epub |eng | 2020-08-02 | Author:J.D. Keene [Keene, J. D.]

Chapter 12 Rome, Italy Nino’s Dormitory His room was in the basement. The cold, damp hallway felt refreshing on a warm day. “The last room on the right—room six,” the ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-30 | Author:Carmela Cattuti [Cattuti, Carmela]

Chapter 6: New Year’s Eve, 1969, Emerging The world was on the threshold of a new decade, and Angela prepared for New Year’s dinner. Snow was lightly falling, blanketing the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Margaret O'Reilly

8 THE EAGLE SOARS The future held a promise of hope for the Lady Theodora d’Aquino in her final days, but Pope Alexander IV was not as sanguine in his. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rosanne Welch

11 FEET ON THE GROUND TO STAND THEIR GROUND After the vote, the Virginia Convention placed Patrick Henry at the head of the militia, tasked with gathering enough men and ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:MaryAnn Diorio

Chapter Thirteen “Buon giorno, Franco.” Luca spoke first in a quick attempt to spare Maria more embarrassment. He’d sensed that her earlier surprise encounter with Giacomo had humiliated her enough ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:MaryAnn Diorio

Chapter Twelve Hours later, Nico found himself standing in front of Sofia’s house. His knees shaking, he knocked tentatively at the front door. It was already early evening. The sun ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:MaryAnn Diorio

Chapter Ten Luca followed Will and Giulio into the large workshop. Except for Will’s personal office, the workshop occupied the entire fourth floor of the tenement house. There was one ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kate Fuglei

Renilde Montessori greeted her daughter warmly when she returned from Milan. Knowing she would be tired and hungry, Renilde prepared one of Maria’s favorite meals, pasta marinara. Alessandro smoked a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jule Selbo

Two of the three ships that carried cargo for Chabotto Trading were lost at sea. Other merchants lamented their losses and all were petitioning the banks to pay on their ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:James Duffy

XVIII September AD 65 The physician used his sharpest scalpel to cut the flax sutures from Quintus’s forearm. The German’s bite had left a distinct indentation in his right arm, ...

epub |eng | 2005-04-21 | Author:Robert Viscusi

THE REVOLUTION — All of this was supposed to prepare him to go toItaly, where he was going to use the French Revolution to explain the Italian migration. — Idiot. ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Stewart

OOO CHAPTER FORTY ANGER It was January, and an evening mist shrouded Thulwin’s villa at Fidenae. Tullus and his escort of six Royal Guardsmen turned into the familiar entrance. Already ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nicole Gregory

Three small brown faces, barely containing their laughter, stared at Eusebio up close. As he opened his eyes, a little boy and girl burst into giggles, hopping happily around him. ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Angela Petch

‘Keep still, Ines...if you wriggle I shall be sticking the pins in you instead of in the material.’ ‘Nobody will realise it was a nightdress, Mamma , it’s just perfect. ...