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Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-11-06 | Author:Daniel Kehlmann

THE MOUNTAIN By the light of a guttering oil lamp, while the wind blew past carrying more and more snowflakes, Aimé Bonpland was trying to write a letter home. If ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Les Miserables by Hugo Victor
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hugo, Victor [Hugo, Victor]

* * * BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN CHAPTER I MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP Summer passed, then the autumn; winter ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Taker by Alma Katsu
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Alma Katsu

TWENTY-SIX BOSTON, 1817 After hearing Adair’s story, I withdrew to my room in fright. I crawled onto the bed and tucked my knees under my chin. I was afraid to ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
King Arthur: Warrior of the West: Book Two by M. K. Hume
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:M. K. Hume

CHAPTER XII THE MAID AND THE MISTRESS Gruffydd’s heavy body pushed through the half-opened leather curtains and into the kitchens of Venonae, carrying a pile of gifts. The familiar comforting ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
King Arthur: The Bloody Cup: Book Three by M. K. Hume
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:M. K. Hume

Galahad permitted their beasts to take no rest on the journey to Cadbury. The horses were near to exhaustion when the two warriors reached the southern road leading to the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
King Arthur: Dragon's Child: Book One (King Arthur Trilogy 1) by M. K. Hume
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:M. K. Hume

Uther sensed that his final destiny was fast approaching. He knew that age was about to defeat the iron fist of his mind. His skin was thin and its papery ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-08 | Author:Kate Kerrigan

Chapter Twenty-Six Sheila left service and moved into an apartment on Third Avenue that Alex had rented for her. It had a little scullery kitchen, a bedroom and a boxroom, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Hannah Kent

Reverend Tóti left Björn Blöndal’s study with a pounding head. He could not stop thinking of Agnes’s pale face, her low voice in the dark, and the image of red-headed ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Paullina Simons

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Barrington, August 1944 “WHERE ARE WE GOING?” Vikki said. “And why? I don’t want to take the train to Massachusetts. I don’t want to go so far. What ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky
mobi |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

Part Nine VARYKINO 1 In the winter, when there was more time, Yuri Andreevich began to take various kinds of notes. He noted for himself: “How often during the summer ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Irene Nemirovsky

3 The Angellier ladies were leaving their house to go to Vespers when the German officer who was to lodge with them arrived. They met at the door. He clicked ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Malla Nunn

Harry the shell-shocked soldier was sitting on the post office steps when Emmanuel emerged from the one-room building with van Niekerk’s telegram safe in his pocket. It was early afternoon ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paullina Simons

It had stopped raining when Tatiana told Aunt Rita she was leaving. Uncle Boris stared wearily at his wife, at his daughter. “Marina, why does Tania want to go home? ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
TransAtlantic: A Novel by Mccann Colum
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Mccann, Colum [Mccann, Colum]

SHE WAS TAPPED on the elbow. The doctor was small and rotund. They would have to lift the men from the wagon, he said, get them onto the grass. He ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Colum McCann

LILY HAD LEFT St. Louis in the same week as her son. To be near his regiment. He was seventeen years old. A head of chestnut-colored hair. A shy boy ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )

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