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Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom by Leonard Elizabeth D
epub |eng | 2018-06-13 | Author:Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Anticipated and Unanticipated Costs of War Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, as the war came to an end and federal occupation and Reconstruction began, the persistence, patience, unflinching courage, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 14,2019 )
Nigger by Dick Gregory & Robert Lipsyte
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Dick Gregory & Robert Lipsyte

* * * • • • “Dick, wake up now, the movie’s over.” “Wasn’t sleeping, baby.” I’m not about to tell her her I was starring in a little movie ...
( Category: African-American & Black June 13,2019 )
Out East by John Glynn
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:John Glynn

Back in the kitchen, everyone glowed a healthy crimson. Drunk from Cyril’s, Timmy donned a pair of Ashley’s wedges. He dropped his shoulders, twisted his hips, the shoes sliding along ...
( Category: Authors June 12,2019 )
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Dan Abrams

Both Roosevelt and Barnes rented “war rooms” in the luxurious Onondaga Hotel. Although it had opened only five years earlier, in 1915 it expanded to five hundred rooms, in addition ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 12,2019 )
American Spirit by Taya Kyle
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Taya Kyle

One of the things that impressed me about the building was that it felt very much like a home, not a counseling center. There’s pizza in the kitchen and fun ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Anne Boleyn- The Falcon Falls In May by Elizabeth Andrews
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Elizabeth Andrews [Andrews, Elizabeth]

When he finished, he closed his book and took his seat, ignoring the murmurs of the jury. This wasn’t the first time Cromwell has been present for a trial, and ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2019 )
Shoot for the Moon by James Donovan
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:James Donovan

The grief and shock felt throughout NASA—particularly in Houston, where so many knew the three men personally—were palpable. For their part, the astronauts knew they had to put the tragedy ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 11,2019 )
The Messenger by Karl Evanzz
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Karl Evanzz [Evanzz, Karl]

The conflict that the FBI had hoped to exploit rapidly intensified a few days later. On July 3, a UPI reporter covering the Los Angeles courthouse filed this item: “Elijah ...
( Category: Political June 11,2019 )
Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant
epub |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Elizabeth Grant [Elizabeth Grant]

1. One of the covenanted European servants of the East India Company, not in military employment. 2. The pattern of tartan associated with a particular clan. 3. A trunk, fitted ...
( Category: Authors June 11,2019 )
Ever After by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | 2017-06-10 | Author:Anne Edwards

17 DIANA WAS GUARDED at all times by armed detectives from the SAS-trained Royal Protection Squad. Wherever she went, there had to be at least one detective with her and ...
( Category: Royalty June 11,2019 )
Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh by Marianne Walker
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Marianne Walker

11 When rumors started flying that Peggy had gotten $5 million for the film rights, practically everybody wanted money from her. She grew to revile the telephone and the telegram. ...
( Category: Authors June 11,2019 )
The Grimaldis of Monaco by Anne Edwards
epub |eng | 2018-02-01 | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnote 1The Communards (members of the Commune of Paris) had been formed during the Revolution of 1792 and had virtually engineered the storming of the Tuileries. The Commune re-formed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )
The Plot to Kill King by William F. Pepper
epub |eng | 2016-06-10 | Author:William F. Pepper

The Background Mrs. King led off the group of witnesses whose testimony provided evidence about the historical background and events leading up to the assassination. She set the background stating: ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Genius in the Shadows by William Lanouette
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:William Lanouette [Lanouette, William]

Photo Insert 2 Leo Szilard, with an unidentified girl and dog, photographed by Trude Weiss at a picnic in Wading River State Park, near Brookhaven, Long Island, June 1948 (Egon ...
( Category: Scientists June 11,2019 )
The Mathews Men by William Geroux
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:William Geroux

Just days after the East Indian sinking, Edna Hodges received a call from her lawyer. He had finally received a copy of one of R. M. Jenkins’s letters from Havana ...
( Category: United States June 9,2019 )

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