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Night by Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie Wiesel; Marion]

Unknown there was still time. We decided that if we were allowed to live until the Liberation, we would not stay another day in Europe. We would board the first ...
( Category: World April 9,2018 )
The Original Black Elite by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

OVER THIS PERIOD, THE MURRAY FAMILY HAD THEIR UPS AND downs. Two days after Daniel Murray and his son returned from their visit to Buffalo and Cleveland in the fall ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 9,2018 )
Union 1812 by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames Chapter Eighteen WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1813) Before Harrison could chase down Henry Proctor, he had to send a detachment to the lake’s shore ...
( Category: Historical April 9,2018 )
The Promise of Canada by Charlotte Gray
epub |eng | | Author:Charlotte Gray

Other glamorous awards for Canadian fiction and non-fiction followed the Giller, including the RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, the Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. ...
( Category: Historical April 9,2018 )
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir by Shalev Meir
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Shalev, Meir [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 April 8,2018 )
Stalin's Englishman by Andrew Lownie
epub |eng | 2016-08-13 | Author:Andrew Lownie

A journalist who saw him several times that spring remembered that Burgess ‘drank heavily but was able to “hold his whiskey”, in that he could drink six highballs, “without turning ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
In Lincoln's Hand by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Harold Holzer [Holzer, Harold]

Executive Mansion, Washington, August 22, 1862. Hon. Horace Greely: Dear Sir - -I have just read yours of the 19th addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be ...
( Category: United States April 8,2018 )
Ghost Riders of Baghdad by Daniel A. Sjursen
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel A. Sjursen

A BAD DAY IN BAGHDAD 20 JANUARY 2007 In east Baghdad the insurgents were less willing to stand and fight the U.S. troops—that much was immediately apparent. Shia militiamen of ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Eisler Benita
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Eisler, Benita [Eisler, Benita]

With these lines, Augusta enclosed a curl of her hair—chestnut with glints of gold—tied with white silk. On the outside of the small folded packet of paper Byron scrawled these ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Passions Between Women by Donoghue Emma
epub |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Donoghue, Emma [Donoghue, Emma]

Mrs Morley and Mrs Freeman The stormy friendship of Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, has received plenty of attention in biographies and histories. It has often been ...
( Category: LGBT April 8,2018 )
Memoirs of a Happy Failure by Alice von Hildebrand
epub |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Alice von Hildebrand [Hildebrand, Alice von]

CHAPTER 14 No one is as illiberal as a liberal. I recall the Hunter student newspaper once printed an article claiming that “all religions should be welcome,” but that none ...
( Category: Catholicism April 8,2018 )
Communist Daze by Vladimir A. Tsesis
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Vladimir A. Tsesis

A listener asks Armenian Radio, “What is the easiest way to explain the meaning of the word ‘Communism’?” Armenian Radio replies, “With your fists.” Windmills Two weeks after the bonfire, ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Wicked Women of Missouri by Wood Larry
epub |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Wood, Larry [Wood, Larry]

A newspaper photo of Bertha Gifford during her trial. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Failing in their attempt to exclude the contents of Bertha’s statement, her attorneys resorted to an ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )
The Last Sheriff in Texas by James P. McCollom
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:James P. McCollom

17 At the start of the year, Vail again was in hero mode, his picture in the San Antonio Express: To the Rescue Sheriff Vail Ennis is shown as he ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:William Bradford [Bradford, William]

Chapter VII Standish returns from England—Death of John Robinson and Robert Cushman—Purchase of trading goods at Monhegan—Isaac Allerton goes to England—Small ship built: 1626. About the beginning of April they ...
( Category: Americas April 8,2018 )

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