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Survival in the Shadows by Barbara Lovenheim
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Lovenheim

8 CALL ME EISEN Inside the gas chamber the singing had stopped. Now there was only weeping and sobbing. People, their faces smashed and bleeding, were still streaming through the ...
( Category: Historical March 4,2019 )
Pickets and Dead Men by Bree Loewen
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Bree Loewen

7 * * * KAUTZ, SOLO IT WAS SNOWING AND I WAS CRYING, HARD. It was newly dark and there was still a blue glow down along the edge of ...
( Category: Women in History March 4,2019 )
Colonel House by Neu Charles E.;
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Neu, Charles E.;

28 The End of the War On the morning of September 21, House received a call from the White House, asking him to leave for Washington that very night. The ...
( Category: United States March 4,2019 )
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Scholastique Mukasonga [Mukasonga, Scholastique]

And then there were the vacations, the joy of going back home to my family, the party Gitagata would throw for the return of its “intellectuals.” I would dance with ...
( Category: American Revolution March 4,2019 )
Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard
epub |eng | 2018-12-28 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

15. Mocking and Mowing ‘My riches they talk of are in other men’s purses’, wrote Shrewsbury to Thomas Baldwin plaintively.1 The Earl’s expenses were huge, as were his debts, but ...
( Category: Women March 2,2019 )
My Dear Boy by Joanie Holzer Schirm
epub |eng | | Author:Joanie Holzer Schirm

I didn’t think I would hear back from the author, but a month later he answered. Agreeing to be a source, I typed a five-page response, attempting to share pertinent ...
( Category: Jewish March 2,2019 )
Clausewitz by Stoker Donald;
epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Stoker, Donald;

Map 8.2. Clausewitz’s War in North Germany. To prepare for the renewal of hostilities, Wallmoden anchored his lines in the north at Ratzenburger, on the lake. He spread his cavalry ...
( Category: Authors March 2,2019 )
Finding God Through Yoga by Neumann David J.;
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Neumann, David J.;

JESUS CHRIST AS PERFECT YOGI Despite Yogananda’s long efforts on behalf of “the Hindu Bible,” it was not his most remarkable project as a leader of the global interfaith movement. ...
( Category: West February 28,2019 )
Louisa on the Front Lines by Samantha Seiple
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Samantha Seiple

Your son is at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown.… He was in the fight at Fredericksburg where so many brave men lost their lives for their Country’s liberty. He ...
( Category: American Civil War February 27,2019 )
The Tudor Brandons by Sarah-Beth Watkins
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Mary retired from the court soon afterwards. Reluctant to leave, it was time for her to withdraw for the birth of her next child but she decided to visit Walsingham ...
( Category: Royalty February 27,2019 )
Making an Exhibition of Myself by Peter Hall
epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Peter Hall [Hall, Peter]

Part Three PRIMA LA MUSICA Chapter One When I was twenty-four, I applied to be Carl Ebert’s assistant. I felt that this great opera director, heir to the European tradition ...
( Category: Theatre February 27,2019 )
Mrs. Morhard and the Boys by Ruth Hanford Morhard
epub |eng | 2018-12-13 | Author:Ruth Hanford Morhard

The next day, Josephine was deliberately late for work despite her many chores and the piles of bills. After the kids left for school, she drove up to the University ...
( Category: Women February 26,2019 )
Pizarro by Stuart Stirling
epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Stirling

SEVEN The Frontiers of New Castile My governorship has no frontier, it stretches even to Flanders. Francisco Pizarro The vastness of the colony Pizarro had founded, and the immense distances ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers February 26,2019 )
True West by Sam Shepard
epub |eng | 2018-02-25 | Author:Sam Shepard [Sam Shepard]

Austin Course there’s no contract yet. Nothing’s final until it’s on paper. Lee It’s final, all right. There’s no way he’s gonna’ back out of it now. We gambled for ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 26,2019 )
Commander of the Faithful by John W. Kiser
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:John W. Kiser

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Mischief Makers, 1844-1847 “WHY DON’T YOU WRITE? The sight of your seal alone will revive our hopes.” Ben Salem’s couriers had ridden for weeks to deliver his desperate ...
( Category: Africa February 21,2019 )

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