Historical
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Peter Carey [Carey, Peter]

PARCEL EIGHT 24 Years Eighty unbound quarto sheets of medium stock. Heavy foxing, stains and water damage, but still very legible. Much of the material concerns an alleged slander by ...
( Category: Murder July 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Julie Kibler

CATE Arlington, Texas 2017 The morning after Thanksgiving, I sleep late, as if the presence of another human causes me to sleep deeper than I have in years. Maybe I’ve ...
( Category: Epistolary July 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:David Marlett

<><><> – 36 – SATURDAY March 9, 1907 General Dodge, president of Union Pacific Railroad, was standing in one of his private Pullman rail cars as it rumbled toward Cheyenne, ...
( Category: Historical July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Ian Sansom [Sansom, Ian]

CHAPTER 13 BASIC PSYCHOLOGY ‘WELL, THIS IS RATHER DISTRESSING,’ said Morley. ‘Photographs, Sefton?’ ‘We have requested your assistant not to take any photographs, sir,’ said one of the two policemen ...
( Category: Crime July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-13 | Author:Steven A. McKay [McKay, Steven A.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE “Calm down, lad, for fuck sake, it can't have been that bad.” Will Scarlet glared at the sobbing Blase as the young man tried, haltingly, to relate his ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Forest Laird [Laird, Forest]

CHAPTER ELEVEN 1 The remainder of that year, 1293, may have been uneventful for most of the realm of Scotland, but for me it was a hectic period, spent adapting ...
( Category: Biographical July 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Standard of Honor [Honor, Standard of]

THREE Jean Pierre Tournedos had been born into a mercantile family that owned a modest fleet of trading ships, and at the age of twenty-six was invited to join the ...
( Category: Historical July 28,2019 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Colson Whitehead

CHAPTER TEN Miscreants had bashed in the reindeers’ heads. They expected a certain amount of wear and tear after the holiday, when the boys gathered to pack the delicate Christmas ...
( Category: African American July 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Roman, Nancy

My sister Catherine had seemed to manage her two births just fine, as did my mother. Mother was the person I truly wanted to speak to. But I could not ...
( Category: Historical July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Michael Curtis Ford [Ford, Michael Curtis]

FROM ALL TO NAUGHT Honor is gone, loyalty feeble and pale. Sin prevails over virtue, lawlessness over law, and lost is the common cause of mortals to dissuade the gods ...
( Category: War July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Sarah Blake [Blake, Sarah]

Twenty-four LIKE A BELL AT the races, the first of August came, and much of Wall Street went north. Milton Higginson was reduced to its skeleton crew. Len wandered the ...
( Category: Family Life July 26,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Yochi Brandes

1 It has been three years since I began my life of seclusion in this cave. I have stayed alive only so that I could write this book. In two ...
( Category: Ancient July 26,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-06-15 | Author:Steinberg, Milton [Steinberg, Milton]

“Take the Hebrew books out,” he ordered glumly. “I shall not need them.” Then he sat down at his writing table, picked up his quill pen and tried to write ...
( Category: Ancient July 26,2019 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Lehrer, Jim [Jim, Lehrer,]

Truman and Browne had barely noticed the brief stop at St. Mark. They were working on their second cup of coffee in the Turquoise Room, advertised by the Santa Fe ...
( Category: Historical July 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

XXXIII I was led to a large, unused warehouse. I told myself nothing could go wrong; after all, my sister--the virtuous, pompous one--was in charge of the catering. A cohort ...
( Category: Historical July 24,2019 )