Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Cruz Smith

18 Cenzo dreamt that he was a fish in shallow water and someone was trying to skewer him with a spear. There was a great thrashing and much blood and ...
( Category: Espionage March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Yoojin Grace Wuertz

SNU was shut down all week following a student demonstration that had turned violent. For two days, there had been tanks parked at the gates and no telling when classes ...
( Category: Asian American March 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:V.E. Schwab [Schwab, V.E.]

VII There was a moment, when a ship first put out to sea. When the land fell away and the world stretched wide, nothing but water and sky and freedom. ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Christie

Chapter Thirty-One In which Madame Adélaïde displays great fixity of purpose We are here to witness this triumph of the Bourbons and of the monarchy. My father at the center ...
( Category: Biographical March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Taylor Brown [Taylor Brown]

36 Altamaha River, Day 3 “Poachers,” says Lawton. “I don’t like it.” They are standing beneath the houseboat, Lawton slipping on his fins. “You don’t know they’re poachers,” says Hunter. ...
( Category: Biographical March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Dale Ivan Smith [Smith, Dale Ivan]

Frank was not happy to see us. We had flown back to Redding, landing the copter at the airport, and then putting the armor and that cylinder into the back ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Katherine Lowry Logan [Logan, Katherine Lowry]

29 Kevin Kevin slipped quietly down the steps and out the front door without bumping into Charlotte again, or any of the children. He pulled the door shut, whistling softly ...
( Category: Victorian March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Sana Krasikov [Sana Krasikov]

“You’re saying Nina just left him?” “Left him? Oh, Flora, do you think Moscow is any closer to Siberia than Tbilisi is?” For the first time, Florence learned that Timofeyev, ...
( Category: Family Saga March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Dale Ivan Smith [Smith, Dale Ivan]

After he finished, we split up. Someone followed me outside. Keisha. “Kiss-up!” She called from behind me. I ignored her and kept walking toward the Dasher. I had to call ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-29 | Author:Nuruddin Farah

16. “HAVE WE GRIEVED ENOUGH?” JEEBLEH ASKED. “I doubt that we have,” Bile replied. “Do we know how to grieve? And if we don’t, why not?” “I don’t know if ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Emily Robbins

THAT NIGHT, I helped Nisrine put Dounia to bed, and our rituals seemed very sweet because we had almost lost them. Nisrine took Dounia’s hands, I took her feet to ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Eva Stachniak [Stachniak, Eva]

October 14, 1939 My daughter plays with the Irish girl, Fiona, who asks her endless questions and begs to be shown “ballerina steps”—whatever she means by that. Irina indulges her ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-10 | Author:Teresa Messineo

10 Kay Elliott February 1945, Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines Planes today. American. Could tell from the sound. Please, God, let them come in time. KAY AND THE other ...
( Category: Military March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Rooney

14 Mulligan The golden Ds on the scarlet awnings—surrounded by laurel wreaths in heraldic style—seem to stand not merely for “Delmonico’s” but also for “do over.” The restaurant lofts steak ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Nancy Peacock [Nancy Peacock]

THE NEXT DAY we broke more horses. Sedge had an endless supply, it seemed, of green-broke horses, horses he could get a saddle on but could not always ride. I ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 22,2017 )