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Blood, Sweat and Fear by Eve Lazarus
epub |eng | 2017-11-25 | Author:Eve Lazarus

A page from Vance’s diary describes the bomb that was put in his car. Courtesy of the Vance family His screams brought Ethel Vance running. She called for their son ...
( Category: Specific Groups January 27,2018 )
300 Days of Sun by 300 Days of Sun -
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:300 Days of Sun - [-, 300 Days of Sun]

ii It occurred to Alva that the rich in the palace hotels of Estoril, bathing and dressing and drinking cocktails in the warm summer evenings, were doing very much what ...
( Category: Memoirs January 27,2018 )
The Mafia's President by Don Fulsom
epub |eng | | Author:Don Fulsom

TEN Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover Like Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover was in the hip pocket of America’s godfathers. For this simple reason, the FBI director put the Mafia ...
( Category: Americas January 27,2018 )
Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs) by David Horspool
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:David Horspool

5 Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell’s emergence as head of state would not have surprised opponents who had been warning of his ambitions since the 1640s, in pamphlets with titles such ...
( Category: Historical January 27,2018 )
Stranger in My Own Country by Yascha Mounk
epub |eng | | Author:Yascha Mounk

EIGHT Poisoning the Well In the minds of most Germans, their country finally managed to overcome its complex about the past in the summer of 2006, when it hosted the ...
( Category: World January 26,2018 )
Stanton by Benjamin P. Thomas
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Benjamin P. Thomas [Thomas, Benjamin P.]

CHAPTER XV A TOWER OF STRENGTH DANA’S PREDICTION that the only way Lee could now harass the North was by means of raiding parties was accurate. Gray raiders broke loose ...
( Category: Americas January 26,2018 )
African Laughter by Doris Lessing
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-10-05 | Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]

OVER THE RAINBOW In Harare they talk endlessly about the new agreement over Namibia in the same way we do about the ending of the Iran–Iraq War, and the end ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 24,2018 )
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Our room was at the Flamingo, in the nerve - center of theStrip: right across the street from Caesar’s Palace and the Dunes - site of the Drug Conference. The ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 24,2018 )
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 2009-04-17 | Author:Simon Winchester

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Simon Winchester

‘Minor, William Chester. A thin, pale and sharp-featured man with light sandy-coloured hair, deep-set eyes and prominent cheek bones. He is thirty-eight years old, of superior education, indeed a surgeon, ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses January 24,2018 )
Brilliant Madness by Patty Duke
epub |eng | | Author:Patty Duke [Duke, Patty]

Ginny: Still Angry at the Medical System Ginny says that she is the victim of a medical system that has been insensitive to her needs and convictions, of doctors who ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 24,2018 )
The Fellowship by Roger Friedland
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Friedland

15. SPACE LOVERS COPPER MAGNATE SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM HAD been in no hurry. For eight years, he had housed his collection of modern paintings in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 23,2018 )
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Helene Cooper

One wore a uniform that looked to be that of some kind of noncommissioned officer. He pulled up his belt and strutted to the front of the house. He looked ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 23,2018 )
The Real Hornblower by Bryan Perrett
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Bryan Perrett

‘The feelings of a father, upon such a glorious achievement as the victory you have obtained over the enemy, with such fearful odds against you, can be better conceived than ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2018 )
The Rise of the Tudors by Chris Skidmore
epub |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Chris Skidmore

For the safety and defence of our kingdom of England against the malice of rebels and our foreign enemies who intend to attack various parts of our said kingdom near ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2018 )

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