Historical
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Mary Stewart

I was just saying as much to Cadal when suddenly, round the corner of the house, treading softly as a cat on the mossy flagstones, came a young man walking ...
( Category: Arthurian April 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Mary Stewart

"Search him now." They obeyed him, not gently. Then they stood back and showed him what they had found, crowding to look by the light of the meager torch. "The ...
( Category: Arthurian April 15,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Stewart

This, dry as spice-dust, made Lamorak, even through the grief and rage of the moment, look sharply at the younger man. He said, slowly, as if making a totally new ...
( Category: Arthurian April 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Alma Katsu [Katsu, Alma]

TWENTY-SIX BOSTON, 1817 After hearing Adair’s story, I withdrew to my room in fright. I crawled onto the bed and tucked my knees under my chin. I was afraid to ...
( Category: Occult April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Emma Donoghue [Donoghue, Emma]

If you’ll only get a mustache … “You reckon I pine for what you fellows have?” asks Jenny. He sings on, getting shriller. You will suit all the girls to ...
( Category: Domestic Life April 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Michael Cunningham [Cunningham, Michael]

The food came. They ate, talked about other things, threw the empty containers out. Pete went back to his office. Cat hung around a little longer, for no good reason. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Sarah McCoy [McCoy, Sarah]

Elsie went up to Mutti’s closed bedroom door and knocked. “Mutti?” “Come in, dear.” Inside, Mutti unpacked the suitcases, placing items into the cedar wardrobe; her face pin-straight. “Did Julius ...
( Category: Jewish April 14,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Natsuo Kirino

Zhang Zhezhong 2 8 8 S I X • F E R M E N T A T I O N A N D D E C AY • 1 ...
( Category: Murder April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Humphreys, C. C. [Humphreys, C. C.]

– TWENTY-NINE – Farewells After the boyars had been dispatched to rouse their followers and the Metropolitan to gather gold, Vlad and Ion sat on in the Great Hall but ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Maurice Druon

1. A wet-nurse for the King JEAN I, King of France, posthumous son of Louis X, the Hutin, and of Queen Clemence of Hungary, was born during the night of ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Daughter of Ancients

* * * Scrabbling my way out of the insistent vision, I grasped at reality—the swirl of brilliance hanging over me and the chinking inevitability of D'Sanya's hammer as it ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Bowden, Oliver [Bowden, Oliver]

12 Venice in 1481, under the steady rule of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo, was, on the whole, a good place to be. There was peace with the Turks, the city prospered, ...
( Category: Assassinations April 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Maurice Druon

Two days before Christmas, in the largest room in the Manor of Vincennes, transformed for the occasion into a hall of justice, the principal lords of the kingdom and a ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-19 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Elizabeth Chadwick]

29 Anatolia, January 1148 Alienor turned over and, pulling the furs up around her ears, snuggled against Gisela for warmth. ‘Rain,’ said Marchisa who had stuck her nose outside the ...
( Category: Biographical April 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Andrei Makine [Unknown]

11 That autumn there were only a few days between the time when, ashamed to admit it to myself, I was rejoicing at my mother's absence – she had gone ...
( Category: Historical April 12,2014 )