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The Huntingfield Paintress by Pamela Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Holmes [Holmes, Pamela]

Mildred helped Mary to wash her dead daughter before they wrapped the body in cloth for burial. She insisted the family must wash themselves with soap and hot water and ...
( Category: British December 19,2022 )
Merging Paths by Vince Bailey
epub |eng | 2022-09-01 | Author:Vince Bailey [Bailey, Vince]

As promised, Jay Pee had appeared at the café early in the afternoon to assist Isabel and Maria with the preparation of the food for the next day’s wake. Isabel ...
( Category: Fantasy December 19,2022 )
Good Time Coming by C.S. Harris
epub |eng | 2016-07-19 | Author:C.S. Harris [C. S. Harris]

Twenty-Eight Even the longest and fiercest of winters must eventually give way to spring. The cold loosed its hold on the Felicianas that year in lurches and gasps, with warm ...
( Category: United States December 19,2022 )
Odysseus by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Valerio Massimo Manfredi [MASSIMO MANFREDI, VALERIO]

20 MY SHIP SEEMED TO FLY OVER THE WAVES, pushed by the east wind and even more so by my desire to get home. I had expected Menelaus to refuse ...
( Category: Military December 19,2022 )
A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar
epub |eng | 2021-07-29 | Author:Ari Honarvar [Honarvar, Ari]

We were back at the storyteller’s desk when the great clock’s bell rang in the stillness of the room. I knew better than to ask about the fate of the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 19,2022 )
The Royal Station Master's Daughters by Ellee Seymour
epub |eng | | Author:Ellee Seymour

Chapter 16 Beatrice and Ada scanned the week’s edition of the Lynn Advertiser for updates on the war. Ada pointed to a cartoon showing a portly middle-aged man resembling a ...
( Category: Military December 19,2022 )
The Colonial's Son by Peter Watt
epub |eng | 2021-10-14 | Author:Peter Watt

( Category: Military December 19,2022 )
Of Sword and Shadow by A. L. Sowards
epub |eng | 2021-01-04 | Author:A. L. Sowards

Chapter Twenty-One Gil had been right to worry about our entry into the Cadmea. The Hypsistai Gates had double the normal guard. “I recognize the blond one in the back,” ...
( Category: Medieval December 19,2022 )
The Hidden Abbey by Jodine Turner
epub |eng | | Author:Jodine Turner [Turner, Jodine]

32 Glastonbury, England Present Day Sophie jogged the steep lane up Wearyall Hill, to the B&B to retrieve the handwritten pages from her desk where she’d left them. She took ...
( Category: Fantasy December 19,2022 )
The Blade of the Courtesans by Keiichiro Ryu
epub |eng | 2023-03-07 | Author:Keiichiro Ryu [Ryu, Keiichiro]

* * * — Her white skin seemed to shine. Seiichiro felt her skin seemed brighter now that she was lying on the futon than when she had sat on ...
( Category: Japanese December 19,2022 )
Defending Danger by Vella Wendy
epub |eng | 2022-07-09 | Author:Vella, Wendy

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Dorrie was raised in a family of seven. She’d shared a bed with her sister and knew what it was to be scared and tired. But this, the ...
( Category: Regency December 19,2022 )
The Kimono Tattoo by Rebecca Copeland
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Rebecca Copeland

CHAPTER ELEVEN PHOENIXES “Why don’t you take a bath,” Hiro suggested when we got back to his house. He was eager to get to the kitchen where he had plans ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 19,2022 )
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
epub |eng | 2022-09-27 | Author:Vasily Grossman

17 THE COMMISSAR In the morning Myshansky appeared at Bogariov’s forest command post. “Good morning, Comrade Commissar,” he said cheerily. “Seems we meet again!” Myshansky’s men were unshaven, their tunics ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2022 )
The Scorching Wind by Walter Macken
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Macken [Macken, Walter]

Chapter Sixteen ONE THING leads to another. If you set up land courts, you have to set up ordinary courts, and when those make decrees, they have to be enforced. ...
( Category: Irish December 19,2022 )
Out of the Mountain's Shadow by Rose Alexander
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Rose Alexander

Chapter Nineteen Albania, 1943 I casually stroll to the door and put my finger to my lips, gesturing to the Jews that they must be silent. The building is built ...
( Category: World War II December 19,2022 )

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