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Murder in Chisago County by Brian Johnson
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:Brian Johnson

Fred and Christine Lundeen with their daughters—(from left) Ellen, Alvira, Olga and Freda. Author’s collection. The Harris fire wasn’t Ellen’s first brush with tragedy and premature death. A few years ...
( Category: Portraits March 11,2020 )
The History of England 1066-1216 by George Burton Adams
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:George Burton Adams

CHAPTER XI THE LAST STAGE OF THE CIVIL WAR The victory at Lincoln changed the situation of affairs at a blow. From holding a little oval of territory about the ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
My River Chronicles by Jessica DuLong
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Jessica DuLong

In my five years as a marine engineer, I’ve acquired a few strategies for managing the unwanted attention I endure because I’m female. When entering a new situation, I fortify ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Elbert Hubbard [Hubbard, Elbert]

As for Petrarch and Laura, Laura's love was of her life apart, 'twas Petrarch's whole existence. Laura was very safely married to a man several years her senior—a stern, hard-headed, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 11,2020 )
Dream Homes by Joyce Zonana
epub |eng | 2018-03-10 | Author:Joyce Zonana

Seven: Ocean Avenue ♦ ♦ ♦ Tante Suze, Cairo, 1940s. When I started having nightly dreams that my mother was cutting my hair, I knew it was time to move ...
( Category: Women in History March 11,2020 )
The Concise Pepys by Samuel Pepys
epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Samuel Pepys [Pepys, Samuel]

15th. Captain Cocke says he hath computed that the rents of the houses lost this fire in the City comes to £600,000 per annum; that this will make the Parliament ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
My Larger Education by Washington Booker T.;
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Washington, Booker T.;

VII. COLONEL ROOSEVELT AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM HIM SOME YEARS AGO—and not so very many, either—I think that I should have been perfectly safe in saying that the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 11,2020 )
Sources of the River by Jack Nisbet
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Jack Nisbet [Nisbet, Jack]

SCRUBBING UP was a luxury that occasionally occupied David Thompson’s mind as well—his supply order for the previous season had included twenty pounds of soap, “for without soap, there is ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Alabama Musicians by C.S. Fuqua
epub |eng | 2019-04-06 | Author:C.S. Fuqua

( Category: Country & Folk March 11,2020 )
Object by Chris Enss
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Enss

Once a month the editors at the New Plan Company would publish an article about a specific couple who owed their marital bliss to the ads placed in their catalog. ...
( Category: Women in History March 11,2020 )
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2 by J. A. Leo Lemay
epub |eng | | Author:J. A. Leo Lemay

THE NATURE OF BOYS When Franklin’s sister Jane suggested that she would like to have her son Benjamin trained as a printer, Franklin’s own home was too full to accommodate ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Church And Society by Avery Cardinal Dulles
epub |eng | 2008-03-10 | Author:Avery Cardinal Dulles

JOHN PAUL’S PROPOSALS FOR REPENTANCE The pope gathered up his thoughts on the theme most comprehensively in an unsigned twenty-three-page memorandum sent to the cardinals in the spring of 1994, ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 11,2020 )
A History of Charles the Great by J.I. Mombert
epub |eng | | Author:J.I. Mombert

BOHEMIAN WAR.—THE ROYAL SONS AND THEIR KINGDOMS.—EXTRANEA. CONQUEST OF BOHEMIA.—AFFAIRS OF Aquitaine and Spain.—Adalric.—Saracen invasion.—Incident of Datus.—Poverty of Louis.—Domanial lands and villas.—Diplomatic intercourse with the Saracens.—Mission of Theodulf and Laidradus.—Theodulf ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
Revolutionary Russia 1891–1991 by Orlando Figes
epub |eng | | Author:Orlando Figes

( Category: World March 11,2020 )
Citizen McCain by Elizabeth Drew
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Drew

Chapter 10 “Chris, it’s not Denny, it’s Tom DeLay.” THE WEEK that the bill was to come before the House didn’t begin well for the reformers. Hastert had set the ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )

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