Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:D. M. Pirrone [Pirrone, D. M.]

TWENTY-FOUR Detective.” Guthrie took a moment to collect himself. “Hanley, isn’t it? Your mother requested a sewing machine, if I recall rightly.” “Yes.” The unexpected question rattled Hanley somewhat, but ...
( Category: Jewish December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:MacKinlay Kantor

7. By six o’clock, Bale estimated that at least three thousand men had passed along the Chambersburg Pike and through adjacent fields—more men than he had ever seen at one ...
( Category: Military December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guy Walters

Lockhart could hear the hubbub of the POWs inside the theater, obviously excited, looking forward to a break in the arduous camp routine. Jüttner had assured Lockhart and his men ...
( Category: World War II December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Charis Michaels

Chapter Thirteen The problem, Stoker thought, with touching Sabine, was that once he touched her, he did not want to let her go. Ever. Not to walk home (or in ...
( Category: Medieval December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leigh Russell [Russell, Leigh]

26 The following day, my husband rose in good spirits and announced that he was going to the city to witness Henriette’s trial. ‘We shall see the witch burned before ...
( Category: Renaissance December 11,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-11 | Author:Lesley Crewe

* * * It was noon the next day when Emmeline finally gave Emily a call to let her know she was ready for company. She’d spent the morning unpacking ...
( Category: World War I December 11,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Instaread [Instaread]

Katherine of Aragon Margaret often thinks of her sister-in-law as “Katherine of Arrogant,” a play on words that doesn’t seem apt. As a narrator, Margaret isn’t always capable of reading ...
( Category: Scottish December 11,2022 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-15 | Author:Bridget Geegan Blanton

THE McKINNEYS OF KENMORE Mary Sullivan sat at the long wooden counter peeling potatoes, trying not to talk out loud to herself. Every so often, a phrase would be vocalized ...
( Category: Irish December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Rinaldi

Nineteen THE GLORIOUS TENTH The submarine, the Lilith, sailed without him. “Am I going to regret this?” he asked Melita. Her eyes seemed to dissolve, out of focus. “You should ...
( Category: Military December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:L. Ron Hubbard

The miners and punchers and townspeople looked up at her through the hot dust and stared. She was white with rage and her eyes flamed at them. Another hand tried ...
( Category: Short Stories December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Joyce DiPastena [DiPastena, Joyce]

“Heléne. Heléne.” Heléne did not know when the persistent hissing evolved into a voice. In the back of her disordered mind, she had thought it the rustling of the breeze ...
( Category: Medieval December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Robert Cantwell

10. WALT HE had no quarrel with Winters; he only thought it was senseless to drive the car over the tideflat and that Winters was making a fool of himself ...
( Category: German December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Louis Nowra

ACT TWO SCENE ONE The living room of a working-class house, morning. A coffin lies on a table surrounded by flowers. FRANCIS stands before it. MRS WITCOMBE, a neighbour, enters. ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken

CHAPTER 12 –The Wake TUESDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 1980 It was all over. Father Martin had come around, extended his sympathy to Carl and quickly left for another function. The undertaker ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:Wilma Counts [Counts, Wilma]

Twelve “I told you Cosette would be bad business,” Molly said conversationally one evening as she and Cymberly helped Maggie and Amitabha set up their joint camp. Once again, Sergeant ...
( Category: Regency December 10,2022 )