epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alaya Dawn Johnson [Johnson, Alaya Dawn]

11 We sleep together and it is relief inexpressible. It is Pea’s head on my shoulder and my arm draped over her torso. It is easy. I smell smoke. Cloying, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2020-04-23 | Author:Debra Jo Immergut

ABBY, JUNE 11, 2015 Mariah’s show at MoMA, almost at the end of its run. As I walked to find lunch, threading through sun-dazed throngs along Fifth Avenue, I realized ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-06 | Author:Lee Conell

AFTERNOON 8 The Top of Theodore Roosevelt’s Head An internship. A free-MetroCard-college-credit-what-you’re-not-in-college-well-you-can-take-home-the-leftovers-after-certain-functions-and-fund-raising-events-you-will-share-your-desk-with-Francie-who-comes-in-M-W-F-and-leaves-specks-of-cottage-cheese-all-across-your-limited-supply-of-Post-its-on-good-days-the-specks-will-look-kiiinda-like-stars-on-bad-days-feminine-discharge-and-Francie-is-a-sophomore-in-school-college-university-yes-will-ask-you-what’s-your-major-every-week-and-even-if-this-doesn’t-turn-into-a-job-it’s-such-an-opportunity-looks-fantastic-on-a-résumé-even-while-your-sweaters-pill-and-molt-and-turn-to-dust-an-opportunity-did-we-mention-it’s-an internship. Ruby did not get the job at the Museum of Natural History because there was no job ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Lysley Tenorio

15 Excel wakes and thinks of money. It’s been nine days since his return. He arrived in Colma with around $270 and now has $120 from Roxy, and with the ...

epub |eng | 2005-10-15 | Author:Larry Heinemann [Heinemann, Larry]

Christmas Day was a truce day. That’s the only reason I remember it. On the twenty-fourth Romeo pulled out of Dau Tieng with a battery of 105s and laagered at ...

mobi |ron | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patricia Rice

Chapter Eighteen Sinda rolled up on the pallet to alleviate her cramps and wished she were home with a hot brick. She hadn't thought things could get worse until her ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Stefanie Sloane

It hadn’t been the best of days, Will reflected grimly, wincing as he shifted beneath the sheets on the massive ducal bed. After being stitched and dosed with brandy, Weston ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Monica Burns

Chapter 11 Mathias stepped through the door of Brooks, and with a curt nod at the clerk behind the desk made his way through the club toward the Common Room. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patricia Rice

Sixteen H alfway to the inn, they met the Earl of Ives galloping toward them, the capes of his greatcoat flying. Aidan signaled the stableboys to stay behind and brought ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Monica Burns

Chapter 21 Rain hit Nicholas’s office window with increased force as the wind blew harder. There was a cold bite to the wind that combined with the rain made his ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Brian Castleberry [Castleberry, Brian]

It must have been a month, month and a half later when I received the letter. Dear Mr. Michaels, it began. My name is Maxwell Feldberg and you know my ...

epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

CONGRATULATIONS! TO OUR NEXT MEETING H.Q. ‘Thank you, Hermes,’ said Mr Satterthwaite, and watched the black dog flying across the meadow to rejoin the two figures that he himself knew ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Twelve THE AFFAIR AT THE BUNGALOW “I’ve thought of something,” said Jane Helier. Her beautiful face was lit up with the confident smile of a child expecting approbation. It was ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

‘A very good glass of port, Colonel Melrose,’ said Mr Quin. It was half past nine, and the three men had just finished a belated dinner at Colonel Melrose’s house. ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

About the Author AGATHA CHRISTIE is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies ...