Biographical
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 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Taylor Brown [Taylor Brown]

36 Altamaha River, Day 3 “Poachers,” says Lawton. “I don’t like it.” They are standing beneath the houseboat, Lawton slipping on his fins. “You don’t know they’re poachers,” says Hunter. ...
( Category: Biographical March 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

SCENE Villa and Zapata meet in the castle of Chapultepec. It is in the same throne room where we have seen Zapata as a young delegate, and now these two ...
( Category: Biographical February 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:Christina Baker Kline

I’M APPREHENSIVE ABOUT seeing Walton for the first time after the long winter apart, but he gives me a warm hug and a kiss on the cheek. “I have a ...
( Category: Biographical February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:George Saunders

LX. Left behind on the roof of the white stone home, I resolved to make one final attempt to talk sense to the boy, who lay nearly insensate at my ...
( Category: Ghosts February 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Irina Reyn

I love you here and now, with tears and with laughter. “Beautiful, not half bad,” the men exclaim, palms pounding on tables. “Gor’ko!” The staff rush to refill glasses while ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michelle Moran

Part 2 Fecundity LINING UP OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKES AND ARCHDUCHESSES FOR THE FIGHT OVER THE SUCCESSION HAS BEGUN-BELIEF THAT THE TROUBLE, WHICH WILL COME WITH ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brad Watson

THE NEXT DAY a buckboard with an older man and a younger man came rattling by the house on its way down to the Temple cabin. In a little while ...
( Category: Biographical July 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I have given an Account already of what I found to ha’ been the Case down the River among the Sea-faring Men, how the Ships lay in the Offing, as ...
( Category: Biographical July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Sandra Gulland [Gulland, Sandra]

Chapter Twenty NICOLAS FOUQUET WELCOMED his royal guests to his new château with an effusive show of grandeur. “This modest fete is in your honor, Your Majesty.” Attired in lace ...
( Category: Biographical July 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

CHAPTER 29 Back home, she never thought of six miles as a long distance. She had walked twice that far on the leafy, winding trail along the St. Joseph River ...
( Category: Biographical June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:David Lagercrantz [Lagercrantz, David]

22 THERE HAD BEEN a voraciousness about Mrs. Duffy which stayed with him, a vulgarity which got under his skin and set his nerves jangling. However hard he tried, he ...
( Category: Biographical May 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Ride the Wind

CHAPTER 32 Ben McCulloch was satisfied. The chief had made the fatal error. Maybe it was overconfidence. Maybe it was an arrogant challenge, a gauntlet thrown down to the Texans. ...
( Category: Biographical May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Stephen O'Connor

“Ah, Sally—come in!” Thomas Jefferson is seated at his desk, in that strange chair of his own devising in which she once spun until she became nauseated. (She has kept ...
( Category: Biographical May 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-08 | Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

THIRTY DESPITE MASTER HERACLES’ oft-repeated assurances of a swift journey home, three months later I was still aboard the ship with him. The summer was fading into autumn golds and ...
( Category: Biographical May 4,2016 )

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