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8 Seconds of Courage by Flo Groberg & Tom Sileo
epub |eng | | Author:Flo Groberg & Tom Sileo

8 FREAK ON A LEASH I woke up two days later in a daze that’s difficult to describe. At first, I thought I was still on the battlefield because of ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 23,2017 )
First Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

This impression, though mortifying in some points of view, I have been obliged to encourage, because, next to being strong, it is best to be thought so by the enemy.… ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )
Hitler, My Neighbor by Edgar Feuchtwanger
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Edgar Feuchtwanger

We’re in Funk’s apartment. He’s reading out snatches from the newspaper: “Ernst Röhm was mounting a coup against Hitler.” “He wanted to hand power to the SA, who would have ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )
Revolution Song by Russell Shorto
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Russell Shorto

Perhaps the most talked-about event in London during the summer of 1777 was the case of William Dodd, a popular clergyman whose taste for the good life led him to ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )
Can You Hear the Sea? by Brenda Niall
epub |eng | 2017-09-28 | Author:Brenda Niall

It was said within the Gorman family that Aggie didn’t know how to bring up her boys. And more than once, she thought the family might be right. The worst ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )
River Master by Cecil Kuhne
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Cecil Kuhne

PART V THE GRAND CANYON DAYS 82–99: AUGUST 13–30 * * * * BRIEF TIMELINE August 13: Grand Canyon August 25: Lava Falls August 28: Desertion of Three Men August ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 21,2017 )
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Anonymous

Looking back on Friday, May 4 Recorded on Saturday, May 5 The major showed up around 11:00 A.M. He’d gathered that Anatol was back in the area and wanted to ...
( Category: Europe November 21,2017 )
Louis Agassiz by Christoph Irmscher
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Christoph Irmscher

John Bachman, by John Woodhouse Audubon. Oil on canvas, c. 1837. Bachman’s mounting irritation with polygenists like Samuel Morton and Louis Agassiz would soon find its outlet in a book-length ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 21,2017 )
The Communist by Kengor Paul
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Kengor, Paul [Kengor, Paul]

WE WANT WAR! From 1951 to 1957, Frank fired away from the pages of the Honolulu Record. Once again, Harry Truman was a target, remaining in the White House until ...
( Category: Americas November 20,2017 )
Twilight of Empire by Greg King
epub |eng | | Author:Greg King

PART III CHAPTER THIRTEEN Rudolf’s interment did nothing to stop the onrush of escalating rumors about events at Mayerling. Within twenty-four hours of his funeral, newspapers had managed to ferret ...
( Category: True Crime November 19,2017 )
The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall
epub |eng | | Author:Megan Marshall

26 Little Waldo, Jones Very, and the “Divinity School Address” Elizabeth was sorely tempted to catalogue her trials with Bronson Alcott one afternoon, while visiting the Emersons in Concord during ...
( Category: Regional U.S November 19,2017 )
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:William Taubman [Taubman, William]

Gorbachev and Reagan strolling in Red Square, Moscow, May 31, 1988. What Nancy Reagan wanted to say was “Thank you.” But it was hard to get a word in edgewise. ...
( Category: Historical November 18,2017 )
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Alyokhina

– Katya Samutsevich ‘Let’s go! Go! Go!’ a Spetsnaz officer barks. ‘Move!’ and he shoves us into the autozak. spend a wild day among strong women I don’t have any ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 18,2017 )
Lighting the Way by Karenna Gore Schiff
epub |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:Karenna Gore Schiff [Schiff, Karenna Gore]

She must have dozed off, because the next thing she knew, Jared’s arms were around her. He lay on the bed beside her in only dark blue boxers. “I’m back,” ...
( Category: World November 18,2017 )
The May Beetles by Schwartz Baba;
epub |eng | | Author:Schwartz, Baba;

( Category: World November 18,2017 )

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