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The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Alice Munro

4 I dreamed that X wrote me a letter. It was all done in clumsy block printing and I thought, that’s to disguise his handwriting, that’s clever. But I had ...
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The Knife Thrower by Steven Millhauser
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Steven Millhauser

THE DREAM OF THE CONSORTIUM THE PURCHASE OF the department store by the consortium filled us with uneasiness and secret hope. The department store was the last of the grand ...
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The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Truman Capote

FOR TWO DAYS FOLLOWING OREILLY’S arrest Sylvia did not leave her room: sun on the window, then dark. By the third day she had run out of cigarettes, so she ...
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Girl In The Mirror by Cecelia Ahern
mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Cecelia Ahern

The Memory Maker It is a beautiful day and she says so. He whistles as he walks alongside her and she hums along happily - a song played on the ...
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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Junot Diaz

FROM THE TOP OF WESTMINSTER, our main strip, you could see the thinnest sliver of ocean cresting the horizon to the east. My father had been shown that sight—the management ...
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The Elephant vanishes by Haruki Murakami
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-11-15 | Author:Haruki Murakami

—translated by Jay Rubin GREETINGS, The winter cold diminishes with each passing day, and now the sunlight hints at the subtle scent of springtime. I trust that you are well. ...
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The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin; Rachel Adams
mobi |eng | 2005-03-28 | Author:Kate Chopin; Rachel Adams

CHAPTER 34 THE DINING-ROOM WAS VERY small. Edna’s round mahogany would have almost filled it. As it was there was but a step or two from the little table to ...
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Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:James Salter

II. Today was sunny. He was writing in brief, disconsolate phrases. Yesterday it rained, it was dark until late afternoon, the day before was the same. The corridors of the ...
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Bearing an hourglass by Piers Anthony
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Piers Anthony

Chapter 10 - GAEA Satan was waiting for him again as he returned. “Did you enjoy yourself?” the Prince of Evil inquired politely. Norton looked at him narrowly. “You don’t ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
Gryphon by Charles Baxter
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Charles Baxter

THE HOUSE had an upstairs sleeping porch, and she first saw the young man from up there, limping through the alley and carrying a torn orange-and-yellow Chinese kite. He had ...
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Ford County: stories by John Grisham
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:John Grisham

Ford Country Chief Larry returned to his store and fell into a state of severe depression. Once again, his tribe had been demolished by the white man's greed. His Yazoo ...
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Yiyun Li

LUO ARRIVED TWO days before the appointment for the in vitro fertilization. When he saw Yilan waiting at the railway station, he came close and hugged her, a Western gesture ...
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Short and Tall Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Lilian Jackson Braun

Postscript:A short note came from a caregiver at the Senior Care Facility. “It is our sad duty to inform you that Emma Huggins Wimsey passed away last night at 4:30A.M. ...
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Selected stories of O. Henry by O. Henry; Victoria Blake
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:O. Henry; Victoria Blake

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
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Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Uwem Akpan

FOR THE FIRST TIME in Jubril’s life, it did not infuriate him that there were women all over the place. He had been in the crowd a long time before ...
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