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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Elizabeth Norton

It was not long before Anne Askew, now in London, came to the attention of the authorities.65 In March 1545, she was taken to be examined at Saddler’s Hall, to ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
Conversations with Krishnamurti: Stories from 1001 Meetings at the Dinner Table with Krishnamurti by Michael Krohnen
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Michael Krohnen

KEY TO THE MYSTERY OF LIFE? During the next few weeks, the opportunity to have quiet, intimate lunches with Krishnamurti became rarer, and the pace of activity quickened. He had ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member by von Boeselager Philip Freiherr
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:von Boeselager, Philip Freiherr [von Boeselager, Philip Freiherr]

13 When Horses Make Meetings Easier 1943 The German army had never ceased to use horses in support of the artillery, to substitute for failing machinery on the Russian front, ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
The Pastures of Beyond: An Old Cowboy Looks Back at the Old West by Hyde Dayton O
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Hyde, Dayton O. [Hyde, Dayton O.]

Chapter Thirteen I WORE MY UNIFORM WITH RIBBONS AND BATTLE STARS for a couple of days around the ranch just to remind my uncle that I had been away to ...
( Category: Memoirs September 4,2017 )
the Onion Field (1973) by Wambaugh Joseph
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Wambaugh, Joseph [Joseph, Wambaugh,]

Actual Dump location 3 miles 3.4 miles from Henderson Markers, in order Speed sign Speed sign from Henderson Rest Area Quarry road Quarry Road Rest Area Road to dump Road ...
( Category: True Crime September 4,2017 )
Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Norman

BEN STEELE hated going near Zero Ward. The moans and cries of the dying, the stink of the sick, the morgue with its stacks of the dead. But he’d been ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2017 )
Cleopatra by Joyce Tyldesley
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce]

The west, it is a land of sleep, Darkness weighs on the dwelling-place, Those who are there sleep in their mummy-forms. They wake not to see their brothers, They see ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 4,2017 )
After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family--1968 to the Present by Taraborrelli J. Randy
mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Taraborrelli, J. Randy [Taraborrelli, J. Randy]

Peter Lawford Dies Flash back to June 1966. “What the hell do my kids need me for?” Peter Lawford said to Jackie Kennedy in the presence of his friend and ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )
Under the Same Sky by Joseph Kim
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Joseph Kim [Kim, Joseph]

There are only two things you really need as a homeless person: food and heat. Heat keeps you alive at night, when the temperature falls below freezing. On those nights ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2017 )
Calculated Risk by George Leopold
epub |eng | | Author:George Leopold

Southern Indiana, just beyond the city limits of Mitchell, Gus Grissom’s hometown. Young Virgil likely took in similar rural scenes as he peddled his bicycle out to the country home ...
( Category: Engineering September 4,2017 )
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain & Bill Mckibben
epub |eng | 1883-01-02 | Author:Mark Twain & Bill Mckibben [Twain, Mark & Mckibben, Bill]

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: Americas September 3,2017 )
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre & Tom Verducci
epub |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Joe Torre & Tom Verducci [Torre, Joe & Verducci, Tom]

( Category: Biographies September 3,2017 )
Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]

My great-grandmother, the Boorowa midwife Bridget O’Brien. My grandmother Phyllis, the most beautiful of the O’Brien girls. My mother, Gloria, a radio announcer in Canberra. My mother by a billabong ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 3,2017 )
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I by Tracy Joanne Borman
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Tracy Joanne Borman [Borman, Tracy Joanne]

It seems the royal family overestimated the healing effects of Henry’s birth on the Saxon population. At the end of 1068, they felt their monarchy secure enough to return to ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2017 )
Queen Victoria : a personal history by Hibbert Christopher 1924-2008
epub |eng | 2000-09-03 | Author:Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-2008

PART TWO !^!!i^!!i^£i^!!^Ii^!!^!}^!!i^^^!r^£i^! i86i-igci THE GRIEVING WIDOW 'There is no one left to hold me in their arms and press me to their heart.' The Prince Consort had once said ...
( Category: Memoirs September 3,2017 )

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