Historical
epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Eileen Richards [Richards, Eileen]

Tony stood by the fire in the parlor growing more discouraged by the minute. Juliet had refused to talk to him, except for a few polite words at dinner. Now ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Simon Levack

Many years ago, the defeated side would have lost much more than the game. Their captain, at least, would have been bundled up the steps of the nearest pyramid, where ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:McGrath, Michele [McGrath, Michele]

Chapter 9 9 Frimaire, Year XIII (Friday, November 30, 1804) I spent a cold and miserable few hours watching Princess Pauline’s hôtel but neither Dupré nor his mistress emerged again. ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Laura Purcell [Purcell, Laura]

Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, London There were rooms imprinted on Charlotte’s memory. In reality, she could walk in and out of them, but in her mind they were locked, ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lane, Lizzie

Chapter Twenty-Four Wing Commander Guy Hunter had been patient with Lizzie’s nervousness and her mumbled horror on seeing the legs sticking out from beneath the tarpaulin. ‘Here,’ he’d said, hugging ...
( Category: Military February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vanora Bennett

PART TWO 1916–17 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN It was a beautiful December morning, cold in the startling and brilliant way of real winter. There’d been the first proper snowfall earlier in the ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-23 | Author:Daniel Kalla

“Medical students, certainly, but I can think of few trained doctors who faint at the sight of blood,” Suzuki said. The image of the crazed major beating the patient over ...
( Category: Jewish February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Gire

34 The fire was not a respecter of persons or of religions: rich, poor, young, old, pagan, Christian, Jew: all were made equal by the fire. When people returned to ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Ieva, Bob [Ieva, Bob]

19 The Job I arrived at Transamerica at 7:00 a.m. and saw Detective Williams outside the terminal gate. I went over to him and said “Hello.” He said, “Hello” back ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kurland

12 I picked up a ham and Swiss on rye toast, lettuce and mustard, no mayo, half a pickle, and a cardboard container of milk at Danny’s and brought them ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Anna Jacobs

Chapter Sixteen December 1913 On the Wednesday before she stopped working at Dearden’s, Sam came to collect Lizzie after work and she rushed out to meet him. “Mrs. D says ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Suzanne M. Wolfe

In my simplicity and ignorance of how the world works, I thought that when Augustine spoke of Rome it was a fact accomplished, for I could not imagine him wanting ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Frederick Manfred [Johnson Joel]

It was midnight, he’d been asleep several hours, when of a sudden he awoke to the vague gray light of a half-moon high overhead. He awoke without stirring. Only his ...
( Category: Westerns February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:M L Gardner [Gardner, M L]

*** Arianna’s back and feet ached. She adjusted on the bench, ignoring the warm rain as it started to fall, and stared down the empty tracks. “Déjà vu,” she whispered. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-02-14 | Author:Margaret Frazer

Chapter 17 Through Easter Week—the beginning of Paschaltide—the nuns’ ordinary tasks were kept as slight as might be, to give rest from the rigors of Holy Week and Easter and ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )