Literary
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Nawal El Saadawi

Fouada found her body stretched out on her bed with her eyes fixed on the ceiling, on a small, jagged patch where the white paint had flaked off to reveal ...
( Category: Contemporary September 5,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Colin Falconer

CHAPTER 30 IT IS SOMETHING that Alexander would do: attack when you are supposed to be miles away and the enemy is not expecting you. Alexander’s army is spread over ...
( Category: British & Irish September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-07-01 | Author:Joanna Trollope

Ten ‘I don’t eat porridge,’ Joss said. ‘This morning,’ said Miss Bachelor, ‘you do.’ Joss sighed. She was, she knew perfectly well, in no moral position to object to anything ...
( Category: Contemporary September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Lewinsky

The sentence ended there, without a full stop or a comma, and what came next had plainly been added later: the same handwriting, but in a hand much more angular ...
( Category: Contemporary September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 1990-09-21 | Author:Joanna Trollope

CHAPTER NINE In June, Anthony Jordan completed the sale of his luxurious, impersonal flat on Tregunter Path, Hong Kong, cleared his office desk, told the girl who had optimistically hoped ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Chrissy Kolaya

In the next issue of the Herald-Gleaner, there appeared yet another letter to the editor—this one by Dr. Abhijat Mital, theoretical physicist, National Accelerator Research Laboratory. To all of my ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Galt Niederhoffer [Niederhoffer, Galt]

SEVEN There were few things Tripler Pane loved more than a good emergency. Even as a child, she thrilled in a crisis, shepherding classmates during school fire drills, appointing herself ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Michael Punke [Michael Punke]

PART TWO SIXTEEN November 29, 1823 Four paddles hit the water in perfect unison. The slender blades cut the surface, pushed to a depth of eighteen inches, then dug hard. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:DeVane, Rhett [DeVane, Rhett]

Excerpt from Max the Madhatter’s notebook, February 14, 1958 The Chief sings all the time. When he’s not busy giving Nurse Marion a hard time. Today, special for Valentine’s, he ...
( Category: Psychological September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Claire North

Chapter 27 The Great Game. The opening is done. We have made our moves, staked high, lost heavy. Now the board is open and we move slower, careful, wearing our ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-04 | Author:Joseph Roth & Richard Panchyk

THE HOME OF THE SHADOWS In the human face of today, nothing has grown; everything within has been drawn out or thrust out of the surface – and wonders that ...
( Category: Literary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Joseph Heywood

••• In the cool dawn, the beginning of a morning twilight, faint and wispy lavender feathers of clouds glowed in the east. The fire was out. I tried to move ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1970-09-04 | Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Didion]

37 “I’M GOING TO DO IT,” she would say on the telephone. “Then do it,” Carter would say. “It’s better.” “You think it’s better.” “If it’s what you want.” “What ...
( Category: Literary September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:

For the few weeks of the digging season, the archaeologists took up residence in the village hall, which served as refectory, social hub, Wi-Fi station and laboratory. Sometimes in the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Kevin Barry

John shakes his head and smiles. He drifts to the corner of the room where the candle burns; he looks at the flame and on the saucer of delft the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )