Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Nicholls

A Storm in a Hobnailed Boot IT WAS A rainy Saturday, the worst sort of day. All of the Swancotts hated rain. The children, cooped up with nothing to do ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Starr [Starr, David]

Chapter 21 Thick clouds turn the late December skies above Fort St. James black. A strange metallic tang in the air sits right on the tip of my tongue as ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Jean Rae Baxter [Baxter, Jean Rae]

Chapter fourteen It was burning hot, as hot as a July day could be — not a breath of air stirring. Charlotte felt dizzy and her head ached from the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Mary Hooper [Hooper, Mary]

Chapter ~ 14 As one, the room turned and stared at the black-hatted figure at the back of the room. “On whose authority do you speak, sir?” Dr. Petty asked ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-04 | Author:Deanna K. Klingel [Klingel, Deanna K.]

Chapter 10 The Tutor Though the mother is disappointed that Rebecca can’t attend school with the other children, she doesn’t give up totally. She believes education is important for Rebecca. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Scott Mebus [Mebus, Scott]

Scraggly Beard (whose real name was Michael O’Shea) stepped up to the door once it closed. He didn’t know where that kid had come from, and he didn’t want to ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dan Rubenstein & Nancy Dyson [Rubenstein, Dan & Dyson, Nancy]

CHAPTER TEN Saving an Enemy We stared at the burning steamboat. All of a sudden, I gasped, “I see Master Jeff! I see him in the water.” In the light ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Tim Tingle [Tingle, Tim]

Chapter 13 Soldiers in the Shadows Jane arrived at her family’s campsite to hear her father snoring and rolling out of his blanket. “What was that noise!” he shouted. Jane ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Lesley Livingston

XI THE SEA RUSHED to meet the rugged contours of the wild Corsican coast as if it had been too long away from the kiss of land. To the north ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Marie Silk [Silk, Marie]

PART II In the seasons that followed, the world faced a new crisis that proved worse than the War. An outbreak of Spanish Flu, together with the shortage of medical ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Lincoln Collier [Collier, James Lincoln and Collier, Christopher]

Chapter Eight We went along mighty slow for a couple more days. The Yankees didn’t know the country: a few times we made wrong turnings and had to backtrack for ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Gwenda Bond

* I thrash in my sleep. Sidekick’s periodic low whining makes for a restless night. Despite that, I’m tired enough to get some shut-eye, but not soundly. Instead I watch ...
( Category: Historical Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Don Patterson [Patterson, Don]

Less than twenty minutes later, the planes of the 14th Squadron roared over Hampton Airfield. On the ground, the command officers looked up to the sky and the aircrews rushed ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Don Patterson [Patterson, Don]

CHAPTER NINE SEARCHING FOR LIGHT Tense minutes slowly passed, while the two RAF Spitfires raced home to Hampton Airfield. Above them high clouds started drifting in, covering the once starry ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Don Patterson [Patterson, Don]

CHAPTER NINE FIRE UP THE SPITFIRES Harry continued shouting over the rumbling explosions and gunfire, "Captain Simms, you still have all three Spitfires! The Germans can't see them through the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 4,2018 )