Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Ambrose Parry [Parry, Ambrose]

FORTY-ONE he unmistakable odour of putrefaction still hung in the air, even though the corpse had been removed. Sarah observed Raven raising a hand to his nose, indicating that he ...
( Category: Murder September 3,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

Jack lay back on the bed in the boarding house and savoured the sensation. After weeks of sleeping on nothing more than a bedroll, the moth-eaten and lumpy mattress on ...
( Category: War September 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:T. Greenwood

Twenty-one September 1971 Marsha gassed up at a station in Roanoke, and Ginny went into the little store and bought them each a sugary cider doughnut, and a cup of ...
( Category: Family Life September 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Gill Paul [Paul, Gill]

Chapter 32 Leningrad, March 1937 PETER’S OFF-DUTY HOURS WERE OFTEN CONSUMED by meetings: Communist Party meetings, trade-union meetings, and – worst of all – Komsomol meetings when workers were invited ...
( Category: Historical September 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Amy Waldman

Chapter Fourteen The Covenant PARVEEN HAD SHARED NOTHING FROM MOTHER AFGHANISTAN with the women since her run-in with Commander Amanullah nearly a month before. Now, perhaps because of her tutorials ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

* * * — Neah learned about Leve, the women’s organization, from me. My twenty-hour-a-week work-study job was in Career/Volunteer Services, and one of the first things I saw there ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Anar Ali

* * * “Anything else?” the waiter asks Mansoor. It takes Mansoor a second to hear him, to reorient himself. He looks down at his half-eaten steak. Across the table, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philippa Gregory

The two women waved good-bye to the Stoney family, and walked together in silence up the road to Chichester. Alinor felt a gripping pain in her belly, which she thought ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-22 | Author:Chris L. Terry

TEN The coffeehouse was on a corner in Carytown, a quaint and quirky shopping district with buckling brick sidewalks. There’s a record store, used book store, and second-run movie theater ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Téa Obreht

SHE WATCHED THE DOC SAY his goodbyes from the boiling shade of the porch. Restored to his ordinary, charming ease, he nattered with one hand in Toby’s hair, the other ...
( Category: Westerns August 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:Minrose Gwin

18 June WHEN DAD BROUGHT GRACE HOME FROM THE AIRPORT in New Orleans, it was past eleven and the Russians were camped out down in Cuba about to blow us ...
( Category: Family Life August 24,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:William Kent Krueger

CHAPTER THIRTY AT THE TENT, we were told that Sister Eve and Sid had gone to the police station to try to spring Dimitri, who, we learned, was wanted on ...
( Category: Historical August 21,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-23 | Author:Dudley Pope

Stafford had all the keys made within a couple of days because fortunately the major-domo had been only too glad to have the three foreign sailors help carry the furniture ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense August 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-31 | Author:Jimenez, Stephanie

CHAPTER 12 Maria was disappointed. She had wanted to swim. She didn’t excel at any physical activity on land. Clumsy and a little soft, she ran pigeon-toed during relay races ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:E.R. Ramzipoor

* * * When Beckers and his mates passed out from drink, Tarcovich directed her girls to deposit them on the lawn. She waited by the window for them to ...
( Category: War & Military August 20,2019 )