epub |eng | 2024-06-24 | Author:Anita Chapman [Chapman, Anita]

epub |eng | 2024-07-30 | Author:Terry Cloutier [Cloutier, Terry]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN I spent three days in the marshes caring for and watching over Octavius—three long days that were easily among the best and the worst of my life. My ...

epub |eng | 2023-11-29 | Author:Pavlovic, George

Chapter Eighteen “Out! Out! They’re coming!” Palman ran out of the keep and through the packed inner courtyard, elbowing his way through men and women. Those knights who were not ...

epub |eng | 2024-07-30 | Author:Autieri, Jerry

16 The following morning Varro stepped through the routine of wearing his mail and strapping up his caligae while suppressing yawns. Sleep had eluded him despite his weariness, both physical ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Mazzucco, Melania G. [Mazzucco, Melania G.]

The Son of the Lady Tree And so he forged the lances, pliers, horseshoes, and all the other instruments the Narts needed, but then the god Lhepsch began to get ...

epub |eng | 2024-04-23 | Author:Angela Petch [Petch, Angela]

CHAPTER 26 The pub in Bletchley was lively, full of young people from the Park and Joy and Rosie enjoyed a couple of glasses of Gin and French and a ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-18 | Author:Tracy Chevalier [Chevalier, Tracy]

* * * DESPITE THE GROWTH in glass figurines, Orsola’s beadwork stagnated. Over the years Klingenberg had gradually increased his bead order as he consolidated regular customers who preferred the ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-29 | Author:Harriet Constable

15 April. Two pigeons on the Pietà windowsill coo, fluffing feathers until they are no longer birds but plump orbs with beaks. One twists and fidgets, the sun beating down ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Smith, Martin Cruz [Smith, Martin Cruz]

18 Cenzo dreamt that he was a fish in shallow water and someone was trying to skewer him with a spear. There was a great thrashing and much blood and ...

epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Smith, Martin Cruz [Smith, Martin Cruz]

HARRY FOUND KATO at the Folies, in the balcony with the manager watching a final act called “Amusing Violin.” The manager wore a greasy boater and snickered through an overbite ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Dunant, Sarah [Dunant, Sarah]

PART V A Father’s Grief Rather, had we seven papacies we would give them all to have him alive again. POPE ALEXANDER VI, JUNE 1497 CHAPTER 27 Mid-June. The days ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Clare Flynn [Flynn, Clare]

Missing Joan’s nerves were frayed. Giving up smoking was proving harder than expected and she was irascible, snapping at Jimmy when he begged her to take him into the town ...

epub |eng | 2024-04-02 | Author:Jo Piazza [Piazza, Jo]

FOURTEEN SERAFINA I woke to the sound of women’s voices all around me. They’d been coming and going since Paola drove me as far as she could up the hill ...

epub |eng | | Author:Angela Petch [Petch, Angela]

* * * They returned to their tasks for the rest of the afternoon. After Giampiero was settled for the night, Fosca served out their supper of rabbit portions roasted ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Goliarda Sapienza [Sapienza, Goliarda]

57 ‘Three months I’ve waited, Modesta. Three times I watched the moon wax and wane with the protracted pace of a life sentence. Why do you want to condemn me ...