Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 2021-02-15 | Author:Manuel Ramos

Eleven No one stood behind the large wooden check-in counter. I heard a telephone ringing. The old-fashioned bell stopped suddenly. An eerie silence settled over the hotel’s entranceway. Jeannie walked ...
( Category: Mystery February 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Gail Gaymer Martin

Jenni put the last plate in the dishwasher, closed the door and pushed the button, then arched her back and stretched. She felt miserable. Between the work at the store ...
( Category: Romance February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Starr Thomson

* * * Chapter 10 Lover-Song Harutek smiled broadly and spread out his hands. “The Majesty has sent me to announce peace between our people,” he said. “Your leader has ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Starr Thomson

* * * Nicolas saw the great darkness as it erupted over the city, and he set his jaw and started forward. Peter threw his arms around him and hauled ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francesco Pacifico

12 A few days later, out of breath, having climbed up Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in the Pigalle neighborhood, I passed through the street door of a large early-twentieth-century apartment building. Preceding ...
( Category: Western February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Dana Mentink

ELEVEN Paul moved in the direction he figured must be north, toward the side of the mountain where they’d crashed, the feel of Maddie’s kiss still tingling through him like ...
( Category: Mystery February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-06 | Author:Ruth Hamilton [Ruth Hamilton]

TEN The meeting was held in St Faith’s school hall. The Reverend Brian Butler had been elected chairman and he stood at the front while people from Rivington Cross, Rivington ...
( Category: Mystery February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Cavanaugh

On April 8, 1779, Major General Arnold’s carriage rode down Fourth Street, stopping outside the Shippen house. Esau rode with him, assisting the limping general from the carriage and up ...
( Category: Historical February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 1999-02-15 | Author:Shari Macdonald [MacDonald, Shari]

Lucy ran her fingers lightly across the pages. Could this be for real? As a child, she had read this book perhaps a hundred times, delighting again and again in ...
( Category: Mystery February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-13 | Author:G. K. Chesterton

ACT III Room partly darkened, a table with a lamp on it, and an empty chair. From room next door faint and occasional sounds of the tossing or talking of ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Tracie Peterson [Peterson, Tracie]

A little after three that afternoon, Marlene and Aunt Leticia arrived. Karen hadn’t seen her aunt in over a month—maybe two. She and Mom had been so busy with the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-19 | Author:Benjamin Wood [Wood, Benjamin]

A phone number perhaps? He didn’t recognize the area code, but he could look it up in the directory. Something deep within him knew. Wherever Joyce’s head had been of ...
( Category: Historical February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elaine Canning [Canning, Elaine]

Day 18: Woman in White ‘Are you sure about this, hija? I mean, you don’t owe that chica anything.’ Carmina avoids eye contact and continues wrapping the food items on ...
( Category: Historical February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Wu Ming [Ming, Wu]

* * * We watch the people flowing through the streets as we go in search of the burgomasters. Drained, lifeless ghosts and sleepwalkers without even the strength to be ...
( Category: Historical February 4,2023 )