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The King's Assassin by Benjamin Woolley
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Woolley

Hobgoblins Life for the Spanish embassy staff was miserable. As well as having to endure mockery and even physical attacks, their mission had stalled. Serious negotiations over the match had ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2017 )
Bill and Hillary by William H. Chafe
epub |eng | | Author:William H. Chafe

NINE The Health Care Debacle and the Emergence of Kenneth Starr Eleven months after the White House decided to say no to The Washington Post’s request for the Whitewater records, ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2017 )
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy by Philby Kim
epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Philby, Kim [Philby, Kim]

VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE I now come to the Volkov case, which I propose to describe in some detail, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it nearly put ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2017 )
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]

( Category: Americas December 15,2017 )
Diamonds at Dinner by Hilda Newman & Tim Tate
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Hilda Newman & Tim Tate [Hilda Newman and Tim Tate]

Who wouldn’t want to explore such a place? I laced up my sensible shoes and set off to the east in search of it. I think it must have taken ...
( Category: Memoirs December 15,2017 )
The Gilded Chalet by Padraig Rooney
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Padraig Rooney

When you leave the motorway for the lakeside road to Montreux, the town takes you by surprise. One overgrown fishing village blends into another: St Saphorin, Vevey, La Tour de ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
The Case of Rose Bird by Cairns Kathleen A.;
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Cairns, Kathleen A.; [Cairns, Kathleen A.]

8 Big Business v. Rose Bird It was just after midnight in November 1974 when Charles Bigbee left his job as a custodian at Los Angeles City Hall and drove ...
( Category: Americas December 15,2017 )
Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson [Adam Nicolson]

10 IN MIDSUMMER, AS THE BIRDS were proliferating around me, and as the cotton grass began to show its white-tufted pennants in the bogs, as the flag irises flowered in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
Blazing Star by Larman Alexander;
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Larman, Alexander; [Larman, Alexander]

The twenty-fifth of June 1675 was a warm early summer’s day in London. The evening had certainly seen rare sport amongst the merry gang, who had dined with Charles at ...
( Category: Historical December 15,2017 )
Julian by William Bell
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:William Bell [Bell, William]

After dinner I took a walk up to a food market on the Danforth. The day’s heat lingered in the pavement and seeped from the buildings, and the sidewalk patios ...
( Category: Europe December 14,2017 )
Well Done, Those Men by Barry Heard
epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Barry Heard

OPERATION BALLARAT KARDS, NOW OUT of hospital and well rested, was back with us, having recently returned to base camp carrying a slight limp but with his drinking prowess intact. ...
( Category: Military December 14,2017 )
For the Glory by Duncan Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Hamilton

CHAPTER TWELVE The Sharpest Edge of the Sword COUNTRY EVANGELISM WAS Eric Liddell’s forte. He had been born for it. Within six months, after his Chinese began to improve markedly, ...
( Category: Biographies December 14,2017 )
The Dragon's Voice by Bunty Avieson
epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Bunty Avieson

14 A Victory for the Media Bhutan Observer’s four rural reporters come to Thimphu for a week of writing workshops. I’ve been looking forward to meeting them, particularly Gyembo Namgyal, ...
( Category: Historical December 14,2017 )
A Year in the South by Stephen V. Ash
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen V. Ash

CORNELIA MCDONALD Just before summer began, harry McDonald took a job as a farm laborer, working for a man named Reid who had an estate on the outskirts of Lexington. ...
( Category: Americas December 14,2017 )
When Heaven & Earth Change Places by Le Ly Hayslip
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Le Ly Hayslip [Hayslip, Le Ly]

MIDMORNING, APRIL 7, 1986: DANANG, SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Our approach and landing at the great Danang airport is smooth and uneventful, but the calm of the cabin belies the ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 14,2017 )

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