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The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
mobi |eng | 2005-01-11 | Author:Wayne Coffey [Coffey, Wayne]

St. John’s Hockey: Old School Not Guts, No Glory. Harrington signed with Scotty Bowman and the Buffalo Sabres after the Olympics, but he never made the NHL and never was ...
( Category: Hockey October 15,2017 )
The Mascot by Mark Kurzem
epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Mark Kurzem

My father on the steps of Moritzburg Castle, outside Dresden, during the firebombings of 1945. “I didn’t know where Auntie and Uncle had gone, but they didn’t return till just ...
( Category: World October 15,2017 )
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:Chris Skidmore [Skidmore, Chris]

‘No painting ever boasted greater’: Holbein’s mural of Henry VIII, whose puffed-up poise next to his father Henry VII created the iconic image that defined Henry’s reign. On the other ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara Leaming
epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Barbara Leaming [Leaming, Barbara]

Nine Four weeks after Billy waded ashore in the rain from his landing craft on June 23, 1944, he could no longer pretend with Kick that their latest parting would ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
Hitler - 1889-1936 - Hubris by Kershaw Ian
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kershaw, Ian [Kershaw, Ian]

IV La grande masse des Allemands ne prit aucune part aux intrigues politiques du second semestre 1932 et n’en sut rien. Elle était désormais trop démunie pour avoir quelque influence ...
( Category: Europe October 14,2017 )
The CBS Murders by Hammer Richard;
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Hammer, Richard;

16 Nash did not think the Margolies offer a low one, did not consider himself either ill used or ill paid by his procurer. Despite the rumors, the unfounded stories, ...
( Category: True Crime October 14,2017 )
Cromwell: The Lord Protector by Fraser Antonia
epub |eng | 1974-01-02 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

15 A settlement of the nation He proposed to them, That the old King being dead, and his son being defeated, it was necessary to come to a Settlement of ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2017 )
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

OBSERVATION USING JACOB’S STAFF Woodcarving from Aspian’s Introductio Geographica * God save you, sir, captain-general and lord and good company. * to see if there were a passage * to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 14,2017 )
Destined to Witness by Hans Massaquoi
epub |eng | | Author:Hans Massaquoi

TOTAL WAR My dorm at the school on von Essenstrasse was sparsely furnished with a dozen or so steel bunks and as many lockers. Seated around a table in the ...
( Category: Historical October 14,2017 )
The Heart Has Reasons by Mark Klempner
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Mark Klempner [Klempner, Mark]

“Where is your husband?” “He’s been taken already.” “And your son?” “He’s away in the hinterlands.” “There must be a man in the house, for there is a man’s bicycle ...
( Category: World October 14,2017 )
All but My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein
epub |eng | 1995-03-30 | Author:Gerda Weissmann Klein [Klein, Gerda Weissmann]

Chapter 6 SEVERAL DAYS LATER ABEK WROTE. THE THING HE HAD HOPED would not happen–had happened. His parents and sisters were gone. The Jews of Sosnowitz had met the same ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 14,2017 )
All for One and One for All vol. 1 by unknow
epub |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:unknow

END *** About Q.R. Braddock: Young women are always getting in trouble, and it's up to me to ensure it stays that way. Whether it's with a bunch of guys ...
( Category: Individual Artists October 14,2017 )
Heroines of Mercy Street by Pamela D. Toler PhD
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Pamela D. Toler PhD

Tending the Whole Man Bandaging wounds, “putting up” splints, and assisting at amputations were the most dramatic part of nurses’ work. But, in fact, most of the soldiers who ended ...
( Category: Americas October 14,2017 )
Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard
epub |eng | 2014-10-11 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Europe October 14,2017 )
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Conover Heller
epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Anne Conover Heller [Heller, Anne Conover]

A few months before Atlas Shrugged was published, Bennett Cerf invited his “most interesting” new author to address a Random House sales conference. She stood at the head of the ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 14,2017 )

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