Historical
epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Mick Hare [Hare, Mick]

“I’m not brave enough for this,” she stuttered. “What shall we do?” asked Adolf. “It’s simple,” said Helga regaining her composure. “I will go back to the convent and warn ...
( Category: Historical October 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Hawdon, Lindsay [Hawdon, Lindsay]

Long Before AUSTRIA, 1931 Lor dreamt of her mother that night for the first time. As if in doing so she might drift further into the madness Dr Itzhak said ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Vollmann, William T [Vollmann, William T]

All right, Wood. This will be to our men. General Order Number Six. The General Commanding takes this opportunity of expressing to men and officers his thorough appreciation . . ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-06 | Author:Jenoff, Pam [Jenoff, Pam]

Charlie? I blinked twice. Surely it was my imagination, like that afternoon by the buses on Trafalgar Square, or the dream that I had so many times. But he was ...
( Category: 20th Century October 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clark, Clare [Clark, Clare]

When her father telephoned the flat Jessica demanded to know what was wrong. Her alarm made him irritable. He told her brusquely to be quiet and listen, that he meant ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Luiselli, Valeria [Luiselli, Valeria]

THE FIRST TIME I felt horror in the presence of a clown was at the age of fifteen or sixteen. I was in Balderas metro station with my friend El ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Kirkpatrick, Jane [Kirkpatrick, Jane]

16 Unpredictable The winter rains and mild weather of 1858–59 with no hard freeze had doused the ground in springtime, making squishy everywhere, walking to the smokehouse, gathering chicken eggs, ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Boyd, William [Boyd, William]

The Vertical Poets, Oxford, 1942. Left to right, Herbert Percy, V. L. Lindon and Xan Clay. ‘Premonitions’ by Xan Clay Stars foretell the fall of czars. Strummed guitars lead to ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hearth, Amy Hill [Hearth, Amy Hill]

Fourteen I got a frantic call from Jungle Larry’s Safari, hoping I would help them with an ailing snake. “But I don’t do snakes,” I reminded Larry, a nice-enough man ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-18 | Author:Cullin, Mitch [Cullin, Mitch]

13 AS AT THE Atom Bomb Dome, a high fence surrounded Shukkei-en Garden, put there in order to prevent entrance. Mr. Umezaki, however, was undeterred, and, as had apparently been ...
( Category: Historical Mystery October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Hedlund, Jody [Hedlund, Jody]

Katharina had begun to wonder if Aunt Lena would ever speak again. As the winter days thawed into spring, her aunt’s physical wounds healed. Only puckered scars on her back ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Holleman, Emily [Holleman, Emily]

Elder The god-raised stars hung heavy in the sky, and Berenice lay awake. Her husband’s snores killed any chance of sleep. With every grating inhale, an image flickered in her ...
( Category: Biographical October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-22 | Author:Mary Renault [Renault, Mary]

The Persian Boy “Yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, it was strange. I was driven out of myself. Kleitos, too. Look how he came back. The god led him, as he ...
( Category: Biographical October 13,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Steven Pressfield

The general Mardonius seconded this with vehemence. “Why distress yourself, Lord, with this tale told by a slave? What bearing can the story of obscure officers and their petty internecine ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

Twenty I HAVE TAKEN to writing pieces for the Evening Post under the pseudonym Old Patroon, a very conservative, very angry, very censorious old New Yorker. Mr. Bryant is delighted, ...
( Category: Biographical October 13,2015 )