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A Slave in the White House by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-04-17 | Author:Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

BY THE TIME JAMES AND DOLLEY RELOCATED from Philadelphia to Virginia and had four rooms added to his father’s house, she was deeply in love with her husband. Theirs was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1939-1955) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Norman Sherry

The paradox of Greene’s characters lies in the fact that out of the sinner comes the saint. In The End of the Affair hate is a source of love; in ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1955-1991) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

34 Warming Up to the Cold Scots ‘A Serbonian bog of politics’ – PROFESSOR BLACK IN ANOTHER MONTH, near the end of August 1965, Greene has a letter from Catherine, ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Richard Holbrooke [Holbrooke, Richard]

The October 2 Cable. It was after 1:00 A.M. when I settled into my room, a huge, ill-designed suite, to call Strobe Talbott. I told him that with the Bosnian ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
The Life of Graham Greene (1904-1939) by Norman Sherry
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was: Honoured Madame, In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
A Fool and His Money by Ann Wroe
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Wroe

(5) PEYRE MARQUES and the will to succeed BACK AT THE SHOP, Gasc and Barbier were still working. The drain was cleared out, but there was no going home; they ...
( Category: France March 16,2020 )
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Wake-Walker Edward
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wake-Walker, Edward [Wake-Walker, Edward]

CHAPTER 9: KEEPING HOUSE IN SUSSEX When the war ended and normal family life resumed at Bignor Manor, Barbara Bertram found to her dismay that she could not sleep. As ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )
Cat Tale by Craig Pittman
epub |eng | 2019-11-20 | Author:Craig Pittman

* * * When Maehr was sitting on the developers’ side of the table, pushing for a permit for The Habitat, there was a biologist from the US Fish and ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers March 16,2020 )
The Strategy of Victory by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:David O. Stewart

Chapter Sixteen The Curse of Heaven AUGUST 8–29 AS IT HAD BEFORE, slavery came up in a sideways fashion. On the second day of debate over the Rutledge Committee re- ...
( Category: Constitutions March 16,2020 )
The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys by H. J. Crumpton W. B. Crumpton
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:H. J. Crumpton, W. B. Crumpton [Unbekannt]

Three Years After They Sent The Pistol To Me, and I have it now as a souvenir of those days. The lady said: "I would be very glad for you ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
Reagan’s Journey by Margot Morrell
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Margot Morrell

( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
Must Come Down by Brett Baker
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Brett Baker [Baker, Brett]

21 Chapter 21 The knock on the door woke Fabrice just as the first rays of sunlight peeked over the horizon. He balanced on the divide between sleep and coherence, ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
The City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:St. Augustine of Hippo [Hippo, St. Augustine of]

( Category: Christian Books & Bibles March 16,2020 )
The Works of Edmund Burke Volume 3 by Edmund Burke
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]

"Still as you rise, the state, exalted too, Finds no distemper whilst 't is changed by you ; Changed like the world's great scene, when without noise The rising sun ...
( Category: History & Theory March 16,2020 )

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