Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2014-01-16 | Author:Michelle Paver [Paver, Michelle]

21 Hylas saw the Crows far below him on the plain. He saw two dogs racing up the slope. He saw a figure on the ridge. No no no. It ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Michelle Paver

When the lion cub awoke, it was the middle of the Dark. She lay contentedly snuffing the boy’s warm foresty scent. Then she rolled over and flung one forepaw across ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 23,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Rachel Hartman [Hartman, Rachel]

I stepped out into the sunshine, thoroughly preoccupied. I needed something to do, or I’d spend the whole day fretting about Abdo. Luckily, I had an uncle and five more ...
( Category: Fantasy March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:K. A. S. Quinn [Quinn, K. A. S.]

Chapter Fourteen DuQuelle’s Nurse ‘He bled words? I still cannot believe it.’ Alice held on to Katie’s arm, as they walked through Green Park on an early autumn day. Princess ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-21 | Author:Richard Platt [Platt, Richard]

The threshing and winnowing will go on for days, but before sunset there was already a heap of grain taller than I am. The scribes watched as two sacks were ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Chuck Black [Black, Chuck]

CLOSE TO THE ENEMY Quinlan and Taras navigated their way closer to the valley. Taras grew more uneasy with every stealthy step. Quinlan kept the crystal coin close at hand ...
( Category: Christian March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Veronica Bennett [Bennett, Veronica]

James, Henry and Eliza Tom Lefroy was to return to Ireland in two weeks. When he and his young cousin George made the customary visit to Steventon the day after ...
( Category: European March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Susan Green [Green, Susan]

16 THE WORST CRIME THERE IS “Murder?” I said. That horrible word. Cold, cruel, pitiless. The worst crime there is. I turned the photograph right side up. Lavinia Ecclethorpe looked ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 22,2015 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-21 | Author:Jennifer A. Nielsen

This time, Aurelia actually had a good excuse to be angry with me. I had tarried so long with Felix that the Roman soldiers were on our heels now. As ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Buxton

32 Flea looked at Crouch blankly. He had opened his mouth to say sorry when a quavering voice spoke. “I was right. I was sure I could hear something up ...
( Category: Christian March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Rachel Hartman [Hartman, Rachel]

I stepped out into the sunshine, thoroughly preoccupied. I needed something to do, or I’d spend the whole day fretting about Abdo. Luckily, I had an uncle and five more ...
( Category: Fantasy March 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Linda Sue Park [Park, Linda Sue]

97 "That witch," she said bitterly. "I mean, anyone who would threaten to throw a kid into an ocean full of sharks--" Suddenly, Amy opened her eyes, and Nellie could ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cherie Bennett

twenty NOTES FROM GIRL X 3 December 1942 To the people of Paris, Yesterday I awoke at five o‘clock because I knew that I would visit before school. J is ...
( Category: Prejudice & Racism March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Laura Wettersten

12 WEEK 1—FRIDAY The afternoon passes in a pleasant blur after that, one nice thing blending into the other. I spend the rest of my shift painting well-behaved children’s faces ...
( Category: Renaissance March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Richard Michelson [Michelson, Richard]

Miss O’Grady reads us a book about some man called Kennedy. “Every child deserves an education,” she says. “It wasn’t long ago that folks didn’t want the Irish in their ...
( Category: 1900s March 4,2015 )