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The Shadow Queen: A Novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Rebecca Dean

epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Rebecca Dean [Dean, Rebecca]

By early 1917 her life as a Navy wife had settled into a well-established routine. Though the bungalow she and Win had been allocated was small—so small it could have ...

( Category: Biographical January 13,2015 )

Roughneck (1954) by Jim Thompson

epub |eng | 1998-02-15 | Author:Jim Thompson [Thompson, Jim]

"Now, do I walk downstairs or do you take me on the elevator?" We rode down on the elevator. Diffidently, each of us hurt by the other, we parted at ...

( Category: Biographical January 13,2015 )

Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Golden Arthur

mobi, epub |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Golden, Arthur [Golden, Arthur]

chapter nineteen That startling month in which I first came upon the Chairman again—and met Nobu, and Dr. Crab, and Uchida Kosaburo—made me feel something like a pet cricket that ...

( Category: Biographical January 6,2015 )

Cold Wars by Peter David

epub |eng | 2012-07-13 | Author:Peter David [David, Peter]

the probe would draw her out. She heard something... well, not heard. Not technically. It was a sensing of something that simulated auditory stimulation in the meld. She glided toward ...

( Category: Espionage December 30,2014 )

Conversations with Beethoven by Sanford Friedman

epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Sanford Friedman

I grant you that he is our flesh and blood—on the other hand she is my wife. Be careful, Ludwig—scum is what you called her fourteen years ago when she ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

A Thousand Stitches by Constance O'Keefe

epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Constance O'Keefe

The winds had tossed burning embers and debris into the air and whipped the fires from the incendiary bombs into a storm that had devoured the flimsy dwellings along with ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry

epub |eng | 1990-12-26 | Author:Larry McMurtry

The Jubilee opens tomorrow Janey, there will be a grand parade and your mother will be in it. They say there will be a crowd such as never has been ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Wyatt in Wichita

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:John Shirley

* * * They had a fire built from snags and dead tree limbs that Sanchez had somehow scavenged from a nearly barren hillside, and Wyatt was sitting on a ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Fields of Home by Ralph Moody

epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

When I was a little boy, Mother used to sing snatches of an old song that I always liked. She only sang it when she was spinning, and never more ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution by James Tipton

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:James Tipton [Tipton, James]

A Triple Disgrace My looks did not inspire confidence. Claudette, who answered the door, immediately thanked Mary and Joseph that I had indeed arrived there, then really looked at me ...

( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Francine Prose

All of Paris is talking about the case of Lou Villars, the talented auto racer currently suing the French government and the French Women’s National Athletic Association to force them ...

( Category: Biographical December 15,2014 )

Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More by Lacey Robert

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Lacey, Robert [Lacey, Robert]

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL AD 1170 KING HENRY II AND HIS CHANCELLOR Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. People declared the two men ‘had but one heart and one ...

( Category: Biographical November 27,2014 )

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen by Charlie Lovett

epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Charlie Lovett [Lovett, Charlie]

Affectionately (that’s how Jane Austen signed her letters), Eric Sophie read the letter over three times, feeling more and more guilty about the thrill it gave her. Just reading it ...

( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )

The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec

epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Yannick Grannec [Grannec, Yannick]

33 At the appointed hour on the appointed day, in an astrakhan toque with her cheeks rouged, Adele lay in wait for her accomplice. She asked Anna to help her ...

( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )

The Sharp Hook of Love by Sherry Jones

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sherry Jones

6 Farewell, my bright star, golden constellation, jewel of virtues, sweet medicine for my body. —HELOISE TO ABELARD I was a brittle tree blown by the wind, on the verge ...

( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )

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