Historical Fiction
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Macaulay [Macaulay, David]

ALTHOUGH the invention of the Post-it note might have been somewhat accidental, the creation of the 3M environment that allowed it was anything but an accident. The Stark Contrast at ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Boyne

When Bruno first approached the boy, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring at the dust beneath him. However, after a moment he looked up and Bruno saw his ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:K. A. S. Quinn

Chapter Ten The Three Time Travellers It must have been three a.m. Katie sat opposite Alice and watched her feed little Riordan, out on night patrol again, and wrapped in ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Elizabeth Wein [Wein, Elizabeth]

XI STAIRWAYS TELEMAKOS SPENT MOST OF the next day sitting in the shade of the colonnaded courtyard and composing a letter to his mother. The first part was easy, telling ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:OSTOW, MICOL

When we get home, Marisa is sitting on the front steps of her house. She’s holding a coloring book but not actually coloring in it, more sort of staring off ...
( Category: Central & South America March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:James A. Owen

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Sword of Aeneas Madoc simply stood there, looking at John, Jack, and Chaz with a stricken expression. “I know you,” he said in wonderment. “We have met ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Taylor [Taylor, Theodore]

14. Bark Gertrude Theismann APRIL 1886—In sultry late spring, Timothy was rowing Charlie Bottle's boat, laden with the grass they'd cut on Thatch Cay—which wasn't really a cay at all; ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Conlon-McKenna, Marita [Conlon-McKenna, Marita]

CHAPTER 8 Beside the Lake THE CHILDREN KEPT WALKING ON. Peggy had two huge blisters on her foot. Every few hours Eily smeared the foot with Mary Kate’s ointment. For ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Morris [Morris, Gerald]

VII. Challenges in the Night Terence awoke to the smell of wildflowers and to a throbbing pain in his right arm. Opening his eyes, he found himself lying on a ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Morris [Morris, Gerald]

Lynet was at his side in a moment. She raised his visor and saw with shock that his face was pale. Only then did she notice the blood that smeared ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vicki Grove

She was surprised to find Thaddeus already standing where they’d agreed to meet at the beach, since she herself had arrived some early. He stood facing the wide water, and ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Matthew McElligott & Larry Tuxbury [McElligott, Matthew]

THE EMPEROR’S HARMONIC TURBINE/ANTENNA “That makes sense,” said Jaime. “I wonder if—” The red exit door suddenly swung open in front of them. Two scientists—a man and a woman—stepped into ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Tomie dePaola

Chapter Eight Mom told me that after Dancing School we would go shopping. Dad and Buddy would meet us with Maureen. One of the things we would buy is the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Conlon-McKenna, Marita [Conlon-McKenna, Marita]

CHAPTER 12 The Runaway TWO HOURS LATER, HAVING walked around half of Boston in the early morning light, Peggy found herself sitting on the steps outside Mags Halligan’s, hoping for ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Constance Leeds

18 HAGAN’S ACCOUNT May 21, 1096 Hagan pulled a bench into the light from an open door, so that they looked out onto a small garden behind his house. Anna ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )