Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Katharine Ashe [Ashe, Katharine]

Chapter 15 OCEAN. That vast collection of salt and navigable waters in which the two continents are enclosed like islands. —Falconer’s Dictionary of the Marine Tavy clung to Ben’s shoulders. ...
( Category: Historical July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Rudyard Kipling

Chapter IX 'If I have taken the common clay And wrought it cunningly In the shape of a god that was digged a clod, The greater honour to me.' 'If ...
( Category: Historical July 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Penman, Sharon [Penman, Sharon]

XI February 1193 London The dagger slashed the air, grazing Justin’s cheek. The next thrust would not miss – he was backed into a corner, with no weapon and nowhere ...
( Category: Historical Mystery July 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Penman, Sharon [Penman, Sharon]

The sky had taken on the pale, milky pearl colour of an August dawn when Justin arrived at Molly’s cottage. She opened the door at once, already dressed, looking tired ...
( Category: Historical July 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Penman, Sharon [Penman, Sharon]

XV February 1194 Road to Fougères, Brittany The sky was a pale, silvery blue, and the few clouds drifting by were white and fleecy. The wind was erratic, almost playful, ...
( Category: Family Saga July 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Penman, Sharon [Penman, Sharon]

William Marshal’s tent was sparsely furnished. He was a soldier first, a courtier second, and had only scorn for those who went off to war with all the comforts of ...
( Category: Ghosts July 8,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1976-07-06 | Author:Robert Coover

16. Third Dementia It is on. The Rosenbergs are to die at last. Television networks interrupt scheduled programs with the announcement: “President Eisenhower and the Supreme Court of the United ...
( Category: Biographical July 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Bernard Cornwell]

Historical Note Lords of the North opens a month or so after Alfred’s astonishing victory over the Danes at Ethandun, a tale told in The Pale Horseman. Guthrum, the leader ...
( Category: Military July 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Barbara Ewing [Ewing, Barbara]

EIGHTEEN In London the consternation was much, much worse than Harriet had anticipated. She had thought of herself and her disappearance as the object of the consternation: for everyone else ...
( Category: Historical July 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

Well, so what, I thought. I felt alive and angry in that wonderful taxing way in which you feel alive and angry when someone is firing a gun at you. ...
( Category: Biographical July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

GUARIGLIA'S SHOP was in a ramshackle building that was part of a ruin. Hanging from heavy wooden beams and cast-iron rods were hundreds of harnesses and bridles. Two dozen saddles ...
( Category: War July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

THE WHITE SOX were a repulsive bunch of taciturn midgets whose throwing arms seemed attached to stolid blocks of steel. Whereas most pitchers were like supple human fly rods, the ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Megan Chance [Megan Chance]

ODILÉ The singer’s body had been taken away. Antonio’s silent efficiency asked no questions, and I’d said only that the man had suffered from a heart condition, which was true—my ...
( Category: Historical July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-07 | Author:Amy Patricia Meade [Meade, Amy Patricia]

FIFTEEN Marjorie awoke at dawn on Thursday, and finding it impossible to get back to sleep, rolled over to view the daybreak through her bedroom window. It was yet another ...
( Category: Historical July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Stephen Leigh

Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier: 1791 NEARLY TWO YEARS. That was how long it took her to find the perfect balance of ingredients for the elixir. Too little blood, and the elixir ...
( Category: Historical July 6,2014 )