Historical
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Maureen Leurck

CHAPTER 20 ERIN On the Thursday afternoon after my mother and I closed up the house in Powers Lake, I sank down onto a bar stool at the Lake View ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Stridsberg

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, AUGUST 1962 MARILYN MONROE IS DEAD Inside the phone booth in the student dorm during the hot summer of 1962, you call home over and over again ...
( Category: Biographical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 10 ‘Burn like fire, scorch like flame.’ Two minutes after we had retired to our bedroom there was a knock at the door. I ordered whoever it was to ...
( Category: War September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-09 | Author:Peter Tonkin [Tonkin, Peter]

vi By the time everyone reassembled by the steering oar where Halys and his gubernator stood, it was almost dark. ‘Now we’ll see,’ said the captain. And see they did ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Sara Stridsberg [Stridsberg, Sara]

Bristol Hotel, April 18, 1988 NARRATOR: Do you have a few minutes? VALERIE: Sorry, I’m working. Ten for a fuck. Five for a blow job. Two for a hand job. ...
( Category: Biographical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 11 Gaius Arrianus took charge of events the following day, meeting with the defeated kings in Melitene and proposing he should be the one to organise a parley with ...
( Category: War September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Sara Smallman [Smallman, Sara]

1816 Dressing herself in a simple gown, jacket and her sturdiest boots, Elizabeth Darcy had risen before the crow and ventured outside. She was surprised to see that the world ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 11 Uruk was estimated to be five thousand years old, a city of legend whose high, mud-brick walls had reportedly been constructed by the famed warrior king Gilgamesh, a ...
( Category: War September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 10 The ballistae were disassembled later that day under the watchful eyes of archers on the walls. Once loaded on carts, they were carried back to camp as the ...
( Category: War September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Leonard Pitts, Jr.

fifteen She wore her hair in short, salt-and-pepper dreadlocks now. Her skin was still the color of the sun just as it fell into twilight, her lips still proud as ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Darman [Darman, Peter]

Chapter 11 I had hoped to ride to Assur with sixty-five hundred of the finest horsemen in all Parthia, including fifteen hundred cataphracts. The next morning, the sun shining down ...
( Category: War September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alrene Hughes [Hughes, Alrene]

Chapter 20 It was clear to Gracie that Alan had fallen out with her. She didn’t see him on the bus either going to work or coming home; nor did ...
( Category: Family Saga September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Charlie Fenton [Fenton, Charlie]

I wouldn’t hurt Henry like that. In fact, I would never kill anyone. Even Katherine, who I hated most in the world, I would never kill. April 1531 – York ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Lara Prescott

* * * The day after our lunch on the Temple steps, Anderson informed me that instead of my meeting with Teddy, as I’d been doing, Sally would continue my ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2019 )
epub |swe | 2011-06-07 | Author:David Stacton [Stacton, David]

It was not abstract to Atzerodt. That miserable troll knew perfectly well what the world had in store for him. The night of the assassination he had not even been ...
( Category: Biographical September 6,2019 )