Historical
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THREE FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS, PHILIP Hooft watched hungrily as I came and went from his splendid house on the Heerengracht. Each day his eyes seemed to protrude a ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:Bánffy, Miklós [Bánffy, Miklós]

The path that Balint had chosen was not really suited to anyone on horseback. The little mountain ponies themselves could pass anywhere but the branches of the surrounding trees were ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Mundis, Jerrold [Mundis, Jerrold]

AMANDA, THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON, heard the pounding hoofbeats before anyone else in the Great House; her ears had, after all, been straining to hear the sound for days. She sprang ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Kuan-Chung, Lo [Kuan-Chung, Lo]

Vainly now for chances lost Yuan sighs; once he was great. Had he taken Hsu's advice, Ts'ao had rot set up a State. Hsu Yu stealthily left the camp and ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward L. Beach [ Beach, Edward L.]

-8- “Here, Nelson,” said Keith, handing the tall chief radioman an encoded message. “See if you can wake up the boys at NPM with this one.” Nelson grinned as he ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Harry Bingham [Bingham, Harry]

89 Summer 1921. The Persian sun baked the sky to brittle whiteness, while the burning earth turned to dust beneath it. The camp had mostly emptied of people now, and ...
( Category: Family Saga December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Robb, Candace [Robb, Candace]

Fifteen THE DUKE’S RECEIVER A fresh wind cooled Owen as he rode towards Cydweli. Below him on his left the marshes shimmered in the afternoon sun, the winter-browned grasses shivering ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:W. Michael Gear

Twenty-seven Cloud People blanketed the night sky, turning it pitch black and ominous. The mist rising from Reed Marsh had a damp, caressing feel against Gonda’s face. He adjusted his ...
( Category: Native American December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shayne Parkinson

* It was late the following afternoon before Amy struggled up through the darkness into consciousness. ‘How do you feel, darling?’ Mrs Coulson asked. ‘My head’s all thick.’ ‘Wake up ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Durst-Benning, Petra [Durst-Benning, Petra]

They had hardly finished the Christmas roast when the men resumed their game of dice. While Eva helped the old housekeeper with the dishes, Ruth fetched her coat. “I’m going ...
( Category: Family Saga December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Thomas Fleming

I heard you at the door last night. I will meet you tomorrow at 2 P.M. in Fitzpatrick’s store. FLORA LOPEZ The following afternoon, I went to my music lesson ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Nuruddin Farah

12. Bella is exhausted when she returns home. She has an atrocious pain in the lower reaches of her pelvis, which, for want of a better explanation, she ascribes to ...
( Category: African American December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Molly Gloss

FOUR ECHOL CREEK 1926–1934 WHEN BUD WAS A BABY, back in Elwha County, Henry had made a blanket-lined box with wire hangers to hook on the top rail of the ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shayne Parkinson

17 July – November 1902 But even if it no longer had any meaning, life was not something she could slip out of like a worn, old dress. Amy came ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

When I was a little boy, Mother used to sing snatches of an old song that I always liked. She only sang it when she was spinning, and never more ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )