Historical
epub |eng | 2022-10-01 | Author:Hawker, Olivia

13 JANE Centerville February 1857 The money from the sale of Elijah’s plow held out almost till winter’s end. On that dismal ride home from Smoot’s Mercantile, with the cold ...
( Category: Biographical December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-28 | Author:Victoria Purman

Chapter Twenty-Seven The nurses barely said a word to each other on the long walk back to Harefield. Chopin’s funeral march was a drumbeat in Cora’s head, her footsteps matching ...
( Category: World War I December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-19 | Author:L. Ron Hubbard

Chapter Three ABOUT eleven o’clock that morning we were preparing to get underway once more. The cockney-Indian cook had attended to the re-provisioning, and Bingo had climbed over the side ...
( Category: Anthologies December 18,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Kristin Gabriel

9 SOME MEN MIGHT BE put off by a little competition, but Nate Cafferty wasn’t one of them. Prowling the Elvis suite that night, he was ready to convince Carleen ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-08 | Author:William W. Johnstone

CHAPTER 20 “Could just ride for home,” Buford Parmelee muttered half to himself as he and his brother, Carlisle, approached the town of Warknife. On this dark night weakly lit ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2022 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2022-07-07 | Author:Daisy Wood [Wood, Daisy]

Chapter Fourteen April 1941 Jacques was walking home from the Gare Saint-Lazare that afternoon when a passer-by caught his attention: a tall young man wearing a thin jacket and ill-fitting ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Buchan

An hour later, Evelyn wheeled her bicycle around to the back yard of the farmhouse. At her approach, geese in the field behind set up an indignant noise. Evelyn hid ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-15 | Author:Karen Robards

29 “Is something wrong?” Sibi asked as Griff towed her briskly along the path toward the pond. Ruby, who was fond of sniffing every tree and clump of greenery she ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iain Gale [Gale, Iain]

* After briefing them, Leigh Fermor had gone to visit another partisan group, further to the west of the island. Hunter had to admit that he was not sorry to ...
( Category: Military December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-12 | Author:William W. Johnstone

CHAPTER 11 “We’ve got two prisoners in the jail for attempted murder,” Malcolm Howard said. “What are we gonna do about it? We don’t have a judge, so what do ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Gradidge

18 Thursday, afternoon and evening W HEN NASH NEXT WAKES, EVERYTHING’S changed. No more screens round his bed, no more sweet little Nightingale sitting by, eyes anxiously fixed on him. ...
( Category: World War II December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Bear

Sixteen years, eight months, and fifteen days ago Atticus, it turned out, talks most easily by texting. Or typing. It could take direct control of Tamar’s voice—with their permission—but all ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-11 | Author:Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J.A. [Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J.A.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The heat of the noonday sun on his back convinced Donny Bryson that waiting for the blonde woman to return from Fredericksburg was backing a loser. He cursed ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-24 | Author:William W. Johnstone

Chapter 22 His sermon in the saloon had not been well attended because it was tough to bring in a big crowd when a balloon was in town. He should ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-12 | Author:Francesca Stanfill

Chapter 52 To my utter astonishment and delight, it was LaFoi who had come! He stood by the hearth like a gorgeous, otherworldly bird—a brilliant creature of gold braid and ...
( Category: Medieval December 15,2022 )