Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-18 | Author:Faith Sullivan

23 UNCLE STAN SAT FOR three hours with Aunt Betty, but she didn’t wake. Sometimes he’d get up from the big chair, walk wearily to the window, and stand with ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-20 | Author:Hank Hanegraaff & Sigmund Brouwer

Hora Decima Vitas slipped into the tavern where he’d met Nerva, near the forum. This time, he truly was tempted to drink beer, even knowing the quality was questionable. It ...
( Category: Ancient April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Thom, James Alexander & Thom, Dark Rain [Thom, James Alexander]

Sir— The Murder of the Shawanese Indians will no doubt bring on Hostilities with that People. In order to ward off the Stroke which may be expected it is necessary ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Fiona Buckley

TWELVE Enter Margaret Emory My name is Margaret Emory, as I’ve said. Until yesterday, I lived with my parents at Greenlease Farm, a mile or two the other side of ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Justin Cartwright

On Sunday, as I was leaving for Oxford in the Porsche, Venetia came down to see me off, near the magnolia tree. I apologised for my behaviour the other night. ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-24 | Author:Jane Steen

I lay on my back, staring into the warm darkness. I had opened the window, and the sounds of the night drowned out those of my sleeping companions. It had ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olive Ann Burns

Above: This photograph, taken in front of Olive Ann’s great-grandfather’s store, circa 1900, provides a glimpse of the real people behind the characters in Cold Sassy Tree. Grandpa Power (Grandpa ...
( Category: Family Life April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Frances Osborne

14 BEA IS HOOKED, LACED AND PINNED, WITH A SATIN puddle train trailing behind her. As she twists to look in the glass, the beaded tassels on the long end ...
( Category: Military April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Gabrielle Kimm

Twenty-five Smoke was starting to wisp out around the carved larchwood jut of the fireplace hood. Luca looked across at Luigi and drew in a long breath. The old man’s ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Ford Madox Ford

Going back to his friends in the window Cromwell meditated that it was possible to imagine a woman that thought so simply; yet it was impossible to imagine one that ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Edghill, India [Edghill, India]

The summer that I first saw Bathsheba sitting on her housetop King David’s army was besieging Rabbah, chief city of the Ammonites. Another war—hardly worth a mention at the well. ...
( Category: Ancient April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-16 | Author:Helen Humphreys

18 Mrs. Woolf is dead. It is broadcast with the war news on the evening of April 21. She has drowned in that Sussex river after all. Her body was ...
( Category: Friendship April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Merkle Riley

Fifteen Monsieur: This Saturday, the 29th of November, 1561, I received your letters sent from Paris on the 12th of October of this year. And it seems to me that ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jeane Westin

It was near midnight when Sir William and Mary Rogers were announced by one of the queen’s gentlemen ushers. “Sir William,” the queen said with a dismissive wave, “you must ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:JAMES ALEXANDER Thom

Chapter 14 Great Falls of the Missouri June 13, 1805 A hard wind from the southwest was beating and whiffing around his ears. Yet there was another sound, something deeper ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )