Biographical
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Sibel Hodge

‘Can you give me directions, then?’ I wailed. With much reluctance, he put down his paper. ‘There is no Embassy,’ he said, ‘only a Consulate.’ He gave me directions and ...
( Category: European November 28,2014 )
epub | | 2011-04-09 | Author:Thomas Wolfe [Wolfe, Thomas]

"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears." You really can't beat that (he thought). Aye, Ben! Would he had blotted a hundred! A ...
( Category: United States November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Charlie Lovett [Lovett, Charlie]

Affectionately (that’s how Jane Austen signed her letters), Eric Sophie read the letter over three times, feeling more and more guilty about the thrill it gave her. Just reading it ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Yannick Grannec [Grannec, Yannick]

33 At the appointed hour on the appointed day, in an astrakhan toque with her cheeks rouged, Adele lay in wait for her accomplice. She asked Anna to help her ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sherry Jones

6 Farewell, my bright star, golden constellation, jewel of virtues, sweet medicine for my body. —HELOISE TO ABELARD I was a brittle tree blown by the wind, on the verge ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Alix Christie [Christie, Alix]

CHAPTER 10 SPONHEIM ABBEY Winter 1485 TRITHEMIUS stops Peter there. His voice breaks in, a little squeaky and excited. “You mean to say that it was you? Not Gutenberg? But ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Laurie Albanese

Fra Filippo found the thick white robe he wore in the coldest winter months and brought it to her. He poured a bowl of water from the cistern and handed ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Christie, Alix [Christie, Alix]

Each piece of type by then had gone beneath the press some thirty, forty times. The faces had begun to chip, the edges wear. The first they cast had never ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Lan Cao

14 Tet on the Perfume River MR. MINH, 2006, 1968 I lock onto Mai’s longan-black eyes, round pupils that linger on my face. A charged current runs through me. That ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Abdellatif Laabi [Laâbi, Abdellatif]

13 LIFE RETURNED TO normal following the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The long evenings and nocturnal activities ceased. As darkness approached, everyone ate their dinner quickly and ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Emma Tennant

A Cup of Tea When morning finally came, the Queen woke from a dream of two of her corgis, Whisky and Sherry, jumping on her bed as in the morning ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

1566 In the name of friendship, King Charles had graciously decided to bestow the Order of St Michael – France’s highest order of chivalry – upon two of Elizabeth’s subjects, ...
( Category: Family Saga November 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Sonallah Ibrahim

Chapter 14 Antoinette returned my “Good morning” without taking her eyes off the scattered papers on her desk. When I sat down in front of her, I discovered that her ...
( Category: Biographical November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Syrie James [James, Syrie]

( Category: Biographical November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Vernon [Vernon, John]

10. May 1881 Escape WHICH WAY, WHICH WAY? It all looks the same. Fireweed along the Roswell trail, the sun in his face. Torrey yucca, new evening primrose, cholla everywhere, ...
( Category: Biographical November 23,2014 )

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