Literary
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Jasper Fforde [Fforde, Jasper]

20 Alive! The “Alive” simulator at the BookWorld Conference is one of those devices that all characters should try at least once. The experience of being real has two purposes: ...
( Category: Mystery September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-08 | Author:Karen Mack

19 As the train approached Hamburg, Minna could see the river Elbe, now covered with ice, and the sweeping skyline marked by the familiar spires of St. Nicholas, St. Michaelis, ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Kim Stanley Robinson [ROBINSON, KIM STANLEY]

It turned out Elga and Loon’s child had been born in a bad spring. The freeze-no-more moth never showed up, and not long after the child was born they ran ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Saunders, George [Saunders, George]

For days I romed, lerning many things, such as: A rode can pass over a River. There is more than one Mawl. A tree can flote in a lake. Sometimes ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 10,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:William Kent Krueger

19 At home we found Gus with my mother which was odd. Though she tolerated his presence my mother didn’t care much for Gus. She often told my father that ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Outlaw Knight

23 “Not far now.” Fulke looked at Maude, who was drooping in the saddle. “We’ll be at Higford by compline.” Immediately her spine straightened. “I am all right,” she said ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

The Dak Bungalow (Sarah Layton) I THE SCENE WAS over. I can enter now, Sarah told herself. * But I did not enter. None of us did. I thought I ...
( Category: Classics September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 1992-04-27 | Author:Jose Saramago [Saramago, Jose]

As one has already seen in other times and other places, life has its vexations. When Ricardo Reis awoke late next morning, he sensed a presence in the room. Perhaps ...
( Category: European September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

II ‘The examinee’s last statement, please.’ The clerk flicked back one page of his notebook. ‘“So it was obvious the inquiry was about a woman who’d been assaulted.”’ ‘No – ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:CJ Lyons

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Lunch was sumptuous, and Maria ate with what her mother would have labeled unladylike gusto. Michael didn’t seem to mind; she caught him watching her several times during ...
( Category: Mystery September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

“Girls!” cried Qira. “Come down here right now!” Of course they were making so much noise that they didn’t hear her—she had to send a servant to fetch them. “Oh, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-10-16 | Author:Jose Saramago [Saramago, Jose]

WE ARE LIVING in an age where a nun, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, is likely to encounter the Child Jesus in the cloister, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

Part Six CIVIL AND MILITARY I Military Edited Extracts from the unpublished memoirs of Brigadier A. V. Reid, DSO, MC: ‘A Simple Life.’ Late in the March of 1942 when ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-28 | Author:Frayn, Michael [Frayn, Michael]

The Close, as I come running blindly round the corner, is full of wildly swinging torch beams and demented figures running back and forth. The torches swing at once towards ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Jose Saramago [Saramago, Jose]

Third exercise in autobiography in the form of the chapter of a book. Title: Buying Postcards. They are timid, nervous people, already overwhelmed by the naves of cathedrals evoking skies ...
( Category: Literary September 10,2017 )