Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Golden, Peter [Golden, Peter]

The last time Julian cried, he was fifteen years old and crossing the Atlantic on a ship from Hamburg to New York. He was standing on deck in a moonless ...
( Category: Jewish December 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Wright, Ronald [Wright, Ronald]

12 Pizarro musters his troops, leaving some to hold the base camp until Almagro returns with more from Panama. The rest he leads through the desert by the main coast ...
( Category: Hispanic December 20,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Antonio Tabucchi [Tabucchi, Antonio]

… Some nights, sometimes, he’d stare at the lights on the plains and think of the past, of those days when people were playing with the future of his country, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 20,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1991-09-05 | Author:Gordon Stevens

The Watchman was almost always on time, she knew. Only on two previous occasions had he failed to keep a meeting. At eight, when he had not appeared, she got ...
( Category: Military December 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Joseph Kanon [Kanon, Joseph]

5 ÜSKÜDAR ENVER MANYAS NEEDED ANOTHER day, an unexpected delay, but now Leon did too. He’d been awake half the night at the Pera making a new plan, Kay sleeping ...
( Category: Espionage December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alyssa Palombo

37 STAND MY GROUND The next morning, I rose and waited for Meneghina to come help me dress. As I was pulling on my white silk robe, the door to ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Vladimir Sorokin [Sorokin, Vladimir]

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vladimir Sorokin is the author of eleven novels, including Day of the Oprichnik (FSG, 2011), Ice Trilogy, and The Queue; thirteen plays; and numerous short ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Kristina McMorris [Mcmorris, Kristina]

29 The sound of knocking seemed part of a dream until something jostled Shan’s arm. He lifted his eyelids halfway. “Rise and shine,” Lina said, overly bright. His mouth had ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

Jim turned and went up the ladder to the bridge. Frazer, immaculate in a white linen coat, turned to face him. He had been studying the horizon through his glasses. ...
( Category: Westerns December 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Michelle Moran [Moran, Michelle]

W hen the news came a week later that the rani was in labor, Sundari took me aside and asked what had happened between us. “Why hasn’t the rani asked ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:C. W. Gortner

A FEW WEEKS AFTER ANDRÉ LEFT and before I embarked on my trip to Grasse in the summer of 1922, I left my atelier early and made my way to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Mary Doria Russell [Russell, Mary Doria]

FROM THE START, the posse had traveled light. Bedrolls on the ground. Whatever they could carry in their saddlebags. Nine days out, they were thirsty, hungry, filthy, sore, and bone-tired ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Kearsley, Susanna

Chapter 23 Ye sons of the chace, stand far distant… —Macpherson, “The War of Inis-Thona” Chalon-sur-Saône February 18, 1732 “I must confess I know not what to do with him,” ...
( Category: Historical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Genevieve Graham

TWENTY-FOUR She went to the dressmaker the next morning after Danny had gone to work. He hadn’t come home until three hours before he had to get up, and they ...
( Category: Historical December 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Jim Shepard [Shepard, Jim]

HANKA NASIELSKA GOT THE TYPHUS AND DIED. SO did Zofia’s Uncle Ickowicz. For a few weeks Lejkin passed along messages from my father and brother and then he said they’d ...
( Category: Jewish December 12,2015 )