. ...
( Category: Historical July 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Avery Aames

CHAPTER Zinging with good vibes, I hurried to A Wheel Good Time. During school hours, the shop wasn’t busy. A pair of women sat at a table dabbing paint on ...
( Category: Literary July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Theodore Dreiser

Chapter XXXIV Enter Hosmer Hand It is needless to say that the solemn rage of Hand, to say nothing of the pathetic anger of Haguenin, coupled with the wrath of ...
( Category: Classics July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:H. P. Lovecraft

Part IV: A Mutation and a Madness Chapter 1 In the week following that memorable Good Friday Charles Ward was seen more often than usual, and was continually carrying books ...
( Category: Occult July 8,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1976-07-06 | Author:Robert Coover

16. Third Dementia It is on. The Rosenbergs are to die at last. Television networks interrupt scheduled programs with the announcement: “President Eisenhower and the Supreme Court of the United ...
( Category: Biographical July 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Jonathan Holt [Holt, Jonathan]

FORTY-TWO “SO NOW THEY think Carver could have something to do with it?” Holly shook her head. “That’s putting it too strongly. They’re professionals – they accept it might be ...
( Category: Kidnapping July 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Doyle, Roddy [Doyle, Roddy]

THE VAN This book is dedicated to John Sutton Thanks to Brian McGinn and Will Moore for their help, advice and recipe for batter Jimmy Rabbitte Sr had the kitchen ...
( Category: Satire July 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Meg Gardiner [Gardiner, Meg]

The sun had sunk behind the trees in the west, glaring gold, a firefly sunset through the leaves. Harper stood at Aiden’s living room window, fist pressed to her mouth. ...
( Category: Suspense July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

GUARIGLIA'S SHOP was in a ramshackle building that was part of a ruin. Hanging from heavy wooden beams and cast-iron rods were hundreds of harnesses and bridles. Two dozen saddles ...
( Category: War July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

THE WHITE SOX were a repulsive bunch of taciturn midgets whose throwing arms seemed attached to stolid blocks of steel. Whereas most pitchers were like supple human fly rods, the ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

At the station in the morning as they waited for the early train to come charging over the flats from Montauk, the sky was clear and a cool breeze came ...
( Category: Literary July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

4 ON THE way back to the factory, heaters puffing over limp, exhausted men heading once more into endless night and work, Marshall had a luminous memory and, like an ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Mira Jacob [Jacob, Mira]

Half the village of Corrales and most of the OR staff of Presbyterian Hospital turned out for the Bukowsky wedding the following Saturday night. Just-shined cowboy boots escorted broom-skirted ankles ...
( Category: Domestic Life July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carys Bray

“PLEASE FORGIVE ME for being untruthful and please bless me to carry on. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.” Ian waits beside the bed, hoping for an immediate answer. ...
( Category: Domestic Life July 6,2014 )