Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-08-19 | Author:Lisa See [See, Lisa]

Silverlake is one of L.A.’s oldest neighborhoods. The lake itself is a reservoir nestled in low hills between Echo Park and Burbank, close to downtown. Narrow streets snake up hillsides ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight We left Bearddan Igge in a thick fog just two mornings after Saint Oswald had been so miraculously discovered entangled in the fish trap. One hundred and thirty-three men ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2009-12-09 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

CHAPTER SIX These days, whenever Englishmen talk of the battle of Æsc’s Hill, they speak of God giving the West Saxons the victory because King Æthelred and his brother Alfred ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-18 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

FOUR I had told Finan to play the madman, a thing he could do well. Not mad as in moon-touched, but dangerously mad as though one wrong word could send ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2009-12-08 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Chapter Six The red ship was close and was coming fast. Her bows were crowned with a black-toothed dragon's head and filled with armed men in mail and helmets. She ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Uris, Leon [Uris, Leon]

Lord Roger kwam precies om negen uur op het hoofdkantoor van Foyle Ondernemingen. Het herenhuis in Abercorn Road stond op enige honderden meters afstand van de fabriek en was door ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Iggulden, Conn [Iggulden, Conn]

18 The city of Rouen lay around a hundred miles south and west of Calais. In normal times, William would have counted it a stronghold. As the capital of English ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

18 The city of Rouen lay around a hundred miles south and west of Calais. In normal times, William would have counted it a stronghold. As the capital of English ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Ed Falco [FALCO, ED]

14. Richie Gatto piloted Vito’s Essex slowly down Chambers Street on his way to city hall. Outside, the weather was clear and cold. Mounds of snow left over from the ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

Some indefinable time later, sufficient consciousness resurfaced to shape his first coherent thought: Was he crushing her? Even as the question formed, his senses registered the slow, gentle touch of ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

Savage, sullen boy, whelp of a lioness, Stone-hearted and scornful of love, I give you a lover’s ring—my noose! No longer be sickened by the sight of me; I go ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

The next morning I rose early and put on a red tunic, as the ransom letter had specified. Before I went downstairs to the tavern I told Belbo to find ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

CHAPTER XVII The boys stayed very quiet the next morning, allowing me to sleep late. I was still groggy, my head full of uneasy dreams, when Merianis arrived bearing a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-17 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

Davus and I headed back toward the scapegoat’s house. My mind was in a tumult. The Catilinarians, casually claiming to have seen Meto since his fall into the sea, had ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

VII STYX AND STONES (The Walls and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon) “In Babylon, we shall see not one, but two of the great Wonders of the World,” said Antipater. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )