Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

X That’s the way to do it SAM HANWAY had become Asher Ruppta’s “odd-job boy,” as Ruppta called him, expected to perform various tasks from visiting the bank to sorting ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

There were six of us: the man who poled the punt, Iseult and I, two of the newly arrived household troops, and Alfred. I tried once again to make him ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Heather Terrell [Terrell, Heather]

Brother, For nine days, I fashioned and refashioned the Gospel of Matthew’s Chi-Rho cross. This magnificent Gaelic concoction, an ornately decorated composite of the Greek letters chi and rho, which ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Eowyn Ivey [Ivey, Eowyn]

At the end of the row, Mabel stood, put her hands to the small of her back, and stretched. Her hem was soiled, her hands dusty and tired. She looked ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Grand, David [Grand, David]

PART IV LOVE Over lunch in the courtyard that afternoon, Bloom learned Dr. Straight was an experimental psychologist whose sense of self-importance was equal to that of Gottlieb’s and Simon’s, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Alice Hoffman [Hoffman, Alice]

One night the door to my bedroom opened. There was my father. He’d been at a tavern, and he carried the smell of rum, which reminded me of formaldehyde. It ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:John Shors [Shors, John]

“A girl, Jahanara,” Father whispered blissfully. “A girl whose smile shall make flowers limp with jealousy.” Her face, so magically small, was tethered in place by dark locks and a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Vaddey Ratner [Ratner, Vaddey]

seventeen So began my education, with Pok as my guide and guardian, this gentle soul who called himself neak prey—a “man of the forest”—because he’d never seen a refrigerator or ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Hamid, Mohsin [Hamid, Mohsin]

I have to make two trips to Murad Badshah’s rickshaw depot to get hold of him. That’s usually how it works, because Murad Badshah’s rarely in and there’s no telephone ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Nafisa Haji [Haji, Nafisa]

Jo But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face . . . W. B. Yeats, “When You Are Old” Deena’s words ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Robert Harris [Harris, Robert]

Boisdeffre is seated behind his grand desk, his elegant hands palm-down on the surface; a copy of L’Éclair lies between them. He says, “I gather you saw the minister yesterday.” ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Tanis Rideout [Rideout, Tanis]

THE NORTH COL 23,200 FEET Sandy crawled out of the tent at Advanced Base Camp in a quick, clumsy manoeuvre that made his head pound against his skull. For days ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-09-15 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

55 MONKEY JOHN HATED IT that she wouldn’t talk. “By God, I’ll cut your tongue out if you ain’t gonna use it,” he said once, and he knocked her down ...
( Category: Westerns March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Edward Marston [Edward Marston]

It was remarkable how much information they had garnered between them in the course of one day. When the two detectives met over a meal at the Saracen’s Head that ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |pt | 2008-10-09 | Author:Michael Crichton

"Thirty-eight... thirty-nine... forty..." Swiftly, Agar pressed the second key into his third blank. He held it there just an instant, then lifted it out. There was a decent impression. "Forty-one... ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )