Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Jackson [Steve Jackson]

26 My eyes ache from squinting through the binoculars and my face aches from being stuck behind the latex. I can’t wait to get back to Fogarty’s and get the ...
( Category: British April 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Violet Jacob [Violet Jacob]

Violet Jacob herself remarks his apparently somewhat humourless, prim nature, but notes shrewdly: ‘But under all this must have lain some sharp contradictory streak like the crack of light through ...
( Category: Short Stories April 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-25 | Author:Joe J. Elder

18 THE DOUBT HAUNTED ME FOR SOME TIME December 1928 Winter arrived with an icy blast and made its home on the southern steppe for the entire season. Most of ...
( Category: Russian April 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mia West

Chapter Fifteen Arthur knocked aside a strike from Medraut, but only just. As he set the lad on his heels with a series of blows that sounded more serious than ...
( Category: Fantasy April 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Pliny Earle Goddard [Goddard, Pliny Earle]

THE PLACING OF THE EARTH.{42} They did not put this large one (the earth) that lies here in place before my eyes. The wind blew from four directions. When there ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Joanna Lowell [Lowell, Joanna]

* * * — Nina already regretted her boldness. The lake was inky black and cold as January. When she flexed her feet, pain went shooting through the soles. Her ...
( Category: British April 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-23 | Author:A.E. Rayne [Rayne, A.E.]

There were many injured to attend to, so there was no point rushing through breakfast, though few had much of an appetite. Especially not Berger and Ollo, who sat by ...
( Category: Norse & Icelandic April 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duane Poncy & Duane Poncy [McLean, Patricia J]

CHAPTER TWENTY “Just a little more basil, sweetheart,” Lucy said as she pulled the cork from a bottle of Chardonnay. She peered over Marta’s shoulder. “Now, when the onions get ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-16 | Author:Pat Wahler [Pat Wahler]

twenty-one 1912 A picture window framed scenes on the street in the small Greenwich Village café where Tista and I shared a table. Summer heat had stopped us for lemonade ...
( Category: Biographical April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Solveig Torvik [Torvik, Solveig]

Heikki was fired and disappeared, and not long after, Kalle asked me to go south with him. “The money is better at the Meraaker mine and the climate not nearly ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Kate Thompson [THOMPSON, KATE]

I know Canadians to be warm-hearted and enlightened. Yours sincerely, A fellow librarian, Clara Button She thought of dear Tubby. It was too late for him, but it wasn’t too ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-13 | Author:Sarah Shoemaker

Chapter 21 EMMANUEL, THE THIRD SURVIVING CHILD OF VASILI AND LIANA Demirgis, was born on the last day of February, 1915. He was a large, chubby, healthy “ten-month baby” as ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex R Crawford [Crawford, Alex R]

CHAPTER 25 “How did you know to check how if she was alive?” My body defrosted a bit, and my teeth stopped chattering, but the cold sunk deep into my ...
( Category: French April 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-15 | Author:Lynn Shepherd

Chapter XIII ‘The steward was summoned after you left. It appears this Maddox fellow insisted upon seeing that accursed trench with his own eyes.’ Dr Grant nodded to the servant ...
( Category: British April 6,2023 )