Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Hummel [Hummel, Maria]

Uta stumbled after the younger Kappus kid, loping and hopping ahead, his disintegrating shoes barely touching down on the snowy cobblestone before he lifted them again. “Hans,” Ani called to ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Constance O'Keefe

The winds had tossed burning embers and debris into the air and whipped the fires from the incendiary bombs into a storm that had devoured the flimsy dwellings along with ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zane Grey

Chapter Fourteen When spring came at last and the willows drooped, green and fresh, over the brook and the range rang with brays of burro and whistles of stallion, old ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:

1857 TOBERMORY Saki (H. H. Munro) IT WAS a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite season when partridges are still in security or cold storage, and ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
epub |eng, fra, fra | 2014-12-26 | Author:James J. Patterson

Along about dawn his anxieties over his now-uncertain job situation woke him, and he emerged from the tent into the mystic blue premorning light, stretched, and set himself to gathering ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Don Gutteridge

TWELVE Robert nibbled at the last of the macaroons. A tasty luncheon had been brought in from the other side of Baldwin House, and its remnants lay forlorn on the ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-12-26 | Author:Larry McMurtry

The Jubilee opens tomorrow Janey, there will be a grand parade and your mother will be in it. They say there will be a crowd such as never has been ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Kenize Mourad

20 At 9 A.M. on July 20th, a huge explosion startles Major Banks as he is sipping his morning tea. A cloud of dust rises near the batteries positioned to ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:John Shirley

* * * They had a fire built from snags and dead tree limbs that Sanchez had somehow scavenged from a nearly barren hillside, and Wyatt was sitting on a ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Robb, Candace [Robb, Candace]

Thirteen PUZZLES The old, rickety donkey cart wheezed and rumbled along the track. Magda Digby dozed in the sunlight on the seat beside Matthew the Tinker, smiling to herself each ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Robert J. Horton

Chapter Twenty In his delirious sleep, Bannister was riding like mad—riding like mad from white specters that pursued him on great blue horses. The smell of smoke was in the ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-02-28 | Author:Brontë, Anne

CHAPTER 31 SOCIAL VIRTUES March 20th, 1824. The dreaded time is come, and Arthur is gone, as I expected. This time he announced it his intention to make but a ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Hanya Yanagihara [Yanagihara, Hanya]

I woke the next morning with my mouth dry with hate. My god, was I sick of the dreamers. I hated them, I hated their stingy, teasing way with information, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hebert

Pure First test—wrestling. The women come in from the fields to watch the matches. Nathan’s opponent is Agawam, the son of Seekonk. While they strip down for fighting, Caucus-Meteor advises ...
( Category: Native American Studies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Sigmund Brouwer [Brouwer, Sigmund]

TWENTY-SIX The next morning, my arm had already started to swell at the puncture marks where the python had clamped onto my arm. After the wailing siren for tenko, I ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 27,2014 )