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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Henry Ketcham

In all the thousands of people there assembled, there was no one who listened more intently than Stephen A. Douglas. At the conclusion he warmly grasped the President hand's, congratulated ...
( Category: Historical May 23,2018 )
Burke and Wills by Peter FitzSimons
epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:Peter FitzSimons [FITZSIMONS, PETER]

As exhausted as he is, Wills’s thoughts turn guiltily to poor Gray. How many times had they looked askance at his shambling gait, his constant insistence on resting, his slowness ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania May 22,2018 )
First by Wells K.C
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Wells, K.C. [Wells, K.C.]

Chapter Seventeen SOMETHING WAS up with Mike. He’d seemed pleased to see Tommy when he arrived at just past ten o’clock, even gave him a little peck on the cheek, ...
( Category: Historical May 22,2018 )
J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Icons) by Thomas Beller
mobi |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Thomas Beller

23 1133 Park Avenue THE AWNING IS GREEN, and located off Park Avenue on Ninety-First Street. It is a warm spring day, the air filled with light drizzle. The tulips ...
( Category: Historical May 22,2018 )
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War by Jared A. Brock
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Jared A. Brock

PROVEN INNOCENT Back at Dawn, a public meeting was called at the BAI premises in the autumn of 1851. One of the BAI’s founding trustees, Toronto Congregationalist minister John Roaf, ...
( Category: Americas May 22,2018 )
The Restless Wave by John McCain & Mark Salter
epub |eng | | Author:John McCain & Mark Salter

CHAPTER SEVEN * * * Nyet (Know Thine Enemy) I REGULARLY ATTEND AN ANNUAL security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The only thing unusual about the November 2016 meeting was ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 22,2018 )
Proust's Duchess by Caroline Weber
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Caroline Weber [Weber, Caroline]

Porto-Riche began his attempt to woo Élisabeth by leaving unsigned love poems on her prie-dieu at the Église de la Madeleine. Porto-Riche intended to keep his identity a secret from ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2018 )
Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal by Nixon Jon;
epub |eng | | Author:Nixon, Jon;

The only alternative to ‘the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture’ is ‘the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism, against its methods, against war’ (R: ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Edward Wilson-Lee [Wilson-Lee, Edward]

If we are forbidden to use the inventions of the pagan world, what shall we have left I ask you, in the fields, in the towns, in churches and houses ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 21,2018 )
My Country by Kassem Eid
epub |eng | 2018-04-27 | Author:Kassem Eid

Damn humanity 21 August–10 September 2013 Dim lights, wailing women and the disgusting scent of blood and antiseptic – I was back in the field hospital. I opened my eyes ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 21,2018 )
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
epub |eng | 2000-05-21 | Author:Chanrithy Him

9 Now I Know the Answer Under the Khmer Rouge, reunions are precious but brief, appearing like a sudden summer shower that opens the sweet plumeria, and ending just as ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
America's Queen by Sarah Bradford
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Sarah Bradford

13: Rendezvous with Death But I’ve a rendezvous with Death, At midnight in some flaming town … I shall not fail that rendezvous John F. Kennedy’s favourite poem, by Alan ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 21,2018 )
The Trials of Nina McCall by Scott W. Stern
epub |eng | 2018-05-21 | Author:Scott W. Stern

ON THE EVENING OF September 29, 1940, even as federal agents and ASHA investigators were fanning out across the country, Nina’s cousin and adopted son, Robert Day, died at the ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
Barbara Bush by Barbara Bush
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Bush

* * * I. An explosion in the U.S.S. lowa’s gun turret had killed forty-seven sailors on April 19 while the ship was participating in naval exercises near Puerto Rico. ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 19,2018 )
A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff
epub |eng | 2005-05-18 | Author:Stacy Schiff

The supplies that Washington and Lafayette had every reason to believe would turn up daily were still in France. Having made two false starts, Jones and the Ariel were again ...
( Category: Americas May 18,2018 )

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