Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Gormley, Beatrice [Gormley, Beatrice]

Back in Eleazar’s house, it was a day or so before I found a private moment at dawn to say the healing spell for my grandmother. In the following days, ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:Celine Kiernan [Kiernan, Celine]

We sat through the telly. We ate our dinner. Our father left us. All those things happened in neat little packages of time: one, then another, then another. On his ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Scott Westerfeld;Keith Thompson

The ship’s officers came a few hours later, just when Alek had managed to fall back asleep. A marine sergeant shook him awake, then snapped to attention with a painful ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Scott Westerfeld;Keith Thompson

TWENTY-TWO “It’s a zeppelin!” Alek shouted. “They’ve found us!” The wildcount looked up. “An airship, certainly. But that doesn’t sound like a zeppelin.” Alek frowned, listening hard. Other noises, tremulous ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Nancy Farmer

* * * Jack looked out over the hall. At least a hundred faces looked back at him, many of them Ivar’s men. Olaf had moved Tree Foot and Eric ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Scott Westerfeld;Keith Thompson

Three hours later Deryn found herself staring out the Leviathan’s open cargo door, a heavy pack on her back and a rocky expanse rolling past below. She sighed. Might as ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-20 | Author:Nancy Farmer

Chapter Twenty-five FROG SPAWN OMELET “The elves steal our children,” explained the king. “You have to understand that elvish life is centered on pleasure. They cannot bear to spend one ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-21 | Author:Barbara Shoup

FOURTEEN Over the next couple of weeks, Duke and I walked the sections I’d marked off on the map, Duke forging ahead in the idiotic Hawaiian shirt and RayBans he’d ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-20 | Author:Randall Platt

V. “What happened?” I demand, crashing into Mrs. Praska’s apartment. “Lorenz said Stefan’s hand was blown off!” I go to the bed, where Mrs. Praska is finishing bandaging his hand. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Belinda Kroll

“This can be no trick; the conference was sadly borne. […] Love me! Why, it must be requited. […] I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud: ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Harry Mazer [Mazer, Harry]

PART III BAIL OUT “Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer” (Words by Harold Adamson, music by Jimmy McHugh. Robbins Music Corp., 1943.) Comin’ in on a wing and ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-15 | Author:Belinda Kroll [Kroll, Belinda]

Unrepentant Leaders to be Punished Tuesday, 18 April 1865 / The Ohio Daily Statesman PRESIDENT JOHNSON TO BE MERCIFUL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE REBEL STATES—UNREPENTANT LEADERS TO BE PUNISHED. ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Louis A. Meyer

The hatch ports are open to let out the heat of the galley stove, and we can hear the sounds of the normal routine outside—the ringing of the bells of ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Westerfeld, Scott & Thompson, Keith [Westerfeld, Scott]

TWENTY-TWO “It’s a zeppelin!” Alek shouted. “They’ve found us!” The wildcount looked up. “An airship, certainly. But that doesn’t sound like a zeppelin.” Alek frowned, listening hard. Other noises, tremulous ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael P. Spradlin

“He’s in one of the old officers’ quarters on the north end of camp,” Willy said, trying to catch his breath. “How reliable is the intel, Willy?” Martin asked. “As ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 26,2017 )