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The General and Mrs. Washington by Bruce Chadwick
epub |eng | 2007-11-07 | Author:Bruce Chadwick

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON… The worst storm to hit the Atlantic Coast in thirty-five years arrived on the morning of February 24, 1777, covering the streets of ...
( Category: Historical November 7,2017 )
After Ireland by Kiberd Declan;
epub |eng | | Author:Kiberd, Declan; [Kiberd, Declan]

16. Derek Mahon’s Lost Worlds The dandy confronts the deteriorations of modernity with a face which registers no tremors, but that impassivity is just a pose: inside, the heart is ...
( Category: British & Irish November 7,2017 )
Just Right by Lee Edwards
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Lee Edwards

25 THE CHANGING FACE OF CONSERVATISM At about the same time that the New Right emerged because of what it considered the treachery of moderate Republicans, a series of events ...
( Category: Historical November 7,2017 )
Sorrow of the Earth by ERIC VUILLARD
epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:ERIC VUILLARD [Eric Vuillard]

We’re the audience. It’s us watching the Wild West Show. In fact we’ve always been watching it. We should be suspicious of our intelligence, suspicious of our refinement, and we ...
( Category: Americas November 7,2017 )
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Sonia Purnell [Purnell, Sonia]

CHAPTER TEN Operation Seduction USA 1941–42 Sallow-faced and graying, Harry Hopkins was an incorrigible workaholic even though cancer had left him with only half a stomach and thus permanently malnourished. ...
( Category: World November 7,2017 )
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Janet Todd

Chapter 21 Free-thinking in Politics and Religion ‘Beyond poor Feeble Faith’s dull Oracles’ Behn had reluctantly followed the times in using plays as overt propaganda and was glad of some ...
( Category: Modern November 7,2017 )
The Home That Was Our Country by Alia Malek
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Alia Malek

A YEAR INTO my life in Beirut, my parents decided they wanted to celebrate their thirtieth wedding anniversary in Syria with their children. They wanted to throw a party in ...
( Category: Middle East November 6,2017 )
Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen by Arlene Okerlund
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Arlene Okerlund [Okerlund, Arlene]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN War and Peace Early 1475 found England preparing for war. Edward had first announced his intention of invading France during the Parliament of October 1472,1 and in the ...
( Category: Historical November 5,2017 )
El Sicario by Molly Molloy & Charles Bowden
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Molly Molloy & Charles Bowden [Molloy, Molly & Bowden, Charles]

For some time, six to eight months or more, I was working inside the police, kidnapping people and then handing them over to other people. The advantage of being a ...
( Category: True Crime November 5,2017 )
Churchill (2009) by Johnson Paul
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Johnson, Paul [Johnson, Paul]

He called for "a premium on effort" and "a penalty on inertia," and he certainly practiced what he preached. Despite his performance as chancellor, however, the country gave thumbs-down to ...
( Category: Historical November 4,2017 )
the Queen Mother (the Official Biography) (2009) by Shawcross William
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shawcross, William [William, Shawcross,]

At one communal feeding centre, there was a moment, noted Woolton, at which 'a very dirty child' in its mother's arms grabbed at the Queen's pearls. A photographer ran around ...
( Category: Europe November 4,2017 )
Strength in What Remains (2009) by Kidder Tracy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kidder, Tracy [Tracy, Kidder,]

In his conscious mind, Deo was aware of being afraid, not of dying, but of dying the way his uncle the doctor had, or the family in the house in ...
( Category: Africa November 4,2017 )
The Crown by Robert Lacey
epub |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

July 1953: Tabloid newspaper debate over the issues raised by the romance between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend demolished the previous barriers of reticence in press coverage of the royal ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 4,2017 )
Martin Luther by Volker Leppin
epub |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:Volker Leppin

1. Martin Luther, LW, vol. 48, Letters I, ed. Gottfried G. Krodel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963), 351. 2. Ibid., 391. 3. Martin Luther, LW, vol. 51, Sermons I, ed. John W. ...
( Category: History November 3,2017 )
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Elaine Showalter

THE CIVIL WAR The 1860s were the ten most momentous years of Julia’s life. In 1860, she was forty-one years old. She had given birth to her sixth child, but ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 3,2017 )

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