Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Cook, Claire [Cook, Claire]

“What an idiot,” B.J. said. “We probably should have held our ground—I hope he doesn’t think he scared us away. At least we got his license plate number. Can you ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Samuel Bawlf

* * * Denied an audience with the Queen, Mendoza stirred up the Spanish merchants in Tondon to agitate for restoration of Drake’s plunder to its rightful owners, and told ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Patrick Bishop

11 Musa Qaleh Sangin was only one of five forward locations. By now there were troops in Now Zad, Musa Qaleh and Kajaki, as well as FOB Robinson. The parameters ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Ben Bradlee Jr. [Bradlee, Ben Jr.]

Ted’s brilliance in 1957 reverberated well into 1958, producing a burst of glowing press and national recognition. The Associated Press named Ted its 1957 Male Athlete of the Year, and ...
( Category: Baseball March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marisa Raoul

CHAPTER 11 A Day in the Life of a Village. Village life in rural France ebbs and flows in a gentle, time-honoured rhythm, which one becomes easily accustomed to. You ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Alison Thompson [Thompson, Alison]

CHAPTER 9 By May, life in Peraliya was beginning to feel like something out of Lord of the Flies. We had to watch our backs, as some villagers had nothing ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

THE WILD CAME TO THE AID OF THE WILD My manager during the war had been buying up oxen for the army. He told me that he had then, down ...
( Category: Kenya March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:James L. Swanson

OUTSIDE ON the street, a pasty-complexioned, unattractive man wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, dark hat, and dark shoes approached the mouth of the driveway and the armored ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Brad Stephenson [Stephenson, Brad]

Wrangling girls with Dave gave me a new perspective; no longer was I name-dropping athletes to achieve my goals. It was a true test of game, and it worked out ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Willis, M.S. [Willis, M.S.]

Chapter Six “We’ll refer to him as ‘douchnugget’.” Arriving home, Matt and I walked up the three flights of steps to the apartment laughing and probably being a lot louder ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary McGrigor

While there, because it was a common topic, even if he did not buy a newssheet, he must have heard of the tsar’s visit to London, widely reported as it ...
( Category: Medical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Jonathan Franzen

My parents met two years after Pearl Harbor, in the fall of 1943, and within a few months they were exchanging cards and letters. My father worked for the Great ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Dennis Dalton

By the end of 1946 India was drifting rapidly to chaos. The real power had passed from British hands; senior officials, anxious about their future, were conscious that they were ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Sariecheva, Lilia & Osland, Robert [Sariecheva, Lilia]

My mother Mareika about 1950. One thought occupied my mom’s mind for years: she was ready to die to give birth to a baby, but Yadia was ready to die ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )