Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

Here lies Tom Thynne of Longleat Hall Who never would have miscarried, Had he married the woman he lay withal; Or laid with the woman he married.46 The responsibility of ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser

In London, where accounts of countrywide violence were not slow in coming in, just as press reports of Parliament were rushed into the provinces, tension in the Government was still ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER TWELVE The Third Marriage This the third marriage was confirmed by them all to be good and lawful. Chronicle by a monk of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, 1536 The trial ...
( Category: England March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

The fate of that other young woman, Angelique, whose duty was no more than to divert the King of France, was in the end not much better, if less protracted ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Hated, Humbled, Mortified ‘The Queen [is] hated, humbled, mortified … to know that she favours a Measure is the certain Means to frustrate its Success.’ Gouverneur Morris, 1 ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Mermaid and the Hare ‘Certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid’s music’ Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (said to be a reference ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

I find this pardon pardons not … In a country so recently torn by war, there was of course a crying need for a new kind of social policy, or ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

Chapter 15 Rutledge stayed very still, certain that he had been spotted. That something, some inadvertent movement, had given him away. Then, finally, the man turned back to his contemplation ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

THE envelope had been opened by his secretary, just like all the other mail from yesterday and the day before. But inside the first envelope was another, this one addressed ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Herbert [Herbert, James]

FROM ANOTHER REALM THOM FELT wonderfully at peace. He had become used - more ‘attuned’ - to the sights around him, yet was still in wonder at it all as ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-11 | Author:Elena Gorokhova

I AM ON THE stair landing, one flight above our apartment—where the guests are still raising toasts to Marina—gagging on a cigarette stolen from my sister’s purse. I fumbled through ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Douglas Hunter

SEVENTEEN JOHN CABOT’S timing in taking to England the idea of a north Atlantic passage to Cathay was flawless in capitalizing on catastrophe. The venal relations between England and Maximilian’s ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Robert Dallek

CHAPTER 12 Crisis Manager When I ran for the Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize—nor could any man ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )