Historical
epub |eng | 2020-10-12 | Author:Chris Durbin [Durbin, Chris]

‘Put me alongside the schooner, Mister Jackson.’ ‘Aye-aye sir,’ Jackson grinned fiercely in the gathering light. They’d be at grips with the enemy in a minute and still they hadn’t ...
( Category: Military June 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Robin Maxwell [Maxwell, Robin]

( Category: Historical June 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-01-16 | Author:William W. Johnstone

CHAPTER 27 “There were only seven bodies.” Luke’s head was on a swivel as they rode back to the village. “Eight saddled horses in the corral, and I counted only ...
( Category: Historical June 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-02 | Author:Barbara Longley [Longley, Barbara]

Nick yawned and shivered as he set his thermal coffee mug on a shelf in the barn’s equipment room. He grabbed two pitchforks and brought them to the stall. Rusty ...
( Category: Historical June 3,2024 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-11 | Author:Alice N. Palmer [Palmer, Alice N.]

An Aching Heart In his first-class stateroom, Michael threw himself on his bed and stared at the oak-paneled ceiling. From the reading chair near the fireplace, Stephen chuckled. “So, you’re ...
( Category: Historical May 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:pandor [pandor]

Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so. There was only one street in what passed for the moon's capital, with nothing larger than an eighty-foot dome. Two long rows of ...
( Category: Ancient May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Can Remember (Uc) (Pg) (1972) E [E, Can Remember]

agatha christie be redressed and wore the second one. I never heard of anyone who had four wigs.” Mrs. Oliver extracted a small notebook from her bag, ruffled the pages ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Frances de Pontes Peebles [de Pontes Peebles, Frances]

* * * — It was past midnight. In the glow of gas streetlamps, Madame L.’s sharkskin suit shone as if it was wet. Graça, Vinicius, and I followed him ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:To Frankfurt (Uc) (Pg) (1970) P [P, To Frankfurt]

whatever they were, disappeared in a way that somehow reminded Stafford of lizards disappearing into the cracks of wall. The golden-haired boys formed a new figure, their Words flew out, ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Comes At The End (Uc) (Pg) (194 [End, Comes At The]

83 “Do not trouble the Gods. You’re honest enough, Henet—as honesty goes. And it may be that you knew nothing about how Nofret came to her death. But you know ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moving Finger (Uc) (Pg) (1943) [Finger, Moving]

91 AGATHA CHRISTIE He paused. “Now I’ll tell you something: That letter that came to Mrs. Symmington that afternoon didn’t come by post. It had a used stamp affixed to ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:Connie Palmen [Palmen, Connie]

AFTERWORD Ted Hughes died of a heart attack on October 28, 1998. For the previous year and a half, he’d been receiving treatment for bowel cancer, an illness he’d kept ...
( Category: Biographical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:David Gilman [Gilman, David]

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX It was close to mid-morning when Blackstone led the others back into the monastery. Meulon carried a small deer carcass across his shoulders, brought down soon after dawn ...
( Category: Medieval May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:To Kill (Uc) (Pg) Easy [Easy, To Kill]

Luke cut her short. “You don’t think it was suicide?” “Emphatically not.” “Then,” said Luke gently, “you do think that it was murder?” Miss Waynflete hesitated, gulped, and bravely took ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:In The Air (Uc) Death [Death, In The Air]

DEATH IN THE AIR 113 “Better just now?” He repeated the words thoughtfully. Then he asked a question sharply: “Cicely, had you been borrowing from that old French money lender?” ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2024 )