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: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 | | 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 | 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 | 2016-03-13 | Author:Meg Medina [Medina, Meg]

“Where were you last night?” “‘Where were you last night?’” Hector has always been good at mimicking me. He can say the words at the same time I do. Sometimes ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-12-31 | Author:Winters, Cat [Winters, Cat]

METHODIST YOUTH PICNIC, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, CIRCA 1920s CHAPTER 15 WHO IS’T THAT CAN INFORM ME? DRESSED IN A YELLOW SKIRT AND WHITE blouse that spoke of sunshine and innocence, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-18 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]

20 RIO RICHLIN—ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY, NEW YORK HARBOR, USA “Okay, deck six, forward eight, row B, bunk number seventeen,” Rio reads off the paper in her hand. She carries ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Julia Watts [Watts, Julia]

February 22, 1945 Virgie’s been acting real strange around me lately. She’s been almost quiet—or as close to quiet as Virgie can get—and has seemed kind of far away somehow. ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Faye Gibbons [Gibbons, Faye]

11. Gid’s Big News When Halley returned to the kitchen near dark, Pa Franklin ordered her to continue tufting spreads. She ignored him. Later, in the far room Kate said, ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Brown,Teri

UNCORRECTED E-PROOF—NOT FOR SALE HarperCollins Publishers .................................................................. FOURTEEN Hunting Pack: A surveillance team of agents stalking a target from one place to another. The schoolroom routine is almost the same ...

epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Ruthanne Lum McCunn [McCunn, Ruthanne Lum]

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mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-30 | Author:Jennifer Donnelly

glean "Lou, stop." "'...then comes Junior in a baby carriage "I said stop...'" "'...sucking his thumb, wetting his pants, doin' the hula-hula dance..."' "Lou!" "You're blushing, Matt! You're sweet on ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Marian Cheatham [Cheatham, Marian]

16 “The wakes, chérie,” Mama called from the parlor on Tuesday evening. “It is time to go.” I dragged myself out of my bedroom and down the creaky hallway, struggling ...