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The Epic City by Kushanava Choudhury
epub |eng | 2017-09-06 | Author:Kushanava Choudhury

PART III Crossing the Canal ‘Work hard, play hard.’ That had been the mantra when I was at Princeton, which really meant ‘work work work’ until you forget what ‘play’ ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
Street Warrior by Ralph Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Friedman

5 Police Officer Kenneth Mahon 11/30/45–12/28/74 End of Tour “He died as he lived … a hero.” —ASSISTANT CHIEF ANTHONY BOUZA, BRONX AREA COMMANDER I was at home working out ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto
epub |eng | 2016-09-17 | Author:Steve Lehto

* * * Even with all his legal problems, Preston Tucker still believed that if he raised a few million dollars he could reopen his plant and resume manufacturing cars. ...
( Category: Americas September 17,2017 )
Nelson the Commander by Bennett Geoffrey
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Bennett, Geoffrey [Bennett, Geoffrey]

VIII To the Baltic 1800-1801 The First Lord might so far disapprove of Nelson's conduct as to I recall him from his command; but to Britain's allies he was the ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
The Burning Season by Andrew Revkin
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Andrew Revkin [Revkin, Andrew]

In Acre, the union leadership in Brasiléia and Xapuri began to live in constant fear. One of the most important and vulnerable targets was Wilson de Souza Pinheiro, who had ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 17,2017 )
Caravans and Wedding Bands by Eva Petulengro
epub |eng | | Author:Eva Petulengro [Petulengro, Eva]

TWENTY The Two Duchesses Our house in Ship Street Gardens took on an air of regal glamour when the Duke and Duchess of Leinster moved in next door to us. ...
( Category: Europe September 17,2017 )
Wise Man Of The West (Harvill Press Editions) by Vincent Cronin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-29 | Author:Vincent Cronin [Cronin, Vincent]

chapter nine Within the Forbidden City The year turned and with it their fortune. In mid-January a letter was dispatched to Ma T’ang, the contents of which Ricci learned a ...
( Category: Asia September 17,2017 )
Images and Shadows by Iris Origo
epub |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Iris Origo [Iris Origo]

6 Reading and Learning … As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there so words guard the shape of ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 17,2017 )
Elizabeth Is Missing by Lillian de la Torre
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Lillian de la Torre

CHAPTER VIII Conversation Piece at Batson’s: “A Ridiculous, Idle, Absurd Story!” “What the plague!” methinks I hear the grave old gentleman under the clock at Batson’s say. “Still more of ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 17,2017 )
Fidel Castro by Volker Skierka
epub |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Volker Skierka

The revolution devours its children In the late 1960s, after attempts to bring forth the “new man” in Cuba came to an end with the death of Che Guevara, the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 17,2017 )
Harriet Tubman by Rosemary Sadlier
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Rosemary Sadlier

I was almost in despair of continuing in Canada & thought seriously of seeking some other field & in fact had packed up my effects at Dawn to facilitate removal ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
Shadows of a Princess by Patrick Jephson
epub |eng | 2017-07-08 | Author:Patrick Jephson

TWELVE SPHINX Nelson Shanks’s image of unknown destiny was still several years in the future. At the beginning of 1992 no such doubt, theoretically, existed about the Princess’s long-term role. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
Rebels at the Bar by Jill Norgren
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Jill Norgren

7 Not Everyone Is Bold Mary Hall and Catharine Waugh McCulloch in Conversation Petticoats instead of breeches. … Brains and mentality are [often] measured by the formation of the wearing ...
( Category: World September 17,2017 )
Simon Bolivar by John Lynch
epub |eng | 2006-09-17 | Author:John Lynch [Lynch, John]

1 The Young Bolívar, anonymous artist, Madrid, c. 1802. 2 Simón Bolívar, engraved by W. Holt, from an engraving by M.N. Bate, London 1823–8. 3 Simón Bolívar, miniature on ivory ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 17,2017 )
Painfully Rich by John Pearson
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:John Pearson

The Carabinieri left at around 11 p.m. and it was agreed that because of the Getty name, and the danger to the other children, the press were not to be ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 17,2017 )

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