Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Ildefonso Falcones [Falcones, Ildefonso]

MILAGROS HAD kept them hidden and surprised Caridad with them before leaving for the church, after La Trianera and the other three gypsy women allowed her father and her friend ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Damon Galgut

* * * At work, he was answerable to a Miss Victoria Grant Duff, the head of the Wounded and Missing Department. She was perhaps a decade older than Morgan, ...
( Category: Biographical January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Susan Crandall [Crandall, Susan]

Miss Cyrena stopped at a gas station and gave me a dime to buy a bottle of Co’Cola from the red cooler out front. When I lifted the lid and ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Alan Gold

TEN Baghdad, 1917 She had been anticipating the knock on the door ever since she was told he was in the city. Although only in his mid-20’s, people were already ...
( Category: Biographical January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:Kamila Shamsie [Shamsie, Kamila]

The letter from her mother was addressed in black ink. Someone had died, again. Viv sat down in the garden chair, reaching overhead to pull down on a branch of ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Will Henry [HENRY, WILL]

Chapter Eighteen Egan’s three deputies got off in Fort Goodwin and I never saw them again. At the last minute Pete turned middling decent. He bought my breakfast and made ...
( Category: Westerns January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Mingmei Yip

18 The Opera Singer Two days later, Aunty Peony left with two large bags and my embroidery wrapped around her waist under a loose long top. I had a bad ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | 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 January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-31 | Author:Elena Santangelo

“Do not let your Children and Servants run too much abroad at Nights.” —December page of Nathaniel Whittemore’s 1719 Almanac December 24, 1783—The Streets of Williamsburg Young Tom and I ...
( Category: Psychics January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Jennifer Niven

In the parking lot, vendors and customers passed by on their way into the market as I rested my hands on the steering wheel, then closed my eyes and rested ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Paul Doherty [Doherty, Paul]

Isis: principal goddess of Egypt, often depicted as a young woman with the hieroglyph for a throne. CHAPTER 9 Amerotke left Omendap and went out of the hall, down into ...
( Category: Crime January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-26 | Author:Steven Barnes

In the chill of early morning’s darkness, the four girls limped along toward their unknown destination. By the time the sun’s glow appeared along the eastern horizon T’Cori’s legs burned ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Friedrich von Schiller [Friedrich von Schiller]

BOOK TWO NOT LONG AFTER these latter events—Count von O** continues to relate—I began to notice an important change in the Prince’s disposition. Until now the Prince had avoided any ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:P. H. Newby [Newby, P. H.]

What interested Townrow was that she even dressed the part: the nurse with the white smock and the long white sleeves and the hair done up in a white cap. ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Laura Lane McNeal

Chapter Twenty-Four After Emile Rainold left, Fannie came back into the dining room and grabbed Ibby’s hand. “Come on,” she said. “We’re going for a ride.” When they got in ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )