epub |eng | | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * CHAPTER V OFF DUTY. "My dear girl, we shall have you sick in your bed, unless you keep yourself warm and quiet for a few days. Widow ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Lisa See [See, Lisa]

Even the Best of Moons THE FIRE GOD is indiscriminate. He lights lamps, he makes fireflies glow, he reduces villages to ash, he burns books, he cooks food, and he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Kate February 1484. The Palace of Westminster. ‘Madonna, last summer there was an Italian visitor to court, Dominic Mancini,’ Pietro Carmeliano said in hushed tones, although he and Kate were ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

And all the time, Arthur’s fame increases. He is a clubman, a diner-out, a public figure. He becomes an authority on worlds beyond literature and medicine. He stands for Parliament ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Sarah Dunant [Dunant, Sarah]

PART V A Father’s Grief Rather, had we seven papacies we would give them all to have him alive again. POPE ALEXANDER VI, JUNE 1497 CHAPTER 27 Mid-June. The days ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE WHEN RUTH PICKED up the phone, she immediately recognized the voice on the other end of the line. “Good morning, headmaster,” she said. “—Yes, he left a few ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Iggulden, Conn [Iggulden, Conn]

Chabi was outside her ger as Kublai came riding in. She put down the goatskins she had been cutting and sewing when she saw him. Zhenjin spotted his father at ...