Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Theresa Romain

CHAPTER 5 “Poppy, dear.” The marquess beamed at her. He made an unlikely villain, with a pleasant face and cherubically curling blond hair. “You vanished from your home! I was ...
( Category: Regency February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Albert Wendt [Albert Wendt]

Sweat was already drenching her clothes. She wrapped her sleeping sheet around her pillow, listened until she was sure everyone was asleep, then slid out of the mosquito net. She ...
( Category: European February 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-28 | Author:Myra McIlvain

Amelia lay in the big Mallard bed, smiling as the light began outlining the trees beyond the wide-open French doors, and birds screeched their morning welcome in the courtyard. “I ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Vanessa Couchman [Couchman, Vanessa]

Chapter 16 1906 Six years had passed since my miscarriage. Despite Vincentello’s efforts, I had not been able to conceive again, and I feared that it was my fate to ...
( Category: French February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-24 | Author:Michael Cawood-Green

Worse was to come. The rank of the quiet, smiling man jotting down the figures of weights and distances and times was finally remembered. Just over a year after Franz ...
( Category: African February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-17 | Author:Judith Hale Everett

Thoroughly sobered by her mother’s warning, Lenora rivaled even Sir Joshua’s gravity for the next few days, but it was not to be expected that her spirits should be dampened ...
( Category: British February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Lloyd Fernando

9 WHEN THE RIOTS began Ellman remained in his flat eating out of tins. The columns of smoke smudging the sky beyond the trees seemed like a shroud round the ...
( Category: Asian February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Goh Poh Seng

10 THROUGH GAPS BETWEEN the trees amongst which the village of Loc Son was located, Thanh could see patches of sky, horizontal rice fields and, violaceous in the distance, small ...
( Category: Asian February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lori Beasley Bradley

Chapter Ten Insight Officer Robbie Benton’s death was written up as an undercover operation gone wrong. Travis and Roy agreed to take the heat for allowing a probationary officer to ...
( Category: United States February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-08-25 | Author:Seth Hunter

Chapter 11 The Infernal Machines Through his Dollond glass in the foretop of the Falaise, Nathan watched the late-afternoon sunshine glinting on the helmets of the French cuirassiers drilling on ...
( Category: French February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-07 | Author:Joan Lindsay [Lindsay, Joan]

A COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER EIGHTEEN YVONNE ROUSSEAU Joan Lindsay agreed with her editor that Picnic at Hanging Rock would be published without its original Chapter Eighteen. To make up for ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-11 | Author:Bill Garwood

XIX I got up late next morning cursing out Abraham for not waking me earlier. Scrambling from my rumpled bed, I washed and shaved carefully, then dressed in the very ...
( Category: United States February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-29 | Author:José Donoso [Donoso, José]

“Bruno won’t let me say anything yet.” Bruno. His name was Bruno—black—and he said: “Later, in a while . . .” His Spanish was perfect, though with an Andalusian lilt ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Leah Chyten

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Benjamin I’m told that the area where Schtetl Bedzew once thrived is now a land of ghosts, where the souls of the murdered wander about trying to comprehend ...
( Category: Jewish February 7,2023 )