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What's to Become of the Boy? by Heinrich Boll
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Heinrich Boll [Boll, Heinrich]

8 Yes, school too. At times I even obtained quite good grades in German literature. Not that I’ve retained much from my reading of it: there are only a few ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2017 )
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Piers Paul Read [Read, Piers Paul]

2 A new spirit of optimism was generated among the parents by the news that a specially equipped C-47 of the Uruguayan Air Force was to be sent to search ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 11,2017 )
Paradise Found by Hunter Raines
epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:Hunter Raines

Chapter Seven December 13, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts Philip’s brothers were waiting for him in his office Monday morning. They flanked his desk, holding champagne flutes despite the early hour. There ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2017 )
Dark Genius of Wall Street by Edward J. Renehan Jr
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Edward J. Renehan, Jr. [EDWARD J. RENEHAN, JR.]

Chapter 20 MEPHISTOPHELES THE DEMONIZATION OF JAY GOULD following the shipwreck of Black Friday was strident and fanatical. The juggernaut of negative press launched in late September 1869 has yet ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2017 )
Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader by Robert Middlekauff
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Robert Middlekauff [Middlekauff, Robert]

PART THREE Citizen of the World 8 Citizen of the World Britain’s General Clinton, now Sir Henry, emerged from the Battle of Monmouth in a spirit far different from Washington’s. ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2017 )
Kennedy and Reagan by Scott Farris
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Scott Farris

Reagan would receive a similar response from the Soviets twenty-five years later when he proposed the Soviets work with the United States to codevelop Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), ...
( Category: Historical November 10,2017 )
Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-31 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

To Albert Mannheimer AR uses the term “rationalist” here to mean an advocate of reason. In later writings she used the term in its technical, philosophical sense, meaning an advocate ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 10,2017 )
The Senecans by Peter Stothard
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

21.7.14 Miss R turns a new page in her SENECA notepad. She also has a red-and-black-squared calendar for 1987 on her knee and a slim edition of ‘On Gifts’ in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 10,2017 )
Bunny Mellon by Meryl Gordon
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Meryl Gordon

The arrangements were perfect. With Bunny, every party was always seamlessly organized. But as morning dawned on the wedding day, May 14, a last-minute and very unexpected problem developed. Eliza ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 10,2017 )
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson

Too much liberty having been given for making keys of his Majesty’s Privy Lodgings at Whitehall, he is to take off the locks and make them in such sort that ...
( Category: Historical November 10,2017 )
Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson Walter
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Isaacson, Walter [Isaacson, Walter]

MADONNA OF THE YARNWINDER Friar Pietro, in one of his letters to the persistent Isabella, described a painting that Leonardo was doing at the request of Louis XII’s secretary, Florimond ...
( Category: Historical November 9,2017 )
Member of the Family by Dianne Lake
epub |eng | 2017-09-10 | Author:Dianne Lake

14 SPAHN RANCH THE NEXT PLACE WE MOVED TO BECAME OUR BASE FOR MUCH OF MY time with the Family: Spahn Ranch. Spahn Ranch has become so deeply connected to ...
( Category: Memoirs November 9,2017 )
The Forgotten Founding Father by Joshua Kendall
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Joshua Kendall [Kendall, Joshua]

The twelfth child of William and Mary Greenleaf, James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was a year older than Webster’s wife, Rebecca. Without the financial assistance of the well-heeled “brother James,” Webster could ...
( Category: Historical November 9,2017 )
The Prince Who Would Be King by Sarah Fraser
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Sarah Fraser [Fraser, Sarah]

On mainland Europe, events sped ahead of James’s intentionally glacial diplomatic pace. By April 1610, Maurice of Nassau and Henri IV of France had mustered thousands of troops to march ...
( Category: Historical November 9,2017 )
The Shining Sea by George C. Daughan
epub |eng | | Author:George C. Daughan [Daughan, George C.]

Captain David Porter (COURTESY OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY MUSEUM) The USS Essex (COURTESY OF THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM) David Glasgow Farragut at age thirty-eight (COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY) ...
( Category: Historical November 9,2017 )

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