Test Preparation
mobi |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XI These were the blue waters where history had been made, where the future of civilization had been decided, more than once and more than twice. Here Greek had ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The Romans had been to Ynys Trebes, of course, but they had not fortified it, only built a pair of villas on its summit. The villas were still there: King ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1988-07-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

CHAPTER XIII The fact that he had not taken off his clothes told Brown and Dobbs and Howard at dawn that Hornblower had not been as composed and self-confident as ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XI The sun at noontime was glaring down into the fort of Samaná. Within the walls the heat was pitilessly reflected inwards to a murderous concentration, so that even ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Mary Ann Shaffer

An Animal Lover From Sally Ann Frobisher to Juliet 15th May 1946 Dear Miss Ashton, Miss Pribby told me you would be coming to Guernsey to hear about the war. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1979-04-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-06-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Kathryn Stockett

We lay the battered raw chicken on the rack. Then I have to remind the ding-dong for the bobillionth time to wash her hands before she kills us both. I ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Hannah Kent

Reverend Tóti left Björn Blöndal’s study with a pounding head. He could not stop thinking of Agnes’s pale face, her low voice in the dark, and the image of red-headed ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:Neal Stephenson

I have just been interrupted for some minutes by an acquaintance, one Mr. Threader. He is flitting and hopping about Waghorn’s and the Lobby like a sparrow whose nest has ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Erin Morgenstern

Tête-à-Tête LONDON, AUGUST 1896 The Midnight Dinner is rather subdued tonight, despite the number of guests. The circus is preparing for a stretch near London, having recently departed Dublin, so ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Chapter 27 Today when I woke up there was a beautiful pink sunrise, with the mist lying over the fields like a white soft cloud of muslin, and the sun ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:John Irving

"Yes, I see," Dr. Dolder said. "Are you tired now? Are you getting tired?" "It's the spelling," I told him. "The spelling and the reading." There were photographs on the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )