Historical
epub |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:C. S. Forester [Forester, C. S.]

Chapter 11 Hornblower had written the address, the date, and the word 'Sir' before he realized that the report would not be so easy to write. He was quite sure ...
( Category: Sea Stories June 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1959-01-02 | Author:C. S. Forester [Forester, C. S.]

CHAPTER XIII The fact that he had not taken off his clothes told Brown and Dobbs and Howard at dawn that Hornblower had not been as composed and self-confident as ...
( Category: Sea Stories June 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Victoria Hislop [Hislop, Victoria]

Chapter Sixteen BACK IN THE tent, Themis was oblivious to everything and everyone. She lay on her mat, her eyes closed to the world. She did not even weep. Her ...
( Category: Historical June 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roxana Robinson

* * * HÉLÈNE WAS SENT OUT to Sullivan’s Island for the day. The Dawsons had rented a little summer house there, as did everyone they knew. Sarah had asked ...
( Category: Biographical June 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:David Hewson [Hewson, David]

It seemed an insignificant place for such a momentous act, no more than a symmetrical grassy mound now covered in hard hoar frost and surrounded by a vast crowd of ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ocean Vuong

* * * — A week after the first time, we did it again. His cock in my hand, we began. My grip tightened around the covers. And that inertia ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 13,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert [Gilbert, Elizabeth]

EIGHTEEN Angela, I don’t want to tell you this next part of the story. I think I’ve been stalling. It’s painful, this next part. Let me stall a little while ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Davis

* * * Finally, they became fully aware of this piece of theatre. A few lamps, of the kind used at funerals, allowed them to follow an usher. Faint pools ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-04-25 | Author:Toni Mount [Mount, Toni]

Every time she closed her eyes, Emily saw Lizzie Knollys’ limp form sprawled upon the packed-earth floor of her house, unmoving. She had not slept since and could think of ...
( Category: Murder June 12,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Toni Mount [Mount, Toni]

The lark was singing his carol once more, high in the vault of Heaven. I was thus reminded how little a man’s passing – even one of such presence as ...
( Category: Murder June 12,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Toni Mount [Mount, Toni]

Chapter 11 Thursday, the fourteenth day of November The Foxley workshop With Jude returned, all seemed well in Seb’s world, even though Em was not yet in the best of ...
( Category: Murder June 12,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Toni Mount [Mount, Toni]

With the boards cleared away, the nave was made ready for an afternoon and evening of entertainment and revelry. Jude, who had a fair talent for playing a pipe, had ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Toni Mount [Mount, Toni]

Westminster Anthony Woodville felt he was steaming like a boiling pot, so great was his anger. ‘You incompetent wretch!’ he screamed. ‘You killed the wrong man.’ ‘But my lord, you ...
( Category: Murder June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Youssef Fadel

13 Day Five I ASKED JOUMANA WHY HER father the general doesn’t laugh. She said that he’s always been like that, that she’d never seen him laugh, not even once. ...
( Category: Political June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Younghill Kang & Alexander Chee & Sunyoung Lee & Sunyoung Lee

2 I had decided that I wouldn’t enroll as a student that year. I would use the libraries for my own reading. And I would try to support myself more ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 12,2019 )