Historical
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Eugenia Kim

By the Beach MAY 1934 JAEYUN INVITED ME TO VACATION AT SEONGDOWAN BEACH RESORT IN Wonsan. She sent a roundtrip train ticket and said the room was fully paid. Once ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Julie Otsuka

TRAITORS The rumors began to reach us on the second day of the war. THERE WAS TALK of a list. Some people being taken away in the middle of the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Anne McLean

VI In the Belly of the Elephant My country would sink metaphorically, of course, just as the sinking of the Canal Company (of which more later) would be metaphorical. But ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-05-01 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

With his recordings under his arm, Bigelow walks home in the summer light. He changes the flags on his new tree pole. He inscribes readings from his instruments into his ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

21 A Poultice for Bruising IN ORDER TO KEEP FROM GOING OUTSIDE EVERY FEW MINUTES, Grey had accepted the invitation of two local men to join them at darts. One ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1983-10-15 | Author:Ellis Peters

Chapter Eight Wednesday HUGH SOUGHT OUT CADFAEL AFTER CHAPTER the next morning for a brief conference in his workshop in the herbarium. “They’re all in a tale,” said Hugh, leaning ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-03-29 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland

"What for?" Reiko said, baffled. The noble class didn't engage in trade, and she couldn't imagine Konoe wanting quarters in the noisy, dirty, and bustling textile district. "He wanted privacy ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick

She frowned at him. ‘What do you mean?’ A groom led another horse into the stables, peered over the partition and, clearing his throat, apologised and went out again. ‘Miles ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barry Unsworth

XV The list came, her name was there, and strange it was to see it so indifferently mixed among the others when it sounded with golden trumpets and the voices ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:H. L. Grandin

Chapter 27 A Reckoning The entire village spent the next several days helping Sunlei’s family prepare for her departure. They moved through the alleys of Tuckareegee as if in a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Aravind Adiga

24 JULY Masterji opened the door. His rubbish bin had been overturned. Pieces of rubbish—the banana peel, for example—had been flung far from his doorstep, as if someone had kicked ...
( Category: Urban Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Chistine Trent

In the spirit of celebrating our Lord’s birth, I’ve decided to delay my plans momentarily. Let it not be said, diary, that I am not charitable. Somehow it seems wrong ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Susanna Clarke

THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN the eighteenth-century Jewish physician, David Montefiore, and the fairy, Tom Brightwind, is remarkably well documented. In addition to Montefiore's own journals and family papers, we have numerous ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Susan Vreeland

Over the next few weeks I learned—and so did Umiliana—that she could hold a pose without a break for hours, including that expression of distress. It was just right for ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Nicole Krauss

IN THE MONTHS that followed, Yoav, Leah, I, and even Bogna, who had not yet left, began to settle into a familiar routine. Leah was absorbed in learning pieces by ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )