Historical
epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Frances Liardet [Liardet, Frances]

Ellen Late March, 1944 18 ‘I REALLY CAN’T get it at Waltham. They don’t stock it.’ As I lied, I slid the pin of my pearl brooch into the placket ...
( Category: Family Life April 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Wilbur Smith

When Ryder woke in the morning and began to prepare the mules with Geriel and Maki, he noticed that Tadesse’s face was ashen with fatigue. The boy tried to speak ...
( Category: War & Military April 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Steven Rowley

◆ TWENTY ◆ There used to be this popcorn ceiling in Kenny’s room. Stucco ceiling. Whatever people call it. A particular scourge of suburban homes in the 1960s and 1970s. ...
( Category: Historical April 3,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-05 | Author:Wilson, Robert Anton & Wilson, Robert Anton [Wilson, Robert Anton]

PART FIVE THE WORLD The great and direct end of government is liberty. Secure our liberties and privileges, and the end of government is answered. If this be not effectively ...
( Category: Historical April 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-30 | Author:Maylis de Kerangal

* * * One year later, Mauro takes the exam as an unaffiliated candidate. That day, he puts on the chef’s uniform that he must wear for the practical tests, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-01 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

Jack relished the feeling of being outside and in the saddle. He and Martha had spent days incarcerated in railroad cars, with the two horses travelling in trucks put by ...
( Category: Historical March 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-24 | Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves

I DIDN’T MANAGE TO GET TO SLEEP UNTIL DAWN CAST A HUNDRED TONES of dismal gray on my bedroom window. Fermín woke me up, throwing tiny pebbles at my window ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Victoria Thompson [Thompson, Victoria]

* * * F rank waited until the afternoon to visit Abigail’s former office. He’d noticed that the classes were mostly in the morning and the building was much quieter ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Namwali Serpell

* * * Isabella Corsale, pallid, skittish and tense, strode through the house in a wedding dress. She had found it in the back of her mother’s closet, behind the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Laila Lalami

Driss I remember that the park rangers had to put up a sign on the highway warning visitors that campsites at Joshua Tree were booked. The town was packed with ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:David Bezmozgis

The Russian Riviera “SOME BUSINESSMEN” WAS HOW Skinny Zyama had described the two gangsters from New Jersey. “You want me there for a meeting with businessmen?” Kostya had asked. “You ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Ed Ifkovic [Ifkovic, Ed]

Chapter Thirteen Irina Petrievich left a message at reception asking me to join them late that night. “We want to see you.” A glass of sherry and some wild-raspberry strudel, ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Jillian Cantor

Later that night, the acrid smoke still burning his lungs, Max exhaled loudly, relieved after walking Hanna safely home to her apartment. The train back to Hauptstrasse was quiet. Books ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Whyte

CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP Bruce did not catch up to his English friends before they won back to camp, for they had clearly wasted no time moving out ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Paul Binding

CHAPTER TWELVE Friendship’s Changing Faces Never earlier would I have believed that Will’s presence, and in the same house as myself, could prove bane rather than blessing. In South London ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2019 )