Historical
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf | | | Author:Charles Dickens

XIX. An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * SECOND CHAPTER OF MR. PICKWICK'S TALE * * * We left Will Marks leaning under the gibbet with his face towards the town, scanning the distance with ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Isabel Miller [Miller, Isabel]

There has been a storm all day. This morning it woke me, howling and pelting my windows with snow and sleet. It’s still going on, late afternoon, as strong as ...
( Category: Women Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Christina Schwarz [Schwarz, Christina]

Ruth When we found my mother's stone with the thick green honeysuckle growing behind it, I was almost sorry I'd brought Imogene there. You shouldn't visit your dead mother just ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Alexandre Dumas, pËre

Chapter XXIX : Planchet's Inventory. Athos, during the visit made to the Luxembourg by Raoul, had gone to Planchet's residence to inquire after D'Artagnan. The comte, on arriving at the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Stuart, Anne [Stuart, Anne]

19 The sixth Viscount Rohan, son of the Marquess of Haverstoke, scion of the ancient and thoroughly wicked house of Rohan, was not likely to listen to orders from a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-10-30 | Author:David Mitchell

Zachry my old pa was a wyrd buggah, I won’t naysay it now he’s died. Oh, most o’ Pa’s yarnin’s was jus’ musey duck fartin’ an’ in his loonsome old ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:DEANNA RAYBOURN

Twelve He left me the rest of the food and water and the candle, stuck in a puddle of its own grease and burning slowly down. I blew it out ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Diana Gabaldon [Gabaldon, Diana]

* * * I was still thinking about Jamie and Hamish when I came to bed that night. I turned down the thick quilts, smiling to myself. There was a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

WE LAY TANGLED together in the straw, watching daylight creep through the half-open door across the red-brick floor of the stable. My heart was still thumping in my ears, blood ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

I hope to find you in better health than when last seen. If so, I will leave a horse and some funds to assist your travels. If not, I will ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-22 | Author:Katherine Howe

THE VOLVO CREAKED TO A HALT, A LARGE DROPLET OF RAINWATER splotching across the windshield. Connie paused, pressing her palm against her chest and feeling her heartbeat thrumming at an ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Paula McLain

TWENTY-FIVE wanted muskmelons and a really nice piece of cheese, coffee and good jam and waffles. I was so hungry thinking about this I couldn’t sleep. “Waffles,” I said to ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Father Marchant laid a gentle hand on Roland’s arm. ‘You did right, my son. She is your prisoner and you had to defend her, but you must use caution.’ ‘Caution?’ ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

MY PRIMARY MISSION was thus accomplished, but now I had a new possibility to explore, before mounting an assault on Mrs. Silvie’s house of ill-repute. I had planned to visit ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )