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One Soldier by Dillon Hillier
epub |eng | 2016-09-02 | Author:Dillon Hillier

12. REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE 5 DECEMBER 2014 WHEN I LEFT CANADA, I HARBOURED THE HOPE THAT I WOULD BE the first of several Westerners who would arrive in Kurdistan to fight ...
( Category: Middle East April 11,2018 )
The Who, the What, and the When by Jenny Volvovski
epub |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Jenny Volvovski [Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman and Matt Lamothe]

WRITTEN BY SVETLANA KITTO www.svetlanakitto.com ILLUSTRATED BY KATTY MAUREY www.kattymaurey.tumblr.com 1758 MARIE ANNE LAVOISIER 1836 ANTOINE LAVOISIER’S WIFE WHEN JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID WAS COMMISsioned to paint the portrait of the great ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 11,2018 )
The Way We Were by Paul Burrell
epub |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Paul Burrell [Burrell, Paul]

The princess could disappear from KP to spend whole days in his one-bedroom flat, and the joy she derived from those occasions was immeasurable. Diana, Princess of Wales, would return ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee by R. David Cox
epub |eng | | Author:R. David Cox

CHAPTER 17 “Who Teacheth My Hands to War” The Years of Struggle Three weeks before accepting command of Virginia’s forces, Lee commented on an essay that his daughter Mildred had ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
The Chip by T.R. Reid
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:T.R. Reid

As fabrication plants turn out millions of chips that contain tens or hundreds of millions of transistors each, Moore—retired from active service at Intel, but still on the board—has spent ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Beatrix Potter by Andrew Norman
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Andrew Norman

Tell Louie [Harold’s daughter, Alice Louisa] I shall have to teach her kitten manners. I was scratched fearfully by the original manx Tom. I had to whip him.13 Those who ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 11,2018 )
All They Will Call You by Tim Z. Hernandez
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Z. Hernandez

20 FRANKIE GETS HIS CHANCE “Frankie enlisted in the military the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed,” Mary Lou said, proudly. “He went right in and signed himself up. Our ...
( Category: United States April 11,2018 )
Rise of the Cajun Mariners by Woody Falgoux
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Woody Falgoux

While Bobby looked for a “quick” political fix, his old friend from his Quarantine Bay days, Sidney Savoie, was grinding through the sixties. Unlike Bobby, Sidney had no political tricks ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Midnight in Mexico by Alfredo Corchado
epub |eng | 2017-04-24 | Author:Alfredo Corchado

THIRTEEN U.S. Highway 83 in Texas is a lonely, curving corridor dotted with abandoned villages and fast-food joints. One of the main arteries of Los Caminos del Río—the River Roads—it ...
( Category: Memoirs April 11,2018 )
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]

Moreover, Kissinger made it clear that he was on the brink of “cut[ting] my few remaining ties” to the administration “once the current Berlin decisions have become irrevocable, and if ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
The Rangity Tango Kids by Lorraine Rominger
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Lorraine Rominger [Rominger, Lorraine]

Chapter 13 I hated being taller than all the boys in my eighth-grade class. I liked to dance, but dreaded the school dances because Johnny was a head shorter than ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-11-21 | Author:Elisabeth Griffith

Of all their speakers, she seemed to me to have the most weight. Her speeches are models of composition, clear, compact, elegant and logical. She makes her points with peculiar ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
Roughing It In The Bush by Susanna Moodie
epub |eng | | Author:Susanna Moodie [Susanna Moodie]

FIFTEEN THE WILDERNESS, AND OUR INDIAN FRIENDS Man of strange race! stern dweller of the wild! Nature’s free-born, untamed, and daring child! The clouds of the preceding night, instead of ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 10,2018 )
Revolution by Emmanuel Macron
epub |eng | 2017-11-13 | Author:Emmanuel Macron

CHAPTER ELEVEN Reconciling France in all its guises The French dream has always been one of unification. From its base in Paris, the state has long sought to achieve uniformity, ...
( Category: Europe April 10,2018 )
Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote by Bernadette Cahill
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Bernadette Cahill

CHAPTER 9 Intended Consequences After the November 2 general election in 1920, some daily newspapers reported on the culmination of the United States’ peaceful revolution of the day before. On ...
( Category: World April 10,2018 )

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