Historical
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:David Rakoff [Rakoff, David]

Perhaps there are those who consider it shameful That Helen comes yearly, all dressed up and gameful. Just showing herself in the very same setting Cannot be a help to ...
( Category: Anthologies June 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-31 | Author:Laila Ibrahim [Laila Ibrahim]

Momma wasn’t back by the time May needed to eat, so Sadie decided to manage on her own. First she unwrapped the little girl to give her a clean diaper. ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction June 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

15 November–December 1875 Ann Throughout November, letters and telegrams flew between Springfield and Chicago, between three concerned sisters and their increasingly exasperated nephew. Whether his mother was mad or sane ...
( Category: Biographical June 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Martha McPhee

* * * Dear Mother, she wrote on a postcard picturing Fourth Lake in summer—all green and watery. The ride home was fast and white, the train slithering down to ...
( Category: Historical June 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:David Ashton [Ashton, David]

Hannah Semple, the only person Jean held in credence on this earth was at the safe house by Leith Links, the giant Angus to hand, making ready to scour the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Ashford, Lindsay Jayne [Ashford, Lindsay Jayne]

Max left them with a railway timetable and a tin of foul-smelling yellow powder, which he said they would need to sprinkle all over the seats of the carriage on ...
( Category: Biographical June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Marlowe Benn [Benn, Marlowe]

Later, as the heavy Duesenberg moved through a plum-streaked Manhattan daybreak, the weight of countless champagne toasts and a blur of brandies drove Julia’s head into the smooth leather upholstery. ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Brooke Lea Foster

FIFTEEN Heddy hadn’t even knocked on the door when it opened. Five days before the party, and she’d been waiting for this: a chance to hear how a true-to-life movie ...
( Category: Coming of Age June 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:C. W. Gortner

* * * Living with Julie, my aunt, my five-year-old son, my rambunctious dogs and squawking parrot, in addition to my rebellious younger sister, who detested the flat almost as ...
( Category: Biographical May 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear [Gear, W. Michael & Gear, Kathleen O'Neal]

NINETEEN THE PEOPLE OF CHOLUPAHA, ONE OF THE UZACHILE FRONTIER towns, fared better. They had received news of Tapaloholata’s fate a day’s march to their south. The Cholupaha holata ordered ...
( Category: Family Saga May 25,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Maggie O'Farrell [O'Farrell, Maggie]

gnes is sitting on the floor by the pallet, next to Judith, a cloth in her hand. She has been there all night: she will not rise, she will not ...
( Category: Biographical May 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Jeff Shaara [Shaara, Jeff]

USS ARIZONA, AT SEA—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1941 Thoughts of Bremerton were set aside for now, the Arizona engaging yet again in sea drills. They moved in convoy as usual, with ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Nancy E. Turner [Turner, Nancy E.]

July 31, 1885 Savannah and I cleared the table and did dishes while the men talked. Later we sat on the porch and watched the south hills, as the sky ...
( Category: Westerns May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Echo Heron [Heron, Echo]

“You can’t possibly be serious about going into Tiffany’s today.” Alice put down her tea. “It’s Sunday. You have to rest sometime, Clara. You haven’t eaten or slept properly in ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Susan Higginbotham [Higginbotham, Susan]

Palm Sunday Field, they called it when they could bear to talk of it—that terrible battle near Towton on March 29, 1461, that cost us—and England—so dear. For hours upon ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2020 )