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Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Whiting

DEA CULTURAL WALL Like novice American businessmen in Japan trying to figure out the distinction between a gift and a bribe, US crime investigators on the trail of lawbreakers in ...
( Category: True Crime August 25,2017 )
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:A. N. Wilson

When he went to Rome at Easter 1300, we remember, he saw a Croatian pilgrim clearly thinking to himself, ‘O Jesus Christ, my Lord, the One true God, is this ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 25,2017 )
Undercover by Joe Carter
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Joe Carter

Twenty-seven The journey back with Ray was arduous and testing to say the least, as we talked for the entire journey. I cannot recall a single awkward silence or a ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson [Wilson, A. N.]

In times when nothing stood But worsened, or grew strange, There was one constant good: She did not change.75 Philip Larkin’s quatrain for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 neatly ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:Madeleine Blais

Given the pressures of their lives—pressures invisible to outsiders blinded by the peak foliage of youth, the ease, the grace, the beauty of adolescence—some of the Hurricanes found going into ...
( Category: Basketball August 25,2017 )
Jumpin' Jack Flash by Keiron Pim
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Keiron Pim

* * * fn1 The reference to South Africa connects more closely still with the Richardsons, who had mining interests there. fn2 Referred to in the script as the Hayloft ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Gunpowder Plots by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | 2005-09-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

father, or your mother, or some of your nearest and dearest relations, tied to a stake in the midst of flames, when with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven, ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Escape from Shanghai by Paul Huang
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Paul Huang [Huang, Paul]

From 1938 to 1944, Japan occupied a hundred-mile semi-circular ring of territory that included Hong Kong and Canton. This was their stronghold in the Pearl River Delta area. Then, in ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
The Diaries of Nella Last by Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson

CHAPTER TWELVE A SORT OF PEACE September 1945–January 1946 Thursday, 20 September. The years slipped back to six years ago, when war had only started and we were sewing cloth ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Finley Ball: How Two Baseball Outsiders Turned the Oakland A's into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever by Finley Nancy
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Finley, Nancy [Finley, Nancy]

WHITE KNUCKLES In the stands at Riverfront Stadium, Charlie put his hands together and nervously squeezed them. It was, literally, white-knuckle time. While Dad and I were watching on the ...
( Category: Baseball August 25,2017 )
Finley Ball by Nancy Finley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Nancy Finley

WHITE KNUCKLES In the stands at Riverfront Stadium, Charlie put his hands together and nervously squeezed them. It was, literally, white-knuckle time. While Dad and I were watching on the ...
( Category: Baseball August 25,2017 )
The Great Agnostic by Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2013-02-16 | Author:Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby [Ingersoll, Robert & Jacoby, Susan]

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Tales Behind the Tombstones by Enss Chris
epub |eng | | Author:Enss, Chris

Bob Ford d. 1892 “Instantly his real purpose flashed upon my mind. I knew I had not fooled him. He was too sharp for that. He knew at that moment ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
Mochi's War by Enss Chris
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Enss, Chris

Colonel Chivington disagreed with Bishop Whipple and maintained that the United States Army needed to “enact God’s justice.” According to an interview Chivington’s third wife, Isabella, did with historian Fred ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Outlaw Tales of the Old West by Erin H. Turner
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Erin H. Turner [Turner, Erin H.]

Nevada Outlaws Andrew Jackson “Big Jack” Davis : Master Stage Robber Andrew Jackson “Big Jack” Davis started out as an honest miner in the California Sierras. The intelligent, well-educated, fine-looking ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )

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