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Tommy Gun Winter by Nathan Gorenstein
epub |eng | | Author:Nathan Gorenstein

That prelude was not included in the confession later released to the press. Did Goldberg massage Faber’s comments as a way of thanking Ferrari? Abe then waxed philosophical. He knew ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem January 8,2023 )
Key Figures in Espionage by Bayard & Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Bayard & Holmes

15 John Cairncross The One That Got Away John Cairncross is known as “The Fifth Man,” as he was the fifth of the Cambridge Five to be publicly identified. He ...
( Category: World War II January 8,2023 )
Film's First Family by Terry Chester Shulman
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Terry Chester Shulman

Probably the earliest surviving photograph of Maurice Costello, c. 1894. (Courtesy of Dolores Barrymore Bedell) Dimples in evidence, Maurice flashes his famous smile, c. 1912. (Courtesy of the Denise Barrymore ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2023 )
Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Laura Palmer [Palmer, Laura]

July 5, 1985 Dear Lieutenant: I’m here today with my son, Jim, and my dearest friend, Debbie. It’s been fifteen years since I put you, already dying, onto a dustoff. ...
( Category: Asia January 8,2023 )
Rolling Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

The ride into London remains a drag to this day - the usual depressing, gray-overcast welcome mat. The architectural suburban mundaneness that borders the ride into my old hometown was, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2023 )
Royalty Revealed by Brian Hoey
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Brian Hoey

CURRENT ENTITLEMENT TO THE HRH STYLE Queen Elizabeth II The Prince of Wales The Duchess of Cornwall Prince William of Wales (Duke of Cambridge) The Duchess of Cambridge Prince George ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 8,2023 )
Dancing at Ciro's by Sheila Weller
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Weller

Part III Chapter Eight HOLLYWOOD AND BEVERLY HILLS: 1946–1951 Can anyone remember a moment from infancy? Or do we reconstruct such memories in early childhood—from the evidence we felt and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2023 )
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Matthew J. Bruccoli
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Matthew J. Bruccoli

Their correspondence indicates that Dr. Forel permitted Fitzgerald to feel that he was a consultant on the case. Fitzgerald’s Ledger summary of his thirty-third year—“The Crash! Zelda + America”—reveals how ...
( Category: Authors January 8,2023 )
Dying Without God by Franz-Olivier Giesbert
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Franz-Olivier Giesbert [Giesbert, Franz-Olivier]

Jacques Chirac: “He’s courageous and likable. On a human level, he’s perhaps the best of the lot. But there’s something irrational about him. Within him. That’s why he worries so ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 8,2023 )
The Protest Singer by Alec Wilkinson
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Alec Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Alec]

THE COMMITTEE GREW IMPATIENT with Seeger's intransigence. Tavenner tried once more to have him identify himself in the photograph. Walter directed him to answer. “The same answer, sir, as before,” ...
( Category: Country & Folk January 8,2023 )
Queens of the Underworld by Caitlin Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Caitlin Davies

Lilian Goldstein appears to have given up the criminal life in the early 1940s. According to Ruby, she refused to be involved in a £30,000 payroll snatch planned while he ...
( Category: Organized Crime January 8,2023 )
Pride of Family by Carole Ione
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Carole Ione

Fourteen AN ALBUM OF THE HEART On November 19, 1979, Frances Anne Rollin would have been 134 years old. In her honor I had oysters and coffee in Boston. But ...
( Category: Black & African American January 8,2023 )
Prairie People by Robert Collins
epub |eng | 2004-10-05 | Author:Robert Collins [Collins, Robert]

VIII CITY LIGHTS The western city has yet to take its place of prominence in our mindscapes. GEORGE MELNYK The Urban Prairie, 1993 The City as Province How about doing ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2023 )
Dante's Invention by James Burge
epub |eng | 2011-08-13 | Author:James Burge

Virgil identifies some of the lovers as they are swept by. There are those of whom we have heard: Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Dido Queen of Carthage (it is Virgil ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2023 )
Blood & Oil by Manucher Farmanfarmaian
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Manucher Farmanfarmaian

As fall approached, Razmara’s hold on the country became increasingly unsure. His ministers lost confidence, and Mohsen Khan even tried to resign. Pressure from Britain, the United States, and the ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2023 )

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