epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Lars D. H. Hedbor [Hedbor, Lars D. H.]

George groaned and stirred, wakened by an intense, dull ache in his head, exacerbated by a fuss in a room nearby to where he had been laid down. His throat ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Sneed B. Collard III

Kyle and I went up to my room the next morning after breakfast. “Let me see that coin again,” he said. Ever since we’d found it, I’d been hiding the ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Robert T. McMaster

CHAPTER 20 Waiting February 1915 The winter of 1915 was exceptionally long and cold in New England. Snowstorms were frequent and roads often impassable for days at a time. With ...

epub |eng | | Author:William de Rham

Chapter 22 “I was born on a sugar plantation on Saint-Domingue. I grew up in the big house where Maman was cook. I was not chained or beaten, like those ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lynda Durrant

* * * Eldress Mary has volunteered Sister Agnetha to take a season’s worth of butter and cheese into Lexington. The Shakers collect cash money from the world’s people to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anna-Marie McLemore

CHAPTER XXII “I’m not going in that thing,” I said. “Don’t you want to write your mother back home and tell her that you spun in the revolving door of ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:Lisa Y. Potocar [Potocar, Lisa Y.]

For to me, sweet Jana Lass is sunshine through the heart … Chapter 12 Jana ought to be feeling regal and enjoying the ride, but the last time she was a ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Courtney McKinney-Whitaker

23. April 13, 1760 Afternoon A very young provincial private who appears to have followed Owen and me hands my basket and rifle to Amelia Williamson. She takes them, dismissing ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tamario Pettigrew [Pettigrew, Tamario]

14 IN THE BEGINNING I ain’t blame the Robinsons’. I thought they was good people. I surely didn’t blame Mr. Robinson. I thought he was broken up, too. I thought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tecla Emerson

It had been close to sunset. The hours worked that day were the longest that Bitsy could remember. The back breaking task of slashing the plants and stacking them was ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-18 | Author:Catherine Marshall

Nine How’s your mother?” Christy asked David a few minutes later. “Miss Alice is tending to her on the couch. You’ll have to forgive Mother. I told you she takes ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Catherine Marshall

Six Christy knelt down. “What is it, David?” “Jugs, lots of them! Moonshine whiskey! I should have recognized the smell.” “But . . . right here, underneath the school?” Christy ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-14 | Author:Justina Ireland

After the loss of the healer Frederick it first occurred to me that we had potentially walked into a trap. I did not know or suspect that the person who ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lizzi Tremayne

'Thank you for coming to check on her,' Xavier said from between tight lips. 'I care for her very much and will keep her safe.' 'You have my blessing to ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Lisa Y. Potocar [Potocar, Lisa Y.]

Chapter 15 Jana squinted through the dark and sleet now pelting her eyes and spied a flicker of light between the bouncing tree limbs. She remembered a farm right about ...