Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Noviolet Bulawayo

With all this snow, with the sun not there, with the cold and dreariness, this place doesn’t look like my America, doesn’t even look real. It’s like we are in ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Nicola Griffith

15 IN YORK, the first day of Blodmonath dawned unseasonably mild. High, bright clouds coated the sky as evenly as egg foam. Larks and starlings gathered in flocks on the ...
( Category: Medieval May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Noah Gordon

39 TEACHERS That January Rob J. put extra blankets in the dugout room because runaways from the deep South suffered grievously from the cold. There was less snow than usual, ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Nell Leyshon

next day i was in the garden and i was gathering apples from the tree to take in to the kitchen and i had a basket and a long pole ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Pamela Schoenewaldt

“She’s in your old room. It happened to be empty,” said Roseanne when I came home. The stairway rose like the Himalayas before me. She rested her hand on my ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Pam Jenoff

CHAPTER 15 I tiptoe down the creaky wood stairs and across the darkened parlor. The house is still except for the ticking of the clock above the mantelpiece. Five-fifty, it ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2007-07-20 | Author:Peter Ho Davies

The major, the constable announces to the pub, has complained about the boys’ shenanigans, threatened to send his men after them. Esther feels a fleeting fear for Jim, and yet ...
( Category: Military May 7,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:P. S. Duffy

AS HE PASSED by the Mather cottage, Simon saw George in the field, a silhouette against a violet sky. He sped Peg on faster and faster. “Morpho didius!” he shouted. ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philippa Carr

Part Two TAMSYN THE UNKNOWN SAILOR’S GRAVE CHRISTMAS IS NEVER A happy time for me. I can never forget that it was at Christmas that my mother died, and although ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

IX IN LESS THAN A month after this, on a day when the first light snow fell, Fengmo went away. All the household stood at the gate to see him ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

VII THE RABBI DID NOT return to the house of Ezra. When he knew he was alone in the synagogue and that David had gone, he went into his own ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:McGuinness, Patrick [McGuinness, Patrick]

We spent the afternoon on his files. Our routine: first I fished the day’s file from the computer’s virtual trash can. Then I scrolled down paragraph by paragraph, while Trofim, ...
( Category: Political May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philippa Carr

Crime Passionnel I WAS THRUST INTO an entirely new scene. At the beginning it was so bewildering that I was more or less bemused by it. In the first place ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

XI IN THAT YEAR WHEN the rice harvest was ripe to be cut and while the grain stood yellow in the fields, the enemy sent men everywhere to see to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-10 | Author:Philippa Carr

Death of a Witch A YEAR HAD PASSED since Simon Caseman suffered the heretic’s death. My mother seemed to have aged ten years. Caseman Court had been returned to its ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )