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epub |eng | 2018-12-18 | Author:Karen Harper

Chapter Twenty It made my spirits soar to know I was not socially ostracized in the States because of my marriage separation, and that even among some of my London ...

( Category: Family Life March 25,2019 )

The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey

epub |eng | | Author:Christine Dwyer Hickey

He hears his wife get out of bed, the pat of her feet across the bedroom floor and on out to the bathroom. She calls his name. He doesn’t reply. ...

( Category: Biographical March 25,2019 )

Dear George, Dear Mary by Mary Calvi

epub |eng | | Author:Mary Calvi

* * * GEORGE VIEWED THE belle as she walked rather quickly down the staircase to greet him. The fabric of her gown matched the tones of his costume, red-and-white ...

( Category: Biographical March 25,2019 )

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves

epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Chapter 17 MY study of Julius Caesar’s commentaries on his two British campaigns made it clear to me that unless conditions had changed considerably since his day it was possible ...

( Category: Biographical March 16,2019 )

I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves

epub |eng | 1961-08-14 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON AT CAPUA I WAS SITTING ON a stone bench behind the stables of my villa, thinking out some problem of Etruscan history and idly shooting dice, ...

( Category: Historical March 16,2019 )

The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Peter Rock

Experts said that the images of hotels were “often taken from angles and vantage points such as they could only have been taken from a helicopter.” These are blurry pictures ...

( Category: Small Town & Rural March 16,2019 )

American Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Stephanie Marie Thornton

* * * • • • The exuberant welcome Father received in New York’s harbor was enough to assuage all doubts regarding the upcoming Republican nomination; I’d have guessed at ...

( Category: Family Saga March 14,2019 )

The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King by Jerome Charyn

epub |eng | | Author:Jerome Charyn

OUR FINAL LANDING WAS at the headquarters of Senator Thomas Collier Platt, who held court at the Fifth Avenue when he wasn’t in Washington. Known as the “Easy Boss,” he ...

( Category: Short Stories February 27,2019 )

Still in Love by Michael Downing

epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Michael Downing

3. It began to snow as Mark packed up his bag, big lazy flakes that smashed into the windows like hopeful, heedless moths. As he headed outside, he recognized the ...

( Category: Biographical February 27,2019 )

All Things Bright and Broken by Carol Gibbs

epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Carol Gibbs

Mommy and Aunty Beryl are sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee. “Jacob says if I give him another son, he’ll never drink again.” “And you believe him?” Aunty Beryl ...

( Category: Biographical February 27,2019 )

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Penguin ed.) by Leo Tolstoy

epub |eng | 2011-09-10 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

TWENTY-FOUR Me I have only a few months left before my university entrance examinations. I have been studying hard, and not only await the teachers without fear but even take ...

( Category: Biographical February 27,2019 )

Somebody in Boots by Nelson Algren

epub |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:Nelson Algren

On Sunday morning the early flushing of the thundermug in tank ten would waken the deputy’s family, where they slept directly below, on that one morning of the week when ...

( Category: Classics February 27,2019 )

The Treasure of Cedar Creek by Brenda Stanley

epub |eng | | Author:Brenda Stanley

Chapter 17 The story of Dakota Montpelier, Idaho 1885 They arrested Casper for the fire, and for the destruction it caused. Dakota sat each day just outside the window of ...

( Category: Historical February 26,2019 )

Frida by Barbara Mujica

epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Barbara Mujica [MUJICA, BARBARA]

CHAPTER 14 Endings and Beginnings THEY SAY I’M A RECLUSE. THEY SAY I DON’T LIKE PEOPLE. AFTER ALL I’VE been through, can you blame me? Ever since Frida left … ...

( Category: Historical September 8,2018 )

Auschwitz Lullaby by Mario Escobar

epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Mario Escobar

Dear Johann: I know that it’s ridiculous for me to tell you about my life here at the camp. Surely you’re somewhere just as bad or worse than here, but ...

( Category: World War II September 6,2018 )

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