Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Vaughn Entwistle [Entwistle, Vaughn]

21 THE HIGHGATE ANGEL Once again, Thraxton sat atop the uncomplaining Emily Fitzsimmons. A lantern borrowed from the sexton hissed quietly on the grave slab next to him. Its shifting ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman

( Category: Military December 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Wright, Ronald [Wright, Ronald]

12 Pizarro musters his troops, leaving some to hold the base camp until Almagro returns with more from Panama. The rest he leads through the desert by the main coast ...
( Category: Hispanic December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Kearsley, Susanna

Chapter 23 Ye sons of the chace, stand far distant… —Macpherson, “The War of Inis-Thona” Chalon-sur-Saône February 18, 1732 “I must confess I know not what to do with him,” ...
( Category: Historical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:David Downing

Seven-Inch Hems The Marmora was not one of Peninsular & Oriental’s more modern vessels. It was comfortable enough in an old-worldly sort of way, but as the ship sailed westward ...
( Category: Espionage December 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Nicola Upson

17 June William back from Ipswich at ½ past five. Waited for the Missis to go to bed so he might give me the letter from Maria. Still nothin’ by ...
( Category: Historical December 5,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Upson, Nicola [Upson, Nicola]

The excuses that Josephine had thought ridiculous during her conversation with Hilary sounded much more plausible when read in the context of day-to-day life. It was easy to be wise ...
( Category: Historical December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Edward Wilson [Edward Wilson]

Kit could see that Cord and Mary Meyer were having problems with their marriage. Their façade of happiness and mutual respect was too perfect. Both were too well brought up ...
( Category: Espionage December 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawhead, Stephen R. [Lawhead, Stephen R.]

TWENTY-SEVEN It was still dark when we left that homely house. We stopped at sunrise to take the first drink of a long and thirsty day. The night sky grew ...
( Category: Fantasy November 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]

The Vertical Poets, Oxford, 1942. Left to right, Herbert Percy, V. L. Lindon and Xan Clay. ‘Premonitions’ by Xan Clay Stars foretell the fall of czars. Strummed guitars lead to ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Holt, Samantha [Holt, Samantha]

Chapter Eight Wind whipped through his hair as Blane pushed his mount faster. The lads he’d brought with him were already making their way up the mountain path but he ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Toby Venables [Venables, Toby]

XXXI King Stormont Castle 25 May, 1193 GISBURNE AWOKE FACE down on the Persian rug, his face hot and itchy against its prickly, dusty fibres. The sun was high in ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Sax Rohmer [Rohmer, Sax]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN IN THE GALLERIES My course was already set. That there would be some kind of night patrol—probably one of those immobile Chinamen—I could not doubt. But since I ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Patrick O'Brian

Chapter Three MS III, 1The diminished but still well-manned Surprise and her lithe fore-and-aft companion Ringle swung easily at their moorings on the making tide not far from the imposing ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Janet Kellough

Luke waylaid his father just as he was leaving to collect Morgan. Dr. Christie had once again disappeared into the back rooms of the house. Even so, Luke spoke in ...
( Category: Historical November 12,2015 )