Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-24 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

WITH THE COMING of night the great gates to our fort were closed and barred. The smaller gate which opened on the river side was also barred. Two sentries walked ...
( Category: Westerns June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Edward Rutherfurd

“Lots of people have taken up bathing recently,” said Gretchen. “Doctors say salt water’s bad for the skin,” Mary objected. “We won’t go in for long,” Gretchen promised. There were ...
( Category: Family Saga June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Thea von Harbou

Chapter 10 WHENEVER JOSAPHAT TRIED, during the days which followed, to break through the barrier which was drawn around Freder, there was always a strange person there, and always a ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Sadie Jones

Chapter Eight The summary hearings were held immediately, within forty-eight hours of the crimes being reported. Both Colonel Burroughs’s and Hal’s offices were too small to hold all the people ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

—«»—«»—«»— Camaban did not go to the tribal meeting. Instead he sequestered himself with Neel, the new high priest at Ratharryn, and instructed him how the temple was to be ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Carey Wallace

Before she and Pietro even emerged from the pines, Carolina could hear that all the servants had spilled out into the front yard. Children laughed and shrieked in the throes ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER SIX These days, whenever Englishmen talk of the battle of Æsc’s Hill, they speak of God giving the West Saxons the victory because King Æthelred and his brother Alfred ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Chang-rae Lee

N I N E A T T H E E N D O F H E R W R I T T E N S T A T E M ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:David Anthony Durham

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Rialus Neptos had once believed that his governorship of the Mein Satrapy had been the great curse of his life. He hated that frozen place, filled with rough, ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Sir Guillaume had held the manor from its attackers for close on three months and did not doubt he could hold it indefinitely so long as the Count of Coutances ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XVI: The Road to Gaul Northern Italy, winter 53/52 BC Seeing her fear, Secundus moved closer. ‘Tell me.’ ‘It’s the fugitivarii,’ Fabiola whispered. ‘I know it.’ ‘This would be ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author: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 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 it was just before midday when a French soldier climbed the hill carrying a white flag of truce tied to the muzzle of his musket. Two officers accompanied ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Jeannette Walls

VI TEACHER LADY Lily Casey Smith before a flying lesson THE WATER WE BOUGHT during the drought cost a fortune, but the Poms knew that ranching was a long-term proposition ...
( Category: Biographical June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Edugyan, Esi [Edugyan, Esi]

When we left Hagenbecks, it was like something gone out of the kid then, some kind of fury. He was just wearied. We ain’t drove back to Ernst’s estate at ...
( Category: African American June 11,2015 )