Description: At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can’t really see anymore. So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting. ...
Author: Bufford, Bridget Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Summers meant playing softball for Linda and Corey, lifelong friends who dominate the field at school and in the Parks and Rec League. So why, in their junior year, does Corey go out instead for track...
Author: Murray, Sabina Publisher: Grove Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject.When we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather disturbing-twenty-thr...
Author: Pittman, Joseph Publisher: Kensington Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: One final Christmas wish could change their lives forever. . .Nora Connor Rainer has returned to her hometown, Linden Corners, to tend to her elderly but spunky pie-baking mother--and to nurse a bro...
Author: Shaw, Bill Publisher: AuthorHouse Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Conspiracy of Dunces, the third in Shaw's Pistol Thicket trilogy, is a rollicking send-up of John Kennedy Toole's 1980 Pullitzer Prize winning A Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius P. Reilly, a product...
Author: Bujniewicz, Michael Publisher: Michael Bujniewicz Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There's no shortage of novels that chronicle a character "coming of age." In fact, it seems like nearly every protagonist ever written finds themselves in some "defining" moment of their life whether ...
Author: Skibell, Joseph Publisher: Algonquin Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: As far as romance goes, Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn is fairly incurable. Twice married, once divorced, once widowed-all by the tender age of twelve- he finally flees his small village and his pious, vengeful...
Author: Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: P.G. Wodehouse is at his whimsical best when the characters of Belpher Castle muddle through impending catastrophes and frivolous intrigue to figure out who belongs to whom in this comedy of errors. W...
Author: Blunt, William W. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In A Dangerous Marriage, Julia Davenport’s social life has drifted into a backwater. Then she meets Peter Medea at a business reception in New York City. She is drawn by his aura of power and erotic...
Author: de Balzac, Honoré Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In one of the finest houses of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with blue velvet of that tender shade, wit...
Author: Sears, Lorraine Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A young woman attempts to take care of her father who struggles with inner demons from his time at war. Can a daughter's love overcome the ferocity of a battle being waged in the mind? Flash Fiction f...
Description: A young woman attempts to take care of her father who struggles with inner demons from his time at war. Can a daughter's love overcome the ferocity of a battle being waged in the mind? Flash Fiction f...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an excellent book by Mark Twain. This story's contents are so informing that it is a must for all students. Mark Twain is a true literary genius whose humor and wit has stood the test of time ...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meani...
Author: Morris, William Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sometimes I am rewarded for fretting myself so much about present matters by a quite unasked-for pleasant dream. I mean when I am asleep. This dream is as it were a present of an architectural peep-...
Author: Donleavy, J. P. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in Ne...
Author: Churchill, Winston Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a story of the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood. The phrase "a far country" is from the Biblical parable of the prodigal son who takes everything he is given and runs off to fulfill ...
Author: Churchill, Winston Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: My name is Hugh Paret. I was a corporation lawyer, but by no means a typical one, the choice of my profession being merely incidental, and due, as will be seen, to the accident of environment. The boo...
Author: Churchill, Winston Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This was not my first visit to the state capital. Indeed, some of that recondite knowledge, in which I took a pride, had been gained on the occasions of my previous visits. Rising and dressing early, ...
Author: Whipple, Tracy E Publisher: Balboa Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The building's newest tenant scared and intrigued Maggie. On the night she met Clark, she had no idea how much he would change her world. Clark was immediately curious and attracted to his new neighbo...
Author: Mosley, Nicholas Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "When you have put your trust in shadows there is nothing that is real. Have you found this?"Returning to London from a trip to the West Indies, an aspiring writer encounters a bewitching trio of frie...
Author: Apfel, Jack Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the sweltering darkness that envelops an alley in the small town of Candlesberg, Wisconsin, a homeless woman approaches a dumpster in search of food. She finds instead a mysteriously mewling bundle...
Author: Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie Publisher: Grove Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Girl Made of Dust is a sophisticated exploration of one family’s private battle to survive in the midst of civil war.In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifti...
Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago Publisher: Grove Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Glass of Water is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at our country’s borders. The first novel from award-winni...
Author: Butler, Robert Olen Publisher: Grove Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War ...
Author: Hardy, Thomas Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: DAME THE FIRST - THE FIRST COUNTESS OF WESSEXDAME THE SECOND - BARBARA OF THE HOUSE OF GREBEDAME THE THIRD - THE MARCHIONESS OF STONEHENGEDAME THE FOURTH - LADY MOTTISFONTDAME THE FIFTH - THE LADY I...
Author: Hardy, Thomas Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the ...
Author: Boggio, Sue / Pearl, Mare Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: “There are no chiles like those grown in the heart of New Mexico. In A Growing Season, Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl bring to life the deeply rooted traditions and wonderfully diverse community that...
Author: Eggers, Dave Publisher: McSweeney's Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, an...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Mark Twain's comical satire of the art of telling tall tales in America "A Horse's Tail", there was "night so dark the cats ran against each other he wrote of "a horse so fast the wagon started thi...
Author: White, Jacqueline Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Massachusetts, 1969. When Tracy Burrows leaves Bakersfield, Alabama, to attend university at the prestigious Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was with the intention of making it to Ha...
