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Outlaw Virtue (Rough Jesters MC Book 7) by Wilder Brook
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-11-29 | Author:Wilder, Brook [Wilder, Brook]

Now, if there were twins inside, I would be up the creek. I felt like there were twins inside my stomach, especially given how hungry I suddenly was. It was ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2020 )
Legacy by Thomas Harding
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Harding

Like his father, Sam Salmon was becoming increasingly interested in the world beyond the family, though for different reasons. While Isidore was driven to improve the lot of those around ...
( Category: Netherlands January 15,2020 )
Make Your Bed by McRaven William H
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:McRaven, William H. [McRaven, William H.]

CHAPTER SEVEN Stand Up to the Bullie s If you want to change the world… don’t back down from the sharks. T he water off San Clemente Island was choppy ...
( Category: Leadership January 15,2020 )
More Human by Steve Hilton
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Steve Hilton

THE THIRD CAUSE OF INEQUALITY Like poverty, inequality has symptoms and causes. An economy-wide skills mismatch is a symptom whose solution is more and better training, but its causes are ...
( Category: Government & Business January 13,2020 )
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
epub |eng | 2001-02-03 | Author:Judith Thurman [Judith Thurman]

CHAPTER 28 The perversity necessary to satiate an adolescent lover doesn’t devastate a woman sufficiently; on the contrary. Giving becomes a kind of neurosis, of ferocity, an egotistical frenzy. —COLETTE, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 13,2020 )
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Brian Kilmeade

ELEVEN Fort Defiance [Fannin] is an ill-fated man. —SAM HOUSTON TO THOMAS J. RUSK, MARCH 23, 1836 On Saturday, March 12, James Fannin, commander of Goliad, received General Sam Houston’s ...
( Category: American Civil War January 12,2020 )
Betrayal At Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy by J.C. Hawkins
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:J.C. Hawkins [Hawkins, J.C.]

CHAPTER 7 How McCarthy’s Death Influenced JFK’s Fate IN 1953, FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover alerted Joe McCarthy some CIA officers had past associations with left-wing organizations that were concerning. ...
( Category: United States January 11,2020 )
1476785988 (N) by Sam Polk
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sam Polk [Polk, Sam]

CHAPTER 20 Protector of the Stupid ¤ In December 2002, at the age of twenty-three, I graduated from Columbia. The Bank of America job didn’t start for six months, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 9,2020 )
Witness to Nuremberg: The Many Lives of the Man who Translated at the Nazi War Trials by Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
mobi |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Richard W. Sonnenfeldt [Sonnenfeldt, Richard W.]

VI England I KNEW LESS THAN A HUNDRED WORDS OF ENGLISH when Mother, Helmut, and I landed at Folkestone after crossing the Channel from Ostend in Belgium. I had barely ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2020 )
We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland by Steve Beaven
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Steve Beaven [Beaven, Steve]

(L-R) Theren Bullock, Eric Harris, Steve Sherwood, and Brad Leaf were among the first recruits after the crash. Courtesy of Joe Atkinson and the University of Evansville Brad Leaf on ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2020 )
Tap Code by Carlyle S. Harris
epub |eng | 2019-09-12 | Author:Carlyle S. Harris

25 SMITTY NOVEMBER 1965 THE ZOO It was 1859, and Genevan businessman Henry Dunant was horrified at the gruesome scene before his eyes. He had traveled to Emperor Napoleon III’s ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2020 )
Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William H. Schaberg
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:William H. Schaberg [Schaberg, William H.]

* This low opinion of women in A.A. was, unfortunately, not confined to the 1940s nor were the wives of members the only ones who professed it. Female A.A. members ...
( Category: United States January 8,2020 )
The River Murders by James Patterson
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]

CHAPTER 32 SURROUNDED BY THE gray walls, I felt my anger rise. I didn’t care if Katie Stahl was the mastermind or criminal conspirator. Someone else was going to pay ...
( Category: Murder January 7,2020 )
999 by Heather Dune Macadam
epub |eng | 2019-10-24 | Author:Heather Dune Macadam

ROSH HASHANAH, THE Jewish New Year and High Holy days, arrived with the first blush of fall. Golden birch leaves flickered to the ground, covering the mass burial pits with ...
( Category: Women in History January 6,2020 )
Cracking the Egyptian Code by Andrew Robinson
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Robinson

Title page of the Lettre à M. Dacier, published by Champollion in 1822 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.) Young’s work was conspicuously downplayed in the Lettre à M. Dacier – ...
( Category: France January 2,2020 )

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