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Our Fathers at Shiloh by Jack L Kunkel
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Jack L Kunkel

So Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States, rode over to Johnston in a huff, “General Johnston, I cannot get my men to make the charge.” Johnston replied calmly, ...
( Category: American Civil War January 30,2023 )
Backwards to Forwards by Kevin Ireland
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Kevin Ireland [Kevin Ireland]

17 YOU’RE ALWAYS TOO BLOODY SOMETHING In the Balkans the people are so contrary that still to this day they often shake their heads from side to side when they ...
( Category: Authors January 30,2023 )
Wakefield's Course by Mazo de la Roche
epub |eng | 2010-01-20 | Author:Mazo de la Roche

XV YOUNG MAURICE THEY HAD ARRIVED home on a Saturday. When Renny woke the next morning he had a moment’s puzzlement as to where he was. Was he at Cousin ...
( Category: Regional Canada January 30,2023 )
Broken by Lisa Jones
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Lisa Jones

I told them that in my childhood home in Scotland, every year the horsey people in our neighborhood would ride south to the English border, which was not far away, ...
( Category: Native American January 29,2023 )
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls & Jeannette Walls
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jeannette Walls & Jeannette Walls

Lori gave me a hug when she heard I’d told off Erma. Mom was upset, though. “We may not agree with all of Erma’s views,” she said, “but we have ...
( Category: Authors January 29,2023 )
Marquis de Sade by Marquis de Sade
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Marquis de Sade

* * * *And that for the sole reason that sensitivity proves weakness, and libertinage strength. (Author's note) JULIETTE, OR VICE AMPLY REWARDED A reading of Justine and the encounters ...
( Category: France January 29,2023 )
Hunting for Hope by Scott Russell Sanders
epub |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:Scott Russell Sanders [Sanders, Scott Russell]

Before the celebration, though, a caution: if we practice our skills without foresight or compassion, we’re headed for trouble—as individuals and as a species. No sooner do we learn how ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 29,2023 )
Foreigners in Mikadoland by Harold S. Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Harold S. Williams

The Kobe and Osaka railway, which was opened in 1874, was a success right from the opening day. The promoters announced with pride that the gross receipts on the first ...
( Category: Japan January 29,2023 )
Soil and Sacrament by Fred Bahnson
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Bahnson

CHAPTER SIX Significant Soil For most of us, this is the aim Never here to be realized; Who are only undefeated Because we have gone on trying; We, content at ...
( Category: Culinary January 29,2023 )
A 'Family' Business by Dennis N. Griffin
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Dennis N. Griffin [Griffin, Joe Silvestri; Dennis]

14 : The Chef, The Butcher, & The Donald The Chef Joe Babbington and I have been friends for over thirty years. We first met when Joe was trying to ...
( Category: Organized Crime January 29,2023 )
Remembering the Power of Words by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

REFERENCES Kunjufu, Jawanza. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline for Black Children. Sauk Village, Illinois: African American Images, 1984. ———. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys. Sauk Village, Illinois: African ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
The Complete Poetry by Washington Irving--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Washington Irving [IRVING, WASHINGTON]

UNTITLED POEM III. Published in Washington Irving, Esquire, by George S. Heilman, New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925, pages 45-46. Reprinted by permission of the author. Tho england’s sons are ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 29,2023 )
Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Bradley

The war correspondents’ camp at the edge of a vineyard on Imbros. Bean took the photo when he moved there in July 1915. AWM G01362. 6 July Went down for ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
Capricious Issue 1 by unknow
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:unknow

Very few places remained uninhabited by the dominant Earth life. It seemed unreasonable that a species universally known for both invasion and scientific progress would be a threat to my ...
( Category: Memoirs January 29,2023 )
Building a Billion by Charlie Berridge
epub |eng | | Author:Charlie Berridge

14. Straight Shooting There’s a hunter-gatherer streak in all of us but not all of us pander to it. I did and have gone further than most in scratching that ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 29,2023 )

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