Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:James Wilde

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE BOY LAY ON HIS BED OF RUSHES, MUMBLING INCOHERENT words in the throes of his fever. Sweat slicked his flushed face in the glow from the hearth. ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Jeanne Kalogridis,

Our son Charles-Maximilien—as sickly as his predecessors, with a red-violet, walnut-sized birthmark just beneath his nose—was born in 1550, three years after Henri assumed the throne. We built a large ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Janet Woods

Twelve It had taken the bullet but an instant to punch a ragged tear in Miranda’s sleeve. It had emerged further along the fabric and had lodged in a cushion ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Jill Dawson

6 My Apprenticeship That then was my education. I was about seventeen by the time I got out, and had learned plenty. The girls in the Young Offenders place found ...
( Category: Heist April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:John Burgess

‘Yes, but knowing that home’s up ahead keeps us going. And out on the sea on a calm day, with the sun shining down and every patch of the sky ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Rock, Judith [Rock, Judith]

Chapter 12 THE FEAST OF ST. ANTOINE, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1687 The sun was barely up and, though Jouvancy had announced that he was well enough to travel, the day ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1987-11-03 | Author:Welch, James [Welch, James]

Red Paint spread the greasy mixture on the stiffened hide. Then she took one of the warm stones from the edge of the fire and began to scrub the hide ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Justin Go

THE CROSS It rains the whole drive to La Calotterie. Mireille drives as I try to guide us by an old Michelin map from the glove box. We see the ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Julia Gregson

Chapter 24 ‘Mr Cleeve’s here,’ Ellie was standing at the door when Saba got home. She looked pale. She pointed upstairs towards the bedroom. ‘He came suddenly on the Cairo ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-01 | Author:Clinch, Jon [Clinch, Jon]

Max “Max Rosen’s human figures, rare as they are, have turned their backs upon you by the time you take notice of them.” That was Edgar Mudd, writing in the ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Robin Oliveira

Chapter Twenty-Four July 12, 1878 My dearest Mary, I believe I’ve been unkind. No, worse than that. I’ve been an imbecile. No doubt you’ve been thinking of me in those ...
( Category: Biographical April 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Jennifer McVeigh [McVeigh, Jennifer]

Twenty-Four Frances sat on the stoep watching the two men walk out of the veldt towards her. They were still far off, their figures no more than dark silhouettes against ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Ellen Feldman [Feldman, Ellen]

ELEVEN Grace SEPTEMBER 1946 AMY SITS ON THE SWING IN THE CORNER OF THE YARD AND WATCHES the grown-ups. You’d think they never saw a baby before. She hates the ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Joseph Kanon [Kanon, Joseph]

5 ÜSKÜDAR ENVER MANYAS NEEDED ANOTHER day, an unexpected delay, but now Leon did too. He’d been awake half the night at the Pera making a new plan, Kay sleeping ...
( Category: Espionage April 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ira Wolfert [Wolfert, Ira]

XIII IN CALLING Foggarty, it had been Bauer's idea to raid Leo out of business. The moment Leo opened a new place, bang! there would be a raid and another ...
( Category: United States April 1,2015 )