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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE by John Mortimer & John Mortimer
epub |eng | 2010-09-18 | Author:John Mortimer & John Mortimer

The Judge’s ‘sitting-room’ is the client’s ‘lounge’. The Judge’s ‘dinner’ is the client’s ‘tea’. The Judge’s ‘lunch’ is the client’s ‘dinner’. The Judge’s ‘magazine’ is the client’s ‘book’. The Judge’s ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 11,2017 )
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Vaill Amanda
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Vaill, Amanda [Vaill, Amanda]

July 1937: Paris Coming out of the Gare d’Austerlitz into the cool gray evening drizzle, Gerda found that the copies of Ce Soir in the news kiosks around the Place ...
( Category: Americas September 11,2017 )
Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]

18. Detroit, the 1980s THE PROBLEM FOR THE Bulls was that there was another team that had come together just a little earlier and was itself challenging the hegemony of ...
( Category: Biographies September 11,2017 )
Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Evan Thomas [THOMAS, EVAN]

Like Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev felt comfortable around scientists. Awarded an engineering degree from the Stalin Industrial Academy, he was “very creative and curious” about technology, according to his son Sergei.21 ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 11,2017 )
The Heart of Everything That Is by Drury Bob; Clavin Tom;
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom; [Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom;]

21 BURN THE BODIES; EAT THE HORSES Sitting Bull was angry. A month earlier, about when Red Cloud fell on Bridge Station, Sitting Bull’s Hunkpapas had tried to pick a ...
( Category: Americas September 11,2017 )
Tudor by Leanda de Lisle
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle [Lisle, Leanda de]

Part Three SETTING SUN: THE TUDOR QUEENS Let men that receive of women authority, honour, or office, be most assuredly persuaded, that in so maintaining that usurped power, they declare ...
( Category: Historical September 11,2017 )
Golden Boy by Martin Booth
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Martin Booth

Once a month, a cylindrical package arrived for me by sea mail. It was rolled up tightly, wrapped in brown paper and had twine tied round it and running through ...
( Category: Asia September 11,2017 )
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Gordon-Reed Annette
epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Gordon-Reed, Annette [Gordon-Reed, Annette]

THE ALMOST FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Elizabeth Hemings welcomed home her son and daughter who had been away in a distant place for years. Few Afro-Virginian women in her position ever experienced such ...
( Category: Americas September 10,2017 )
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
epub |eng | | Author:Lucette Lagnado

CHAPTER 14 The Missing Birthday It was in Paris that my birthday almost disappeared. We had been there several months, stuck in the Violet Hotel. Fear for my brothers’ safety ...
( Category: Middle East September 10,2017 )
Manhattan at Mid-Century by Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer [Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey]

President Eisenhower unveiling plans for Lincoln Center in 1959, which “transformed the West Side.” ROBERT MERRILL: Together with a few other artists, I went to the new opera house at ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
American Scoundrel by Keneally Thomas
epub |eng | 2002-09-07 | Author:Keneally Thomas [Keneally Thomas]

As it was, he had produced in Dan a condition in which “every drop of his blood carried with it a sense of his shame . . . a realization ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 10,2017 )
The Campaigns of Alexander (Classics) by Arrian
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Arrian

BOOK FIVE In the country on Alexander’s route between the river Cophen and the Indus lay the city of Nysa, supposed to have been founded by Dionysus, at the time ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 10,2017 )
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Dorfman Ariel
epub |eng | 1998-04-01 | Author:Dorfman, Ariel [Dorfman, Ariel]

TEN A CHAPTER DEALING WITH THE DISCOVERY OF LIFE AND LANGUAGE DURING THE YEARS 1960 TO 1964 IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE Where are you from? It was a question that ...
( Category: Memoirs September 10,2017 )
The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur by Perry Mark
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Perry, Mark [Perry, Mark]

Although 1942 was a bad year for Roosevelt, it was even worse for MacArthur. Morose over his escape from Corregidor, stunned by the lack of resources that greeted him in ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Matthiessen Peter
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Matthiessen, Peter [Matthiessen, Peter]

• • • Chavez talked for a while about gibberellin, the plant hormone that the growers pump into the fruit to make it fat and hard; the result looks and ...
( Category: Americas September 10,2017 )

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