Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

Rustem would have preferred to deny it, but both of his wives and all of his teachers had characterized him (sometimes with amusement) as a stubborn, willful man. An idea ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Thomas Berger

CHAPTER 17 In the Valley of the Washita WE JOINED BLACK KETTLE at the end of the big summer buffalo hunt in which all the tribe in the area come ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XI The sun at noontime was glaring down into the fort of Samaná. Within the walls the heat was pitilessly reflected inwards to a murderous concentration, so that even ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Don Delillo

A man spoke to him from the other side of the screen door. Lee looked at his bloated face peering in above the set of credentials he held under his ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hugo, Victor [Hugo, Victor]

* * * BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN CHAPTER I MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP Summer passed, then the autumn; winter ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Alma Katsu

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: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-22 | Author:Matthew Plampin

3 As he began to speak, the last trace of Kitson’s nervousness left him. Nothing, he thought, absolutely nothing restores presence of mind like having to address an audience. Being ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2000-12-25 | Author:Zane Grey

Chapter XVI. When the waning moon rose high enough to shed a pale light over forest and field, two dark figures, moving silently from the shade of the trees, crossed ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Juan Gabriel Vásquez

The deputy director of Peace Corps Colombia was a small, thin, distant man with thick-framed glasses like Henry Kissinger’s and a knitted tie. He received Elaine in his shirtsleeves, which ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Miller, Madeline [Miller, Madeline]

Chapter Eighteen I WOKE THAT NIGHT GASPING. I WAS SWEAT-SOAKED, AND THE tent felt oppressively warm. Beside me Achilles slept, his skin as damp as mine. I stepped outside, eager ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Eowyn Ivey

At the end of the row, Mabel stood, put her hands to the small of her back, and stretched. Her hem was soiled, her hands dusty and tired. She looked ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Margaret Mallory

CHAPTER 29 Alex was flirting shamelessly with Catherine, though his heart was not in it. He’d spent half his life trying to avoid jealous women, and here he was doing ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:Mario Puzo

CHAPTER 15 EVEN IN SICILY, a land where men killed each other with the same ferocious enthusiasm with which the Spaniards slaughtered bulls, the murderous madness of the citizens of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jake Logan

“You ought to be a highwayman,” Slocum said. “This is the perfect spot for a robbery.” “That was my father,” Procipio said indignantly. “I farm and that is all I ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Anne Perry

7 RATHBONE RETURNED to the courtroom rather hurriedly. His junior was perfectly capable of conducting the present case. It was a routine one: purely a matter of presenting the evidence, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )