Historical
mobi |eng | 2008-05-20 | Author:Jane;the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery

MR. BOTT PERMITTED US A GRUDGING RESPITE BEFORE THE jury's consideration of the maid's poor case. And so Sir William conducted the Scargrave party to the privacy of a small ...
( Category: Historical Mystery August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Johanna Moran [Moran, Johanna]

ALL DOUBT VANISHED at first sight of the Golden State. She was a magnificent passenger ship, a fine, sleek steamer on the return leg of her maiden voyage. Margaret thrilled ...
( Category: Family Life August 2,2020 )
epub |swe | 1656-04-15 | Author:Tove Jansson [Jansson, Tove]

AN EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY WHEN WE arrived and Jonny caught sight of the big cars parked outside Grandma’s building, he said right away that he should have worn a dark suit. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-02 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

"You simply took them?" "Of course. A soldier who neglects an open wine cellar is sick. I was raised to think and act practically. The Ten Commandments don't hold for ...
( Category: Military August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

The other foragers have watched us apprehensively. "Grab your things!" says Ferdinand grinning. Already the train is whistling in the distance. They look at us timidly, but do not need ...
( Category: Military August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1998-06-01 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

"I won't be needing it." "Have you another?" Schwarz shook his head. "I don't need one." "Is there an American visa in it?" "Yes." "Would you sell it to me?" ...
( Category: Military August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Alan Furst [Furst, Alan]

NEW FRIENDS FRIDAY NIGHT, 6 MARCH, WE’RE HAVING A COCKTAIL AMÉRICAIN, 5 TO 8. PLEASE COME, JEAN-CLAUDE, IT’ S BEEN FOREVER SINCE WE’’VE SEEN YOU. Casson stood in Marie-Claire’s living ...
( Category: Military August 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-09 | Author:Mary Renault

The barons' wives and honest matrons, who talked of the same things year by year, felt their minds as far outpaced as their legs would have been, if they had ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-06-07 | Author:Momo, Haruka [Momo, Haruka]

Chapter Eight When I awoke, Lord Simeon was no longer beside me, but the fireplace burned brightly, warming the entire room. I rang the bell and a serving girl appeared ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Baldwin, Shauna Singh [Baldwin, Shauna Singh]

Four 1940–1941 CHAPTER 24 Rawalpindi, September 1940 VAYU rustles the banyan leaves above Satya. Sitting on the terrace garden, she crushes a piece of sugar cane between strong white teeth, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Dixon

CHAPTER XII TRIUMPH IN DEFEAT UPON the failure to convict the President, Edwin M. Stanton resigned, sank into despair and died, and a soldier Secretary of War opened the prison ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction August 1,2020 )
epub | | 2010-09-11 | Author:Solitaire [Solitaire]

The guard pointed her to a processing area where a clerk gave her a plastic-wrapped parcel of the clothes and boots she'd worn for her transfer to VC. She was ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage July 31,2020 )
epub | | 2010-10-31 | Author:Gary Shteyngart [Shteyngart, Gary]

THE JOY. VLADIMIR lay on his stomach in his little blond-wood boudoir, meditating on this fabled venue and his chance to impress the crowd with his own verse, to stamp ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage July 31,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:David Bain [Bain, David]

14. Clyde’s Eyes “He’s my brother!” Reed cried as the glowing-eyed corpse pleaded to be cut down. “Them demons, whatever they was, turned him into this.” Darke looked into Reed’s ...
( Category: Occult July 30,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Suzanne Rindell [Rindell, Suzanne]

* * * — It was not the send-off I’d hoped for. And when we departed, at first, all I wanted was to turn back. The ocean voyage was rough, ...
( Category: Psychological July 29,2020 )