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The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Matthew Dennison

SEVENTEEN 'There now burnt a bewitching fiery passion' For Beatrice marriage changed everything and nothing. A year after her wedding she opened the annual show of the Royal Horticultural Society ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville & the Age of Chivalry by Christopher Wilkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Christopher Wilkins [Wilkins, Christopher]

CHAPTER EIGHT: BLOOD AND ROSES A week’s sailing brought the fleet to Pembrokeshire on a Sunday afternoon. They waited until dusk and then sailed into Milford Haven, landing at Mill ...
( Category: Europe August 26,2017 )
Unbreakable Stories by Jocelynn Drake
epub |eng | | Author:Jocelynn Drake

### “You did well,” Lucas said as he came to stand next to Snow on the back patio. He was dressed casually in jeans and a royal blue shirt that ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
Long Live the King by Kathryn Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Warner

11 THE KING IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND ITALY PART 2 Edward travelled, assuming that the Fieschi Letter is correct, considerable distances. From the port of Sluis to Normandy would be ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
Red China Blues (reissue): My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
epub |eng | 2011-02-03 | Author:Jan Wong [Wong, Jan]

Part III PARADISE LOST 12 Dancing With Dissidents Interviewing a dissident, Gao Xin, in the Altar to the Sun park in Beijing. Imprisoned following the Tiananmen Massacre, he was never ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )
Perdita by Paula Byrne
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Paula Byrne [Paula Byrne]

She paid a heavy price for her personal and political commitment to Fox. Throughout the campaign she was pilloried mercilessly in caricatures, pamphlets, squibs, and newspaper paragraphs. A caricature called ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
Farthest Field by Karnad Raghu
epub |eng | 2015-06-04 | Author:Karnad, Raghu

14 No Heroes Madras, May–June 1943 After the deserts of Libya and Iraq, and lately a week on the Arabian Sea, the men of 2nd Field Company had seen enough ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
Hugh Glass by Bruce Bradley
epub |eng | 2007-03-17 | Author:Bruce Bradley [Bradley, Bruce]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ST. LOUIS--MARCH, 1820 WEST OF THE Missouri, things were beginning to warm up. That's what everyone said, anyway. Within the next ten years, settlements would sprout up in ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
The Man Who Stalked Einstein by Hillman Bruce J. & Ertl-Wagner Birgit & Wagner Bernd C
epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:Hillman, Bruce J. & Ertl-Wagner, Birgit & Wagner, Bernd C.

Finally, at the very end, so there would be no doubt where he stood, Oseen gilded the lily. “Its discovery to me appears to fully deserve a Nobel Prize in ...
( Category: Physics August 25,2017 )
The Working Class Republican by Henry Olsen
epub |eng | 2017-06-27 | Author:Henry Olsen

This was not an idea endorsed by all conservatives then, as we saw with Steffgen’s opposition to Medicaid as itself “socialized medicine” in the last chapter. For Reagan, taxing Peter ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 25,2017 )
The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA by Cadbury Deborah
epub |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Cadbury, Deborah [Cadbury, Deborah]

By late 1794, the mood in France was slowly beginning to change. In this slightly more open atmosphere, news of Louis-Charles’s shameful treatment in prison began to leak out. On ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
In the Shadow of the White House by Jo Haldeman
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Jo Haldeman

We’ll be Eaten Alive I spend a restless night and awaken early Tuesday morning, April 24, to find Bob already on the phone in his office. Before leaving for the ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Their Promised Land by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Ian Buruma

I do everything quite normally but quite mechanically. Inside I am quite dead except for the constant gnawing anxiety. It is like permanently waiting in the waiting room while someone ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
To the New Owners by Madeleine Blais
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Madeleine Blais

Chapter Seven Operating Instructions We never rented the house formally, but we often gave away time in it to family friends and even virtual strangers. One summer one of John’s ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Rasputin by Douglas Smith
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Douglas Smith

45. The Tovarpar After days of intense fighting, on 4 August the fortress of Kaunas in Lithuania, vital for Russia’s western defenses, fell to the Germans. The Russians suffered approximately ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )

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