Biographical
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Sharon Kay Penman

Sharon Kay Penman ogy to John's concubine for his bad manners. Her own manners were in need of mending, for she ignored him utterly, devoting all of her attention to ...
( Category: Ghosts April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Plaidy, Jean [Plaidy, Jean]

The day of William’s departure came. Mary wept openly. “You must take the greatest care of yourself,” she cried. “I fear the climate. They say it is very damp. It ...
( Category: Biographical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Robert Graves

AULUS, as I have already related, landed in Britain without meeting any opposition. He built a strong base camp at Richborough, which he garrisoned with veterans from each regiment, pulled ...
( Category: Biographical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-14 | Author:Jean Plaidy

François was an immediate success at Court. The King could not help being amused by his high spirits, nor admiring his energy. In addition he was already witty, so that ...
( Category: Family Saga April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1955-08-15 | Author:Jean Plaidy

HE CAME INTO her presence, arrogant as ever; and she was conscious of his veiled insolence. “My lord Bothwell, you have been guilty of an outrage. You have broken into ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Alison Weir

Later, when the rest have gone, Dorset and I share a flask of hippocras before the dying fire. “I know what people say about me,” I muse. “That I am ...
( Category: Biographical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Plaidy, Jean [Plaidy, Jean]

The tiring day was over. Lucrezia’s women clustered about her to help her undress. They removed the mulberry and gold gown and the jeweled headdress; they combed the long golden ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Jean Plaidy

After that I suffered such a tragedy that I forgot all my anxieties about everything else. My little Anne fell ill. She had always been the delicate one and had ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1998-04-07 | Author:Giles Foden

22 It was about a week after the boat trip that Wasswa called me at the hospital. Choosing a reverse, vaccinatory way of trying to cheer myself up after the ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers April 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Jackson, Jeff [Jackson, Jeff]

CHAPTER 5 MY LIFE IN EXILE (15 years old) “What will we do to disappear?” –Maurice Blanchot I’M NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO TRAFFIC SIGNALS. My gaze is trained on my ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 3,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Monica Ali

Chapter Seventeen When Wednesday came around again Lydia helped Amber change the window display. They lifted down the four mannequins and stripped them and dismembered their arms. The mannequins bore ...
( Category: Biographical March 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

MY FATHER’S HOUSE ONE MORNING IN THE YEAR AFTER the end of the war (the Good War, that is, the second War to End All Wars) when I had returned ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Sue Grafton [Grafton, Sue]

I FOUND THE NEAREST public phone and dialed Sis’s motel room again. “Catch this,” I said. “At four o’clock, Justine takes off for Los Angeles. From there, she flies to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland [Rowland, Laura Joh]

24 THE STEAM PACKET LABORED ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, the paddle wheels churning noisily, funnels belching smoke, and sails billowing. I stood on the deck, my eyes dazzled by the ...
( Category: Historical March 27,2014 )

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