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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Joe Posnanski

MY GUESS He switched the cuffs. Yeah, I know, I just quoted Josh saying that the method doesn’t matter, that it is the magic that endures, but let’s face it: ...
( Category: Magic October 25,2019 )
Sword of Persia by Michael Axworthy
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Axworthy [Axworthy, Michael]

CHAPTER SEVEN To the Gates of Delhi Unserm stärksten Triebe, dem tyrannen in uns, unterwirft sich nicht nur unsre Vernunft, sondern auch unser Gewissen. (To our strongest drive, the tyrant ...
( Category: United States October 20,2019 )
Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII by Sophie Poldermans
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sophie Poldermans [Poldermans, Sophie]

Hannie Schaft in disguise: her red hair was dyed black, and she is wearing glasses made of window glass, n.d. (Photo by Harm Elsinga, Courtesy of North Holland Archives) Truus ...
( Category: World War II October 20,2019 )
Fires on the plain by Ōoka Shōhei 1909-1988
epub |eng | 2001-10-19 | Author:Ōoka, Shōhei, 1909-1988

t£ 122 ^t Fires on the Plain "Hey! Hey!" I shouted, waving my arms and running toward them. They all turned in my direction, like a group of automatic dolls; ...
( Category: Japanese October 20,2019 )
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle by Carnarvon Fiona Countess of
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of

LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY machine and fabrics, organising work teams to make up the equipment that was so desperately needed. She started a canteen for the ANZAC ...
( Category: United States October 19,2019 )
Daughter of Apartheid by Lindi Tardif
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Lindi Tardif

Can “They” Be on Your Side? With John Paul, the issue was that no one knew what to expect from an Indian person at Wits then, and that worked to ...
( Category: United States October 19,2019 )
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay
epub |eng | 2010-10-16 | Author:Daisy Hay

The Indicator will attend to no subject whatsoever of immediate or temporary interest. His business is with the honey in the old woods. The Editor has enough to agitate his ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 17,2019 )
Book Row by Marvin Mondlin
epub |eng | 2019-09-18 | Author:Marvin Mondlin

THE UNIVERSITY PLACE BOOK SHOP CATALOGUES Early in his bookselling career, Walter Goldwater began utilizing catalogues to produce business. He issued over two hundred catalogues, and in the course of ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 17,2019 )
Anna Howard Shaw by Trisha Franzen
epub |eng | | Author:Trisha Franzen

CHAPTER 7 Unanticipated Challenges NAWSA PRESIDENCY, PART III (1913–1915) I have but one thought and one desire, and that is to win the vote, and whatever I do, I do ...
( Category: Women in History October 14,2019 )
Cassius Dio by Jesper Majbom Madsen
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Jesper Majbom Madsen

Democracy fails As shown in chapter 1, Dio describes the Late Republic as a time when war and political violence became a fully integrated part of Roman politics. The political ...
( Category: Rome October 14,2019 )
According to Kate by Chris Enss
epub |eng | 2019-07-26 | Author:Chris Enss

Wyatt Earp COURTESY OF THE ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AHS 11374 Kate planned to leave town as soon as she knew Doc was out of harm’s way. She was aware she ...
( Category: Women in History October 12,2019 )
Ivan the Terrible by Charles J. Halperin
epub |eng | | Author:Charles J. Halperin

16 Ivan’s Ideology, the Oprichnina, and Muscovite Society A viable interpretation of the oprichnina should take into account two fundamental but separate factors: Ivan’s intentions in creating it, and how ...
( Category: United States October 11,2019 )
Akhenaten by Nicholas Reeves
epub |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Nicholas Reeves

‘Re, horizon ruler, who rejoices on the horizon in his name of Re the father, who has returned as the sun disc.’ Akhenaten’s construction programme has been studied in detail ...
( Category: United States October 11,2019 )
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire by Peter B. Doran
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Peter B. Doran [Doran, Peter B.]

CHAPTER 13 Reversals of Fortune Inside the offices of 26 Broadway, there were many secrets. The perpetually guarded Rockefeller had fortified Standard with hidden facts ever since the earliest days ...
( Category: United States October 10,2019 )
Barack and Joe by Steven Levingston
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Steven Levingston

At around 2 p.m. Sergeant Crowley was at a favorite lunch hangout, Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, munching on a burger and sipping a Blue Moon Belgian White ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 10,2019 )

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