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The Knight of the Sacred Lake by Rosalind Miles
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Rosalind Miles

CHAPTER 32 The two hooded figures trod carefully down the hill. The first snow of winter had clothed the island in white, and a mantle of ice had all but ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
The Cardinal's Court by Cora Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Cora Harrison

10 The queen was to have supper in her own chambers this evening and she had invited the cardinal to share her meal. The rest of the guests from the ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Hartshorne [Hartshorne, Pamela]

Chapter Thirteen At first it seemed as if it might indeed be so. ‘You are in good looks tonight, wife,’ Robert said, loudly enough for others to hear. He took ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
The Voyage of the Destiny by Robert Nye
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Robert Nye [Nye, Robert]

23 25 April Sun like a lump of coughed-up blood in the sky. Rifts and shifts in this hell-born mist. The fog is lifting. Yet the ship hardly stirs. There’s ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
The Heroic Garrison by V. A. Stuart
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:V. A. Stuart

CHAPTER FIVE The rear-guard and Colonel Napier’s reinforcements marched into the Residency as dawn was breaking on the morning of September 27, and both General Outram and General Havelock were ...
( Category: War & Military May 21,2017 )
A Warriner to Protect Her by Virginia Heath
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Virginia Heath

Chapter Thirteen Fifteen days and thirteen hours remaining... With only four days to go till Christmas Eve, Letty was determined to get into the spirit of the Season despite everything ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie by Cecily Ross
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Cecily Ross

JANUARY 20, 1833 My foolish and short-lived vocation as a teacher has been thoroughly crushed. Old Joe Harris arrived on my doorstep this morning in a half-drunken state. It took ...
( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:David Lodge [Lodge, David]

She wrote very shortly after his return home to say how much she had enjoyed their talk in her rooms, and how greatly she appreciated his support and encouragement. He ...
( Category: Biographical May 18,2017 )
Setting Free the Kites by Alex George
epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Alex George

NINETEEN For the rest of that spring, Nathan and I returned to Lewis’s house once a week. Each time I brought another of Liam’s records. Every visit followed the same ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 27,2017 )
The Enemies of Versailles by Sally Christie
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Christie

Chapter Thirty-One In which Madame Adélaïde displays great fixity of purpose We are here to witness this triumph of the Bourbons and of the monarchy. My father at the center ...
( Category: Biographical March 24,2017 )
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Siak Chin Yoke Selina
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Siak Chin Yoke, Selina

27 Ten days before my daughter Hui Fang’s wedding, I went to all our friends and relatives to distribute invitations. I must have been unusually flustered. Money would have been ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2017 )
Kydd 07 - Command by Julian Stockwin
mobi |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Julian Stockwin

Chapter 8 “Dear fellow, it was nothing! We were signalled to investigate the firing and there you were, helpless as a sucking shrimp under the guns of the Frenchy.” Winthrop, ...
( Category: Historical February 28,2017 )
Kydd 08 - The Admiral's Daughter by Julian Stockwin
mobi |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Julian Stockwin

· · · The Collector of Customs for Penzance closed the curtains of the Long Room. “I’m sorry to have to ask ye to come at such an hour this ...
( Category: Historical February 28,2017 )
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Paulette Jiles

TWELVE HE HAD TWENTY cartridges left. He clicked out the cylinder and reloaded. He smiled at her as she came back. You are most amazing, he said. She acknowledged this ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 26,2017 )
The Death of Robin Hood by Donald Angus
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Donald, Angus [Donald, Angus]

Chapter Twenty Knights did come to Cassingham that hot July afternoon. But they were not French. They were a quartet of Norman knights, some of the very few lords of ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2017 )

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