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The Olive Harvest (The Olive Series Book 3) by Drinkwater Carol
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Drinkwater, Carol [Drinkwater, Carol]

Counting Sheep The weather is gloriously warm; burnished and autumnal. The leaves on the deciduous trees are variations of oxblood, citrus and flecked apricot. Day after gloriously beneficent day, the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 9,2017 )
Panzer Destroyer by Vasiliy Krysov
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Vasiliy Krysov

Breaking Through to Our Lines It grew dark and the self-propelled gun slowly headed north-east towards Fastov along back roads well known to Vasiliy Shimchenko. The wounded men lay behind ...
( Category: Historical September 9,2017 )
Elizabeth Bishop by Megan Marshall
epub |eng | | Author:Megan Marshall

A few years later I would discover in Professor Fitzgerald’s new translation that he had made a bold alteration in the Aeneid ’s famous opening line, “Arms and the man ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 9,2017 )
A Right Royal Scandal by Joanne Major
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Joanne Major

Chapter Eleven Love amid the Dreaming Spires On 1 June 1837, Charley Cavendish Bentinck entered Merton College at Oxford University. The handsome youth who, as a boy, had played with ...
( Category: Europe September 9,2017 )
Mosaic by Diane Armstrong
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Armstrong [Diane Armstrong]

A long shadow fell across the little girl tracing patterns in the dirt with a stick. After watching her for a few minutes, the stranger asked, ‘What’s your name, little ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 9,2017 )
The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2000-09-09 | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald [Penelope Fitzgerald]

Ronnie’s hours at M.I.D. ended at three-thirty; he was living with friends in Kensington, and he went home every afternoon to write the history of his conversion, A Spiritual Aeneid. ...
( Category: Historical September 9,2017 )
And I'd Do It Again by Crocker Aimée;
epub |eng | | Author:Crocker, Aimée; [Crocker, Aimée]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
Dilly by Batey Mavis;
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Batey, Mavis; [Mavis Batey]

NINE The Battle of Matapan Tell Dilly we have had a great victory in the Mediterranean. The Battle of Matapan was Britain’s first major naval victory during the Second World ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
epub |eng | 2017-01-04 | Author:Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Trying to Fit In Besides bookcases, Grandpa’s room contained a full bed, a huge mahogany desk, an armchair, a tall filing cabinet, and a square dinner table. My mother had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
epub |eng | | Author:Giles Milton

12 Czech-Mate IN THE NINE months that Margaret Jackson had been working for Colin Gubbins, she had come to realize that there was something extraordinary about her job. Unlike everyone ...
( Category: Military September 8,2017 )
Fidel Castro by Alex Moore
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Alex Moore

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS “You have been and are a tireless defender of peace; I understand how bitter these hours must be for you, when the results of your ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Rumi's Secret by Brad Gooch
epub |eng | 2016-12-10 | Author:Brad Gooch

Not alone I keep on singing, Shamsoddin and Shamsoddin The nightingale in the garden sings, the partridge in the hills . . . Day of splendor, Shamsoddin, turning heavens, Shamsoddin ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 8,2017 )
Walt Disney by Gabler Neal
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Gabler, Neal [Gabler, Neal]

Nine ADRIFT For nearly four years Walt Disney had waited—waited to reclaim command of the studio from the soldiers and bankers who had taken over, waited to put his beloved ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward Achorn [Achorn, Edward]

Cap Anson (Library of Congress) Blacks, in particular, stirred Anson’s feelings of supremacy. In his 1900 ghostwritten autobiography, the retired baseball legend wrote unblushingly of Clarence Duval, batboy and mascot ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Brendan I. Koerner [Koerner, Brendan I.]

FLIGHT 364 WAS now so close to Maison Blanche Airport that Holder could make out the beaches along the Mediterranean, still full of bathers soaking up the day’s last rays ...
( Category: True Crime September 8,2017 )

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