Biographical
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Frederick Manfred [Manfred, Frederick]

He woke by midafternoon in blinding sunlight. His first thought was of Fitz and Jim and of how sweet revenge would be. His next thought was of his belly and ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Chee, Alexander [Chee, Alexander]

§ Her Haustheater was really two houses side by side—her villa, where she lived with her husband, Louis, and Villa Turgenev next door, built for Turgenev. The two sat close ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Reedman, J.P. [Reedman, J.P.]

The baby, named Edward for his uncle the King, was baptised the following eve in the castle chapel. The priest blessed him, dropped grains of salt into his mouth, anointed ...
( Category: Medieval February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Carol McGrath

20 Shortly after Noon service, Prince Vsevolod summoned Thea to his receiving chamber. Lady Olga ordered her to wear a full veil and to walk straight, which was very difficult ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Harrigan, Stephen [Harrigan, Stephen]

TWENTY LINCOLN’S VOICE WAS STRAINED from months of speaking and debating all around Illinois. His spirits were strained as well. “The last thing I want to do right now,” he ...
( Category: Biographical February 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Benjamin, Melanie [Benjamin, Melanie]

Oh, how Babe could relate to that! She had a diploma, but it was merely decorative; Gogsie had decreed that all her girls attend Westover, a finishing school, rather than ...
( Category: Biographical January 31,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Brown, Carrie [Brown, Carrie]

William takes another bite of apple. “He is not afraid of much, Mr. Darwin,” he says. Lina stands and picks up their soup bowls. She knows, of course, that some ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Carol Wallace [Wallace, Carol]

Ten MADAME VAN GOGH may have been surprised to see me on her doorstep, but she expressed only pleasure. The apartment was very appealing, bright and clean and cheerful, but ...
( Category: Biographical January 20,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1938-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Baker [Baker, Dorothy]

2 It turned out precisely the way the man at the soda fountain had said it would. Schools began to close down at the end of the first week in ...
( Category: Biographical January 16,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIX When I was with people who did not drink, I never thought of drinking. Louis did not drink. Neither he nor I could afford it; but, more significant ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Michelle Moran [Moran, Michelle]

W hen the news came a week later that the rani was in labor, Sundari took me aside and asked what had happened between us. “Why hasn’t the rani asked ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:C. W. Gortner

A FEW WEEKS AFTER ANDRÉ LEFT and before I embarked on my trip to Grasse in the summer of 1922, I left my atelier early and made my way to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Mary Doria Russell [Russell, Mary Doria]

FROM THE START, the posse had traveled light. Bedrolls on the ground. Whatever they could carry in their saddlebags. Nine days out, they were thirsty, hungry, filthy, sore, and bone-tired ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Barbara Comyns

20 Charles kept asking people’s advice on how to get rid of babies, and everyone seemed to know someone who knew someone who knew someone who did something which sounded ...
( Category: Sisters December 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Renée Rosen

Chapter 22 • • • I hardly slept that night, and the next morning I woke before my alarm to the steady sound of raindrops pelting my bedroom window. It ...
( Category: Biographical December 5,2015 )

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