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Edmund Bertram's Diary by Amanda Grange
epub, mobi | | 2008-08-14 | Author:Amanda Grange [Grange, Amanda]

NOVEMBER Friday 11 November And so it has happened at last. This morning Maria was married. The wedding went wel , with Maria being in good looks and elegantly dressed, ...
( Category: Historical April 17,2015 )
The Blue and the Grey by Trow M.J
mobi |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Trow, M.J. [Trow, M.J.]

Lafayette rested his back, glad the work was finished. It was unseasonably warm for a May evening, and his shirt was clinging to his back. ‘News from our friend, Lu,’ ...
( Category: Historical April 9,2015 )
Meadowlands by Jeffrey Elizabeth
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Jeffrey, Elizabeth [Jeffrey, Elizabeth]

There was a chorus of assent and then someone shouted, ‘Three cheers for Miss Gina …’ ‘And Miss Polly,’ someone called. ‘Thass right. An’ Doctor Max. Hip, hip …’ ‘Hooray.’ ...
( Category: Family Saga April 9,2015 )
Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Robert Fabbri [Fabbri, Robert]

CHAPTER XI ‘THE KING OF Armenia runs from no man no matter what my aunt Tryphaena expects me to do.’ Radamistus did not look at Vespasian as he made this ...
( Category: Military April 9,2015 )
Jean Plaidy by The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York [York, The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of]

I do not know how I managed to suppress my excitement during that day. I was with Isabel in the afternoon. We sat over our needlework as we often did. ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-11-10 | Author:Gideon Defoe

Nine I Ride with the Bandit King! After a game of chess that the Pirate Captain later told the pirates he deliberately let Ahab win because he still felt guilty ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Frank Delaney

PART FOUR The Pursuit of the Past 76 We got clean away. Old joke about a dog chasing a car: What does he do with it when he catches it? ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 5,2015 )
The Tattoo Artist A Novel by Jill Ciment
mobi |eng | 2005-08-15 | Author:Jill Ciment

CHAPTER THIRTEEN ll that remained of my drawings the next morning was a dusting of ash on Philip’s skin, except for two remarkably intact images—the black ship on his chest ...
( Category: Canadian April 5,2015 )
Sarai by Smith Jill Eileen
mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Smith, Jill Eileen [Smith, Jill Eileen]

Lot savored the fermented juice, then replaced the cap on the flask and let it hang from his belt. His tension eased only slightly as he took in the view ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth April 5,2015 )
(2007) Tomorrow by Graham Swift
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Graham Swift

18 PICTURE US, ANYWAY—and mock us, if you will—in our bedroom in Herne Hill, in the first weak light of dawn, our backs grimly turned on each other, waiting, hoping ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Janet Mullany

Chapter 12 “I am happy to announce a complete cure, Mrs. Austen. Your daughter is well again.” Jane watched in fascination as Luke, sitting next to her mother on the ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Helen Dunmore

Chapter Eight THERE WAS A place for his head between her chin and her breast. They lay for a long time like that, slowly returning to themselves. Perhaps they’d been ...
( Category: Ghosts April 5,2015 )
The New Countess by Fay Weldon
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fay Weldon

Part 2 What Happened Next …in Minnie’s Life Minnie marvelled at how quickly things could change. Three weeks after her flight from Dilberne Court, she stood in her stockinged feet ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Graham Swift

18 The telephone was ringing on the little shelf next to the doorway into the stock room. Above it, on the wall, was the list of vital telephone numbers (St ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
Marrying Off Mother by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Jury The river steamer Dolores broke down — as river steamers are wont to do — midway between her point of departure and her destination at Meriada, a small ...
( Category: Fauna April 5,2015 )

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