Historical
epub |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Naomi Novik [Novik, Naomi]

Chapter 10 I AM AN OFFICER NOW,though,” Temeraire said, “so I do not see why I must wait.” “You might be a general, and it will not make you any ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Blake, Sarah [Sarah, Blake,]

1941 The Postmistress WAR WAS COMING, everyone said it, though it was hard to believe what they said. Outside the windows here, gulls and swallows divided an undivided sky; the ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Michael David Lukas

Chapter Fourteen The Commander of the Faithful, His Excellency Sultan Abdulhamid II put down his book and stared out the green tiled doorway of his mother’s quarters. Her courtyard was ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:David Thompson [Thompson, David]

Chapter XI Cologne's Temple of Venus was a small, unassuming wooden structure which stood in stark contrast to the nearby Temple of Mars. The latter was a veritable fortress of ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 12,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Haines, Jess [Jess, Haines,]

Chapter 25 It didn’t take long to find a suitable jacket in the mall. I needed something that would hide the weaponry well enough for me to get my foot ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:FÉLIX J. PALMA [PALMA, FÉLIX J.]

23 When the girl and the guide vanished along the steep path, Captain Derek Shackleton left his hiding place and paused for a few moments looking at where the woman ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Tim Westover [Westover, Tim]

Chapter Seventeen Three months later, on a gray morning, Holtzclaw and Shadburn stood on a dais high above the valley. The dais stood at the center of an iron bridge ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:C. R. Daems & J. R. Tomlin [Daems, C. R.]

CHAPTER TWELVE Jaddahan warriors to Dassel: Shadow tactics Two days later, Anton Talon rode alongside Warrior Tafadzwa, who commanded the three hundred Jaddahan warriors, toward the city of Dassel. Sweat ...
( Category: Epic June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Peter Dawes [Dawes, Peter]

Chapter Eleven Long silences filled our southward journey, our horses walking at a brisk, but manageable pace. My mind wandered several times throughout the duration of the day, revisiting the ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-30 | Author:Debra Holland [Holland, Debra]

CHAPTER NINETEEN A jolt of energy surged through Tharon’s body, followed by a quick instinct to protect Sadie. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her move to ...
( Category: Epic June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Rod Duncan [Duncan, Rod]

Chapter 22 You will not trick a man until you learn to read him. But you will never trick a man who has learned to read you. The Bullet Catcher’s ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Wallace

THIRTY-THREE The crew had cleared the luncheon table and the three passengers were lingering over coffee, Eyre smoking a cigar and Effie Simpson retelling the story of their wedding day ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Melissa Scott [Scott, Melissa]

Alma pushed her hair back from her eyes, swinging her wedding ring over the tourist map that Lewis and Jerry tried to hold steady in the alley behind a closed ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Tade Shimataka’s white cape swirled about him like snow. He was himself like snow upon a black mountain. “Fight me on the ground!” said Hamba, and Kiso’s man was willing, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 12,2015 )