epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Susan Higginbotham [Higginbotham, Susan]

t h e s t o l e n C r o w n 1 8 9 “What do you think will happen to him?” “Execution.” He spoke as casually ...

epub |eng | 1908-08-14 | Author:Aeneas Gunn

14 For over four months we had wrestled with luck for a house, only to find we had very little use for it for the time being, that is, until ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

Ernie Pyle IT’S A HARD THING to write about a dead man who doesn’t seem dead to you. Ernie Pyle didn’t want to go back to the war. When he ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Watson, Alaric;

The purpose and legacy of Aurelian’s walls The circumstances that inspired Aurelian to build the walls to a large degree dictated their nature. They had to be built in a ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-27 | Author:Deborah Carr [Carr, Deborah]

Florence hugged Jesse’s letter to her heart. He had been thinking of her this morning while she was silently pining for him, as she knew he would. She re-read his ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

In the mornings we attend classes in military matters taught by lieutenants who also speak French correctly. Discipline. Silence in the ranks. We are terrorized for no clear reason. Again ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-26 | Author:Tracey Enerson Wood

Twenty-One Mother stayed for many weeks during Wash’s recuperation. Soon, her circle of friends visited as well, delighting in his stories of Civil War exploits. Wash was never so happy ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Deborah Carr

Florence hugged Jesse’s letter to her heart. He had been thinking of her this morning while she was silently pining for him, as she knew he would. She re-read his ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Echo Heron [Heron, Echo]

“You can’t possibly be serious about going into Tiffany’s today.” Alice put down her tea. “It’s Sunday. You have to rest sometime, Clara. You haven’t eaten or slept properly in ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Valentine Penrose [Penrose, Valentine]

Chapter Seven The marriage of Judith Thurzó, second daughter of György Thurzó, Grand Palatine, and related to Erzsébet Báthory through his second wife, Erzsébet Czóbor, was celebrated in full splendour ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Sei Shonagon

The woman he gazes at in secret is bending forward, so that her hair falls away from her head and hangs perhaps six inches before her face. It glows there ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gertrude Stein

PART IV I LIKE WORDS of one syllable and it works out very well in the French order for general mobalisation. The printed thing gives all the detail and then ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gill Hornby

* * * “HOW MAGNIFICENT!” JANE BLEW in, untying her bonnet to reveal untidy hair and a glowing complexion. “The water is at its finest this morning. Oh, but I ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Arthur Phillips [Phillips, Arthur]

4. “SHE WOULD TAKE even this from me?” asked Moresby. “My lord, her generosity to you is demonstrated every day.” Leveret pointed through the narrow window to the small chapel ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Paul Wolfe

Acid Fragment 1 It is a beautiful Saturday morning. In a blaze of hot sunshine, on a long carpet of white sand, I take 300 micrograms of Heavenly Blue. I ...