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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States by Steven Ujifusa
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Steven Ujifusa [Ujifusa, Steven]

After making a series of frantic phone calls, William Francis and Frederic Gibbs grimly called a meeting with their decorators in September 1950. Dorothy Marckwald and Anne Urquhart, who had ...
( Category: Historical December 29,2018 )
Hero (23) by Unknown
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Military December 27,2018 )
Mary Queen of Scots (Tie-In) by John Guy
epub |eng | | Author:John Guy

A more stinging or vehement rebuke of one reigning queen by another could scarcely have been imagined. Mary reeled from this latest blow, offended not least by the remark that ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2018 )
Dial M by William Swanson
epub |eng | 2009-12-21 | Author:William Swanson

NOTE 1. Sam Sheppard and Bernard Finch were prominent surgeons who had been convicted, after highly publicized trials, of first-degree murder in the deaths of their wives—Marilyn Sheppard, in Cleveland, ...
( Category: Americas December 22,2018 )
You Can't Win by Black Jack;
epub |eng | 2018-12-20 | Author:Black, Jack;

16 SUMMER CAME and the memorable World’s Fair. I saw it all, but it put an awful dent in my bankroll and winter was coming. I heard wonderful tales of ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2018 )
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-19 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton

( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 21,2018 )
JFK and the Masculine Mystique by Steven Watts
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Watts

EIGHT CELEBRITY JOURNALIST: BEN BRADLEE On the evening of the West Virginia primary in May 1960, an anxious John F. Kennedy waited for the returns to dribble in. This was ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 20,2018 )
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
epub |eng | 2018-08-31 | Author:Nancy Goldstone

The lurid termination of this episode marked the end of hostilities between the kingdoms of Naples and Hungary. By the end of October 1350, Louis of Hungary had left Rome ...
( Category: Historical December 20,2018 )
Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Jackie Speier [Speier, Jackie]

My mom, Nancy, and dad, Fred, when they were dating, in the Inner Sunset flats my mom owned. My dad in San Francisco shortly after immigrating to the United States. ...
( Category: World December 18,2018 )
Daniel Boone by Reuben Gold Thwaites
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Reuben Gold Thwaites

Such, however, was the stubbornness of the defense, in which the women were, in their way, quite as efficient as the men, that the forces under Black Fish could make ...
( Category: World December 18,2018 )
Inhuman Land by Jozef Czapski
epub |eng | 2018-11-04 | Author:Jozef Czapski

1 We once told this story to a sympathetic American woman, who came to Poland in 1920 with the American Red Cross mission. She was most indignant. “Nothing of the ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2018 )
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga & Jordan Stump
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Scholastique Mukasonga & Jordan Stump

* * * —— —— —— Imagine my surprise, on entering the School of Social Work in Butare, to find that the students got bread with their breakfast. So there ...
( Category: World December 18,2018 )
Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone by Purvis Stewart & Hulbert Jeff
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Purvis, Stewart & Hulbert, Jeff [Purvis, Stewart]

§ Throughout this book Carey-Foster’s name is hyphenated. In some of the quotations his name is not hyphenated in the original documents. CHAPTER 7 ‘GOOD REASON TO HOPE HE WOULD ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2018 )
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'reilly
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Bill O'reilly

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: Americas December 17,2018 )
Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
mobi |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Claire Tomalin

Dickens took a lease on Tavistock House in 1851, intending to keep it for life. After this busy and distressing time the Dickens family could at last get to Broadstairs, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 17,2018 )

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