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The Sarashina Diary by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
epub |eng | | Author:Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

ika ni ihi How to tell of it; nani ni tatohete to describe it, with what kataramashi could I compare it— aki no yufube no this evening in autumn sumiyoshi ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 22,2018 )
William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Rosen

5 “Popular Unrest”: The Election of 1912 and the Battle for the Constitution On February 21, 1912, after delivering a speech called “A Charter for Democracy” at the Ohio Constitutional ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2018 )
Blood Letters by Lian Xi
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Lian Xi

Accustomed to long nights as springtime wears away, I take along wife and son, my temples turning gray. In dreams dimly I see my loving mother’s tears; Over the city ...
( Category: History March 22,2018 )
Hunting the Truth by Beate Klarsfeld
epub |eng | | Author:Beate Klarsfeld

ISRAEL NEWS OF MY arrest made very little impact in Israel, to begin with. Serge wrote to the Israeli embassy asking for an Israeli lawyer, but we waited in vain ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 22,2018 )
Harry by Katie Nicholl
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Katie Nicholl

After the summer Jubilee and Olympic celebrations, not to mention his time in Las Vegas, touching down in Camp Bastion on a cool September morning was a bit of a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 22,2018 )
Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson & Laura Rozen
epub |eng | 2008-06-10 | Author:Valerie Plame Wilson & Laura Rozen [Wilson, Valerie Plame & Rozen, Laura]

I turned over in bed, restless, kicked the sheets around, and realized Joe wasn’t next to me. The illuminated clock on the bedside table read 2:30 A.M. Joe liked to ...
( Category: World March 22,2018 )
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Edward Steers [Steers, Edward]

Left, Samuel Cox Sr. Booth and Herold stopped at Cox’s plantation home, Rich Hill, around midnight on April 15, 1865. Cox saw to their safe hiding in a pine thicket ...
( Category: Americas March 22,2018 )
The New American Revolution by Kayleigh McEnany
epub |eng | | Author:Kayleigh McEnany

When the callous corporate official announced to a room full of Carrier workers that they were losing their jobs, he was likely unaware of the young woman filming just beyond ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 22,2018 )
A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran by Reza Kahlili
epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Reza Kahlili [Kahlili, Reza]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 22,2018 )
The Disappearance of Émile Zola by Michael Rosen
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Michael Rosen [Michael Rosen]

( Category: Arts & Literature March 22,2018 )
Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | 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: Americas March 22,2018 )
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand [Hillenbrand, Laura]

The New York publicity machine heated up. On May 4 Seabiscuit and War Admiral were brought out on a grassy lawn before a pink flowering hedge to pose for an ...
( Category: Biographies March 22,2018 )
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese Jr
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Frank Calabrese Jr. [Calabrese, Frank Jr.]

I was in prison. The trip from the MCC in downtown Chicago to FCI Milan had one stopover. I arrived by bus at USP (United States Penitentiary) Terre Haute, Indiana, ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 22,2018 )
King of the Godfathers: by Anthony M. Destefano
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Anthony M. Destefano [Destefano, Anthony M.]

CHAPTER 16 By the Numbers “What do you think is going on?” asked FBI Director Louis Freeh. Though he was based in Washington, D.C., Freeh kept abreast of crime news ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 22,2018 )
The Age of Eisenhower by William I. Hitchcock
epub |eng | | Author:William I. Hitchcock

VII Just as Eisenhower began to despair about the Middle East, terrible news arrived from Hungary. The Soviets were invading again, and this time they meant to win. The Soviet ...
( Category: Americas March 21,2018 )

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