Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:E. L. Doctorow

22 And now Mother’s Younger Brother began again his trips to New York. He would work at his drawing table past the dinner hour and then catch an evening train. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:M. K. Hume

CHAPTER XIII THE KING OF WINTER We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe nothing but truth. Voltaire, Lettres sur Oedipe The oil lamps flickered in the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:M. K. Hume

CHAPTER XII THE GARDEN OF PAIN From the moment the wooden doors of Myrddion’s first clinic were thrown open, a crowd gathered, several persons deep, to peer into the premises ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Eileen Clymer Schwab

Chapter 23 The dawn of Livie’s wedding day brought with it my salvation from a sleepless night. I was terrified by the potential of the day. Possible outcomes played out ...
( Category: Friendship March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Smiley

AFTER all, he chose deep (“navy”) blue embossed covers with a silver title (The Universe Explained, by Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early, Ph.D., United States Navy). The frontispiece was a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Simon Scarrow

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Macro was the first to break the spell. He threw Lurco’s arm off and spun round as he reached inside his cloak for the cosh. It was in ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Sara Poole

20 “Francesca?” A deep voice, very low. A gentle touch on my arm. I opened my eyes. Rocco crouched beside me, his face creased with concern. Above, at the top ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Susanna Kearsley

Chapter 25 Her laugh turned the head of the sentinel standing on guard at the house of Lord Admiral Apraxin, across from the Admiralty, and from the long look he ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-03-23 | Author:Elizabeth Peters

They did not remain below for long. Ramses was himself again, his countenance no more expressive than that of the Sphinx; but when he saw me kneeling by the roll ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1933-01-02 | Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

21 The Sluagh Darkness overtook us as we hastened from the broken pillar stone. I do not think that even with our horses we could have reached the camp before ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-05-12 | Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

He was awakened by a painful burning sensation: lines of ants were running up both his arms, leaving a trail of red marks on his skin. He slapped them dead ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-24 | Author:Daniel Silva

33 LONDON Alfred Vicary felt an evening at home might do him some good. He wanted to walk so he left the office an hour before sunset, enough time for ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:David Liss

Sophie refused to go with them. When Lucy approached the girl, she simply clung tighter to Byron and turned away. “This is unworthy of you,” she told him. He smiled ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Donna Thorland

Twelve Philadelphia, November 26, 1777 “Where do you go to do it?” Peggy Shippen sat in front of her dressing table, admiring her freshly coiffed hair. It was teased up ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:C. W. Gortner

Chapter Nineteen She wore a gown the color of armor. Of all those who might have entered through that door, she was the last person I expected to see—though it ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )