Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland

* * * 20 The building was a commonplace two-story wooden structure, located in the Nihonbashi merchant district, on a street that paralleled the nearby rice warehouses along the Sumida ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Vanora Bennett

Fear spreads. Once you've let it in, it gets everywhere. Like love, perhaps. For the first time, Alice finds she's leery of travelling alone. She takes an escort of palace ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Amanda Coplin

She stole a horse in a neighboring town—it was easy enough, outside a tavern at night—and discovered the next morning, having ridden the better part of the night, a venison ...
( Category: Westerns March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Valerio Massimo Manfredi

14 Skardamoula, 13 September, 9 a.m. AFTER HAVING ABANDONED the fishing cooperative’s truck at the gas station as they had been told, Norman and Michel took a bus back to ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Roberta Rich

CHAPTER 13 THERE WAS NO NEED for Hannah’s heart to be pounding so. Jacopo and Niccolò would not harm the child. In this palazzo, each room bigger than any loghetto ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-27 | Author:Thalassa Ali

November 7, 1841 Maharajah Sher Singh's mercenary Governor of Peshawar smiled charmingly at the man who sat before him on the carpeted floor. “I understand, Hassan Ali Khan,” he said ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Kibler, Julie [Kibler, Julie]

18 Dorrie, Present Day HEARING ABOUT MISS Isabelle so young and so sure it would work took my mind off things. It gave me something to root for in my ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:E. L. Doctorow

TWELVE When I was through she didn’t say anything. She handed me the wine bottle. I tilted my head up to drink from it and when I looked again she ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Chapter 27 Today when I woke up there was a beautiful pink sunrise, with the mist lying over the fields like a white soft cloud of muslin, and the sun ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Laurie Fabiano

Lucrezia read and translated into Italian as dramatically as the text was written. “‘The skull and crossbones flag of piracy is gone from the seas. But in our cities flourishes ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:John Shors

THOUGH THE PIPE HAD LEFT HIS lips an hour before, Loc’s senses were still dominated by opium’s heavy hand. The drug simultaneously managed to slow his mind yet heighten his ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Karen Essex

All night long, I heard moaning sounds. I slept fitfully, awaking several times and sitting up in bed. But then, the noise would stop. I must have been having nightmares, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

Part Nine VARYKINO 1 In the winter, when there was more time, Yuri Andreevich began to take various kinds of notes. He noted for himself: “How often during the summer ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )