Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-04-28 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

IN THE SHADOWED coolness of the ranch house on Mora Creek the dining-room table was laid for ten, and as the Mexican girls moved swiftly and silently about, making last-minute ...
( Category: Westerns June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:W. E. B. Griffin

5 OSS LONDON STATION BERKELEY SQUARE LONDON, ENGLAND 1610 HOURS 14 FEBRUARY 1943 David Bruce, Chief of London Station, was surprised to sense his office door being quietly opened, and ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Paula Marantz Cohen

Chapter 25 William and Henry were seated at the little table in their sister’s bedroom the next morning. Henry was eating a large bowl of the oatmeal with brown sugar ...
( Category: Biographical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Julie Orringer

How could he have known it would be his last night as a resident of Paris? What might he have done, how might he have spent those hours, if he'd ...
( Category: Jewish June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-18 | Author:Katharine McMahon

Date of sailing, September 22, 1924. 150 children. Aged 8 and above. Placements, various, domestic, agricultural Fee PS13.00 per child. Submissions by August 11, 1924. Agency Barnardo's, in association with ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 S HARPE SCRAMBLED UP THE ladder. A musket fired from the nave, its sound magnified by the cathedral walls. He heard the ball crack on stone and whine ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Patricia Falvey

Truce 1920-1921 15 Loneliness lay upon me heavy as a stone. I sat at night stirring the fire, lost in my thoughts. I worried that I was turning out like ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:Louis L'Amour

That night when I returned to the inn, Jacob Binns was there. With rest and proper food he had recovered his spirits as well as his appearance. He had gained ...
( Category: Westerns June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-14 | Author:Jill Dawson

It’s late afternoon by the time Tommy fetches me to Prickwillow and by then my stomach has turned to stone with the worry, with the knowledge that something is not ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Lynn Cullen

ITEM: While extracting the tooth is the most efficacious cure for toothache, it has been suggested that one might hold a candle close to the offending tooth so that the ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-08-15 | Author:Susanna Clarke

“You are Mr Strange?" asked the lady in the red gown. “I am, madam." “This is most fortunate. Mr Drawlight was just explaining to me why you and I could ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

‘Savi, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘Anand, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘It nice?’ ‘Very nice.’ ‘Ma, Savi and Anand drinking Ovaltine. Their pappa give it to them.’ ‘Well, let me tell ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

CHAPTER NINE First Blossom Oak Landing, May 10, 1862 My dear, There was great celebration here today. It would have been a notable day in any case, for we were ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Karl Marlantes

“Suck out, Wick,” McCarthy hissed back at him. The kid disappeared inside. Candles lighted the interior, casting a flickering yellow glow over everything. Tables were arranged in a large U ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-11 | Author:Simon Scarrow

Chapter 48 Despite William’s best efforts there was no promotion for Arthur in the new year. At the close of the war with the American colonies the army had returned ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )