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The History of Alexander (Classics) by Quintus Curtius Rufus
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus [Rufus, Quintus Curtius]

8 [1] When he could no longer maintain an expression at variance with his feelings, Alexander withdrew into his tent, which he had deliberately set on the river bank. [2] ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 25,2017 )
Lost Years by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | 2001-07-05 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Christopher Isherwood]

It is only in the last sentence that Christopher hints at the basic hostility between Caskey and himself; the clash of their wills. The standing argument over Caskey’s midnight record ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
Roy Jenkins by John Campbell
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:John Campbell [John Campbell]

* * * fn1 Norris was hurt by Jenkins’ description in his memoirs and wrote to protest, leading Jenkins to apologise. All he had meant, he explained tactfully, was that ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
Thomas Cook by Jill Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Hamilton

TWENTY-TWO A Leap in the Dark Ten years after Thomas had moved Marianne and Annie into his imposing hotel in Leicester, he shifted them, along with his headquarters, into 59 ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )
Operation Greylord by Terrence Hake
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Terrence Hake

14 BRANCHING OUT Summer 1981 JUDGE JOHN DEVINE One of the hardest aspects of my undercover work was timing. I had to find a spot in the Traffic Court Building ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Harding

Berlin Wall layout Finally, a metal wire was strung along the inside of the inner wall, to which German shepherds were tethered by a lead that enabled them to run ...
( Category: Europe September 25,2017 )
Beneath the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
epub |eng | 2014-09-25 | Author:Owen Chase [Owen Chase]

Supplement The following is a list of the whole crew of the ship, with their arrangements into the three several boats upon starting from the wreck: the names of those ...
( Category: Transportation September 25,2017 )
Robert F. Young by The Hand
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:The Hand

AFTER inspecting the rig and finding it undamaged he entered the mule, unsuited and climbed the companionway to his cabin. He poured a drinking glass nearly full of bourbon and ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 25,2017 )
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:T E Lawrence [Lawrence, T.E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: Military September 25,2017 )
Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Alford Terry
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Alford, Terry [Alford, Terry]

Wentworth gave the envelope to Booth, who added his own sentiment just above Lucy’s: Now in this hour that we part, I will ask to be forgotten never. But in ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
Tecumseh and Brock by James Laxer
epub |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:James Laxer

The British command shifted to Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who quickly mobilized his forces to drive the Americans from Canadian soil. He dispatched the 41st’s Light Company, under the ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX Vessels steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: Military September 25,2017 )
John Aubrey by Ruth Scurr
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Scurr

September I leave now for a few days in Oxford, where Mr Sheldon will send a horse for me, and I will travel on to his house at Weston, where ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
Man of Destiny by Alonzo L. Hamby
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Alonzo L. Hamby

If for the Democratic Party demography was destiny, Roosevelt’s overwhelming persona was a triumph of individual will. Of all the larger-than-life national leaders of the 1930s, he alone maintained himself ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
August Gale by Walsh Barbara
epub |eng | | Author:Walsh, Barbara

CHAPTER 17 “THERE’S A DIVIL COMING!”—NEWFOUNDLAND FISHING GROUNDS, AUGUST 1935 Strange things began to happen in the sea. Anchor buoys marking the dorymen’s fishing trawl sank and then shot back ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )

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