epub |eng | 2020-03-29 | Author:Ariel Lawhon [Lawhon, Ariel]

CHAUDES-AIGUES PLATEAU, CANTAL, FRANCE June 5, 1944 Special message for Hélène. Anselm delivered to Montluçon this a.m. Collect immediately. I take the message from Denis Rake, read it, then shake ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Genevieve Graham

* * * Hours later he got off the train and followed the signs to the sawmill. At the door to the office, he took a breath for courage, combed ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-23 | Author:Candace Waters

Sixteen THE FIRST THING LOTTIE saw when she walked into the repair bay was a snarl of twisted, blackened metal. It took her a minute to realize that that snarl ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Leunens, Christine [Leunens, Christine]

TWELVE It must have been mid-afternoon, for the shadow of the Bulgaris’ tree invaded our backyard, forcing me to keep moving my chair every few minutes. Pimmichen tottered out of ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Miller Caldwell [Miller Caldwell]

Chapter 17 Hilda drowns She returned to the cottage feeling very low. She was determined never to relay another message to Berlin. How could she ever face the widows of ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Joseph Kertes

* * * — The evening of his parents’ fiftieth anniversary party, the Gypsy band—or Romany band, as they were more rightly called—played all of Hannah and Zoltan’s favorites, mostly ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Natalie Jenner [Jenner, Natalie]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Chawton, Hampshire Three o’clock that same afternoon Frances Knight was sitting in a small room, known as the reading alcove, that jutted out above the main entrance to ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Jerome Charyn

THE SAME COMMANDOS RETURNED HIM TO THE ADLON, but this time Erik sat up front while they passed around a bottle of liebfraumilch and sang “Schöner Gigolo.” The gigolos began ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-25 | Author:Dafna Vitale Ben Bassat [Vitale Ben Bassat, Dafna]

Profughi Ebrei (Jewish Refugees) It was cold, and the scent of urine and fear hung in the air. Dirty and desperate, I lay down next to the children, asking that ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Ray Kingfisher [Kingfisher, Ray]

Chapter 19 Toronto, 2011 Arnold’s doorbell went off. He glanced across at the wall clock and had to smile. Five thirty. Ever since the funeral, either Rebecca or Natasha had ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Anita Abriel [Anita Abriel]

* * * After they finished their rum drinks, Ricardo drove Vera home. The MG pulled up in front of Lola’s house and Ricardo turned off the engine. “Perhaps we ...

epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Black

* * * AFTER HIS FIRST FEW DAYS at the Hall, Strafford had quietly given up the taking of afternoon tea. It was this one in particular among the numerous ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Alan Furst

* * * — In the morning, heavy cloud overhead as fog settled on the city and softened the outlines of the buildings. Ricard liked fog, he used it in ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Julia Kelly

seventeen To the editor, I have been a loyal subscriber to the London Herald for twenty-three years, but I will be canceling my subscription because I cannot support a paper ...

epub |eng | | Author:S. Block

Chapter 24 THERE WAS SNOW in the air on the day of Laura’s meticulously well-planned Christmas party. Not a blizzard, but enough to send parents and children hurrying towards the ...