Historical
epub |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Stewart, Katharine

CHAPTER XI THE BIG GALE ABOUT the middle of December occurred one of those minor miracles, which are apt to be left out of a normally well-reasoned forecast of events, ...
( Category: Great Britain June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Kate Alcott [Alcott, Kate]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN There was no true sleep; every now and then, a few seconds of dozing, then just hours of staring at the ceiling. No, she wouldn’t think of Samuel. ...
( Category: Historical May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Mary Chamberlain

TWO London, July 1945 Ada sat in the Ladies Only compartment of the train, staring at the peppered mirror opposite and the advertisements for Eastbourne and Bexhill-on-Sea, poster-blue skies and ...
( Category: Historical May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amitav Ghosh

May 30, 1840 Honam This morning I arrived at the print-shop to find Zhong Lou-si seated inside. This had never happened before so I knew something unusual was going on. ...
( Category: Indian May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Pearl S. Buck [Buck, Pearl S.]

The Empress Mother read this document a few days later as she sat in the winter garden of the Middle Sea Palace. She read it twice. Then most thoughtfully she ...
( Category: Historical May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Tan Twan Eng

Noel hit him, but I caught and held his arm as he raised it again. “What’re you talking about?” Kon stood up and said, “Listen carefully, Ramanathan. You can tell ...
( Category: Historical May 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

If Gus had been carrying his rifle correctly, he could have killed the buck antelope and the troop would not have lost its scouts. Just before dawn, with the night ...
( Category: Westerns May 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

"If we bury him good and poke out his eyes he won't last long," Fat Knee said. Blue Duck was contemptuous of the suggestion-- he was determined to have his ...
( Category: Westerns May 28,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-09 | Author:Stephen Graham Jones [Jones, Stephen Graham]

( Category: Historical May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Garry Douglas Kilworth [Kilworth, Garry Douglas]

Eleven ‘That’s Captain Wynter to you,’ said Abe, in a friendly way of course, for he was speaking to a youthful naval officer. ‘I ’appen to be a commissioned officer ...
( Category: Military May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lore Segal

( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Robins, Madeleine [Robins, Madeleine]

Chapter Nine Neither Thea nor her husband slept soundly that night; both discovered singly the striking loneliness of being wide awake in a house full of sleeping people. After Thea ...
( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-21 | Author:West, Elizabeth Ann [West, Elizabeth Ann]

...❄... 8 The night following his aunt's admonishment, Darcy swirled the cup of brandy in his hand as he sat stewing in his study. His entire acquaintance with Miss Elizabeth ...
( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Maria Duenas

Chapter 23 * * * Professor Cabeza de Vaca was seated at his walnut desk, waiting for Daniel as if nothing had happened between his last visit and this one. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese May 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Conyngham, Lexie [Conyngham, Lexie]

Chapter Six For the European settles in this enchanted realm, with or without a mate, like a cuckoo in another bird’s nest, or like a magpie, seizing the glittering prizes ...
( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )