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Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Niven [Niven, Jennifer]

( Category: Historical November 26,2017 )
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Leanda de Lisle [de Lisle, Leanda]

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 )
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Kenneth Whyte

* * * *1 It may have been true, as his loyalists claimed, that Hoover was not aware of the tactics employed on his behalf. His managers kept him in ...
( Category: Americas November 26,2017 )
The Nazi Hydra in America by Glen Yeadon
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Yeadon

The date of the third excerpt above coincides with the native fascists’ desperate three-prong attack in the United States. Further, the documents in Appendix 10 confirm that Nazi agents were ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 26,2017 )
The Widow Spy by Martha Peterson
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Martha Peterson [Peterson, Martha]

Photographs - Laos and Moscow Chapter 8 Life in Moscow Through that first winter, I began to feel at home in Moscow, but being alone was hard. I had few ...
( Category: Memoirs November 25,2017 )
Washington by Gore Vidal
epub |eng | 1999-03-15 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

II From far away, Burden heard his own amplified voice fill the room. He was making a speech to an audience which laughed at every joke. It was exactly his ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 25,2017 )
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Fraser

Indian Country There was something wrong with the weather. The Wilders had seen it during their trip to South Dakota, when it was so hot and dry and dusty they ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 24,2017 )
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-10-03 | Author:Laurence Bergreen [Bergreen, Laurence]

On March 9, 1521, as the armada left the island, the Chamorros reacted with anger, perhaps feeling insulted or betrayed by the unexpected departure. Over a hundred proas took to ...
( Category: Specialty Travel November 24,2017 )
Secrets and Lies by Christine Keeler
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Christine Keeler [Christine Keeler]

DARLING I WAS SO PLEASE TO YOU FRIDAY, ALTHOUGH I WASN’T QUITE AWAKE, I CRIED WHEN YOU LEFT, MIND YOU I FELT BETTER THAN WHAT I DO NOW. PETER I ...
( Category: World November 24,2017 )
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Giles Milton [Milton, Giles]

12 Czech-Mate IN THE NINE months that Margaret Jackson had been working for Colin Gubbins, she had come to realize that there was something extraordinary about her job. Unlike everyone ...
( Category: Military November 24,2017 )
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard [O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin]

( Category: Americas November 23,2017 )
Ten acres enough by Morris Edmund
epub |eng | 1864-07-16 | Author:Morris, Edmund [Morris, Edmund]

CHAPTER XY. BIRDS, AND THE SERVICES THEY RENDER. ONE morning in September, hearing shots fired repeatedly at the further end of my grounds, and proceeding thither to ascertain the cause, ...
( Category: Engineering November 23,2017 )
Twain, Mark - Roughing It by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

* * * CHAPTER XLV. The "flush times" held bravely on. Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
King, Stephen - The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by King Stephen
epub |eng | 2011-10-29 | Author:King, Stephen [King, Stephen]

shall be forgiven. There is much talk in society of this foreigner Freud, and his formidable insight to the human condition—but I see no need to share with others that ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
No Room for Small Dreams by Shimon Peres
epub |eng | 2017-08-02 | Author:Shimon Peres

CHAPTER 5 BUILDING THE START-UP NATION The early Jewish pioneers arrived in the land of Israel with nothing, only to find a place that offered almost nothing in return. They ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 23,2017 )

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