Parenting & Relationships
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-08-15 | Author:William Gibson

21 - The Aleph As the sun rose, still no power for the 100-watt bulbs, Gentry's loft filled with a new light. Winter sunlight softened the outlines of the consoles ...
( Category: Cyberpunk March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:James Agee

Chapter 12 Andrew had shut the door but they could hear him, trying to talk quietly. He was talking, indeed, very quietly, close to the mouthpiece with his hand around ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Man Upstairs

"Are you alluding to the present occasion?" "Well, you have an office of your own in this building, I believe." "I have." "Then why-" "I am at perfect liberty," he ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Haig, Matt [Haig, Matt]

Light-bulb ‘Have a nice time?’ Isobel asked on my return. She was standing on top of one form of primitive technology (step-ladder) changing another one (incandescent light-bulb). ‘Yes,’ I said. ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Kate Mosse

I looked down into the still surface of the water. My cheeks were hollow with lack of sleep and my eyes, rimmed with exhaustion, stared back at me in the ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:One Day

Part Three 1996–2001 Early Thirties ‘Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.’ James Salter, ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Penelope Lively

8 ‘Lovely plant,’ says the nurse. ‘Your sister-in-law brought it, didn’t she? Gorgeous colour. It’ll be one of those hothouse species, I expect. I’ll put it nearer the radiator.’ Claudia ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Marian Keyes

1) He did tai chi 2) He had a 'thing' about prawns — he wasn't allergic, he just didn't like them 3) One of his feet was half a size ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Jane Green

29 Maggie The doorbell rings. I ignore it, muting the television set just in case Kelly Ripa’s voice drifts out the window to the driveway, letting the intruders know I’m ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sophie Kinsella

I arrive home that evening to find a dark, empty flat and no Luke. He’s with her immediately shoots through my mind. No. He’s not. Stop it. I make myself ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Sophie Kinsella

I arrive home that evening to find a dark, empty flat and no Luke. He’s with her immediately shoots through my mind. No. He’s not. Stop it. I make myself ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-19 | Author:Isabel Wolff

We didn’t stay at the restaurant very much longer, not least because Roxy began phoning again. Miles told her he’d be back by ten. Then as our desserts arrived she ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Laurence Sterne

CHAP. XXXIV With two strokes, the one at Hippocrates, the other at Lord Verulam, did my father atchieve it. The stroke at the prince of physicians, with which he began, ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Michael Chabon

THERE WAS ONE BATHROOM in the house, upstairs, at the end of the hall, in a wide, lopsided dormer all its own. It was a nice bathroom with grooved wainscoting, ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:JENNIFER CLOSE

Bridget Carlson was the kind of friend you couldn’t get rid of. You could try—you could ignore her e-mails, let her phone calls go to voice mail, move to a ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )