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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Daniel Okrent [Okrent, Daniel]

“In real estate circles we were criticized for our ruthlessness,” wrote John R. Todd shortly before his death, in 1945, “which was just another word for good business ability to ...
( Category: Americas August 29,2017 )
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by Samuel Bawlf
epub |eng | 2003-05-25 | Author:Samuel Bawlf [Bawlf, Samuel]

* * * Denied an audience with the Queen, Mendoza stirred up the Spanish merchants in Tondon to agitate for restoration of Drake’s plunder to its rightful owners, and told ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 29,2017 )
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors by David Baldwin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:David Baldwin [Baldwin, David]

66. An old postcard of Parham Hall, Suffolk, where Katherine was born in 1519. Pevsner calls it a ‘wonderful’ example of a moated early sixteenth-century timber-framed house. 67. Two bosses ...
( Category: Europe August 29,2017 )
Ned Kelly by FitzSimons Peter
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:FitzSimons Peter [FitzSimons Peter]

My own experience of active search in the ranges here, without something like precise information of the whereabouts of the Gang, is that it is worse than useless, and I ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 29,2017 )
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir From Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Monica Wood [Wood, Monica]

I slip over to the Vaillancourts’ as often as I can, where Denise and I sit on the whaleback of grass that passes for her front yard, planning stakeouts or ...
( Category: Americas August 29,2017 )
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill
mobi |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

The trio of Connolly, Bulger, and Flemmi was just as happy to see Morris as Morris was to see them. Especially Connolly—Jim Ring had been a tough mark. Connolly had ...
( Category: True Crime August 29,2017 )
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

22 “Poor Fellows, They Are Ready to Give Their Lives for a Smile” Victory on the Marne and disaster at Tannenberg tended to dim the result of a third great ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )
Les Rois qui ont fait la France - Henri IV by Bordonove Georges
epub |eng | 2013-12-14 | Author:Bordonove,Georges [Bordonove,Georges]

II Arques Henri IV – appelons-le désormais par commodité Henri – fut déçu par la Normandie. Cette province avait naguère adhéré au calvinisme pour moitié, mais les religionnaires n'y étaient ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Ron Chernow [Chernow, Ron]

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: Americas August 29,2017 )
I Was Hitler's Chauffeur by Erich Kempka
epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Erich Kempka

* * * * Most likely the 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, which consisted predominantly of Scandinavian volunteers and took part in the battle for Berlin. Chapter 11 My Escape from ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
After the Fact by Owen J. Hurd
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Owen J. Hurd [Hurd, Owen J.]

LOOSE ENDS Before he became an inventor, Morse was a respected artist—a painter of portraits, landscapes, and historical scenes. When he decided to focus his efforts on telegraphy in the ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games August 29,2017 )
Love Lies by Unknown
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Unknown

38. Fern ‘Oh this is wild. I have never seen such a big bed in all my life,’ I scream excitedly. ‘Yeah.’ Scott grins as I lunge at the bed ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Wendy Pearlman

Billal, doctor (Harasta) We were underground and couldn’t see a thing. We knew it was morning when the guards switched shifts. Otherwise, we had no idea if it was night ...
( Category: Middle East August 29,2017 )
Brian Boru by Morgan Llywelyn
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Morgan Llywelyn [Morgan Llywelyn]

CHAPTER TEN Christmas at Kincora As Mac Liag had promised, Christmas at Kincora in the Year of Our Lord 994 was indeed a splendid occasion. Ducholi was a daughter of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 29,2017 )
McLevy by James McLevy
epub |eng | | Author:James McLevy [McLevy, James]

The Wrong Shop ❖ It is only a state of civilisation that can produce so strange a relation as that between detectives and robbers. In any other condition of society ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 29,2017 )

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