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Shadows In the Jungle by Larry Alexander
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Larry Alexander

CHAPTER 10 “Maybe We Can Save the World.” Leyte and Samar Missions: October-December 1944 In the early morning hours of Friday, October 20, 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stood on the ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
Martha Washington by Patricia Brady
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Patricia Brady

CHAPTER EIGHT Mount Vernon and a New Family George’s baggage arrived home long before he did. Six teams of horses pulling wagons laden with all his camp paraphernalia, tents, marquee, ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 28,2017 )
The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Rybczynski Witold
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Rybczynski, Witold [Rybczynski, Witold]

THE VILLA BARBARO IS MASTERFULLY INTEGRATED INTO ITS SITE AT THE FOOTHILLS OF THE DOLOMITIC ALPS. The villa at Maser was, in any case, a challenging project. The site, a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
The Yellow House by Martin Gayford
epub |eng | 2009-10-31 | Author:Martin Gayford [GAYFORD, MARTIN]

Meanwhile I can at all events tell you that the last two studies are odd enough. Size 30 canvases, a wooden rush-bottomed chair all yellow on red tiles against a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
mobi, epub | | 2009-08-21 | Author:Hampton Sides

The abandoned nipa shack afforded such an ideal crow’s nest for surveillance that Bill Nellist and Rufo Vaquilar decided to remain there all day. Nellist figured someone ought to keep ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
Civil War Two by Civil War Two
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-12 | Author:Civil War Two

86 Enclaves in Tennessee There's an interesting situation developing in western Tennessee. The mainly white counties of Stewart, Benton, Houston, Dickson, Cheatham, Decatur, Perry, Hardin, Wayne, Lewis and Lawrence look ...
( Category: Americas August 28,2017 )
Victorian Secrets by Sarah A. Chrisman
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Sarah A. Chrisman

A few weeks passed. And then a few more weeks passed. Gabriel started pestering me to call the store. “Well,” I said reluctantly, “I don’t want to bug her . ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 28,2017 )
Young Mandela by David James Smith
epub |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:David James Smith [SMITH, DAVID JAMES]

You were among those who travelled all the way to Pretoria & who warmly congratulated & cheered us on our discharge, glad to share victory with those with whom you ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest Weirdest Most Wanton Kings Queens by Farquhar Michael
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Farquhar, Michael [Farquhar, Michael]

4 Shattered Sorority Although the feud between Mary II and her sister, the future Queen Anne, lacked the potential deadliness of the one between Mary I and Elizabeth I, it ...
( Category: Reference & Collections August 28,2017 )
A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game by Uglow Jenny
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Uglow, Jenny [Uglow, Jenny]

Like the natural philosophers, the money-men were developing a new intellectual approach, questioning, observing, collecting data and building theories on how trade grew and money circulated. They argued about money ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
A Benjamin Franklin Reader by Isaacson Walter
epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Isaacson, Walter [Isaacson, Walter]

THE MORALS OF CHESS, JUNE, 1779 Sir, Playing at Chess, is the most ancient and the most universal game known among men; for its original is beyond the memory of ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Russians by Gregory Feifer
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Gregory Feifer

Since 1991, Russia has defied countless predictions and heartfelt hopes that its dominant way of doing things would change. Although travel abroad, the influx of foreigners, the freedom to read, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 28,2017 )
Justice for All by Jim Newton
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Newton

Chapter 19 RESISTANCE It is not defiance for defiance sake, but for the purpose of raising basic and fundamental constitutional questions. My action is raising a call for strict adherence ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 28,2017 )
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | 1965-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2017 )
Jesus: A Biography From a Believer. by Paul Johnson
epub |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Paul Johnson [Johnson, Paul]

VI Encounters: Men, Women, Children, the Aged ALTHOUGH JESUS constantly addressed crowds in synagogues, in the open, and in packed private houses, he spoke directly to each individual who composed ...
( Category: Theology August 27,2017 )

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