Historical
epub |eng | 1998-08-05 | Author:Bryce Courtenay [Courtenay, Bryce]

I walk the last two miles into Auckland and arrives as the one o’clock steam whistle sounds from the saw mill near the wharf. What a place! I had set ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

11. The Last Return Somewhere in Transylvania, in the shadow of the Carpathians, very near the most capricious frontier of Eastern Europe, there is a dusty little town called Sighet. ...
( Category: Biographical March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Carroll

David Warburg had never seen a more beautiful sight: a dozen American Navy vessels, all at anchor across the great horseshoe bay, rhythmically keeping time with its tidal undulations, bows ...
( Category: Espionage March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Joshua Braff

Atlantic City I WAS SEVEN THE LAST time I stood on this boardwalk. I remember my mother in a man’s shirt and a green ribbon that hung from her beach ...
( Category: Jewish March 4,2015 )
epub | | 2010-02-25 | Author:Ann Mah [Mah, Ann]

The next morning, I awake early and lie in bed watching a thin line of sunlight stream in through the gap in the curtains. Jeff sleeps beside me, the even ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Rita Mae Brown [Brown, Rita Mae]

24 RENEGADE BINGO FRIDAY … 17 APRIL Winter gave us a backhanded slap. A cutting wind under dull skies reminded me that we weren’t out of the woods yet. As ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Evans, Tony [Evans, Tony]

Professor Van Helsing to Mr Jonathan Harker: 15th October 1895 My dear Jonathan, I trust that your journey to Cornwall has been safely accomplished, and that you and your wife ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Sue Fitzmaurice [Fitzmaurice, Sue]

Fulk had been lying a good while in a new and hidden watching spot beneath the tree he’d previously occupied. There was nothing about hurry that Fulk needed to know ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-03 | Author:Russell Rowland [Rowland, Russell]

After a silent half hour, we came up over a rise, and I spotted the antelope three-quarters of a mile away. I pulled up and put my arm out to ...
( Category: Family Saga March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Jonathan Falla

CHAPTER TWO A PAIN GNAWS: we pinch another limb for distraction. As the caravan moved on, the thought of what might have become of Puton in Jyeko was more than ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Albert Vigoleis Thelen

For a few pages now I must leave Don Matías out of sight, but not the cause of Honduran independence, as I introduce my reader to another exiled combatant from ...
( Category: Biographical March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:Hubbard, L. Ron [Hubbard, L. Ron]

Chapter Eleven TWO flares burned in the darkness and by their jumpy light could be seen the irregular pattern of sandbags stretched across the road and topped with barbed wire. ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-03 | Author:Richard Bausch [Bausch, Richard]

CONSOLATION Late one summer afternoon, Milly Harmon and her older sister, Meg, spend a blessed, uncomplicated hour at a motel pool in Philadelphia, sitting in the shade of one of ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-03-03 | Author:Sherley A. Williams

The wench began to sit up, to take notice of her surroundings, though she said little to Rufel and that in a voice barely above a whisper, eyes downcast. The ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2015 )