Historical
epub |eng | 2021-07-31 | Author:James Keffer [Keffer, James]

CHAPTER 10 Later, when he was alone at his desk, Hornblower paused while trying to write his report to send to London before they sailed. He set the pen down ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-06 | Author:Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi [Kobayashi, Robin Elizabeth]

DOWN THE HUMBER WE WENT, its waters turbid, its salt marshes overflowed, its shores brownish-green with sward where the boys sat apart, fishing on the rising tide. The Yorkshireman dashed ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Maas

Chapter Twenty-Three I returned to Colombo three months later as a qualified bilingual stenotypist. I moved into the Huxleys’ house in Cinnamon Gardens, an elegant two-storey colonial mansion that had ...
( Category: World War II March 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Ellis [Ellis, Mark]

Tarkowski blearily removed the bedcover from his face and slowly opened his eyes. His head throbbed. Another endless meeting followed by several rounds of Polish plum brandy with the general ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2024 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Los pilares de la tierra

( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2024 )
epub |eng | 1951-12-05 | Author:Marlowe, Stephen [Marlowe, Stephen]

Scene 6 “Well, here we are,” Torstein said later, opening the door. “See, you were right, we didn’t have anything to worry about.” Anxiously, Ed stuck his head outside. Bright ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-07 | Author:Haji Jabir

(17) At the end of his third month in Tel Aviv, Dawit received a letter telling him to prepare to move to his permanent residence in Jerusalem. He was just ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stefanie Zweig [Stefanie Zweig]

13 ON THE MORNING of June 6, 1944, two hours before the wake-up call, Walter was sitting in the empty mess hall. The invigorating cool of the yellow moonlit night ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-12 | Author:Corina Bomann [Bomann, Corina]

33 My friend was afraid of horses and didn’t know how to ride, so we took the old landau carriage the next morning. I was at the reins. Traveling this ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-05 | Author:Douglas A. Burton [Burton, Douglas A. & Burton, Douglas A.]

thirty Theodora sat at the empty table in the Chamber of Cupid. The shutters were closed to keep out the winter cold, but she still heard the cheering crowds at ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-06 | Author:William W. Johnstone

CHAPTER 17 Tall Dog reacted instantly. He broke off the conversation he was having with Arne Winterborn and the other men from Skarkavik and dashed toward the trees. As he ...
( Category: Historical March 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-20 | Author:Renee Ryan

The Roundups Chapter Twenty-One Rachel May 1941. Paris, France. The flat-eyed l’agent de police arrived on the Bermans’ doorstep at twilight, when the sky leaned toward lavender, and the slow-moving ...
( Category: World War II March 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-15 | Author:Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir [Baldursdóttir, Kristín Marja]

Karitas Laundry at Sunrise 1924 Oil on canvas The sun comes up from the sea. The water’s surface is mahogany red. The sky is dark violet. Both colors grow lighter, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-01-04 | Author:Holly Hepburn

* * * ‘Hello. Going on location?’ Daisy looked up from loading the car to see Drew Entwhistle watching her from a few metres away. Instantly, her stomach swooped as ...
( Category: Historical March 7,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Kneale

The next morning, soon after dawn, Julius was woken by the sound of Frank getting up and bustling about the room, fussing with his things. Julius glanced at his watch. ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2024 )