Historical
mobi |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

Chapter 19 Pictures at an Exhibition Grey had one precious day of leave, following the wedding. He was greatly tempted to spend it in bed with Percy. But it was ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

X. She Fails to Vanish Still Pierston had not turned far back towards the castle when he was overtaken by Somers and the man who carried his painting lumber. They ...
( Category: Short Stories January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

* * * But regardless of whether a Voortrekker elected Natal as his destination or the unexplored north, all trails converged at the foot of a mountain with a fanciful ...
( Category: Military January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Walpole, Hugh [Walpole, Hugh]

TUMBLE DOWNSTAIRS Old Stane stood, as he liked to do, the blue skirts of his coat spread, before the fireplace. Judith sat on the window–ledge, peeling potatoes from a large ...
( Category: Domestic Life January 8,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Will Kirby was policing the seven thousand boats being built along Lake Lindeman and the waterway leading to Lake Bennett when he heard that yet another prospector had been killed ...
( Category: Family Saga January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

IV The sun finally rose and illuminated the jungle, groups of trees, and the forest. The lions had disappeared before the first ray began to gleam on the horizon. Stas ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter III A Conference and the Consequence Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

I have this day ordered the American irrigation engineer John Pritchard to be transported to the hospital in Kandahar, so that medical attention unavailable here may be given his badly ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Now came the days of respite, the days of grass and water before the waterless desert. The longhorns were settling down; they were sufficiently far from home to have ceased ...
( Category: Westerns January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-21 | Author:Orczy, Emmuska [Orczy, Emmuska]

V Martin–Roget rose from his seat and began pacing up and down the narrow room. His nerves were obviously on edge. It was difficult for any man—let alone one of ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

Summer Weather IN a certain year the prices of sheep at Gledsmuir sank so low that the hearts of the farmers were troubled; and one—he of Clachlands—sought at once to ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:John Buchan

CHAPTER XVII The Brink of the Rubicon The next evening Wratislaw drove in a hired dogcart up Glenavelin from Gledsmuir just as a stormy autumn twilight was setting in over ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter XXI 'On thy cold grey stones, O sea!' Stephen had said that he should come by way of Bristol, and thence by a steamer to Castle Boterel, in order ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

V Father Hector Saint–Cyr was not long in following his messenger. On the day of his arrival in Kebec he stopped at the apothecary shop, but, Auclair being out, he ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )