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Kraken by Eric S Brown
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Eric S Brown [Brown, Eric S]

It had taken half an hour to get back onboard the Rogue. Cordova didn’t mind the time. The navy was very much about the concept of hurry up and wait. ...
( Category: Sea Stories November 19,2019 )
US Penitentiary Leavenworth by Kenneth M LaMaster
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Kenneth M LaMaster [LaMaster, Kenneth M]

Today very little but photographs remain of the old Leavenworth. With the renovation of living areas, the institution is more manageable, as well as safer for inmates and staff alike. ...
( Category: Architecture November 19,2019 )
On Modern Manners by Peter King
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Peter King [King, Peter]

III Of course, the loss was unfortunate, but think what he had gained in sympathy. . The arrangements may have been haphazard, but the conflict, when it came, was real ...
( Category: Social Philosophy November 19,2019 )
Worthy of Time by K Constantine
epub |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:K Constantine [Constantine, K]

Chapter 7 System: Virgil’s star (VGL 191) Location: Aboard the Alcmene naval vessel Nemean The Nemean had suffered heavily under the Structure’s swarm attack, and while the damage to the ...
( Category: Historical November 19,2019 )
War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Smedley Darlington Butler

Thank God, this is a democracy, and by your voice and by your vote you can save your boy. YOU are the bosses of this country—you mothers, you fathers. And ...
( Category: History & Theory November 19,2019 )
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
epub |eng | 2019-11-17 | Author:Catherine Clinton [Clinton, Catherine]

Chapter Ten Arise, Brethren She must be regarded as the first heroine of the conflict. — Samuel J. May ONE OF TUBMAN’S FAVORITE PARABLES was the tale of a man ...
( Category: American Civil War November 19,2019 )
Azusa Street by Bartleman Frank 1871-1935
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-11-18 | Author:Bartleman, Frank, 1871-1935

Azusa Street minds and spirits, to escape from the world for the time, and get alone with God. There was no noisy, wild spirit there. That, at least, could be ...
( Category: Pentecostal & Charismatic November 19,2019 )
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr by Susan Holloway Scott
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Susan Holloway Scott

CHAPTER 15 Albany State of New York June 1783 No matter how much Mistress wished otherwise, a resolute mind cannot overcome the frail body that contains it. From those early ...
( Category: Biographical November 19,2019 )
The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
epub |eng | 1965-12-31 | Author:Dorothy Macardle [Macardle, Dorothy]

CHAPTER XII : The Tree “I am so tired,” Pamela said as we wound down the hill again, “that it would be nice to die.” I, too, felt exhausted. Miss ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers November 19,2019 )
Allies by Alan Gratz
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Gratz

Dee jogged along in a crouch with the other soldiers, staying in the protective lee of Valiant, the tank that had thankfully come up from the waterline to escort them ...
( Category: Military & Wars November 17,2019 )
Lincoln's Greatest Journey by Noah Andre Trudeau
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Noah Andre Trudeau

This morning Gen. Grant reports Petersburg evacuated; and he is confident Richmond also is. He is pushing forward to cut off if possible, the retreating army. I start to him ...
( Category: American Civil War November 17,2019 )
Leadership in War by Andrew Roberts
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Andrew Roberts

CHAPTER SIX GEORGE C. MARSHALL 1880–1959 On Tuesday, December 16, 1947, Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine, gave a dinner party in honor of the U.S. secretary of state, General George Catlett ...
( Category: Leadership November 5,2019 )
The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate by Tom Brokaw
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Tom Brokaw

* * * — Elaborate schemes to get a tank of gas were the 1970s equivalent of winning the lottery. Unexpectedly, David Brinkley called and in his familiar clipped speaking ...
( Category: United States November 5,2019 )
Audience of One by James Poniewozik
epub |eng | | Author:James Poniewozik

FOX SERVED AS a kind of test-market for Trump’s political opinions, a real-time feedback mechanism to see what best unleashed the gut passions of the audience and kept the camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2019 )
Silvio Berlusconi : television, power and patrimony by Ginsborg Paul
epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Ginsborg, Paul

ising, watchful of the need to balance the books. These were important virtues in an Italian public sphere not noted for such qualities. But they were not enough. No corpus ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 26,2019 )

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