Historical
mobi |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Jan Guillou

* * * On the way north from Skara the wedding of Gunnar of Redeberga was being celebrated. He was a tenant farmer who worked for the cathedral dean, Torkel ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Jan Guillou

Siegfried admitted that it made a big difference if one had so many infidel subjects as Arn did here in Gaza. For instance, he knew very little about the Bedouins. ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Guillou, Jan [Guillou, Jan]

“I believe, my young lay brother, that you and I might be able to help each other to our mutual advantage,” said the chaplain. “If I can help you with ...
( Category: Historical July 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Nadia Hashimi

CHAPTER 32 Shekib waited for the right time. Mahbuba was rarely alone but she was the right person, Shekib had decided. She had borne the king four sons. The first ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage July 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

been illuminated by a wink of lightning that night of Yankel’s death, who had explained to her the nature of her first period, who had awoken early and returned late ...
( Category: Humor June 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Anna Belfrage

Chapter 24 Alex had never been to a slave market before. At a distance, she’d seen the holding pens in Providence, too far away to make out more than a ...
( Category: Historical June 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...
( Category: Great Britain June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

Chapter Twenty-one ‘I would like to apologise for my behaviour, sir.’ The colonel’s tent was stuffy, despite the fact that the canvas flaps of the entrance were tied back as ...
( Category: Military June 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Wallace, Michael [Wallace, Michael]

CHAPTER TWENTY James led the others cautiously into Winton. Women were out sweeping snow from in front of their houses, while men chopped wood or tended to stock. The sound ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-04 | Author:Gregory, Susanna [Gregory, Susanna]

CHAPTER 8 The Zachary men did not stay long in St Bene’t’s. They deposited Segeforde and left – all except one: Kellawe had announced in a fiercely ringing voice that ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Lansdale, Joe R. [Lansdale, Joe R.]

Wild Bill’s funeral was a big ballyhoo. At Charlie’s camp, under a tepee-style tent, they set up a black-cloth-lined coffin on wooden blocks with the guest of honor in it. ...
( Category: Suspense June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 1961-06-17 | Author:RALPH MOODY

to find out about our coal the man at the yard said that, be cause of the storm, we might not get it before the week was out. Lots of ...
( Category: Biographical June 18,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:Mary Doria Russell [Russell, Mary Doria]

The San Mauro Brigade of the First Alpine Division of the Armed Anti-Fascist Resistance, that’s what the boys here call themselves. Their “brigade” is seventy-one short of a hundred-man company ...
( Category: Historical June 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Mary Doria Russell

The San Mauro Brigade of the First Alpine Division of the Armed Anti-Fascist Resistance, that’s what the boys here call themselves. Their “brigade” is seventy-one short of a hundred-man company ...
( Category: Historical June 17,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Christopher Isherwood

SALLY BOWLES One afternoon, early in October, I was invited to black coffee at Fritz Wendel’s flat. Fritz always invited you to “black coffee,” with emphasis on the black. He ...
( Category: Short Stories June 16,2015 )