Historical
epub |eng | | Author:H Jaskoski

Glossary Bunker Hill Avenue a steep hill in downtown Los Angeles. At the time of the novel, a funicular called Angel’s Flight ran from the top of the hill to the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Steve Anderson

Read on for look at the next chapter of Wendell Lett's journey in The Preserve . . . Available everywhere books are sold, September 17th, 2019 1. Wendell Lett had ...
( Category: Military January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Elsa Joubert

8 Mulahawang The land of the Biriquas. A vast, almost incomprehensible concept. A campsite under a thorn tree. A tent in the dry bed of a river, erected where firewood ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-31 | Author:Kate Quinn [Quinn, Kate]

1943 Withernsea No,” Lily said forty minutes later, “I cannot fake a series of documents good enough to fool your superiors, and set up another drop with Uncle Andrew. That ...
( Category: World War II January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-24 | Author:Kathryn Ma [Ma, Kathryn]

I’D BEEN WRONG AND I wasn’t too proud to admit it. Huntington was a prince among men. As soon as he arrived, he insisted that I join them for lunch. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-19 | Author:Nyani Nkrumah

Chapter 31 She knew that Ella didn’t understand her thesis topic, but then, she was just a child. Didn’t really understand that she had chosen the topic because it was ...
( Category: Historical January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-21 | Author:Annie Groves [Groves, Annie]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ‘What are you doing, Gladys?’ Ruby asked, poking her head around the door of the district room. It was Friday evening and she was surprised that the other ...
( Category: World War II January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-06 | Author:Joe Heap [Heap, Joe]

1966 ‘I SAY, ARE YOU FREE?’ Ella looks up from the coffee she’s adding creamer to in the deserted green room. Her session, for a BBC sitcom theme tune, is ...
( Category: World War II January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Terry Kay

CHAPTER 13 AS I WAITED IN THE CHAIR FOR THE CROWD TO SETTLE, I THOUGHT of Avrum’s instructions about his memorial service. Do it on the third day. You know ...
( Category: Historical January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Mark Treanor

I sat in the dirt trying to write a letter home. Writing had been difficult for weeks. Once in a while I’d write some details to Spence, but I didn’t ...
( Category: Biographical January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Jennifer Cody Epstein

TWO WEEKS LATER Ahying appears in the study, drying her chapped hands on her pants. “Madame, a gentleman has come to see you.” Yuliang looks up from her sketchbook, surprised: ...
( Category: Biographical January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

The sticky warmth weighed in the room like lead. “Has it stopped yet?” I asked. “No,” said the doctor. Pat looked at me. I smiled. It fixed in a grimace. ...
( Category: Military January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:David Thomas Roberts [Roberts, David Thomas]

Chapter 29 “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed ...
( Category: Historical January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Adams

Chapter 13 Elizabeth and Kitty were sitting in the front parlor when a visitor was announced. “Mr. Darcy, my lady.” “Show him in, Franklin.” Elizabeth stood and arranged her skirts, ...
( Category: Historical January 20,2023 )