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Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
epub |eng | | Author:Yangzom Brauen

SEPARATION With their hearts heavy and their thoughts dark, Kunsang and Sonam disembarked from the train in Dehradun and took a bus to Mussoorie. Yet when they arrived at the ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 19,2018 )
After the Revolution by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

* Psychohistory suffers from one crucial deficiency—we are not able to resurrect the subject and ask him or her the questions that must be answered in order to fill the ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2018 )
It Took Heroes by Claude Newby
epub |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Claude Newby [Newby, Claude D.]

14 March 1969, 1–5 Cav Battalion Journal, 1013: “B Co is in contact with 03 individuals 45 meters away, running, 3rds returned fire, riding 03 bicycles … fork, bamboo on ...
( Category: Military August 18,2018 )
Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack Sutin & Rochelle Sutin
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Jack Sutin & Rochelle Sutin [Sutin, Jack & Sutin, Rochelle]

JACK There had been pressure on the Germans to do something about the Jewish partisan activity. I won’t say it was their first priority, but it mattered to them because ...
( Category: World August 18,2018 )
The Bonanza King by Gregory Crouch
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Crouch

* * * I. Animals in Los Angeles had “the horse disease” by March 21. By the end of April, the epizootic had swept all of California. CHAPTER 15 The ...
( Category: Historical August 18,2018 )
M by Henry Hemming
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Henry Hemming

28 REPRIEVE On 12 January, 1938, M received a call from Olga Gray. Percy Glading had just told her that there was going to be another job, and it was ...
( Category: Historical August 18,2018 )
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Meir Shalev [Shalev, Meir]

17 When my sister was two or three years old our mother began to travel with us from Jerusalem to Nahalal by train: Jerusalem to Lydda, Lydda to Haifa, from ...
( Category: World August 16,2018 )
Custer by Edward G. Longacre
epub |eng | 2018-06-11 | Author:Edward G. Longacre

Given the general misunderstanding of the enemy’s positions, it must have come as a shock to Custer, as to thousands of his comrades, when Buford’s column splashed across Beverly Ford ...
( Category: Americas August 16,2018 )
Remember Us by Vic Shayne
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Vic Shayne

More Aimless Wandering The days and weeks after the escape from Koldichevo melded into one long struggle. Shmulek and I parted ways from the other escapees, banking on our own ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2018 )
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
epub |eng | 2005-01-10 | Author:Wayne Coffey

St. John’s Hockey: Old School Not Guts, No Glory. Harrington signed with Scotty Bowman and the Buffalo Sabres after the Olympics, but he never made the NHL and never was ...
( Category: Hockey August 14,2018 )
Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; David Harriman
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-08-02 | Author:Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; David Harriman

1947 [AR wrote the following article for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. It was published in the November 1947 issue of Plain Talk, a conservative ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 13,2018 )
Garibaldi by Lucy Riall
epub |eng | | Author:Lucy Riall

Once again, the epistolary formula is used to great effect here. Contrasting the intimate experience with the public pose, the humility of the man with his political fame, the letter ...
( Category: Europe August 13,2018 )
Herbert Eugene Bolton_Historian of the American Borderlands by Albert L. Hurtado
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Albert L. Hurtado [Hurtado, Albert L.]

E L E V E N · The Grand Patriarch The 1930s were challenging years for the University of California. In July 1930 Robert Gordon Sproul became president of the ...
( Category: Historical August 12,2018 )
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AT THE LORRAINE Motel, a stunned and deeply sleep-deprived Ralph Abernathy started off the morning by giving a brief press conference in the motel parking lot, just below the now-infamous ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 12,2018 )
Snowden by Kieran Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2016-08-11 | Author:Kieran Fitzgerald

35. INT. SNOWDEN’S ROOM - MIRA HOTEL - HONG KONG #3B - NIGHT LAURA Were you thinking about going to journalists then? ED No, it wouldn’t have occurred to me ...
( Category: Movies August 12,2018 )

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