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The Ferrari in the Bedroom by Jean Shepherd
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Jean Shepherd [Shepherd, Jean]

“It certainly does,” I replied, my confidence rising as I noticed that Susskind had a bit of dried chicken soup on his lapel. “It’s not that I want to hide ...
( Category: Short Stories June 12,2015 )
the Overnight Socialite (2010) by Clark Bridie
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Clark, Bridie [Bridie, Clark,]

The tent--if such a vast and sturdy structure could be called a tent--comprised five equally cavernous rooms, each a perfect replica of one of Howard's "favorite places": the Metropolitan Opera ...
( Category: Humorous June 12,2015 )
Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
epub |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:Joshua Ferris [Ferris, Joshua]

The Thing to Do and the Place to Be THE NIGHT BEFORE THE OPERATION she has no association dinners to go to, no awards ceremonies, no networking functions. A plan ...
( Category: Humor June 12,2015 )
Words Of Seduction (2010) by Girard Dara
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Girard, Dara [Dara, Girard,]

Chapter 11 Frieda inhaled her fourth cigarette while staring blankly out the window, waiting for Rick’s visit. She glanced at her watch with impatience then took a swig of whiskey. ...
( Category: Romance June 12,2015 )
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (Bonus Stories) by Tucker Max
epub |eng | 2011-01-12 | Author:Tucker Max [Max, Tucker]

am no better than the slob...then it hit me. The most obvious solution in the world, I cannot believe I've never thought of it before: Me. I waited until most ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage June 12,2015 )
Glorious (2010) by Mcfadden Bernice L
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Mcfadden, Bernice L [L, Mcfadden, Bernice]

CHAPTER 18 When Colin first complained, Easter brushed it off, called him silly, wrapped her arms around his neck, and used baby talk to assure him that he had nothing ...
( Category: Urban June 12,2015 )
The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott
epub |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

March 8th, 1944 Dear Helen, It is all right. About Edwina. Let me describe it to you while the detail is fresh in my mind. Ever since the news of ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
Barrel Fever (2010) by Sedaris David
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Sedaris, David [David, Sedaris,]

In her second year of high school Vicki dropped out of the chorus because the teacher was an asshole. “I’m still into music like you wouldn’t believe,” she said. “But ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans by Rosalyn Story
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Rosalyn Story [Story, Rosalyn]

14 How long had he been here? A day? A year? He stared through closed eyelids toward beaming light. Was it the sun? It couldn’t be, for the surface where ...
( Category: Family Life June 12,2015 )
Reservation Blues - Alexie Sherman by Alexie Sherman
epub |eng | | Author:Alexie Sherman

"Wait," Junior said. "Listen to that." Coyote Springs listened. They heard the city, the ocean, but something else, too. They heard a beautiful voice, Just barely audible. The band couldn't ...
( Category: Native American June 12,2015 )
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy by Adam Carolla
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Adam Carolla [Carolla, Adam]

TAXES I’ve had an impacted assful of people on the left who bitch and moan about how the rich don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. You may not know ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life by An Uptight Seattleite
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:An Uptight Seattleite

I was leaving the Bakery a while back with a baby and a four-year-old in tow when a man followed me out the door to point out, accusingly, that we ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
Forbidden Highlander (2010) by Grant Donna
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Grant, Donna [Donna, Grant,]

EIGHTEEN Fallon wanted to pull Larena into his arms. He saw the vulnerability in her smoky-blue gaze, and it tugged at his heart in ways he never expected to feel ...
( Category: Scottish June 12,2015 )
the Ask (2010) by Lipsyte Sam
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Lipsyte, Sam [Sam, Lipsyte,]

Eighteen How sick and marvelous an age this was, wherein I could boot up my desktop with a couple of names or notions in mind--Todd Wilkes, William Moraley, indentured servitude, ...
( Category: Humorous June 12,2015 )
I hope they serve beer in Hell by Tucker Max
epub |eng | 2009-01-20 | Author:Tucker Max [Max Tucker]

We decide to go to a strip club, The Yellow Rose. To this day, I still laugh recalling our thought process: EI Bingeroso is too drunk and violent to walk ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage June 12,2015 )

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