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Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-07 | Author:Thomas Mallon [Mallon, Thomas]

Two The Kennedy assassination is still regularly presented—to those Americans who remember it and to the large majority who don’t—as a milestone of modernity, the weekend that television news, however ...
( Category: Americas November 28,2017 )
The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Michelle Goldberg [Goldberg, Michelle]

· CHAPTER 12 · EVEN AS her immigration struggles threatened to derail her American life, Devi was thriving as never before, as socialites and actresses began to discover what yoga ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 28,2017 )
The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards by Jim Steinmeyer
epub |eng | 2011-02-03 | Author:Jim Steinmeyer [Steinmeyer, Jim]

FORTUNATELY, Kellar was unaware of the real problem: Thurston’s debts had already surrounded him like a roaring inferno, licking at every investment and threatening to engulf his career. In August ...
( Category: Performing Arts November 28,2017 )
Moyers on Democracy by Bill Moyers
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Bill Moyers [Moyers, Bill]

II Two years ago, in a report entitled “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” the American Political Science Association concluded that progress toward realizing American ideals of democracy ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 28,2017 )
Investigative Medium: The Awakening by Laine Crosby
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Laine Crosby [Crosby, Laine]

How to Make Rose Water As told to me by the spirit of Maime Robertson b.1832 d. 1891 Montgomery County, Maryland Let roses bloom completely. When they have reached their ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal November 28,2017 )
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Donald Rayfield [Rayfield, Donald]

When Kamenev and Zinoviev were charged with Kirov’s murder, the new edition of Machiavelli was stopped, and the volume with Kamenev’s foreword was pulped. Weeks passed before Zinoviev and Kamenev ...
( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-08-01 | Author:Richard Stoneman

CHAPTER SIX Invasion (II): The Wooden Walls The daring Greeks deride the martial shew And heap their vallies with the gaudy foe. Th’insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains, A ...
( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
ST29 - RECollections by RECollections
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:RECollections

( Category: Europe November 28,2017 )
Lady Jane Grey: NIne Days Queen by Alison Plowden
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Alison Plowden [Plowden, Alison]

FIVE JANA NON REGINA Although my fault be great, and I confess it to be so, nevertheless I am charged and esteemed guilty more than I have deserved. For whereas ...
( Category: Europe November 27,2017 )
Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-03 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

14 “I Reign in Paris” On May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia to create a new nation; on the same day in Versailles, the Assemblée des Notables ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 27,2017 )
The Other Tudor Princess: Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII's Niece by Mary McGrigor
epub |eng | 2014-12-13 | Author:Mary McGrigor [McGrigor, Mary]

I pray you, remember what I showed you concerning the Lady Lennox, you and I seeming to be of one mind. Nevertheless as I hear no word mentioned of her ...
( Category: World November 27,2017 )
Letters 1945-59 by Burroughs William S
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Burroughs, William S [Burroughs, William S]

To Allen Ginsberg Dec. 30, 1954 [Tangier] Dear Allen, Enclose first chapter of current novel. Reading it over I get an impression of something very sinister just under the surface, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 27,2017 )
Wild West Women by Erin H. Turner
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:Erin H. Turner [Turner, Erin H.]

Eliza Cook (1856–1947) Pills and Politics The dark, foreboding horse and buggy tore down the road, gritty dust devils ascending skyward attempting to avoid the careening carriage. Each passing house ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2017 )
Ostend by Volker Weidermann
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Volker Weidermann

Finally the Tollers arrive too, from London, on the direct ship from Dover. Wherever they surface, they’re stars, with a nimbus of beauty and fame. The Socialist and his goddess, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 27,2017 )
Malinche by Laura Esquivel
epub |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Laura Esquivel

It had been a joyful spring day. Malinalli was dressed all in white with necklaces of feathers and jade bracelets and anklets. She was excited, for her grandmother had told ...
( Category: Romance November 27,2017 )

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