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Rosa's Child by Josephs Jeremy
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Josephs, Jeremy [Josephs, Jeremy]

Rosa Bechhöfer, the penniless, unskilled and unmarried Jewish mother, was desperate to save her children from an unknown fate under the Nazis. Otto Hald was a great womanizer. Whilst the ...
( Category: World September 2,2017 )
Roosevelt by James MacGregor Burns
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:James MacGregor Burns [MacGregor Burns, James]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephanie LaCava

I didn’t need to go any closer to the mansion. There was no longer someone looking at me through the window, and the swans had gone elsewhere. I knew the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 2,2017 )
Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Selina Hastings

CHAPTER SIX The War Disappointment over the failure of Pigeon Pie to attract significant notice on publication was quickly submerged in larger events. In the second week of May, Peter ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Invisible darkness : the strange case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka by Stephen Williams
mobi |eng | 1998-10-15 | Author:Stephen Williams

Paul and Karla leaving St. Mark's Anglican Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake,June 29, 1991. (Private collection) f^\i't Karla with Buddy the Rottweiler, June 1991. (Private collection) SCARBOROUGH RAPIST ?^/^ Scarborough Rapist poster ...
( Category: True Crime September 2,2017 )
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Sei Shonagon
mobi |eng | 1002-01-01 | Author:Sei Shonagon

MASAHIRO Everyone laughs at Masahiro.† It must really be very painful for his parents and friends. If he is seen anywhere with at all a decent-looking servant in attendance upon ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 2,2017 )
The Brother by Sam Roberts
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Roberts

* * * I. Under current rules for federal prosecutors, however, “the death penalty may not be sought, and no attorney for the Government may threaten to seek it, for ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
Grossman, Vasily by Life & Fate (Trans. Chandler)
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Life & Fate (Trans. Chandler) [html] [Life & Fate (Trans. Chandler) [html]]

23 During the initial air-attack, a bomb had fallen on top of the underground pipeline that housed one of Byerozkin's battalion command-posts; Byerozkin himself, Battalion Commander Dyrkin and the telephonist ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
The DiMaggios by Tom Clavin
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Tom Clavin

The spring of 1945 had found Joe as a physical training instructor in the Army Air Forces Redistribution Center in Atlantic City. Nearby, at Bader Field, that year’s edition of ...
( Category: Biographies September 2,2017 )
The Woman in the Photograph by Mani Feniger
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Mani Feniger [Feniger, Mani]

So many people lost far more than my mother. She was one of the lucky ones. Yet I had never acknowledged the value of her paltry treasures—enameled teaspoons, a silver ...
( Category: World September 2,2017 )
Lionheart by Douglas Boyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-04 | Author:Douglas Boyd

NOTES 1. N.A.M. Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea (London: Penguin/National Maritime Museum, 2004), pp. 6–7. 2. Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea, p. 5. 3. Also spelled snecca, enecca ...
( Category: Europe September 2,2017 )
Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Robyn Doolittle [Doolittle, Robyn]

The three Ford brothers, Randy, Rob, and Doug, pose in front of a portrait of their late father, Doug Sr., at the family business, Deco Labels & Tags. March 22, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2017 )
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Blum Howard
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Blum, Howard [Blum, Howard]

IN NEW YORK, THE OTHER team was on the move. When the clock maker left his office just before noon, he had headed out on a meandering route across lower ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
The Pigs' Slaughter by Grancea Florin
mobi |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Grancea, Florin [Grancea, Florin]

4. DECEMBER 24TH When I worked as a journalist I sometimes saw raw footage from war-torn African countries and I always felt sick after seeing people set ablaze alive, or ...
( Category: Death & Grief September 2,2017 )
Taking the Stand by Alan Dershowitz
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Alan Dershowitz [Dershowitz, Alan]

Let me be clear what this means. If a defendant were convicted, after a constitutionally unflawed trial, of murdering his wife, whose body was never found, and then came to ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )

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