Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Arthur Phillips

Thursday, 23 November, 1922 Earliest hours after midnight. I write by lantern light now as the men share a meal, and stretch their legs and aching backs before we return ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Skip Horack

HE WAS STILL sitting alone in front of his tent when he saw the soldier Xavier exit the barracks and begin walking toward him. Kau watched as he approached. The ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Alice Hoffman

THE SENTRIES caught him one night in the month of Cheshvan when the air was glazed with cold. It was the beginning of the rainy season, the time of the ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-22 | Author:Robert Alexander

Chapter 28 PAVEL Who could you trust? No one. In short, our plan for me to dress up like a chorister and blow up the Tsar was found out. Stupid ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Juliet Gael

Chapter Eighteen A freezing mist hung in the air as Arthur trudged through the winding ginnels of Gauger’s Croft, past yards where chickens and pigs scavenged in the rotting refuse. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Robert Goolrick

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SHE COULDN’T STOP. It was like a drug she had stayed away from for too long. She wrote to Truitt. She told him she was making progress, but ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-10 | Author:Arthur Golden

chapter nineteen That startling month in which I first came upon the Chairman again—and met Nobu, and Dr. Crab, and Uchida Kosaburo—made me feel something like a pet cricket that ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Meg Waite Clayton

ALL THAT FALL, even with so much going on, I worked on “Michelangelo's Ghost,” revising and revising. As the Chicago Eight became the Chicago Seven, as two million people participated ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

Outside, in a cold, deserted street near Chelsea Harbour, John Veals pulled out his blue cellphone, the one he used for intra-office calls, scrolled down to Martin Ryman's name and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Chris Bohjalian

“I knew I was going to make my life here eleven years ago. It was June 4, 1944,” Milton was saying on Saturday night to the group of American and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Lynn Sheene

That night, Claire curled up inside the open windowsill of her balcony, her forgotten blanket puddled around her legs on the wood floor. A siren shrilled in the distance. She ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Rhys Bowen

I arrived back home looking rather the worse for wear, having been squashed into a train and then a trolley with a sticky, dirty mass of humanity. I’d have loved ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-21 | Author:Anchee Min

Li knelt before me wearing his prized double-eyed peacock-feather hat and yellow silk field marshal's riding jacket. I was afraid of what he would say. It seemed only a short ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Tracy Chevalier

‘The strongest scenes in Tracy Chevalier's charming novel concern the lives of the craftsmen in late 15th-century Brussels weaving the tapestries … the novel neatly presents a weave of first-person ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Chadwick, Elizabeth [Chadwick, Elizabeth]

Seduction of any kind had to wait. The wedding ceremony was a brief, simple affair. Their hands bound by Hubert Walter's purple stole, they gave their oaths. Fulke produced a ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )