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Henry III by Stephen Church
epub |eng | 2016-12-26 | Author:Stephen Church

THE TREATY OF PARIS Like modern treaties, the hard work of negotiation for the Treaty of Paris had been undertaken beforehand and the two kings would not meet until all ...
( Category: Historical February 23,2018 )
1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare by James Shapiro
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Shapiro

THE PUBLICATION OF THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM WOULD AMOUNT TO LITTLE more than a footnote to his career if not for the impact it had upon Shakespeare’s thinking about his stolen ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 22,2018 )
Bad Faith by Carmen Callil
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Carmen Callil [Callil, Carmen]

Darquier kept his legal team at the CGQ J at work preparing new anti-Jewish decrees for presentation to Laval. Three categories obsessed him. First were those Jews who took refuge ...
( Category: Europe February 21,2018 )
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Morgan Bill
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Morgan, Bill [Morgan, Bill]

Once he located Peter, he hoped they could go south to the Red Sea port of Elat and get seamen’s jobs there to pay for their passage to India. He ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 20,2018 )
Edward II by Christopher Given-Wilson
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Christopher Given-Wilson

4 ‘Make it Your Business that We Become Rich’ Edward’s triumph in 1321–2 gave him the opportunity to establish strong and responsible rule in England. Despite the return of the ...
( Category: Historical February 17,2018 )
Death in the Jungle by Gary Smith
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Gary Smith [Smith, Gary]

CHAPTER EIGHT Mission Eleven “Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes ...
( Category: Military February 17,2018 )
Born Survivors by Holden Wendy
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:Holden, Wendy

The memorial to the dead of KZ Freiberg Priska, as tired and hungry as the rest of the inmates, stubbornly refused to allow thoughts of death to enter her mind. ...
( Category: Specific Groups February 17,2018 )
Huey P. Newton by Jeffries Judson L.;
epub |eng | 2002-02-17 | Author:Jeffries, Judson L.;

THE “BAD NIGGER” PERSONIFIED Huey Newton is the baddest mutherfucker ever to step foot inside of history. —Eldridge Cleaver All the “bad niggers” are either dead or in jail. —Unknown ...
( Category: Social Sciences February 17,2018 )
Servant (John Brown) by John Brown
mobi |eng | 2013-11-24 | Author:John Brown

28 Alliances THE SKIR MASTER Rubaloth stood on the portico, the sun-warmed marble under his naked feet, the warm breeze washing across his legs and bringing the sulfur scent of ...
( Category: Historical February 17,2018 )
Imperial General: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis by Philip Matyszak
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Philip Matyszak [Matyszak, Philip]

The Battle On 8 April Valens arrived with the rest of the Vitellian army. Further reinforcements were being scraped together from the depleted Rhineland garrisons, but basically the Vitellian force ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 14,2018 )
The Essential Lewis & Clark by Meriwether Lewis
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Meriwether Lewis

It was new country to the men. These were Easterners who had never seen such mountains, many of them still covered with snow in midsummer; they had never been in ...
( Category: Americas February 13,2018 )
Improbable Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

Beaumarchais’s fictional plots onstage seldom proceeded without complications, however, and his real-life offstage plots were no different. Just as he was establishing his own huge arms-trading enterprise, another French entrepreneur ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 13,2018 )
House of Wits by Paul Fisher
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:Paul Fisher

12 ABANDONMENT The success of Daisy Miller in 1878 had emboldened Harry to begin an ambitious new novel. “I must try and seek a larger success than I have yet ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2018 )
Nancy by Deaver Michael K
mobi |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Deaver, Michael K. [Deaver, Michael K.]

We are here because humanity refuses to accept that freedom or the spirit of man can ever be extinguished. We are here to commemorate that life triumphed over tragedy and ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2018 )
The Kings of Big Spring by Bryan Mealer
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Mealer

2 The fall of Raymond Tollett … a town mourns its king … For Raymond Tollett and Cosden Petroleum, the 1960s opened with a surge of expansion. In 1960, Cosden ...
( Category: Americas February 13,2018 )

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