United States
azw3 |eng | 1989-07-05 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

PART THREE 7 Passing them on the roads as they journeyed toward their own interior limits, one might easily be inspired to twist the thumb of a famous first sentence. ...
( Category: Psychological July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

DEATH Year after year went away into nothing, with great explosions and outcries in the cities on the plain: red revolt springing up and being suppressed in blood, battle swaying ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-07 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

OLALLA ‘Now,’ said the doctor, ‘my part is done, and I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

11 SEQUENCE There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being. During such periods his mind turned opaque, making it hard for him to perceive ...
( Category: Humorous July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Laura L. Sullivan

* * * • • • For another three days, I tried without success to get him alone. Even a moment would do, to stoke the fire. I could whisper ...
( Category: Women's Adventure July 3,2019 )
epub |swe | 2011-06-14 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

THE WEATHER-COCK SAID THE WEATHER-COCK to the wind, “How tedious and monotonous you are! Can you not blow any other way but in my face? You disturb my God-given stability.” ...
( Category: Anthologies July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

VII Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men’s ...
( Category: Historical June 29,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-06-28 | Author:Camilo José Cela [José Cela Camilo]

* * * 1 A colorless liqueur distilled in Galicia. —Trans. 2 Fictitious saint, patron of the male sexual organs. —C.J.C. 3 A spicy pork sausage. —Trans. 4 The easternmost ...
( Category: War June 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Linda Holmes

THAT AFTERNOON, EVELETH AGAIN CLIMBED into Dean’s truck, and again he said, “All right, let’s do this.” This time, he took her to the soccer field at the high school. ...
( Category: Family Life June 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Augusten Burroughs [Burroughs, Augusten]

A s the Concorde flew against the rotation of the earth, Bebe rested her head on Eliot’s shoulder. Then she noticed the in-flight duty-free shopping catalog and she immediately reached ...
( Category: Humor June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Chappell, Fred [Chappell, Fred]

Chapter Seven ON THE TRACK OF THE FOX The question is not what, but which, time it is. —Fugio I sat with my first cup of coffee in Waffle Stop, ...
( Category: Family Life June 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Chanelle Benz

Billie THERE ARE HIGH HEELS IN HER SUITCASE. AS IF SHE EVER WEARS them in Philly let alone out here in the Delta where she knows next to nobody. Her ...
( Category: African American June 26,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Jemisin, N. K. [Jemisin, N. K.]

15 you’re among friends YOU REACH “THE PLACE WITH all the orogenes,” and it’s not at all what you were expecting. It’s abandoned, for one thing. It’s not a comm, ...
( Category: Dystopian June 26,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:Jemisin, N. K. [Jemisin, N. K.]

9 Courtship The journey from Gujaareh to the desert was lengthy and boring. To thwart possible pursuers, Wanahomen chose not to go west immediately, instead heading south to one of ...
( Category: African American June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:William Kent Krueger [Krueger, William Kent]

CHAPTER 22 Cork and Jubal left the rocks and followed the road, which dropped into the valley in a series of lazy switchbacks. All those curves worried Cork. He hoped ...
( Category: Political June 24,2019 )