Historical Fiction
mobi |eng | 1996-10-01 | Author:Ann Rinaldi

Chapter Twenty-two DECEMBER 1767 My poem about Messrs. Hussey and Coffin was published that December, right before Christmas, in the Newport Mercury. Unbenownst to me, Mrs. Wheatley worked her magic ...
( Category: Children's United States Biographies December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-23 | Author:Michael Morpurgo [Michael Morpurgo]

The soldiers just shot them up against the barn wall, and the sound of it echoed around the mountains. It was my jacket that did it, my jacket that killed ...
( Category: Sports November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Suzy Zail [Zail, Suzy]

The commandant, Karl, and I were in the music room. Vera had been sent to the kitchen to make tea. “What’s taking her so long?” the commandant grumbled. “For heaven’s ...
( Category: Holocaust November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:William Osborne [Osborne, William]

They had just minutes to retrieve their packs. They clambered aboard the train as the platform guard blew his whistle and the train pulled out of the station. They managed ...
( Category: Mystery & Thriller November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Rysa Walker [Walker, Rysa]

∞13∞ I sit down at the small kitchen table and pull my helmet off. The inside is now a nearly uniform shade of gray. I run my finger across it, ...
( Category: Time Travel November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Sherry Ficklin [Ficklin, Sherry]

Click above for access to bonus video footage. http://bit.ly/1rzaF3C We walk slowly through the outer chamber and into the hall, down the corridor and to an area I don’t think ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Christine Johnson

Chapter Twelve Trapped. Vince and Minnie had sandwiched Peter between dazzling promise and desperate need. He couldn’t back out now. Even though he’d wired Vince earlier in the week and ...
( Category: 20th Century November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-07 | Author:Sue Reid

Monday 15 January Jean was right. When I went on duty last night the patients smiled at me and for once they all did exactly as I asked. In a ...
( Category: Historical Fiction November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Jennifer Anne Davis [Davis, Jennifer Anne]

Darmik “Get up,” Neco demanded. Darmik couldn’t imagine going on with his life now that he’d failed so miserably. He’d not only let his entire kingdom down, but the woman ...
( Category: Fantasy November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Catherine Fisher

Bladud To build a masterpiece, a man must first learn about the earth. He must discover the secrets of how to enclose space, because this controls the behavior of people. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Gerard Whelan [Gerard Whelan]

Dead Man’s Music I was thirteen years old when I found the dead man in the barn, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I’d seen dead people before, ...
( Category: Europe November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Caroline Tung Richmond

At Bastian’s insistence, they headed back to the barn, even though Zara didn’t want to leave her uncle’s side just yet. But Bastian wouldn’t take no for an answer. Once ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Sarah Jamila Stevenson

15 Gwr dieithr yw yfory. Tomorrow is a stranger. Welsh proverb The car careened up the narrow country lane. Mom’s face was pale, her lips pressed tightly together, and I ...
( Category: Europe November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Chris Blake [Chris Blake]

Zuma gulped. “Uh-oh!” “Faster!” cried Tom. “Paddle faster, or we’re done for!” They redoubled their efforts and at the last second the canoe pulled clear, rocketing down the right-hand branch ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Kevin Crossley-Holland [Crossley-Holland, Kevin]

When Torsten untethered the boat, the port oarsmen eased her away from the quay with their blades. The whole crew cheered, and on board their barrel-shaped boat, the Bulgars waved ...
( Category: Europe November 22,2014 )