Historical
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

CHAPTER EIGHT "You won't die here," Saint Crispinian said. Hook hardly heard the voice because he was screaming a battle cry that was part terror and part exhilaration. Hook and ...
( Category: Military August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miguel De Cervantes

The Generous Lover * "O lamentable ruins of the ill-fated Nicosia,[76] still moist with the blood of your valorous and unfortunate defenders! Were you capable of feeling, we might jointly ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 8,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Shutter Island (v5)

“OH, JESUS!” TEDDY sat up. He was crying. He felt he’d wrenched himself awake, tore his brain into consciousness just to get out of that dream. He could feel it ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Moyshe Kulbak

There was a celebration in the village. Uncle Yuda was asked to play the fiddle. The potter came to the farm to help him get ready, and they set out. ...
( Category: Jewish May 31,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iona Grey

21 2011 In Jess’s dream there was a fire. She couldn’t see it because everything was so black, but she knew it was there because she could hear its roar ...
( Category: World War II May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Moshe Sakal

Pained by the sorrowful melody, Sami stared down at his shoes. The scent of Gracia’s fingers still lingered in his nostrils, and he smelled it as though he were already ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-10 | Author:Moran, Michelle [Moran, Michelle]

Nefertiti wasn’t due to give birth until Thoth, but she walked through the camp as if the child might come any day. Everyone had to stand three paces back when ...
( Category: Biographical April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Cao Xueqin]

CHAPTER XLII. The Princess of Heng Wu dispels, with sweet words, some insane suspicions. The inmate of Hsiao Hsiang puts, with excellent repartee, the final touch to the jokes made ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Marion Husband

Chapter Sixteen DANIEL SAID, ‘I NEED to speak to you.’ In his shirtsleeves in his garden, wondering where to begin on the weeds that had grown up under the close ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-20 | Author:Isabel Miller

There has been a storm all day. This morning it woke me, howling and pelting my windows with snow and sleet. It’s still going on, late afternoon, as strong as ...
( Category: Women Authors April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-07-14 | Author:Agatha Christie [Agatha Christie]

Chapter 19 A Great Lady The visit that we received on the following morning was to my mind one of the most surprising things about the whole affair. I was ...
( Category: Murder April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pu SongLing

DURING the reign of Xuande,339 cricket fighting was very much in vogue at court, levies of crickets being exacted from the people as a tax. On one occasion the magistrate ...
( Category: Chinese April 5,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-22 | Author:Yukio Mishima [Mishima, Yukio]

26 FORMER BARON SHINKAWA was seated in a chair by the fireside from which point he coldly observed the other guests. He was now seventy-two. Grumbling and complaining without fail ...
( Category: Japanese April 5,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Anna Butler

( Category: Steampunk April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Sarah Lark

( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )