Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Jennifer L. Holm [Holm, Jennifer L.]

CHAPTER NINE or, Pouring Tea and Coffee I was situated on the beach, working on a rather dismal watercolor of the bay, when it became clear that I needed less ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:McGraw, Eloise Jarvis [McGraw, Eloise Jarvis]

Chapter 15 The Signal BUT WAITING was hardest. A day dragged by, then another, without word from the priest. Sheftu had spoken to Ashor early; the diggers were arranged for ...
( Category: Mysteries & Thrillers August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Caroline B. Cooney

She is in an interview room with a woman who claims to be her lawyer. The woman is heavy and lumpy. She wears a navy-blue suit in a fabric Lander ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Ann Rinaldi [Rinaldi, Ann]

THIRTEEN S o the spring I was fifteen I paid another visit to Mary. And I couldn't help but notice. She treated me like a woman now. "You know John ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Daniel Polansky

YEARS IN THE SENATE Once in the Senate, Johnson gained more power and responsibility. He made friends with important congressional leaders and quickly improved his social standing. In part because ...
( Category: Biographies August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-27 | Author:Martin Fournier

Radisson found his other sister cooking in the Jesuits’ big kitchen. He didn’t want to startle the most fragile member of the family and so he stood back in the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-19 | Author:Jack Mitchell [Mitchell, Jack]

The Manuscript arkness saved us. The wind from the highland grew stronger as the sun set. We were aware of frantic calls and shouts on the dock behind as they ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Bette Greene [Greene, Bette]

16 AS THEY MOVED with an almost mechanical gait toward me, the growing crescent of my townspeople chanted, “Jew Nazi lover ... Jew Nazi lover ... Jew Nazi lover.” I ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Robin LaFevers [LaFevers, Robin]

Chapter Twenty-Five SINCE I AM DRESSED IN one of Ismae’s habits, the guard at the palace door salutes respectfully and makes no move to prevent my leaving. I step out ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:John Boyne [Boyne, John]

Chapter Eleven THE FURY Some months earlier, just after Father received the new uniform which meant that everyone had to call him 'Commandant’ and just before Bruno came home to ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-26 | Author:Valerie Sherrard

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Mr. Cullwick!” Mrs. Chapman sputtered. “But I thought ...” Cullwick stepped inside and sat down at a bench beside the table. He looked so weary and discouraged that ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-25 | Author:Lauren Baratz-Logsted [Baratz-Logsted, Lauren]

Except when it isn’t, I thought, my hand growing sticky, trapped in the middle of the stack of other hands. Truth, it turned out, was even worse than Rigmarole. The ...
( Category: Historical Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-16 | Author:Cabot, Meg [Cabot, Meg]

Victoria And The Rogue CHAPTER TEN Victoria stood before the mirror in the bedroom she and Rebecca shared, carefully twirling one strand of brown hair around each of her index ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Ian Serraillier [Serraillier, Ian]

Chapter 17 The Signal It was the middle of June. In spite of the long spell of unbroken weather, Edek was no better. At night, as they lay under the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Ernest Thompson Seton

And now Hoag showed his true character. “Them’s my furs and my canoe,” he said to one of the mill hands, and turning to the two who had saved him, ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping August 17,2017 )