Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

* * * CHAPTER TWELVE « ^ » AD 293-296 "The court has become ever more splendid," Constantine's large script straggled across the page. In the eight years since he ...
( Category: Epic February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

17 Even before she rose from her bed, Gwenhwyfar could feel the bright sunlight through the bed-curtains—Summer is here. And then, Beltane. The very fullness of pagandom—she was sure that ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

Carausius straightened from looking at the map of the coastline, wincing as the muscles of his back protested. How long, he wondered, had he been bending over it? The map ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

The duties of an officer attached to the Procurator's staff turned out to include a number of tasks which would probably have been easy for Valerius, but which for Gaius, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-20 | Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

From the farms and from the city people went out that afternoon and found their sons and fathers and brothers dead on the field. Some carried home the bodies of ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

Chapter Fourteen If Lancelin had not been so modest and self-effacing away from the war table, Gwen would have been hard put to restrain her jealousy of his instant prominence ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Katherine Howe

Chapter Seventeen Bosworth Street Boston, Massachusetts April 30, 1915 The door swung open on a merry crowd of fancifully hatted women, clinking glassware, low-hanging cigarette smoke, and the smell of ...
( Category: Occult February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-14 | Author:Douglas Jackson [Jackson, Douglas]

XXIII By the time Valerius rode up to Lucullus’s villa it was past midday. He’d been surprised by the message from the Trinovante but the opportunity to see Maeve banished ...
( Category: Military February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Douglas Jackson [Jackson, Douglas]

XXIV VALERIUS LOOKED OUT from the cliff top into the black void below. A ring of Dacian fires blazed around the hill where the Tungrians were trapped, but they shed ...
( Category: Military February 15,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Douglas Jackson [Jackson, Douglas]

XXVIII ‘Valerius!’ The urgent voice seemed to come from very far away, much too far away to bother answering. Better to stay drowned in this tranquil pool where the shadows ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Douglas Jackson [Jackson, Douglas]

XXVI ‘MY CAVALRY COMMANDER must have a horse worthy of him.’ If beauty is the perfection of form, she was the most beautiful thing Valerius had ever seen. A groom ...
( Category: Military February 15,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Giles Kristian [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN WHEN TOM HAD come exhausted and stinking to the foot-bridge across the Cherwell north-east of Oxford he had thought The Scot had gone, ridden east into the dawn, ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Hannah, Kristin [Hannah, Kristin]

TWENTY Getting out of Occupied France was difficult and dangerous. Getting back in—at least for a twenty-year-old girl with a ready smile—was easy. Only a few days after her arrival ...
( Category: World War II February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Yan, Mo [Yan, Mo]

6 The Flood Dragon River had reached flood stage; by looking out the window from my bed, I could see murky yellow water roaring along at the crest of the ...
( Category: Chinese February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Sebastian Barry

Telling his beads, o’er and o’er. That’s some old poem or ballad, I forget which. I seem to remember some matters well enough, even in the great mire that is ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )