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Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli
epub |eng | | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli

The Philadelphia Story June 20, 1967. “I am so nervous, I can’t stand it,” Lee was saying. She was in her makeup chair backstage at the Ivanhoe Theater in Chicago. ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 5,2018 )
Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Katja Petrowskaja

Germany itself is crumbling, becoming more and more unfathomable. The scraps of paper stick to my clothes and my computer keyboard, I’m carting this year all around, spreading the wealth, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 5,2018 )
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

Aaron Burr in his enigmatic prime Theodosia Burr Alston, her father’s darling, pupil and confidante Richmond Hill, where young Theo astonished New York with her maturity and grace The 1800 ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Joel Richard Paul

CHAPTER TWENTY HIGH CRIMES After Republicans had canceled the Supreme Court’s term in 1802, Chief Justice Marshall rode the circuit from Virginia to North Carolina. He usually traveled on horseback ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
The God Game by Jeffrey Round
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Jeffrey Round

Sixteen Dirty Little Secrets Nick was sitting at the kitchen table. The word glower came to mind when Dan saw his expression. And probably not just because the angel hair ...
( Category: Mystery March 5,2018 )
Daughter of Good Fortune by Chen Huiqin
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Chen Huiqin [Huiqin, Chen]

MOVING BEYOND THE ANCESTRAL COMPOUND In 1968, my cousin Zhongming, my uncle’s elder son, got married. Zhongming was working as a Chinese violinist in the Beijing Opera Troupe in Shanghai. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 5,2018 )
Hugo Chavez by Cristina Marcano
epub |eng | 2007-08-13 | Author:Cristina Marcano [Marcano, Cristina]

AFTER A NUMBER OF MISHAPS with the old Boeing 737, the president decided it was necessary to purchase a new aircraft. As the air force began to weigh the options, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 5,2018 )
A Journey to the Northern Ocean by Samuel Hearne
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Samuel Hearne [Hearne, Samuel]

CHAPTER 8 January 9th, 1772 to June 29th, 1772 Transactions and Remarks from our Arrival on the South Side of the Athapuscow Lake, till our Arrival at Prince of Wales’s ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
Enemies Within by Richard Davenport-Hines
epub |eng | 2017-12-05 | Author:Richard Davenport-Hines [Richard Davenport-Hines]

Cairncross hooks BOSS Early in the war Cairncross was instructed to seek work with Lord Hankey, who had been brought into the War Cabinet in September 1939 as Minister without ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
Young Hitler by Paul Ham
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Paul Ham [Ham, Paul]

Hitler’s oratorical skills were soon noticed. Feder’s brother-in-law and fellow speaker Karl Alexander von Müller mentioned to Mayr after that session, ‘Do you know that one of your trainees is ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
Walking the Precipice by Barbara Bick
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barbara Bick [Bick, Barbara; Naby, Eden]

Chapter 5 Faizabad The day is still bright as we enter Faizabad. It is September 4. I had planned to be back home the following day, but instead I have ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )
The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

1. This is the spelling adopted by the reporter for the Edinburgh Caledonian Mercury, the source of this text. 2. Fictional, folkloric character who personified the U.S. nation. 3. Like ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 5,2018 )
Young William James Thinking by Paul J Croce
epub |eng | 2017-12-05 | Author:Paul J Croce [Croce, Paul J]

Chapter Four Crises and Construction For the past week, to be sure I have been laid up, . . . but I have come to regard that as a periodical ...
( Category: Philosophy March 5,2018 )
Reconstruction by Brooks D. Simpson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-16 | Author:Brooks D. Simpson [Simpson, Brooks D.]

“A hunted seeker of the Truth, Oppressed for conscience sake.” Possibly, Mr. Editor, your graciousness to recalcitrant Confederates, would be somewhat modified if you lived, as I do, within the ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )
Eleven Days in August by Matthew Cobb
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Cobb [Cobb, Matthew]

* The arrival of the 2e DB meant that the final phase of the liberation of Paris would be determined by an army, not by the Resistance or by the ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2018 )

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