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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

* * * VOLUME II * * * CHAP. VII. The author's disgust at the West Indies—Forms schemes to obtain his freedom—Ludicrous disappointment he and his Captain meet with in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
Hard Fall by James Buchanan
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:James Buchanan [Buchanan, James]

Hard Fall CHAPTER NINE Kabe climbed out of the truck and whistled as he caught sight of my house. “I assumed you were talking about a shack of some sort. ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Queen of the Air by Dean N. Jensen
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Dean N. Jensen [Jensen, Dean]

ALFREDO CODONA AND LEITZEL, FOLLOWING THEIR MARRIAGE CEREMONY ON JULY 20, 1928, ON CHICAGO’S LAKEFRONT WHERE THE RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS WAS PERFORMING. THE OPEN TOP LANDAULET ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu by McEnery Jim
mobi |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:McEnery, Jim [McEnery, Jim]

THE CRAB AND COCONUT WARS WHEN WE EMBARKED from Gloucester on May 5, most of us in K/3/5 were pretty sure we were on our way back to Camp Balcombe ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Gorbachev by William Taubman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Taubman

Gorbachev and Reagan strolling in Red Square, Moscow, May 31, 1988. What Nancy Reagan wanted to say was “Thank you.” But it was hard to get a word in edgewise. ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
American Hunger by Richard Wright
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

In my party work I met a Negro Communist, Ross, who was under indictment for “inciting to riot.” I decided to use him in my series of biographical sketches. His ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 8,2017 )
Embarcadero: True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906 by Dillon Richard
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Dillon, Richard [Dillon, Richard]

Wakeman sailed up the Mississippi River on the second seagoing vessel to reach Vicksburg. Here he engaged in sundry duels and romances before hurrying off to the Mexican War. He ...
( Category: United States September 8,2017 )
Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home by Li Veronica
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Li, Veronica [Li, Veronica]

TAPE SIX GOING HOME 1 Baba was right to caution against traveling too soon. Fighting with remnant enemy troops was still going on in some places. In others where the ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Hard Travelin'. The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie by Robert Santelli & Emily Davidson
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Robert Santelli & Emily Davidson

Notes 1. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1996), 272. 2. For preliminary discussions of the American way, see ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
Blacklisted by History by Evans M. Stanton
epub, pdf | | 2007-11-06 | Author:Evans, M. Stanton [Evans, M. Stanton]

TWO final suspects in this roster of midlevel McCarthy cases may be handled rather briefly. One was Prof. Frederick Schuman, who, despite a record of Communist-front affiliation exceeding that of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Johnson

( Category: Genre Fiction September 8,2017 )
Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder by Mary S. Lovell
epub |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Mary S. Lovell [Lovell, Mary S.]

I beseech you to appease my Lady’s mislike to me through this crooked misfortune, which was but ill luck…He fell, which amazed me greatly, for if ever in my life ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

Chapter 9 / VIETNAM “LBJ was great in domestic affairs,” elder statesman Averell Harriman once observed. “Harry Truman had programs, but none got through. Kennedy had no technique. FDR talked ...
( Category: Historical September 7,2017 )
Imperial Dancer by Coryne Hall
epub |eng | 2012-06-09 | Author:Coryne Hall

In the spring of 1915 the Russians captured Przemysl, ‘the strongest fortress in the Austro-Hungarian Empire’.10 The air of general rejoicing soon turned to despair. Przemysl and Lemberg were lost, ...
( Category: Historical September 7,2017 )
Darling Monster by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2013-09-13 | Author:Diana Cooper [Diana Cooper]

9 ‘I must get up without coffee, that’s all’ SETTLING IN, FEBRUARY–AUGUST 1948 H.M.S. Ceres Wetherby Yorks Undated, March 1945 It’s turned out nice again – the sun beats down ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 7,2017 )

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