Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Rachel Kushner

12. THE SEARS MANNEQUIN STANDARD It was simply our night. People were mugged every night of the week in SoHo, where the streets were dark and empty—no streetlights, no open ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Michael Ondaatje

The evening began to darken and as it did, the Ramadhins’ modest home, which had once been a sanctuary for me, seemed a frail ark. The last visitors were slowly ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Ru Freeman

Biso My head hurts. I reach into my handbag for a Disprin, but my fingers find the piece of paper from the gentleman instead. I unfurl it: “Don Mohan Victor ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Karen Harper

CHAPTER THIRTEEN I saw our love as dangerous, though not forbidden. I came to think of the Stratford Anne as Will’s other wife, for I had married him first. Will ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Joseph Markulin

Caesar Borgia was not a man who did things by half measures. Years later, writing of the startling stroke at Sinigallia, Niccolo Machiavelli would compare Caesar to the basilisk, a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Sharon Kay Penman

AS HENRI MADE HIS WAY toward Richard’s pavilion, he gazed up gratefully at the starlit sky, as the day had been one of searing summer heat. Although darkness had fallen, ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Laura Moriarty

When the German saw her, he stood, and met her at the low curve of the stairs. “You found what you needed?” he asked quietly, leaning down. He smelled like ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Alison Weir

“Lord save us, the Duchess of Somerset is here!” Kat whimpered, bursting into the bedchamber. “Am I discovered, then?” Elizabeth whispered, thinking the worst. “I think not, mercifully,” Kat replied, ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

The Wild West Show “THAT’S WHAT WE NEED,” Alyosha said, once I’d finally taken my hands away from my face. “What?” “A magic carpet. Woven of all dark colors, blue ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1988-06-07 | Author:Jean Plaidy

IT SOON BECAME CLEAR TO ME THAT MY BROTHER WAS fanatically devoted to the Reformed Faith. I had, of course, known he leaned that way, for he had been instructed ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Pipkin

Eliot Calvert's bookstore opened for business a year and a half before Margaret Mahoney became Mrs. Eliot Calvert. Once the sign was hung and the books displayed, Eliot found that ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-09-06 | Author:Paula Marantz Cohen

Chapter 25 William and Henry were seated at the little table in their sister’s bedroom the next morning. Henry was eating a large bowl of the oatmeal with brown sugar ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Therese Anne Fowler

At the age when I was perfecting my cartwheels and learning to skate backward and stealing my brother’s cigarettes to see what smoking was all about, Scott was writing one-act ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Barbara Kyle

20 Change of Pla Thornleigh coughed. It felt like claws ripping his gullet. Throat’s swollen. Must be coming down with something … so cold here. He sat watching a work ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Melanie Benjamin

AND SO WE WERE MARRIED. THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY ACCOUNTS of that day; I’ll simply enclose the following report, which was printed in the Manitou, Wisconsin, Daily Bugle. LILIPUTIAN ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )