Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kilian

CHAPTER ELEVEN Count von Kresse eased open the door to his stateroom and stepped inside quietly, discovering at once that there was no point to such stealth. Dagne was awake, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-19 | Author:Peter Rosegger [Rosegger, Peter]

* * * XI About Kickel, who went to Prison Table of Contents You were on for a bit of gipsying, were you, Peterkin? Home, everlastingly home, isn't very cheerful—always ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Philip Kazan [Philip Kazan]

It seems to be quite a bit later. Tom has been following the music where it has been trying to lead him the whole time, if only he’d noticed: into ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Roxie Faulkner Kirk [Kirk, Roxie]

I was sleeping hard, on my stomach, when I felt a heavy weight suddenly crushing my lower back. My yelp of surprise went only as far my mattress because a ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sana Balagamwala

*** I wondered if Jameela's conversation with Nadia had raised any suspicions in her mind, but I doubted it. It was difficult to be suspicious of Uncle Jee. He was ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick J. Chiaventone

7 Canwepekasna wi (Moon When The Wind Shakes Off The Leaves) October 1866 Red Cloud watched impassively as the warriors slipped silently down the frost-rimed slopes below him. It had ...
( Category: Biographical January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Daša Drndic

Knut Andersen finds a solution for pigeons. Knut Andersen has a double-­barrelled shotgun and he shoots pigeons. He lives on the main square in Oslo, far to the north and ...
( Category: Jewish January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Lynn Johnson

Chapter Twenty-Four June 1917 It was Connie’s birthday and she had agreed to meet her mother for a meal at the Victoria Hotel in Hanley. It was, perhaps, the most ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-17 | Author:Caves, Harriet [Caves, Harriet]

Instead of doing as she had said, however, he took his mouth off her breast, leaving her craving more of the magic that he had just made with her body. ...
( Category: British January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:S.J.A. Turney

Chapter 14 ‘What do you think?’ Ketil murmured. Beside him, Leif peered off into the early morning, hand held over his eyes for shade as the post-dawn sunlight from alleyways ...
( Category: Medieval January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:Anthony Di Renzo [Di Renzo, Anthony]

Chapter V A Century of Progress BREAD AND CIRCUSES, EH? DON’T presume to judge. You people are no better, with your malls and expositions. Lord, the Cuccagnas of democracy! All ...
( Category: Italian January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Yuri Druzhnikov

PART THREE MARRIAGE AMERICAN STYLE ‘… it is something that we, in the full strength of thought, cannot bring to full clarity.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer 1 Trying not to make ...
( Category: Russian January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthea Lawson [Lawson, Anthea]

Chapter 5 Irenna did not sleep at all well. Her dreams were full of menacing figures trying to pull her beneath the surface of a dark lake. Every time the ...
( Category: Regency January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Mary Ann Cherry

1970. “Gay Liberation Front” banner that led the parade. Photo: Pat Rocco. Pat Rocco Papers, Coll2007-006, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. Terry Le ...
( Category: Biographical January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Nikki Rajala & Nikki Rajala

Chapter 8 The next days passed in a blur. There were leave-takings as the men bound for far-flung posts started up the nearly nine-mile carry that gave Grand Portage its ...
( Category: French January 28,2023 )