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Elihu Washburne by Michael Hill & David McCullough
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Hill & David McCullough

5 PEACE Diary—January 29, 1871 Sunday evening. 1st day of the armistice. Though we have had a practical armistice since Thursday night, it was only signed last night. It appeared ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
In an Uncertain World by Robert Rubin & Jacob Weisberg
epub |eng | 2003-11-18 | Author:Robert Rubin & Jacob Weisberg

AT THE BEGINNING of Clinton’s second term, I had to decide whether to stay or leave—possibly to become chairman of the Carnegie Corporation, a foundation involved in an enormous range ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 28,2017 )
Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann [Dalin, David G. & Rothmann, John F.]

Chapter 6 Mandate for Hate: Haj Amin al-Husseini and the Islamization of Anti-Semitism “I am a Jew.” These were the last words that Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, ...
( Category: Middle East August 28,2017 )
The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Duncan Wall [Wall, Duncan]

OUTSIDE LAURENCE’S TRAILER, the sun was tucking itself into the woods to the west, bronzing the horizon. At the bottom of the iron steps I paused to let my eyes ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
James and Dolley Madison by Bruce Chadwick
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-23 | Author:Bruce Chadwick

The commander in chief hung maps of Canada, the Great Lakes, New England, and the Atlantic seaboard up on the walls of his office in the White House; wrote letters; ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 by Benn Tony
epub |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Benn, Tony [Benn, Tony]

9 1976–79 Thursday 1 April 1976 THE HS-125 was waiting at Prestwick Airport with my old friend Captain Dan Thomas, and I flew with John Hill, Bryan Emmett, and Bernard ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 28,2017 )
The Girl in the Green Sweater by Chiger Krystyna & Paisner Daniel
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Chiger, Krystyna & Paisner, Daniel

Five OUR LADY OF THE SNOW Imust pause here and share what I know about Leopold Socha’s background, because it is useful to understand what motivated this man to help ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
BOSS TWEED: The Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Ackerman Kenneth D
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Ackerman, Kenneth D. [Ackerman, Kenneth D.]

------------------------- Tweed spent most of his time after the coup d’etat hiding from newspaper reporters in his office at the Public Works Department on Broadway. Here, he greeted the usual ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 28,2017 )
Queens Consort by Lisa Hilton
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lisa Hilton

CHAPTER 12 PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT ‘Good angel of Edward and of England’ Philippa of Hainault’s queenship had a difficult beginning. Her arrival in London in December 1327 was marred by ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Madam: A Novel of New Orleans by Lynn Cari & Martin Kellie
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Lynn, Cari & Martin, Kellie [Lynn, Cari]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Countess’s party? There was no way, black magic or not, that the likes of an Alley whore would be welcomed at the Countess’s party. Mary might as ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Madam: A Novel of New Orleans by Cari Lynn & Kellie Martin
mobi |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Cari Lynn & Kellie Martin [Lynn, Cari]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Countess’s party? There was no way, black magic or not, that the likes of an Alley whore would be welcomed at the Countess’s party. Mary might as ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Arthur Waley & Dennis Washburn Ph.d
epub |eng | 1002-01-01 | Author:Arthur Waley & Dennis Washburn Ph.d. [Waley, Arthur & Washburn, Dennis Ph.d.]

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 August 28,2017 )
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes by Kamal Al-Solaylee
azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Kamal Al-Solaylee [Al-Solaylee, Kamal]

CHAPTER SEVEN SANA’A Ancestral It couldn’t have begun on a worse note. At the Customs counter of Sana’a International Airport in the fall of 1986, a severe-looking officer with a ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
The Bohemians by Ben Tarnoff
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Ben Tarnoff

III EXILE Portrait of Harte published on the cover of Every Saturday , January 14, 1871. SEVEN America greeted the news of Bret Harte’s departure from California in 1871 with ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
Dick Turpin by James Sharpe
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:James Sharpe

It was at this stage that Richard Turpin finally turned to the activity for which he was to achieve lasting fame, highway robbery. On 10 and 12 April there were ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )

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