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A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance From 911 Families and Friends by Dennis Smith
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Dennis Smith [Smith, Dennis]

Michael Burke William “Billy” Burke, Jr., was the namesake of Deputy Assistant Chief of Department William Burke, a high-ranking officer in New York City’s Fire Department. He followed in his ...
( Category: Death & Grief August 11,2018 )
Autumn in Venice by Andrea Di Robilant
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Andrea Di Robilant

CHAPTER SEVEN Crouching Beast The weather was gray and stormy during the crossing. There was nothing much to do on the Île de France but read and write letters, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
Prisoner of the Rising Sun by Stanley Wort
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Stanley Wort [Wort, Stanley]

Note: 1 Fandushi – Japanese loincloth. Naval dockyard, Hong Kong, circa 1930. (Author’s private collection) Hong Kong harbour, Stonecutters Island and Kowloon in background, circa 1930. (Author’s private collection) Class ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )
The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 7, 1966-1974 by Anaïs Nin
epub |eng | | Author:Anaïs Nin

Letter to André Bay: I’m very happy about the prize [Prix Sévigné] and proud that my first prize came from France. Please tell me more about it as my friends ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 11,2018 )
On the Shoulders of Giants by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
epub |eng | 2007-03-19 | Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN author of Brothers and Keepers The First World Championship of Basketball On March 28, 1939, eight young black men from Harlem anxiously stood on the polished wooden ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities by Higgins Brian; Parker Hershel;
epub |eng | 2006-08-10 | Author:Higgins, Brian; Parker, Hershel;

5 THE PAMPHLET AND THE CITY: THE KRAKEN ENDING i In Book XIII, “They Depart the Meadows,” the shortest Book in the novel, the Saddle Meadows section ends, with an ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos & Larry Alexander
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Adam Makos & Larry Alexander [Makos, Adam & Alexander, Larry]

15 A HIGHER CALL MEANWHILE, ABOVE OLDENBURG The Pub dropped from the sky in a spin, accelerating as she passed through twentytwo thousand feet . . . twenty thousand . ...
( Category: Europe August 11,2018 )
Charles Edward Andrews: Titanic Survivor by Andrews Marina
epub |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Andrews, Marina [Andrews, Marina]

At Home Back home in England the rapid spread of the devastating news of Titanic’s sinking hit hard, especially for the City of Southampton. Charlie’s family had heard too but ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:David Hirsch

Lincoln always focused on clarifying, clarifying, clarifying—despite any opponent’s best efforts to obfuscate: He [Judge Douglas] read upon a former occasion, and alludes without reading to-day, to a portion of ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
The Emperor Charles V: complete in 1 volume by Edward Armstrong
epub |eng | 2016-11-25 | Author:Edward Armstrong [Armstrong, Edward]

FROM the conclusion of the Castilian and Valencian civil wars, until Charles sailed from Barcelona for his last war against Francis I, there was no striking event in internal Spanish ...
( Category: Historical August 11,2018 )
The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader by Stephen Basdeo
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Stephen Basdeo

CHAPTER FIVE Radicalism and Chartism As to the motives that have always actuated REFORMERS and LEVELLERS; (for the words are, with very few exceptions, synonymous) – whether Wat Tyler, Jack ...
( Category: Europe August 11,2018 )
Robert Recorde by Smith Fenny; Roberts Gareth Ffowc;
epub |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Smith, Fenny; Roberts, Gareth Ffowc;

Figure 7. Recorde’s method of adding algebraic expressions We can easily recognize how these expressions can be translated into modern symbols: in the example on the left in Figure 7, ...
( Category: Mathematics August 11,2018 )
Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great (Oxford World's Classics) by Plutarch
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Plutarch

[9] Then, convinced that the long-anticipated moment had arrived, they ran en masse to the tyrant’s house to set it on fire. The towering flames that arose from the burning ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin by Sicario
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Sicario [Sicario]

For some time, six to eight months or more, I was working inside the police, kidnapping people and then handing them over to other people. The advantage of being a ...
( Category: True Crime August 10,2018 )
Selected Journalism 1850-1870 (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2006-09-28 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

that they are quiet, and no light shines through the chinks in the shutters. As undistinctive Death will come here, one day, sleep comes now. The wicked cease from troubling ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 10,2018 )

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