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The Stone Frigate by Kate Armstrong
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Kate Armstrong

The next day, a manila envelope arrived for me in the wing mail. My hands trembled as I opened it. He had gorgeous cursive handwriting. K. I can’t stop thinking ...
( Category: Women in History March 5,2019 )
The Art of Leaving by Ayelet Tsabari
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Ayelet Tsabari

* * * ∙ ∙ ∙ THE NIGHT THAT I didn’t die, I sat on the beach and watched the phosphorescence dancing on the waves, lighting them up like glow ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2019 )
Pickets and Dead Men by Bree Loewen
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Bree Loewen

7 * * * KAUTZ, SOLO IT WAS SNOWING AND I WAS CRYING, HARD. It was newly dark and there was still a blue glow down along the edge of ...
( Category: Women in History March 4,2019 )
Louisa on the Front Lines by Samantha Seiple
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Samantha Seiple

Your son is at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown.… He was in the fight at Fredericksburg where so many brave men lost their lives for their Country’s liberty. He ...
( Category: American Civil War February 27,2019 )
Anne of Cleves by Sarah-Beth Watkins
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

The French ambassador also reported how joyous Anne had become and that she wore different dresses every day. Anne was happy at Richmond and was now one of the richest ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2019 )
The Real Traviata by Weis René;
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Weis, René;

A workman’s wages would never have got me the luxury for which I had an irresistible craving. But in spite of all the appearances against me, I swear to you ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2019 )
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Pamela D. Toler

In the following years, Bouboulina participated in other military engagements against the Ottomans. Her most famous action occurred in September 1821, after the Turkish position at Tripolis fell to besieging ...
( Category: Women in History February 26,2019 )
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Mary Jennings Hegar

SIX Reporting to the 129th Rescue Squadron at Moffett Federal Airfield in Silicon Valley was the beginning of the happiest part of my entire career. I was worried that I’d ...
( Category: Specific Groups February 21,2019 )
The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany by Helga Schneider
epub |eng | 2007-09-27 | Author:Helga Schneider [Schneider, Helga]

There was a discreet bush telegraph between the cellars in our district. Strange rumours were circulating about the Führer: there was a theory, for example, that he had escaped abroad ...
( Category: Military February 21,2019 )
The Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
epub |eng | 2003-02-18 | Author:Andrea Stuart

By the end of April 1798 the secret plans for the Egyptian campaign were complete. On 4 May the Bonapartes – travelling in separate vehicles – left Paris. Five days ...
( Category: Europe February 19,2019 )
Empires of the Weak by Jason Sharman
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Jason Sharman

CHAPTER THREE The Asian Invasion of Europe in Context JUST AS EUROPEANS were beginning to expand into Asia, Asians were expanding into Europe. Indeed, in the 1500s and 1600s there ...
( Category: Economics February 19,2019 )
Death in Ten Minutes by Riddell Fern;
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Riddell, Fern;

MIRIAM PRATT: Is it legal for the witness to give evidence of a statement he alleges to have obtained from me not having first cautioned me, he being a police ...
( Category: World February 18,2019 )
Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy by McCarthy Andrew C
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:McCarthy, Andrew C [McCarthy, Andrew C]

Targeting Israel Although Erdogan had to wait until he was in a stronger position to challenge the deep state, he had no such reticence when it came to championing Muslim ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 18,2019 )
A Companion to Assyria by Frahm Eckart;
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:Frahm, Eckart;

Note 1 Because Assyria’s encounter with its southern neighbor was so formative for its civilization, the early history of this relationship is discussed here at greater length than Assyria’s early ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 18,2019 )
Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen & Heather Dune Macadam
epub |eng | 1996-08-14 | Author:Rena Kornreich Gelissen & Heather Dune Macadam [Gelissen, Rena Kornreich & Macadam, Heather Dune]

"Where is your God now?" My spirit withers . . . I do not know. "What's wrong, Rena?" I have been staring at nothing for days, going through the motions ...
( Category: World February 15,2019 )

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