Historical
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:London Skye

Chapter Fifteen MJ Spent a good portion of her Saturday afternoon dolling herself up for yet another business dinner meeting with her father on the Adams plantation. She rode sitting ...
( Category: Historical January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Loretta Miles Tollefson

CHAPTER 20 But there are other things besides Jones to think about. After the fight, Michel Robidoux leads Ewing Young to the other side of the village, where he and ...
( Category: Historical January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-28 | Author:Nigel Seed [Seed, Nigel]

Chapter 37 Invading the North July 3rd 1863 “You know where we’re going, boss?” Henry shook his head. “Damned if I know. The orders are to follow the army. I ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Countee Cullen [Jackson, Major]

Not Sacco and Vanzetti These men who do not die, but send to death, These iron men whom mercy cannot bend Beyond the lettered law; what when their breath Shall ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-14 | Author:Eric Walker

23 — Summer, 1893 John had settled in Mount Hope but had yet to find Cousin Riley. He had asked around but came up empty. From time to time, he’d ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-17 | Author:Nella Larsen [Larsen, Nella]

Twenty-Two And so in the confusion of seductive repentance Helga Crane was married to the grandiloquent Reverend Mr. Pleasant Green, that fattish yellow man who had so kindly, so unctuously, ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Lorene Cary [Cary, Lorene]

The Ladies Anti-Slavery Society meeting took place most weeks in a room off the Quaker meetinghouse that the Society shared with a temperance group. But because the temperance people had ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-12 | Author:Patricia E. Forté [Forté, Patricia E.]

PSST! PSST! ODIE! By the time it was light enough to see, they had to be in the fields, where they hoed the cotton and corn as well as the ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:John Isaac Jones

Jail Twenty minutes later, Bobby and the sheriff were riding quietly along Sand River Road in a county squad car. Finally, the sheriff spoke. Bobby could hear the quiet anger ...
( Category: Historical January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:André Lewis Carter

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “WELL, LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE going to make it through, shit-bird.” The pasty-faced senior chief petty officer, or SCPO for short, flicked ash from his cigarette into a wastebasket ...
( Category: Historical January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-03 | Author:Unknown

16—G-MAN “Ruby… Ruby… Ruby —what’s—Ruby—” She’s saying my name over and over again. And I’m saying hers, too. “All right, you two! This is a library.” Jo-Jo’s standing right behind ...
( Category: Historical January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pauline E. Hopkins

XXI Cuthbert Sumner tendered his resignation to General Benson to take effect at the close of the official year, and it was accepted. “I have no feeling but friendship for ...
( Category: Historical December 23,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maya H Bechi

Monday The “smell of dawn rising” was how Lawrence liked to think of his mornings on base. He could distinguish the scent of salt water in the air as he ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Rebecca Dwight Bruff

CHAPTER 25 I went back to Charleston the next day, and back to the restaurant, holding the thinnest hope that Mr. McKee would act on my behalf. Hope’s a mysterious ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Gayl Jones [Jones, Gayl]

32 Ensinadelo (Ensinanco) and I pulled the lounge beach chairs into the sun. The air was clear. I wondered if his white legs would sunburn. I rubbed Vaseline and cocoa ...
( Category: Historical December 20,2022 )