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Losing Israel by Jasmine Donahaye
epub |eng | | Author:Jasmine Donahaye [Donahaye, Jasmine]

Saul’s account of 1948 appears in a collection of interviews about Beit Hashita conducted in the late 1970s and published in Kibbutz Makom: Report from an Israeli Kibbutz, by the ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2017 )
The Fall by Diogo Mainardi
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Diogo Mainardi [Mainardi, Diogo]

184 185 In the previous image: Tito and his Bobath therapist. 186 Neil Young has two children with cerebral palsy. That’s right: two. He is my guru. 187 Neil Young’s ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2017 )
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Classics) by Christopher Columbus
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Christopher Columbus

CHAPTER 56 The Admiral returns from Jamaica and follows the coast of Cuba in the belief that it is the mainland ON leaving the island of Jamaica, on Wednesday, 14 ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 27,2017 )
Across the Wire by Luis Urrea
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Luis Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

That night, back at the orphanage, a bright thing sat above the horizon, glowing like a fat copper star. It pulsed on and off, then vanished. When I looked again, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 27,2017 )
The Baseball Whisperer by Michael Tackett
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tackett

8 No Bright Lights CHUCK KNOBLAUCH PACKED his bags in College Station, Texas. He had completed his freshman season at Texas A&M, where he’d validated his reputation as a player ...
( Category: Biographies November 27,2017 )
Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Clinton Romesha

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Alamo Position ONE OF THE strangest hallmarks of combat is that it is so chaotic that sometimes the turmoil it engenders in the mind never fully resolves. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 27,2017 )
In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story by Apps Jerry
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-01 | Author:Apps, Jerry [Apps, Jerry]

Except for this partial week in August, the fairgrounds nearly stood empty. County snowplows were stored in the buildings. The community celebrated the Fourth of July and Labor Day at ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2017 )
Lessons My Father Taught Me by Michael Reagan
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Reagan

7 Don’t Worry about Who Gets the Credit THE SOVIET UNION AND East Germany began building the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The Wall stood for nearly three decades, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 27,2017 )
The Secrets of the Notebook by Eve Haas
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Eve Haas

14 GOING to the BALL WE WERE AGAIN GETTING NOWHERE WITH our questions, and, only too aware of how little time we had left in the archive, we put aside ...
( Category: Historical November 27,2017 )
A Just Cause by Sieracki Bernard; Edgar Jim;
epub |eng | | Author:Sieracki, Bernard; Edgar, Jim;

Chapter 6 The Trial The First Day Hours before the trial began, lead prosecutor David Ellis and the prosecuting team received some reassuring news. The house assistant prosecutor, Michael Kasper, ...
( Category: Americas November 27,2017 )
Man Without a Face by Markus Wolf
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Markus Wolf

By the mid-sixties, it had become clear to me that East Germany was lagging behind in the wider race for technological innovation. Millions were being pumped into research and development ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 27,2017 )
All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:George Stephanopoulos [STEPHANOPOULOS, GEORGE]

While we were striking a small blow for free speech on one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was announcing a victory for public safety on the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 26,2017 )
Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Catherine Curzon

Although Bute had thought Grenville was the best man for the job, George and the new prime minister did not get on, as the king found Grenville far too forceful. ...
( Category: Historical November 26,2017 )
Playing with Fire by Lawrence O'Donnell
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

TWENTY-THREE “EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY” California was the primary that most resembled the general election. First, it is huge. The candidates could easily drive from one end of New ...
( Category: Americas November 26,2017 )
After Elizabeth by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Leanda de Lisle

CHAPTER FIVE “HOPE AND FEAR” Winners and Losers, April–May 1603 The head of the Jesuit order in England, Henry Garnet, had shown several soldiers the papal edict calling on Catholics ...
( Category: Historical November 26,2017 )

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