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Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Craft Kimberly
epub |eng | 2013-12-14 | Author:Craft, Kimberly [Craft, Kimberly]

( Category: Specific Groups March 10,2018 )
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge by Paul Lockhart
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Lockhart

in the first instance tell you, that they wish for nothing more than the honour of serving in so glorious a cause, as Volunteers—The next day sollicit rank without pay—the ...
( Category: Historical March 10,2018 )
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Wendy Moore

When the general election was finally declared at the end of March, Bowes was summoned north to justify his woeful parliamentary record to the disgruntled voters in Newcastle with Mary ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese; Keith Zimmerman; Paul Pompian
mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Frank Calabrese; Keith Zimmerman; Paul Pompian

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 9,2018 )
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas “Part of what?" “The dope ring,” I said. “You must know what's going on in this hotel. Why do you think we're here?” She ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 9,2018 )
Tommy's Honor by Kevin Cook
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-05 | Author:Kevin Cook [Cook, Kevin]

Tommy’s victories over Fergusson restored the Morrises’ honor but did nothing for Tom’s reputation. There were whispers on both sides of the Forth that “Old Tom” was no longer a ...
( Category: Biographies March 9,2018 )
The Sugar King of Havana by John Paul Rathbone
mobi |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:John Paul Rathbone

Nine IMPERIAL AFFAIRS Fortune is a woman and the more she does for me the more I demand from her. —NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The cartoon says it all. With one hand, ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2018 )
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley; Attallah Shabazz
mobi |eng | 1940-01-02 | Author:Malcolm X; Alex Haley; Attallah Shabazz

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 9,2018 )
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

Chapter Twenty-One Was He or Was He Not? THIS MUCH, at any rate, is now beyond dispute, that Axel de Fersen was not, as was so long believed, a mere ...
( Category: Women March 9,2018 )
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Sarah Wildman [Wildman, Sarah]

Perhaps Valy and my grandfather sang it to each other once, perhaps they saw the play together. But now the words “and I shall wait, as I promised before” have ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Newton Huey P
epub |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Newton, Huey P. [Newton, Huey P.]

24 Black brother, think you life so sweet That you would live at any price? Does mere existence balance with The weight of your great sacrifice? Or can it be ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 8,2018 )
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:David Levering Lewis

14. NAACP The Beginning “GENTLEMEN,” ATLANTA University’s famous professor of economics and history wrote on July 5, 1910, “having accepted the position of Director of Publicity and Research in the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 8,2018 )
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:David Levering Lewis

12 ATLANTA THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE The trip around the world ended when the Tatsuta Maru berthed at San Francisco harbor in the second week of January 1937. Du Bois ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 8,2018 )
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
epub |rus | | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

A selection of slips—some handwritten, some cut from books, some printed—for the word mechnical, which would have been housed in the Scriptorium pigeonholes, waiting to be examined, considered and finally ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 7,2018 )
Richard M. Nixon by Elizabeth Drew
epub |eng | 2007-03-06 | Author:Elizabeth Drew

6 Watergate The extraordinary set of events that came to be called Watergate— named for the building complex where on June 17, 1972, a team of burglars with ties to ...
( Category: Historical March 6,2018 )

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