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Lady Catherine's Necklace by Joan Aiken
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joan Aiken

VII Letter from Miss Maria Lucas to Mrs Jennings My dear madam, Mr Collins has not yet returned to Hunsford. We learn that the drains at Longbourn Manor are in ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
Lee and His Men at Gettysburg: The Death of a Nation by Clifford Dowdey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Clifford Dowdey

While he sang, the rifles continued to bang away, and the Confederate sharpshooters in Devil’s Den took a steady toll of the gunners on Little Round Top. With their own ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 29,2015 )
The Home for Broken Hearts by Rowan Coleman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Rowan Coleman [Coleman, Rowan]

“Oi! Charlie!” Sweat trickled down Matt’s back as he jogged to catch up with the boy before he reached the end of the road. “Hold up, mate!” Charlie stopped and ...
( Category: British & Irish January 29,2015 )
The Pure Land by Spence Alan
epub | | 2010-08-19 | Author:Spence, Alan

Market forces were constantly at play, demand for commodities shifting, changing. Glover was alert to the vagaries, looking for signs, straws in the wind. As if overnight, by some strange ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
Fallen Skies by Philippa Gregory
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philippa Gregory

22 THE NEXT DAY MARKED THE START of a new routine for Lily and the household which now revolved around her work—as before it had revolved around Stephen alone. Breakfast ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
The Pale House (A Gregor Reinhardt Novel) by McCallin Luke
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:McCallin, Luke [McCallin, Luke]

The desks outside Dreyer’s office were empty of personnel, papers neatly piled up and sorted next to half-filled crates. Reinhardt stood quietly in the doorway to the clerks’ office, wondering ...
( Category: Espionage January 29,2015 )
Domina (Paul Doherty Historical Mysteries) by Doherty Paul
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Doherty, Paul [Doherty, Paul]

Chapter 9 ‘The smoke and wealth and noise of Rome’ Horace, Odes: III, 29 Mevania is a beauty spot a hundred miles north of Rome. Agrippina chose it as the ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
A Private Revenge by Richard Woodman
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-06-15 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

'He doesn't want to hang 'em,' said Quilhampton to the lounging officers in the wardroom. 'He'll have to. A court martial at Prince of Wales Island will condemn them without ...
( Category: Military January 29,2015 )
Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle
epub |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Mike Gayle [Gayle, Mike]

forty-six To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: How are things? Dear Matt This is just a quick note to find out how you’re keeping. I’ve been really worried about you since ...
( Category: Contemporary January 21,2015 )
On the Road Bike: The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul by Boulting Ned
mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Boulting, Ned [Boulting, Ned]

( Category: Cycling January 19,2015 )
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
mobi |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Peter Carey

Imagine Vincent, cut, bruised, covered in sweat, his eyes wide with outrage and anger as he strode into the Royal Hotel and found Solly at the bar. “Solly, there’s some ...
( Category: Contemporary January 19,2015 )
A Game for Heroes by Jack Higgins
mobi, epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Jack Higgins

Chapter Nine. THE ROAD GANG THE FIRST DAY on the road gang was hard and for me most of all. The period in hospital, the months of idleness in Cornwall ...
( Category: Military January 19,2015 )
It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-12 | Author:Ben Miller [Miller, Ben]

I once met Francis Crick, one of the two men who famously figured out the structure and function of DNA. I was a graduate student at the Cavendish, and Rachel ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2015 )
Warrior Chronicles 08 - The Empty Throne by Cornwell Bernard
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

It was raining again when we reached Gleawecestre. Water was puddling in the fields, pouring down the road’s stone-choked gutters, and turning the stone of the Roman walls dark. We ...
( Category: Military January 18,2015 )
The Hundred Days 19 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1998-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX At Durazzo they stood out to sea, leaving the blaze on their larboard quarter and sailing across an uneventful sea with a fine topgallant breeze. But two days ...
( Category: Military January 18,2015 )

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