Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-08 | Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

THIRTY DESPITE MASTER HERACLES’ oft-repeated assurances of a swift journey home, three months later I was still aboard the ship with him. The summer was fading into autumn golds and ...
( Category: Biographical May 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Ovidia Yu

16 Usual Suspects “So, all the usual suspects are here!” Brian Wong said jovially as he joined their table that evening. As usual he was the last to arrive, and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Sally Christie

Chapter Forty Argenson inspects me and pronounces me fit for a king. How unimaginative. I simper at him and clutch my hands to my heart, or my breast. “Come,” says ...
( Category: Historical May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Kathleen Tessaro

“Where have you been?” Ma was waiting for me when I came in that evening. Somehow I’d limped through the day, and I was exhausted. All I wanted was to ...
( Category: Historical May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Laam

Eleven POTEMKIN’S PALACE MARCH 1791 Mornings were difficult under the best of circumstances, when his mind played its queer tricks. Perhaps the soul desired to remain forever wrapped in pleasant ...
( Category: Family Saga May 2,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Ann Howard Creel

CHAPTER SIXTEEN After the dismal failure of my night on the town with John, I spent the next evening with Dot, Mary, and the miserable company of Dennis. Mary had ...
( Category: Family Life May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Anne Perry

“I would be delighted to escape it,” Pitt replied ruefully. “But I don’t see how I can.” “What do you expect from me?” The firelight accentuated the shadows on Narraway’s ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XXII SEVERAL DAYS HAD passed, and Tullus was standing in warm, late-afternoon sunshine outside Germanicus’ vast command tent. A summons to attend his general ‘at his earliest pleasure’ – ...
( Category: Historical May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Susan Higginbotham

28 NORA APRIL 15, 1865 You know—everyone knows—what happened on the night of April 14, 1865. You have even perhaps grown hardened to such things, having lived through, or heard ...
( Category: Biographical May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Jacqueline Winspear

CHAPTER 11 Another bright, cold morning greeted Maisie when the alarm woke her at half past eight. For all her early wakefulness, when it seemed rest would be hard to ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Magdalena Platzova [Platzova, Magdalena]

WHEN I GOT HOME, I didn’t feel like going to bed yet, so I turned on my computer to see what was new. Nothing had changed in the past few ...
( Category: Jewish May 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-03-14 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

“Read to me,” Dinah said. “It’s near midnight,” Charlie answered. Dinah stood and held him by the force of her need. Read to me, Charlie, she said silently, put some ...
( Category: Historical May 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

It was hard to imagine such a cataclysm. But Eliezer assured her that the drought was nothing compared to Noah’s flood. “It wasn’t just the rains or the rivers rising, ...
( Category: Biographical May 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Darragh McKeon [McKeon, Darragh]

No talking. You form the line and when in the line you do not deviate from the line. You stand an arm’s length behind the boy in front. You place ...
( Category: Historical May 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Heather Boyd [Boyd, Heather]

Eleven Esme gritted her teeth a moment before responding to the insult her lover’s brother had just delivered very loudly to a crowded room. “Lord Avery, your compliments take my ...
( Category: Victorian April 29,2016 )