Historical Fiction
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Thomas Randall

9 The warm, white sand gave way under Kara’s bare feet, sifting between her toes. Her shoes dangled from the fingers of her left hand. In spite of the sun ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret McMullan [McMullan, Margaret]

*** We drove home in silence. Even though the night air was warm, we couldn't stop shaking. "Mom," I said after a while. "Aren't you going to report this?" "Report ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Anna Godbersen

14 THE STORM MADE LANDFALL AFTER MIDNIGHT, although by then most people were indoors. On the east end of the island, windows had been boarded up and the electricity shut ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 18,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-21 | Author:Justin Richards

At that moment, in Sir William’s office at the British Museum, Garfield Berry was hunting through the papers on the desk. He found the notes from the examination that Sir ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 18,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Leanna Renee Hieber

Chapter 15 My door open, I was sitting and reading, hoping Dickens could get my mind off everything, when Bessie came into my room. “You’ve a visitor, Natalie. Miss Horowitz.” ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Pauline Gedge

9 BY THE TIME the sun had sunk red and sullen behind the western cliffs the field belonged to Pezedkhu. Those of Seqenenra’s pitiful army who had not been killed ...
( Category: British & Irish September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Arnold McCully

THOUGHTS OF MME CHOUTEAU began to weigh on his mind. He imagined she had grown accustomed to his visits and was disappointed that he hadn’t gone back in months. The ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Mark Williams

37. Faint chimes sounded playfully across my senses and I lay still, taking pleasure from the refrain. Then, as memory activated and I recalled my last moments of consciousness, I ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Alison Rattle [Alison Rattle]

29 Queenie It was hot in the kitchen. Queenie was breathless and agitated after her fast walk back from the chemist shop. Her skin was sticky and uncomfortable. Mrs Ellis ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Tanya Landman [Landman, Tanya]

XXIX The frontier was as imposing as Cassia had imagined. A wall, taller than five men. Broader than an ox-cart. Manned by soldiers who were used to being harried by ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 17,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Williams, Gary & Knerly, Vicky [Williams, Gary]

44 Aunt Rita pulled up to the high school shortly before 8:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. It was more than an hour before the first class, and the parking lot ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Gloria Craw

Chapter Nineteen Phoebe was already waiting in the lobby. Like me, she’d lined her eyes and used mascara, but her fuzzy brown hair was coming out of the bun she’d ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Monique Polak

“Your father is working too hard on those murals,” Mother tells me one afternoon soon after that. She twists some strands of dark hair around her index finger. “I worry ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Holly Bennett [Bennett, Holly]

FOURTEEN Daireann was white-faced with shock. “What do you mean, leave off ? We are to be married!” Far shook his head. His eyes were tender and sad. “No longer, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Pope, Elizabeth Marie [Pope, Elizabeth Marie]

Chapter IX The People of the Hill Kate was awakened by a light shining in her eyes. It was so sharp after the long darkness that for an instant all ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 16,2017 )