Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-04-04 | Author:Abraham Verghese

CHAPTER 47 Fear the Tree 1945, Parambil It’ll be gone by evening, darling! That’s what he should say. Instead, he hesitates long enough for the rooster to crow again. “That ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-08-16 | Author:Patricia Bernstein

I decided I would go to St. James’s Square alone the following morning, close-wrapped against the cold, and would not take a sedan chair since the walk was a short ...
( Category: Scottish May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-12 | Author:Roy Jacobsen

In Træna they load the winch at four o’clock in the morning. Lars is up in the village, making enquiries over the telegraph line, returns and says they have to ...
( Category: World War II May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-05 | Author:Carnegie, Jack

Chapter 10 Winter It became a living death around December 1944, people were dying where they stood. Muscle mass was none existent, bones were held together with parchment-like skin. Our ...
( Category: World War II May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Ben Okri [Thiong’o, Ngugi wa]

INTERLUDE Exactly two and a half years later, on a certain hill overlooking Nairobi, there stood a disillusioned government official. He was all alone, looking at the country he would ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-14 | Author:Oliver Clements

* * * A day or so later, when Dee is feeling stronger, he does. “I hoped you’d come with me to the Old Town,” Dee says. “To buy a ...
( Category: Renaissance May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Naomi M. Wong [Wong, Naomi M.]

“Why aren’t they responding?” Blair asked after a minute or so. “Do you think you said something wrong?” “Maybe they’re just thinking about whether or not they can deliver on ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Horace Newton Allen

II. When Nahl Bo heard of the wonderful change taking place at his brother’s establishment, he went himself to look into the matter. He found the report not exaggerated, and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Edith Wharton

Chapter XXI THE next time Campton saw Mrs. Brant was in his own studio. He was preparing, one morning, to leave the melancholy place, when the bell rang and his ...
( Category: World War I May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-12 | Author:T.W. Lawless [Bell, TW Lawless;Kay]

Chapter Eighteen So the long night ends, without any of us getting another wink of sleep. Kate Pilcher arrives at the station for her statement in the early morning, saying ...
( Category: World War II May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-14 | Author:A.L. Sowards

Chapter Twenty-One Nadia stayed with Veronika all through the night, even when Anton came. He’d never attended a birth either. She and Larisa obeyed his requests anyway, whether it was ...
( Category: World War I May 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:David Penny [Penny, David]

Thomas knew both Sancha and Theresa were staring at him but refused to acknowledge their attention. Prince Juan sat half propped on a pile of cushions. On a side table ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense May 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-11-23 | Author:Karen Cogan

CHAPTER SEVEN Thomas’s display of devotion intoxicated Marianne. His eyes never left her when other gentleman requested a dance, and he reclaimed her as promptly as propriety would allow. Her ...
( Category: Regency May 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-15 | Author:June Francis

* * * The following day she met the other shareholders, including one of the younger men, Theo Jones, who told her that they would meet again in Liverpool at ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2023 )