Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-11-14 | Author:Hilary Mantel

“Lafayette is in Paris,” Fabre said. “So I hear.” “You knew, Danton?” “I know everything, Fabre.” “So when are you going to tear him in little pieces?” “Restrain yourself, Fabre.” ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Ephron, Amy [Ephron, Amy]

Rosemary did as he asked, pouring herself a glass of burgundy because she thought it was appropriate and sat alone by the fire in the sheltered and sequestered silence of ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHAPTER 24 Everyone joked about people who went abroad to clean toilets, and so Obinze approached his first job with irony: he was indeed abroad cleaning toilets, wearing rubber gloves ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Madison Smartt Bell

NANON’S ROOM WAS A WHITEWASHED CUBBYHOLE underneath the eaves. There was a single small window, circular like a porthole on a ship, overlooking an alley beside the house. Its light ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Connie Willis

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. —T. S. ELIOT, FOUR QUARTETS Croydon—October 1944 MARY ROLLED DOWN THE ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Robert Alexander

You have no idea what fear shot through us when Maria Rasputina was spotted sneaking into the Sergeeivski Palace. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich was home at the time, just upstairs, ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:E. L. Doctorow

22 And now Mother’s Younger Brother began again his trips to New York. He would work at his drawing table past the dinner hour and then catch an evening train. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Smiley

AFTER all, he chose deep (“navy”) blue embossed covers with a silver title (The Universe Explained, by Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early, Ph.D., United States Navy). The frontispiece was a ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-05-12 | Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

He was awakened by a painful burning sensation: lines of ants were running up both his arms, leaving a trail of red marks on his skin. He slapped them dead ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:David Rowell

New York The laggard speed of the train allowed the faces of the mourners to come through distinctly, and many of them waved when they saw anyone from the cars ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Colm Toibin

When Marcus came I was expecting him. I heard knocking for a while and then I heard him asking a neighbour where I was. I opened the door for him. ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-15 | Author:Wayson Choy

eight IN 1939, WHEN I WAS SIX years old, the whole family—my two brothers and my sister, and all our relatives—considered me brainless. “Mo no!” Stepmother used to say in ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Julie Orringer

How could he have known it would be his last night as a resident of Paris? What might he have done, how might he have spent those hours, if he'd ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Andrew Sean Greer

I RETURNED TO my kitchen wet with rain, the paper flowers in my hat ruined, their colors bled together. I found Mrs. Green in the living room, looking out the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Simon van Booy

JOHN FRANCE, 1944 I. JOHN AWOKE IN a stew of mud and dead leaves with a fierce pain in his foot. His wristwatch had stopped a few minutes before nine. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )