Literary
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz [Mahfouz, Naguib]

Tey Tey was the wife of the sage Ay. She was seventy years old, a woman of small stature but strong and charming. She had married Ay after the death ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Joanna Hickson [Hickson, Joanna]

20 I was released from my confinement before dawn by a bemused-looking soldier, who shoved me down the stairs and out of the grand master’s office without ceremony or explanation. ...
( Category: Medical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:chetan bhagat [bhagat, chetan]

‘Good, you are like me then,’ he said. ‘Practical enough to leave the people who do the funny stuff alone.’ I nodded and bowed to him before I left his ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-08 | Author:Shirley Hazzard [Hazzard, Shirley]

Tad brought her to her door: 'This is where I kiss you.' Afterwards he had held her by the shoulders, as if to shake her, wake her. Amiable, exasperated. When ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-16 | Author:Meg Waite Clayton [Clayton, Meg Waite]

WHEN I RECEIVED the first positive response to my query letter the second Tuesday in January, my thrill was overrun with panic by the time I got to the agent’s ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Tracy Chevalier [Chevalier, Tracy]

I was shocked at how easy it was to lie to Rick. I had always thought he would know right away if I cheated on him, that I could never ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Sloss, Aria Beth [Sloss, Aria Beth]

Chapter 5 GRADUATION day dawned hot and humid. I stood on the platform with the other summa students, one row down from Holly Stevens, needle-thin in a dress that hung ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Uyen Nicole Duong [Duong, Uyen Nicole]

I call Tiep the next day, asking him about the 1980 escape by boat. He has earned a college degree and works in computer technology in San Jose, California. “My ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Chevalier, Tracy [Chevalier, Tracy]

One Sunday Pieter the son came to services at our church. He must have slipped in after my parents and me, and sat in the back, for I did not ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Elsie Augustave [Augustave, Elsie]

Mama aaaa Mu nkoku ibuidi Simbi Umbabakidi Mama aaaa “I saw her in my dream last night. She told me that you have an African water spirit dancing in your ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER 29 Bush-Fighting During all the months that had elapsed since Mrs. Hamley’s death, Molly had wondered many a time about the secret she had so unwittingly become possessed of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER 19 An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Geoff Ryman

April 1160 Jayavarman passed into the City and fear brushed him like feathers. Once again an elephant jostled him up the main road into Yashodharapura. He remembered being a captive ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Sjon [Sjon]

*** When Fridrik B. Fridjonsson rode north with his peculiar maid-servant and settled on his father’s estate at Brekka, the parish of Dale was served by a burnt-out priest popularly ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2005-08-03 | Author:Jeffery Ford [Ford, Jeffrey]

Before I could speak, he whispered to me, "I've been meaning to talk to you." I was going to tell him the same, but his expression was one of perplexity, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )