Historical
mobi |eng | 2006-10-30 | Author:David Gemmell

XIX WINGS OVER OLYMPOS I The days were becoming increasingly strange for Hekabe the queen. The statues that lined the garden path often smiled at her, and yesterday in the ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:David Gemmell

My dear friend, Even as you read this, our intelligence is that Nadir will be upon you. We have tried repeatedly to secure peace, having offered all that we have ...
( Category: Epic February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

* * * CHAPTER TWELVE « ^ » AD 293-296 "The court has become ever more splendid," Constantine's large script straggled across the page. In the eight years since he ...
( Category: Epic February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

17 Even before she rose from her bed, Gwenhwyfar could feel the bright sunlight through the bed-curtains—Summer is here. And then, Beltane. The very fullness of pagandom—she was sure that ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

Carausius straightened from looking at the map of the coastline, wincing as the muscles of his back protested. How long, he wondered, had he been bending over it? The map ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

The duties of an officer attached to the Procurator's staff turned out to include a number of tasks which would probably have been easy for Valerius, but which for Gaius, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-20 | Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

From the farms and from the city people went out that afternoon and found their sons and fathers and brothers dead on the field. Some carried home the bodies of ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

Chapter Fourteen If Lancelin had not been so modest and self-effacing away from the war table, Gwen would have been hard put to restrain her jealousy of his instant prominence ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

T'fyrr sat through Nightingale's last set as part of the audience, watching those who were absorbed in the beauty of her music and the power that she put into it. ...
( Category: Epic February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Paul S. Kemp

"This is an unholy place," Egil said. The priest stared into the fire, dice in hand but idle. "No argument from me. Shake those dice, will you?" "Eh? Oh." Egil ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Moses Siregar III [Siregar, Moses III]

The god Sansone stood in front of them, invisible, ten paces away. The powerful, heavyset figure clenched his hard jaw and focused on Ilario. The god carried a compact metal ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:M. J. Rose [Rose, M. J.]

Thirty-two 8:58 P.M. Jac stepped out onto the terrace and reached for the light switch. “Wait.” Griffin stopped her. “Let’s see if there’s enough ambient light.” “None of the surrounding ...
( Category: Crime February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Martin Buber [Buber, Martin]

The Rabbi of Lublin and the Iron Head Rabbi Azriel Hurwitz, rav of the city of Lublin, who was also known by the name of Iron Head, kept plaguing Rabbi ...
( Category: Mythology February 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Jack Whyte [Whyte, Jack]

BOOK TWO Brothers and Cousins GUNTHAR AND THEUDERIC 1 Gunthar's War. I have no idea why I still think of that squalid episode in those terms. It was Gunthar's, certainly; ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jack Whyte [Whyte, Jack]

TEN In the week since our return from Ravenglass, I had thought long and hard about the letter I wished to write to Germanus in Gaul, and what it should ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2015 )