Historical
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Isabel Allende [Allende, Isabel]

Once the cargo had been transferred, Lafitte kept his word and authorized Santiago de Leon to supply the longboats with fresh water and provisions, to take his instruments, without which ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-06 | Author:Erica Jong [Jong, Erica]

CHAPTER XI Containing a most curious Exchange of Letters thro’ which our Fanny learns more concerning the Capriciousness of Destiny than all her Adventures have taught her until now; after ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Tatiana de Rosnay [Rosnay, Tatiana de]

She shrugged, smiling at me apologetically. She didn't know. She was too young, anyway. This had happened long before her day. I asked her if people ever came to the ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Lyndon, Robert [Lyndon, Robert]

Vallon stood watch until the moon grew wan and the stars that had guided them lay low in the east. The rest of the company rose and stood beating their ...
( Category: Fantasy March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Margolin, Phillip [Margolin, Phillip]

CHAPTER 30 A group of miserable stevedores huddled together on the shore as the steamer Argentine slipped sideways toward its mooring. Sheets of rain had made the gentle slope that ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Bich Minh Nguyen [Nguyen, Bich Minh]

October 14, 1918 To Whom It May Concern at San Francisco General Hospital: Two days ago, I was made a mother by a woman at your hospital. I wish her ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Isabel Allende [Allende, Isabel]

PART THREE 1896-1910 The Hobbs clinic was founded by the celebrated surgeon Ebanizer Hobbs in his own home; it was a large, solid, and elegant residence right in the heart ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Kate Morton [Kate Morton]

17 University of Cambridge, 2011 THE RAIN HAD CLEARED AND a ripe moon broke silver through streaky clouds. Having already paid a visit to the Cambridge University Library, Laurel was ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:Catherine Lloyd [Lloyd, Catherine]

Chapter 10 “Father asked me to accompany you on your visit to Kurland Hall this morning. Do you need me to carry something?” Lucy shut the drawer containing the twins’ ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Diana Gabaldon [Gabaldon, Diana]

49 IN VINO VERITAS I LAY SLEEPLESS for quite a long time, listening to the peaceful snores and rustlings of my bedmates, and to the agitated thump of my own ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Andersen, Laura [Andersen, Laura]

By the time Minuette appeared in his privy chamber for dinner, William’s restless mood had swung from his earlier enjoyment to a more usual melancholy. Dominic had been so very ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Diana Gabaldon [Gabaldon, Diana]

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE THERE WAS A STORM coming; William could feel it in the shifting of the air, see it in the racing cloud shadows that scudded across the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Neil Spring [Spring, Neil]

There was a brief interruption as Miss Bull paused to ensure we were giving her our fullest attention. When she saw that we were, she nodded, turned a page and ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Eight Alfred was buried. The burial took five hours of praying, chanting, weeping, and preaching. The old king had been placed in an elm coffin painted with scenes from the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Archer, Jeffrey [Archer, Jeffrey]

Clive abandoned his car outside the station and ran across the bridge to platform three. He could hear a guard’s whistle, and by the time he reached the bottom step, ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )