Historical
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Jokha Alharthi

Azzan and Qamar Azzan’s head lay in Qamar’s lap, his eyes fixed on the stars glittering in the soft clear desert sky. She was gliding her fingertips along his lashes ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Angie Cruz

Juan and his brothers now tune in to the radio at all hours and scour the papers to figure out what all of the political business will mean for them. ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-16 | Author:Jane Kirkpatrick

Wintering Women Isabella Patterson and her brood were assigned the wall space opposite Sarah and Mary Sullivan. James Miller had created the designations, making sure that his family had one ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-18 | Author:Luke Devenish

* * * They now had a name for themselves: The Freedom Volunteers. The spot that they’d chosen for their ‘launch position’ was not at the Ritz, obviously, for that ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Bruce Most [Most, Bruce]

Chapter 18 With my efforts to infiltrate Zingano’s burglary ring stalled, my only remaining line of investigation into Benedict’s murder was his mysterious link to the deceased Marcus Raschke. That ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Suzanne Hayes

April 5, 1944 IOWA CITY, IOWA Dear Mrs. Whitehall, I’m writing to thank you. I have never seen something so beautiful as the baby clothes you sent. I’ll wrap Little ...
( Category: Friendship October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Yei Theodora Ozaki

He pressed the old woman to let him stay, but she seemed very reluctant. The old woman as soon as she heard herself spoken to stopped spinning, rose from her ...
( Category: Japanese October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 8 After all the army had crossed over the Dvina the pontoon bridge was dismantled to allow trade to continue along the waterway. Magnus Glueck made the crossing by ...
( Category: War October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 8 Kristjan slapped his neck to flatten a mosquito. The air was humid and oppressive, made worse by Tracker’s news. The scout had returned to the forest camp moments ...
( Category: War October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 8 At Holm Castle a grinning Master Godfrey gave Conrad a beaming smile and an iron embrace after the rescue party of Sword Brothers and Estonians had ridden into ...
( Category: War October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jana Petken [Petken, Jana]

Paul left Brandt’s apartment at three o’clock in the afternoon, after being assured that the papers he needed for Judith would be ready within forty-eight hours. Brandt had more or ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-28 | Author:Charles Egan [Egan, Charles]

Chapter 17 Brooklyn Eagle, New York. December 1848: The Cholera. In 1832, when we were visited by the Cholera, it made its entrance by way of Canada. It has now ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Jana Petken [Petken, Jana]

Chapter Thirty Max Vogel Tunisia, North Africa 25 March 1943 Max arrived at the front immediately after the Allies’ failed assault on the German defensive lines at Mareth. The British ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Charles Egan [Egan, Charles]

Chapter 16 Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, November 1847: We have been informed that in the neighbourhood of Belmullet, and within the Mullet, instantaneous death from starvation can only be expected – ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-25 | Author:Joey Bui

After the exhibition was taken down, people asked me how it felt to be an artist. They always said the word in English. Buwa, my father, couldn’t say it without ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 8,2019 )