Historical
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

Well, so what, I thought. I felt alive and angry in that wonderful taxing way in which you feel alive and angry when someone is firing a gun at you. ...
( Category: Biographical July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Lauren Willig [Willig, Lauren]

FOURTEEN Herne Hill, 1849 Imogen’s words stopped Gavin in his tracks, clenching around his heart like a fist. Her voice behind him was unsteady, shaking. “How can you simply turn ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:Keneally, Thomas [Keneally, Thomas]

CHAPTER 24 The Oskar Schindler who dismounted from his horse these days in the factory yard of Emalia was still the prototypical tycoon. He looked sleekly handsome in the style ...
( Category: Jewish July 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-02 | Author:Connie Willis [Willis, Connie]

“. . . they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy June 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Lauren Owen

Chapter Eighteen There were patches of memory from before that day—a small cold room, something sparkling on a wooden floor, a man shouting—but this was the first thing Adeline remembered ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy June 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-23 | Author:Winston Groom

JAKE EXULTED SILENTLY when he received the radio signal that told him his letter to Joe Rochefort had made its way to Washington and been accepted. He had maintained the ...
( Category: World War II June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

*** It was a long, hot and extremely difficult day, mostly spent trudging from one unproductive interview to another. It was not until nearly seven in the evening that Tellman, ...
( Category: Historical June 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-25 | Author:Mary Jo Putney

Chapter 23 Shaking, Kit closed her eyes. Perhaps this was another nightmare and soon she would wake. But the masculine weight and texture of the body pinning her to the ...
( Category: Regency June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-04 | Author:Charles Belfoure

33 “I knew you’d show up.” Lucien settled on the chaise lounge and reached out to accept the glass of cognac from Manet, then drained it in one gulp. It ...
( Category: Military June 23,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Paris Wife, The

( Category: Biographical June 20,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Rules of Engagement

( Category: Regency June 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-18 | Author:Amanda Grange [Grange, Amanda]

A M A N D A G R A N G E satisfaction; it is, that I condescended to adoptthe measures of art so far as to conceal from him ...
( Category: European June 6,2014 )
mobi | | 2010-04-27 | Author:Jessica Benson

By the end of my recitation of events, Cecy was looking thoughtful. “I can tell you a few tricks that will wipe Mathilde out of his mind. And,” she continued, ...
( Category: Regency June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1925-01-02 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

The Secret of Chimneys Chapter 16 TEA IN THE SCHOOLROOM Anthony regained the terrace with the feeling uppermost in his mind that the only safe place for private conversations was ...
( Category: Murder June 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

The Big Four Chapter 12 THE BAITED TRAP It was mid-January - a typical English winter day in London, damp and dirty. Poirot and I were sitting in two chairs ...
( Category: Murder June 1,2014 )