Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [LAURENS, STEPHANIE]

CHAPTER 11 Frobisher’s words on the inadvisability of trusting anyone in the settlement’s officialdom remained in the forefront of Aileen’s mind when, the following morning, she swept into the Office ...
( Category: Historical April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Edith Maxwell

“Thee has a dress thee can loan me? In my size?” I couldn’t believe my luck. I had come to ask Orpha’s granddaughter how fast she could make me a ...
( Category: Historical April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Sharratt [Sharratt, Mary]

YET, SEATED AT THE dining table, Aemilia couldn’t bring herself to look at him. Such absurd torment, the buzzing in her head would not be silenced. Her hands betrayed her, ...
( Category: Biographical April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-24 | Author:Mae East [East, Mae]

Chapter 20 December 1950 ROBERT KNOCKED ON Mr. Sanders’s office door at 9:30 am. December had come and war with Korea had made for good business. More planes, more rubber. ...
( Category: Historical April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Norah Lofts [Lofts, Norah]

II If you’re strictly brought up and your father is a saint it cuts both ways when you do wrong. You get more fun out of the doing—just as that ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Norah Lofts [Lofts, Norah]

(‘I think this is your first visit to the Old Vine.’) Troubled by the likeness; troubled by the memory of my dream, by the word Emma; (through what door had ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:How Far To Bethlehem [Bethlehem, How Far To]

Caspar looked at his two companions and thought howpleasant it would be to hate them; the old man, so physically inexhaustible, with all his gabble about stars and his innate ...
( Category: Historical April 20,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Mark L. Tompkins [Mark L. Tompkins]

16 What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? —2 Kings 9:22, King James Version And he [Manasseh] caused his children ...
( Category: Historical April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:George Psychoundakis

1. To Africa, that is. 2. A party. 3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century. 4. Good-day. 5. In this case, a ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:JosÈ Rizal

CHAPTER XXXI The Sermon Fray Damaso began slowly in a low voice: "'Et spiritum bonum dedisti, qui doceret eos, et manna tuum non prohibuisti ab ore eorum, et aquam dedisti ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ben Kane [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XV ONE BRIGHT MORNING, Corax and Vitruvius summoned their men at dawn. This in itself wasn’t unusual, but the grim set to the centurions’ faces as they went from ...
( Category: Historical April 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Martha Hall Kelly

LIFE WENT ON AS USUAL after our release from the Revier—the brutal waking, the endless hours of Appell, and the most terrible gnawing hunger, our bosom companion. The only thing ...
( Category: Biographical April 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:José Saramago

... TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY IS A WELL-KNOWN SAYING AND to the point, yet not as simple as it may seem to one who is satisfied with the approximate meaning ...
( Category: Biographical April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Jennifer S. Brown [Jennifer S. Brown]

Rose SHELLING beans at the sink, I was overcome with melancholy. I yearned for my mama to wrap me in her arms, her hair smelling comfortingly of yeast and cooking ...
( Category: Jewish April 12,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Danielle Dutton [Dutton, Danielle]

SIR KENELM DIGBY, SIR GEORGE BERKELEY, THE BISHOP OF LONDON himself: Margaret greeted them in the Dorset House parlor in a dress of sparkling violet, a hat like petals falling ...
( Category: Biographical April 9,2016 )