Literary
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Tracy Chevalier

One of the hardest moments in a new student’s day is finding a place to eat in the cafeteria. It’s rushed and chaotic, and there are no assigned seats, so ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-31 | Author:Claudio Magris

36. Room no. 8—A Gulaschkanone. A caisson that carries big rich pots for the field kitchen. Fatty, bubbling soups, a few bits of meat. The general tastes it, mindful of ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reid Lance Rosenthal

CHAPTER 23 June 11, 1855 BREMERHAVEN “What are you doing with that duffel in your room, Erik?” Erik raised his eyes from the eggs and boiled potatoes. I wanted to ...
( Category: Historical August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reid Lance Rosenthal

***** Inga was not entirely sure what to make of Rebecca Marx. There was something familiar about her, her name, mannerisms and pattern of speech, but Inga could not place ...
( Category: Western August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Tessa Hadley

Bad Dreams A child woke up in the dark. She seemed to swim up into consciousness as if to a surface which she then broke through, looking around with her ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:J.H. Croix [Croix, J.H.]

A few hours later I sat across from Coach in his office, staring down at my bruised knuckles. Joe had happily pressed charges against me for assault. Liam had stayed ...
( Category: Sports August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Southwood

17 It’s easy to pick out the bad things, of course. They stay with you. But it seems a worse thing to be reminded of something you’d thought was forgotten ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Mitchell [Mitchell, David]

CHAPTER 11 OH, RAPTURE. An aging priest, I fear this most, this rapture. Evangelical Christians claimed rapture-sorry, Rapture-from Revelations, promising that the good would be sucked skyward When The Time ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Janet Benton

Fifth Month 18, near midnight I ought not to read so late—but I’ve opened On Liberty and come upon an idea that seems to turn Mill’s other ideas on their ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Amy Weiss

The old man kneels down and plucks a daisy from its bed of grass. Each petal surrounding the yellow heart—and to the woman, there seem to be multitudes—bears a single ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Chavisa Woods

I’m still circling this East St. Louis strip. I’ve taken to waving back at the whores. They are very polite. This is my last time around, though. I’m gonna go ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Gail Godwin

“You could see her beginning to flag,” said Lachicotte, as we walked back to Aunt Charlotte’s. “And she kept eyeing those cigarettes.” “I wouldn’t care if she smoked.” “Neither would ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub | | 2010-08-18 | Author:James Hilton [Hilton, James]

11 And then the row with Ralston. Funny thing, Chips had never liked him; he was efficient, ruthless, ambitious, but not, somehow, very likable. He had, admittedly, raised the status ...
( Category: Classics August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Penelope Lively

Corruption THE JUDGE and his wife, driving to Aldeburgh for the weekend, carried with them in the back of the car a Wine Society carton filled with pornographic magazines. The ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-08-31 | Author:Nicholas Evans [Evans, Nicholas]

The physical therapist who looked after Grace was a tiny woman with a shock of streaked curls and gray eyes so large they made her seem permanently surprised. Terri Carlson ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2017 )