Historical
epub |eng | 2019-12-26 | Author:Tracey Enerson Wood

Twenty-One Mother stayed for many weeks during Wash’s recuperation. Soon, her circle of friends visited as well, delighting in his stories of Civil War exploits. Wash was never so happy ...
( Category: Biographical June 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mariah Fredericks

* * * At the precinct, my uncle was questioned for some time. Then I was allowed to see him. A tired officer held the door open to the room ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Carmen Boullosa

27. Back in the Karenin Palace Kitchen “What I heard was bullets, ma’am. Before the swords, there were bullets. We were two hundred feet from the Narva Triumphal Arch, we ...
( Category: Political June 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karin Tanabe

FOURTEEN Jessie October 3, 1933 “I know you’ve had Lucie to look after, but have you been getting up to much in my absence?” Victor asked me over breakfast the ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers June 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Carol Windley

Chapter Twelve In February 1942, Anna’s family traveled to Western Bohemia, where they went every year to ski. This was their first winter vacation since the occupation began. The previous ...
( Category: World War II June 14,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Frances Cha

* * * — IT WAS SO SMALL that it felt like everyone in town knew us: the Loring Center kids. Orphaned, disabled, or delinquent. Our abandonment scared people, as ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-02-23 | Author:Walters, Holly-Eloise [Walters, Holly-Eloise]

“I hope soon to see you again, which will be to me, a greater comfort than all the precious jewels in the world.” That night I broke the fever. As ...
( Category: Historical June 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-04 | Author:Patricio Pron [Pron, Patricio]

Espartaco Boyano, Ravenna, March 10, 1978 A couple of years ago someone insisted on seeing me. Someone like you who said he wanted to know everything about the conference in ...
( Category: Murder June 13,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-05-13 | Author:Wareham, Andrew [Wareham, Andrew]

“Quimby, there is a shortage of brimstone, of all things, that is likely to cause us difficulties in case of war. The production of gunpowder is vital to the national ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers June 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-13 | Author:Giles Kristian [Kristian, Giles]

15 The Druid ‘THEY HAVE EXCHANGED BARELY a dozen words since you left.’ Iselle was sitting on a stool beneath the apple tree, plucking the carcass of a swan which ...
( Category: Fairy Tales June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Simon Stranger

* * * L for the leaden atmosphere, in the cells at Falstad, stale and musty from body odor. L for the laughter that occasionally broke out among the prisoners ...
( Category: World War II June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Connie Schultz [Schultz, Connie]

Ellie slammed the letter down on the dining room table and called for Sam, who was making Reilly giggle in his playpen. “What do you think you’re doing, telling your ...
( Category: Family Life June 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser [Fraser, George Macdonald]

9 If ever you have to run slaves — which seems unlikely nowadays, although you never can tell what may happen if we have the Liberals back — the way ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 10,2020 )
epub |deu | 2012-01-15 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser [Fraser, George Macdonald]

"You coming Madagascar, you knowing someone here, right enough?" I assured him he was wrong, and he stuck out a fat finger and says: "M'sieur Laborde." "Who's he?" says I, ...
( Category: Humorous June 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Yaffa S. Santos [Santos, Yaffa S.]

21 Lumi The brass teakettle whistled, jolting Lumi to attention. The night had turned blustery, so she decided to make herself a hot toddy to warm up and bolster her ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 8,2020 )