Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Jennie Walters

‘You think she must be grateful. Look at this good thing you have done for her and she does not even say thank you.’ Andreas held up a pencil at ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Jennie Walters

I ran up Bella and Moonlight’s stirrups and tied them by their reins to rings in the yard. Then I waited for what seemed like a lifetime. Nothing on God’s ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-07-01 | Author:Jack Higgins

Afterwards, he walked her round to her door. It was snowing just a little and very cold. He said, “Must remind you of home, this weather?” “Home?” She looked blank ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Rawi Hage

THAT NIGHT AFTER WORK I slept with the photographs of naked women, photos that I drew from my pocket like a magician who draws birds from his hat to hand ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Thomas Harlan

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE In the Bruchion, Alexandria, Roman Egypt "Is this how things usually turn out for you?" Thyatis hitched both thumbs into her girdle. She and Nicholas stood in a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-19 | Author:Julian Stockwin

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( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:David Mitchell

‘Are you a poet?’ (I’d nearly said ‘too’.) ‘No. That title is hazardous. But, I had intimacy with poets when I was young. Robert Graves wrote a poem of me. ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Dan Simmons

* * * CAROLINE WAS WAITING in my bed, sleeping, but I woke her and sent her downstairs to her own room. This was no night for her to be ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-05-01 | Author:Harry Turtledove

Sylvia Enos stared at the new form the Coal Board clerk handed her. “Fill this out and bring it to Window C, over there, when you’ve finished it,” the clerk ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jane Smiley

CHAPTER 17 I See the Bottom of the Well If an artery be cut, it must be immediately tied up, or the person will bleed to death. The blood from ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Michael Parker

V TEODOSIA BURR ALSTON Yaupon Island, North Carolina THE FIRST THING SHE saw when Whaley brought her home to the cottage he’d built while she was recuperating with a widow ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Teju Cole

TEN I was running across Lagos with my sister. We were doing a marathon, and having to push vagrants and street dogs out of our way. But I have no ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-10-22 | Author:Mario Vargas Llosa; Edith Grossman

14 The Benefactor walked into the office of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer at five o’clock, as he had every Monday through Friday for the past nine months, ever since August 3, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Lola Shoneyin

THE FIRST THINGS THAT STRUCK ME about Baba Segi’s house were the soiled curtains. The layer of dust on them was so thick that Grandma would have sliced the veins ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:Robert Alexander

12 Lord, forgive me. But first make me suffer. I am the devil’ s creation. Torture me and make me cry out for mercy, but make me suffer . . ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )