Historical
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Jon Cleary [Cleary, Jon]

6 I Extract from the memoirs of Miss Bridie O’Brady: I DON’T know if I joined in the cheer when Clive, Karim Singh, the mahout and the elephant were at ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-06-10 | Author:Hella S. Haasse

“We grant your demands, Monseigneur,” said the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He stood with bowed head before the table in the abbey refectory, surrounded by a group of clergy. The Duke ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

*[‘On the threshold’. Ed.] *[The bells of the church opposite Newgate Prison, which tolled to announce impending executions. Ed.] †[Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71), a former watchmaker from Blois who became one ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Mia Couto [Couto, Mia]

translated by Georges Lory hangmaan helder verdwaal hangmaan helder verdwaal in die indigo hemel bo hierdie stad waar honderdduisende mense deur die strate stroom asof hulle nooit gaan sterf en ...
( Category: African June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-11-02 | Author:Alexander, Bruce [Alexander, Bruce]

Chapter Eight In which an offer is made and an unexpected meeting takes place The next morning began with a visit by Mr. Donnelly to his patient. When I responded ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:Ralph Cotton

Chapter 13 A few remaining Mexican elders sat in a row on a short adobe wall and watched as the Ranger rode the last few hundred yards into their smoldering ...
( Category: Westerns June 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Riley, Stella [Riley, Stella]

~ * * * ~ FIFTEEN ‘Where on earth did you get to?’ asked Samuel as they walked home from the wedding. ‘You were gone ages.’ And then, looking curiously ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Runcie, James [Runcie, James]

TUN-HUANG Now they travelled east, through narrow passes and under heavy peaks, towards Cathay, sheltering in hollows and on raised ledges, making camp wherever they could. The snow often wiped ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Walter J. Boyne

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR August 1, 1964 Wichita, Kansas Tom Shannon had missed the party the night before, and from the debris around the pool—empty glasses, tattered napkins, the top of a ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:John Speed

Soon everyone from the temple is heading to Welhe, dancing, laughing, eager to congratulate the triumphant raiding party. When they reach the village, they gather in the courtyard of Iron’s ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:Wilbur Smith

They were gone so swiftly, that it had seemed that they had never existed, but their spoor was impressed so clearly into the soft layer of fire ash that every ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Anchee Min

CHAPTER 19 I accepted Dick Lin's offer to be the editor of his magazine. I made up my mind to move to Shanghai for good. Pearl was devastated. A month ...
( Category: Biographical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Laurie Sheck

What of the sister’s empty room? How he passed it many times each day, though he’d always thought he’d be the one to die first— And of those taken into ...
( Category: Horror June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Ru Freeman

Biso My head hurts. I reach into my handbag for a Disprin, but my fingers find the piece of paper from the gentleman instead. I unfurl it: “Don Mohan Victor ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-11-15 | Author:Wilbur Smith

It was strange also not to be decked out in the full regimentals of the Inyati impi, the plumes and furs and tassels of cow-tails, the war rattles at ankle ...
( Category: Crime June 11,2015 )