Literary
epub |eng | 2012-02-10 | Author:Quintin Jardine [Quintin Jardine]

41 ‘Sarah, this is excellent,’ Dan Pringle mumbled, as he finished the last of his steak pie in the Skinners’ dining room. ‘It’s good of you.’ ‘It’s good of Alex,’ ...
( Category: Crime June 5,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Sofia Samatar [Samatar, Sofia]

The hall shook so that Finya was thrown forward onto his face, and he feared that the palace would topple down upon him. The walls held firm, but more terrible ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, ...
( Category: Short Stories June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:Mary Burton [Burton, Mary]

Chapter Thirteen Thursday, June 5, 4 P.M. Bragg watched Greer drive away, not turning from the window until her truck vanished around the corner. It wasn’t lost on him she’d ...
( Category: Murder June 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Avery, Ellis

As the party crowd stared at me, nude and spotlit, I felt gilded, splendid, radiant, afraid: I was a goddess, a statue, a blood sacrifice. The photographers’ lamps went out ...
( Category: Historical June 3,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henderson, Smith [Henderson, Smith]

Did Booth rape her? Who? The guy who broke into her room, the night she ran away. No. He just kept saying Hey, hey . . . like he wanted ...
( Category: Domestic Life June 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Charles Dubow [Dubow, Charles]

3 And what of the third person in this drama? Naturally I don’t include myself. I am merely the amanuensis. What of Claire? I am filling in details I learned ...
( Category: Domestic Life June 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 1930-01-01 | Author:Joseph Roth [Roth, Joseph]

Part Two X A few hundred years earlier an ancestor of Mendel Singer had probably come from Spain to Volhynia. He had a more fortunate, more ordinary, in any case ...
( Category: Classics June 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Joseph Roth

XIX I went into battle as a “seconded officer.” In my initial access of anger, hurt pride, irritation, vengefulness, what do I know, I had crumpled up my wife’s note ...
( Category: Classics June 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-06-29 | Author:Joseph Roth [Roth, Joseph]

Chapter 12 IN THOSE DAYS there were a lot of men like Kapturak on the borders of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. They began to circle around the old empire like those ...
( Category: Contemporary June 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Nele Neuhaus [Neuhaus, Nele]

Monday, June 28, 2010 It was already almost nine o’clock, and Corinna had scheduled a meeting in the administration building for nine. Emma dreaded the upcoming celebration on Friday. It ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime June 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Antonia Hodgson [Hodgson, Antonia]

Captain Ralph Anderson was prowling the ward like a wild animal. Even Jakes looked wary of him. A wide, badly healed scar cut down his left cheek into his lip ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Gaynor, Hazel [Gaynor, Hazel]

Marconigram message sent from Mr Franklin, The White Star Line to Captain Smith, The Titanic, 15th April, 1912 CHAPTER 22 - R.M.S Titanic, 14th April 1912 ‘Peggy, Peggy, pssst, are ...
( Category: Biographical June 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:James S. A. Corey

Seventeen Hunter Maas looked around the room as if he owned it. He bowed to Leia and Scarlet in turn and favored Han and Chewie with a wink before settling ...
( Category: Adventure June 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Zane [Zane]

Hard Times Lynn Lake He gunned the car, tearing down the back road, stirring up a trail of thick dust that hung heavy in the breathless air. The temperature was ...
( Category: Anthologies June 1,2014 )