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The Washingtons by Flora Fraser
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Flora Fraser

* * * 1 Like everyone else, the American commander-in-chief avoided, when he could, transactions in the Continental dollars issued by Congress. While Virginia currency depreciated alarmingly against the Spanish ...
( Category: Historical August 24,2017 )
Jessie's Journey by Jess Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Jess Smith [Smith, Jess]

19 THE LIVING NIGHTMARE That was a braw summer’s jaunt in the old bus. Why the others were hankering after a house beats me. Back at Crieff, though, this is ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 24,2017 )
The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | 2017-04-29 | Author:Tariq Ali

10 The Third International For most of September and October 1917, it appeared that Lenin saw the success of the October Revolution mainly as a springboard for revolutions throughout Europe. ...
( Category: World August 24,2017 )
Bad Company by K. A. Mitchell
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:K. A. Mitchell [Mitchell, K. A.]

Chapter Fifteen Kellan spent about eight minutes in the bathroom, three cleaning up and the other five wrapping his head around the fact that what he was cleaning up was ...
( Category: Historical August 24,2017 )
Cold Winters by A.K.M. Miles
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:A.K.M. Miles [Miles, A.K.M.]

Chapter Nine As soon as Cole and Mason walked in the emergency room, a nurse met them. “Come with me, she woke up and won’t let the doctor do anything ...
( Category: Historical August 24,2017 )
Casanova by Laurence Bergreen
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

Chapter 11 * * * Miss Wynne On arrival at The Hague, Casanova received a dinner invitation from his former lover, prospective mate, and would-be antagonist Teresa Trenti. “I found ...
( Category: World August 23,2017 )
Enid Blyton by Barbara Stoney
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Barbara Stoney

In a church magazine of the early ’fifties, she answered a reader’s question about the necessity of religious teaching in bringing up a child: He can certainly be brought up ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
A Rock Fell on the Moon by Alicia Priest
epub |eng | 2014-09-13 | Author:Alicia Priest

My poor darling, how it hurts me to see you suffer so. Don’t worry one bit about us. We shall be all right even if the worst comes. Whatever you ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2017 )
The Forgotten Children by David Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:David Hill

They used to look after me … She’d hit me and they would be upset but they didn’t want to say much to her … ‘Here’s this little girl getting ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 23,2017 )
Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
epub |eng | 2007-02-14 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

* * * 1 (Return) The Bulletin des Lois publishes the following decree, dated the 27th of March:— "Considering the law of May 10, 1838, which classes the ordinary expenses ...
( Category: Europe August 23,2017 )
A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Hans Fallada

Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...
( Category: Historical August 23,2017 )
Wisdom Keeper by Ilarion Merculieff
epub |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Ilarion Merculieff [Merculieff, Ilarion]

Chapter 19 Homer Gone “We propose that we declare war on the United States government and secede from the Union!” stated a nervous young man. He was part of a ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 23,2017 )
The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot by Thomas Maeder
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Thomas Maeder

The author of these lines, far from having committed dishonorable acts, far from having forgiven his torturers and even farther from having aided them, adopted a new pseudonym immediately after ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 23,2017 )
February House by Sherill Tippins
epub |eng | | Author:Sherill Tippins

Young Tree. When are we to see him? 1st Goose. He will be born at the next Blue Moon. Chorus of Old Trees. She’s lying. It isn’t true. O I’m ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas by Weir Alison
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

On the 27th, to gratify the Queen, Lennox went through a ceremony of reconciliation with Châtelherault, his old foe, although their enmity would continue to simmer. Randolph reported on November ...
( Category: Historical August 23,2017 )

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