Historical
epub |eng | 2023-12-15 | Author:Gabriel Bump [Bump, Gabriel]

Bounce woke in a hospital bed, Snow and Aviary flanking him in low-seated chairs. Their heads hovered around his waist. He jumped, tried to run away. Snow stood, held his ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Joseph G. Anthony [Anthony, Joseph G.]

Chapter 24 Lizzie Price , July 4,1899, Fayette County, Kentucky I won’t deny it. I thought him a fool the first time I saw him—the first time I heard him—chatting ...
( Category: Historical December 10,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sidney Thompson [Thompson, Sidney]

10 Pauls Valley The bottomland of Pauls Valley was so low that, until this morning, Bass had no recollection of ever setting foot in the town when it wasn’t muddy. ...
( Category: Historical December 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-08-21 | Author:Marie-Célie Agnant [Agnant, Marie-Célie]

* * * Charlot called today. His daughters are refusing to talk to him, and he blames me for his children’s attitude. He is their father, after all, he claims; ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2023 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Yaa Gyasi [Gyasi, Yaa]

Part Two H IT TOOK THREE POLICEMEN to knock H down, four to put him in chains. “I ain’t done nothing!” he shouted once they got him to the jail ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacqueline Friedland

AS THE HOURS TICKED ON, VIGILANCE Committee members came and went from the house, taking turns acting as our own small army against possible intrusion. Each man who entered came ...
( Category: Historical November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-15 | Author:William R. Forstchen

Chapter 8 We camped on the far side of the river and the following morning started out again, moving up closer to where the fighting was. After several hours of ...
( Category: Historical November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Alice Walker

3 “YOU CAN GET yourself a wife,” said Shipley confidentially, “and settle down here in the same house. It might need a little fixing up, but I could lend you ...
( Category: Historical October 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-21 | Author:Jesmyn Ward

THE MAN EATS HIS share at dinner. There are no scraps because he leaves none; he wipes his plates clean with bread, with his knife and fork and spoon. As ...
( Category: Historical October 23,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-15 | Author:Joe R. Lansdale [Lansdale, Joe R.]

Standers Considered, deCided either way he was screwed. He didn’t tell, he was going to suffer, then die. Maybe he told what they wanted, he’d just die. He could make ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2023 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2023-06-28 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

26 HANNAH LAVEAU We are inside New Orleans now and protected from the Confederates. The auction at the St. Louis Hotel and Exchange is shut down, and some windows in ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-04-11 | Author:Melody Fowler

November 10, 1944 Dear Dee-Dee It is near impossible to find a moment to write. Peace and quiet signifies something entirely different to me now. Silence here has the dark ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2023 )