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Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

NOVEMBER 1999, BIALYSTOK I have lunch at New York Bagels across the street from the Cristall Hotel. Leonard Cohen is dancing to the end of love on the stereo; framed ...
( Category: World September 10,2017 )
Lincoln by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Kaplan

Again the battle commenced, and raged till toward nightfall, when the Mexicans were entirely routed, and the General with his fatigued and bleeding, and reduced battalions marched into Fort Brown. ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Sherwin Martin J. & Bird Kai
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Sherwin, Martin J. & Bird, Kai [Bird, Kai]

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 10,2017 )
Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
epub |eng | | Author:Suzy Hansen

5. MONEY AND MILITARY COUPS: THE ARAB WORLD AND TURKEY What the hell do the Americans want, ignorant people? —SAID ABURISH SOME YEARS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, I visited Cairo as ...
( Category: Americas September 10,2017 )
Los tres mosqueteros by Alejandro Dumas
mobi, epub |eng | 1844-01-01 | Author:Alejandro Dumas

—Yo soy lord de Winter, barón de Sheffield. {151} —Muy bien, soy vuestro servidor, señor barón —dijo D'Artagnan—, aunque tengáis nombres difíciles de retener. Y espoleando a su caballo, lo ...
( Category: Classics September 10,2017 )
Los Borgia by Mario Puzo
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Mario Puzo

CAPÍTULO 16 Francis Saluti sabía que el interrogatorio por tortura de Girolamo Savonarola iba a ser el trabajo más importante de su vida. Savonarola era un clérigo, y no un ...
( Category: Short Stories September 10,2017 )
Diario de Ana Frank by Ana Frank
mobi |eng | 1947-01-01 | Author:Ana Frank

Noche del miércoles, 19 de enero de 1944 Querida Kitty: No sé de qué se trata, pero cada vez que me despierto después de haber soñado, me doy cuenta de ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Nagel Susan
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Nagel, Susan [Nagel, Susan]

Chapter XV The Birth of a Strategist On January 21, 1797, the fourth anniversary of the death of King Louis XVI, Louis XVIII wrote to his niece stating that he ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
The Black Russian by Alexandrov Vladimir
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Alexandrov, Vladimir [Alexandrov, Vladimir]

Between five thousand and seven thousand people had been killed. But on November 20, Moscow’s Military-Revolutionary Committee announced that it had won and that all the cadets and its other ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
Salinger by David Shields & Shane Salerno
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Shields & Shane Salerno [Shields, David & Salerno, Shane]

Mary McCarthy. GORE VIDAL: This ghastly, self-observant family, going on and on and on about everything of importance to them, which they assume is important to all the world. ANNE ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 10,2017 )
Big Men Little People by Alec Russell
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Alec Russell [Russell, Alec]

7 - A Very Zulu Chief Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi - The Rebirth of Traditional Leaders The first to boo was a portly chief with a leopard-skin head dress. Sweating profusely, ...
( Category: Africa September 10,2017 )
Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Kristen Iversen [Iversen, Kristen]

THE INCINERATOR at our little old house in Arvada is long gone and turned into a garden planter by the new owners. We don’t have an incinerator at the house ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 10,2017 )
Michener, James A. by Texas
epub |eng | 1987-11-05 | Author:Texas [Texas]

away by superior Mexican numbers and performance. Indeed, as night fell General Taylor had to consider the likelihood that on the morrow he was doomed to suffer a crushing defeat, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 9,2017 )
Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Watkins

* * * 1. Joe Johnston was one of the most senior of Confederate generals. He shared command with Beauregard at the First Battle of Bull Run, which was the ...
( Category: Americas September 9,2017 )
The Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Oscar Lewis [Lewis, Oscar]

Marta IN CRISPÍN’S HOUSE, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW GAVE THE ORDERS, THE CHILDREN paid no attention to my father-in-law. Crispín was very mean to him, and acted like his equal. Once he ...
( Category: Sociology September 9,2017 )

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