Historical
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Soli, Tatjana [Tatjana, Soli,]

The peace of night was broken by the sounds of jeeps driving into the village. Headlights glared as American soldiers and local Vietnamese militia jumped out swinging machine guns, cordoning ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Adrian Tinniswood

Okeley’s master never recovered from the financial disaster of his last venture into piracy, and his debts mounted until they reached a point where he was forced to sell off ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Hockensmith, Steve [Steve, Hockensmith,]

"Yes, Papa." "There's a good girl." Mr. Bennet stepped up into the phaeton and inserted himself between Lord Lumpley and Jane. It looked to be an uncomfortably snug fit. "Good-bye, ...
( Category: Parodies June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-22 | Author:Mary Balogh

* * * “A minor crisis,” Ralph explained to his mother and two of his sisters at breakfast. “Chloe decided to cut her hair last night and did not like ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Patrick White

17 Sidney Furlow walked beneath the plum-trees on her own. He had written to her, she had the letter in her hand, and she knew what it was about, that ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Patrick White

Now her blood began to flow. Her shoulders were the wings of birds. Her mind was a bower-bird, greedy for the shells and coloured glass that would transform the drab ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Patrick White

Chapter 17 AMY PARKER accepted the absence of her son; as time passed, it was not so very different really from his presence. If she thought about him, it was ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Carolly Erickson

32 MUCH TO MY SURPRISE AND DELIGHT, Euphemia came to join me at about this time. I had been writing to her often, urging her to make the journey to ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Hans Fallada

5 Another Creak I Thiel wasn’t able to sleep by day in his garret. Even though he lay down naked on his pile of rugs in the corner, the sweat ...
( Category: Biographical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Max Brand

IX Even the iron nerves of Mrs. Tilly seemed to be more than a little shaken by this last announcement from Georgia Dixon. She looked askance at the young man, ...
( Category: Westerns June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Gingrich, Newt & Forstchen, William R. [Gingrich, Newt & Forstchen, William R.]

CHAPTER NINE JULY 28, 1864 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 11:00 A.M. “I will see General Meade now.” Colonel Andrew Humphreys, Meade’s chief of staff, looked up at him with ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eduardo Halfon [Halfon, Eduardo; Dillman, Lisa; Hahn, Daniel]

NO GOOD, SEÑOR. It took me a moment to understand that the officer, without looking up and barely audible over the wheezing of the fan, was talking to me. What ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]

Seven 12.00 midnight. FROM SOMEWHERE NEARBY A CHURCH clock struck the hour. ‘I really should go home,’ Melanie said. ‘Why?’ She didn’t answer. ‘The husband?’ She considered the question before ...
( Category: Political June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Murgatroyd, Tim

Soon the lights of Chenglingji appeared on the eastern horizon and Hsiung grunted with pleasure. All was progressing in line with a plan that relied upon exactly timed arrivals and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cecilia Velástegui [Velástegui, Cecilia]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Madame la Vicomtesse The Vicomtesse Agnès Challant de La Guerche stormed into the pool house in the same abrupt way she’d stampeded past the salon the night before. ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )