Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Edward Marston [Marston, Edward]

While she’d been quick to volunteer her help, Millie Duxford grew increasingly apprehensive when they reached the morgue. During his years in the family undertaking business, Joe Keedy had seen ...
( Category: Historical November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-19 | Author:Isabel Allende [Allende Isabel]

PART FOUR Spain, late 1814-early 1815 I now have new goose-quill pens to continue the story of Zorro’s youth. It took our protagonists a month to reach Mexico, and in ...
( Category: Historical November 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isabel Allende [Allende, Isabel]

PART FOUR Chapter Four Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted, was one of Inmaculada Morales’s sayings, and in the case of Gregory Reeves it came ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Isabel Allende

When we came to Chile we knew nothing of the Mapuche. We believed that it would be easy to subdue them, as we had much more civilized peoples: the Aztecs ...
( Category: Historical November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-19 | Author:Richard Flanagan [Flanagan, Richard]

IX WITH ALL THE rising vapours & damp earth the building of the Great Mah-Jong Hall had entailed, the Commandant’s consumption—caught amongst the manfern fronds from the Siamese women—worsened to ...
( Category: Historical November 20,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-03-31 | Author:Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Thus, after having seen the sea and the big squares with Sitt Maryam, Zahra entered Alexandria’s magic world. Umm Hamidu’s stories have given the city, whose inhabitants were leaving, a ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Russell Whitfield

‘Why are you standing around talking to this worker when I should have you flogged for loitering? You are leaving here very soon.’ Her eyes flicked over to Valerian as ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lalita Tademy

Chapter 35 “WE BURY HER proper,” Grampa Cow Tom announced, his voice loud and thick. He’d been gone three days, disappeared in the direction of the fort while Gramma Amy ...
( Category: Westerns November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Pat McIntosh [McIntosh, Pat]

Chapter Eight The wolfhound, having made certain that its idol was safe, thrust its long muzzle under Gil’s arm and rolled its eyes at him. ‘Was anything taken?’ Gil asked. ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]

13 When Bill had become used to the idea, and was no longer quite so dismissive of the first and depressed by the second, he liked to joke that Tony ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Peter Tremayne [Tremayne, Peter]

Chapter Eleven After Mugrón had duly identified the body of Sister Eisten as being that of the same religieuse whom he had seen at Salbach’s fortress, he had returned to ...
( Category: Historical Mystery November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tim Powers

IN THE SHADOWS OF the hall, Swinburne stepped back from the doorway and hurried to his room so that he could pretend to have been asleep when someone came to ...
( Category: Ghosts November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Delia Sherman [Sherman, Delia]

“Ooh, listen to the green-eyed monster,” Silver cooed. “Don’t be jealous, honey. Ophelia’s the best. Nobody understands plants like Ophelia.” “I’m not jealous,” I said with dignity. “I’m wistful. There’s ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Conroy [Conroy, Frank]

Claude had bought a pair of white tennis shoes and two pairs of white socks at a general store in Longmeadow. They did not have any pants, however, and that ...
( Category: Coming of Age November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ariana Franklin

Back in their room, Gyltha tore off her cloak. “Are they all gone daft, or is it me?” “They have.” She put Allie onto the bed; the child had been ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2014 )