Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]

‘Wherever’s Joe?’ worried Annie. ‘Nearly three o’clock an’ not back yet. I’ve a mind to clear away. Seen your father, boys?’ Charles and Albert shook their heads. ‘Can’t fathom out ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1954-01-02 | Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]

20 The rebel army capitulated to the King in the early hours of Sunday morning. There was no escape by sea for the hundreds of men herded on the beaches. ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

The Dak Bungalow (Sarah Layton) I THE SCENE WAS over. I can enter now, Sarah told herself. * But I did not enter. None of us did. I thought I ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Greene, Amy [Amy, Greene,]

JOHNNY I left the Odom house in a daze, duffel bag over my shoulder. I had meant to search for my father after seeing Frankie Odom, but there was a ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Perry, Anne [Anne, Perry,]

Thirty-nine FOR ZOE CHRYSAPHES TO INQUIRE WAS EXCELLENT, BUT it was not all that Giuliano could do. He also looked in the other quarters of the city for people who ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Wine, Mary [Mary, Wine,]

Eight Shannon suddenly heard the wind again. It was whipping up with the onset of night. Her heart began to slow, and her body felt spent, unable to move except ...
( Category: Scottish June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Henderson, Susan [Susan, Henderson,]

I had no idea what a “magnolia” was. The other words I knew, but they seemed like they were in the wrong order. Still, I loved how she read the ...
( Category: Family Life June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Gilmore, Susan Gregg [Gregg, Gilmore, Susan]

chapter nine Life goes on, so they say. And for everybody else in town, I guess it did. But after my father died, everything around me seemed to change. Maizelle ...
( Category: Coming of Age June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Delors, Catherine [Catherine, Delors,]

31 Roch called all of his Inspectors to his office to discuss their progress and devise new ways of locating Saint-Régent and Short Francis. The date set by Fouché for ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-21 | Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder [Wilder, Laura Ingalls]

ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK They went up the path between the blowing grasses and wild flowers, to the house where Ma was waiting. Mary told her the girls' ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Salman Rushdie

He awoke to screaming and light and open windows, women running everywhere while the midget Giulietta screeched into his ear, “What did you do to her?” Courtesans without their finery, ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Arturo Perez-Reverte

The word “die” soon took on urgent meaning. Until around dawn, the wind had been moderate and favorable, but then it began to blow very hard, becoming a stiff northeasterly ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Gregson, Julia [Julia, Gregson,]

Part Three Scutari and the Crimea Chapter 37 Constantinople, November 2, 1854 They traveled east in an old mail boat called the Vectis, and as it drifted toward the shore, ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Byers, Michael [Michael, Byers,]

Anyhow it is all going along, slowly but without a hitch, until one day when Dr. Payne asks him to bring up a set of plates from the stacks. He ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:YASUSHI INOUE

The invocation of the Diamond Sutra poured out of Hsing-te’s mouth. And as he chanted these verses, his eyes unexpectedly filled with tears. Mingled with beads of sweat, the tears ...
( Category: Japanese June 12,2015 )