Historical
mobi |eng | 2016-01-03 | Author:Nath, Fredrik [Nath, Fredrik]

Book III THE LITTLE KING Chapter I “The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.” – Publilius Syrus. ‘Is that the coast of the Bosporus?’ Sallustius said. ...
( Category: War & Military January 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Judith Merkle Riley [Riley, Judith Merkle]

LAUNDRESSES WERE BOILING the linens over the courtyard fire when Lady Petronilla stormed past. One was stoking the fire while another stirred the heavy, wet stuff with a stick. Margaret ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-16 | Author:Judith Merkle Riley

LAUNDRESSES WERE BOILING the linens over the courtyard fire when Lady Petronilla stormed past. One was stoking the fire while another stirred the heavy, wet stuff with a stick. Margaret ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-10-02 | Author:Judith Merkle Riley [Riley, Judith Merkle]

“MAMA, THAT’S AN UGLY cloak. Why didn’t you buy a pretty one?” Alison was poking through my purchases as I spread them out on the bed in the upstairs room ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]

Bernard Spencer 1964 BERNARD SPENCER’S[1] SUDDEN DEATH recently snapped a link which was first forged in 1938 when he arrived in Greece to work for the British Council in Salonika. ...
( Category: General January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Shūsaku Endō [Endō, Shūsaku]

Who cares? Who cares? Spread some paper over whatever stinks, If the paper rips, spread some more! Who cares? Who cares? Dancing with abandon, they paraded through the streets. The ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Gaile Parkin [Parkin, Gaile]

FOR her talk to the Girls Who Mean Business, Angel wore the same dress that she had worn to the function at the Tanzanian Embassy; it made her look smart ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-29 | Author:Peter Higgins [Higgins, Peter]

46 Maroussia was awake in the night. She lay still, breathing slowly. Listening. The attic window framed a flickering sky: gunfire on the distant horizon, flashing against low-hanging cloud. A ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Peter Higgins [Higgins, Peter]

10 After sundown in the balmy nights of summer the well dinnered families of the List, Rizhin’s plush elite, take to the paths of the Trezzini Pleasure Gardens in the ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Hermann Broch [Broch, Hermann]

ENRICHED yet robbed, yes, so had they left him, left him alone; the scornful and well-meaning friend had bestowed calmness upon him and taken away his anxiety, but beyond the ...
( Category: German January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Pavel Kohout [Kohout, Pavel]

He kept running, even when he rattled and gasped for breath and his blood threatened to burst his arteries; he swerved from street to street, always heading downward, seeing no ...
( Category: Murder January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Lock [Lock, Norman]

I SAT IN THE COMPANION’S SEAT, next to James while he led the boat out from the bayou into the Gulf. Ahead, its water had turned golden like a molten ...
( Category: Alternate History January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Meissner, Susan [Meissner, Susan]

NINETEEN September 1939 Violet’s waking thought on the morning of the tenth of September was the kiss Bert had given her the night before. A smile broke across her lips ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Nelson, James L. [Nelson, James L.]

Chapter Twenty-Six Good is health if one can but keep it, and to live a life without shame. Hávamál The river was growing shallow, but Thorgrim did not notice. He ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

… THE TELL When John Cullinane lived in Chicago he attended Catholic mass occasionally and funerals rather often, but whenever he worked overseas he tried to attend local Catholic churches ...
( Category: Jewish January 9,2016 )