Historical
epub |eng | 2019-05-16 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XVII The bridge gave way slowly, the rotting main beams breaking under the weight so that the rest sank down into the roaring torrent. It was roughly made, wide enough ...
( Category: Ancient August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Rachel Wesson [Wesson, Rachel]

Chapter 38 A woman came forward, her husband following close behind. “Excuse me missus, but I was wondering if I, I mean we, could speak to that cute little boy ...
( Category: Family Life August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Hector Miller [Miller, Hector]

Chapter 20 – Hostages On the positive side, I heard that my friend, Thiaper, had survived. In addition, the Hun commander managed to find four local peasants. They were caught ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Linda Hogan

Ruth counts the seconds. Not much later, a minute, then even longer. It ran in his family, she thinks, even her Marco. If it rains and Ruth is cold out ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:Sadie Conall [Conall, Sadie]

Independence, Missouri May 1846 1 The town of Independence lay on America’s western border, the state line, just six miles north of the Missouri River and twelve miles from Indian ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Andrea Barrett

IN HER NARROW bed, no longer floating in a vast and airy space but confined now within planked walls and uncomfortably close despite the window, Henrietta lay for another day. ...
( Category: Short Stories August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-01 | Author:Meg Keneally

Monsarrat was at a loss for something to do as he waited for Jones – an unaccustomed state for him, and one which he did not like at all. He ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-01 | Author:Denise Giardina

SS-Hauptsturmführer Alois Bauer was visiting the Prussian State Library. He wanted to see the manuscript of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and was ready to threaten and swagger as on ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Catherine Chung

Liliane’s Story “I didn’t find the baby naked in a field. She was given to me. The day I brought her in it is true, I’d been in trouble with ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:G Michael Hopf [Hopf, G Michael]

CHAPTER SIX JULY 12, 1895 SEVEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT FALLS, MONTANA “I still can’t get rid of the image of those hogs just devouring poor Harry,” Henry said. “You ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Lena Manta [Manta, Lena]

Smaragda looked at her mother with eyes full of tears. The old lady was holding herself together with difficulty. “And when, by God’s grace, do you leave?” Kleoniki asked. “The ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-27 | Author:David J Oldman [Oldman, David J]

27 Paul slept on the floor. It was warm enough in the house that he needed no blanket. He had heated some water on the stove and washed as best ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Jane Gardam [Gardam, Jane]

Mr Thwaite surprised me at the station—he had driven us himself in the trap, I and the snapping painter who was returning to London—by saying the same thing in his ...
( Category: Family Saga August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leah Fleming [Fleming, Leah]

* Baggy’s Prediction came true. How they all dug at the thought of hidden treasure, delving deep into the ground with spades and hoes, axes and picks. The Frideswell lads ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar [Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi]

And she added, “I’m in awe over the way one poet could vanquish a city through verse this way. Every time I hear this couplet, Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 2,2019 )