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The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:M. Wylie Blanchet

FOG ON THE MOUNTAIN I SUPPOSE IT IS THE CONFINED QUARTERS OF A BOAT AND the usually limited amount of standing room on shore that makes the idea of walking ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 15,2017 )
And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jacques Lusseyran

[ 10 ] THE PLUNGE INTO COURAGE WEISSBERG WAS THE NAME of the thin little man with the short beard and white hair. He was always polite and always welcoming. ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
As Always, Jack by Emma Sweeney
epub |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Emma Sweeney [SWEENEY, EMMA]

Love, Jack Monday, May 14 * Darling, Flash! VH-1 departs from sunny Saipan in the merry Marianas Thursday, May 23. Immediate destination, Kaneohe, Hawaii, by way of Wake and Johnston ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service by Petro Joseph & Robinson Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Petro, Joseph & Robinson, Jeffrey [Petro, Joseph]

As hard as we try to plan for every possible problem, each trip presents us with plenty of new ones. In the early hours of October 25, 1983, Ronald Reagan ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
Sydney and Violet by Stephen Klaidman
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Stephen Klaidman [Klaidman, Stephen]

THE BIG FIVE When Sydney and Violet Schiff awoke in their apartment at the Villa Majestic on the morning of May 18, 1922, the sun was shining and the forecast ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2017 )
Happy Times in Norway by Undset Sigrid
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Undset, Sigrid [Undset, Sigrid]

PART III SUMMER VACATION 1 “MOTHER, WHEN SHALL WE MOVE TO THE SAETER?” “Right after St. John’s, Hans.” “Mother,” then asked Anders, “Godfather wrote he and Uncle George are coming ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 14,2017 )
The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn
epub |eng | | Author:Martha Gellhorn

Eichmann and the Private Conscience THE ATLANTIC, February 1962 In the bulletproof glass dock, shaped like the prow of a ship, sits a little man with a thin neck, high ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 14,2017 )
The Scarlet Sisters by Helen Batten
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Helen Batten

Dora Bertha and Grace The happy foursome took full advantage of all these delights. Not exactly the romantic idyll expected today, but still a lot of fun. Hands were held ...
( Category: Europe August 14,2017 )
Kicking Bombs by Barry Stevens
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Barry Stevens

16 Video Message to the World 100mm Armour-piercing APHE-T Made in Czechoslovakia. An armour-piercing (AP) shell is a type of ammo designed to penetrate armour. Iraq used this type of ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 14,2017 )
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
epub |eng | | Author:Brad Ricca

14 The Man Who Laughs The Italian doctor took Cocchi out of the cell and gave him a glass of clean water. When Cocchi returned, he was much calmed. As ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2017 )
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Rumer Godden

19 Sister Philippa brought the seed lists to the office. In the evenings she had spent hours making them out. Her work in the garden was almost at a standstill ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2017 )
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms by Steve Kemper
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Steve Kemper

COOLEY WAS NOT the only deskbound scholar who presumed to dictate Barth’s path, though he was in the minority about which path to take. Nearly all the recent letters from ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 14,2017 )
Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Tallis

IN SPITE OF the celebrations without, inside the Tower’s walls the atmosphere was one of panic as its inhabitants, like drowning rats fleeing from a sinking ship, prepared to abandon ...
( Category: Europe August 14,2017 )
Return of the Bones: Inspired by a True Native American Indian Story by Belinda Vasquez Garcia
epub |eng | 2014-05-16 | Author:Belinda Vasquez Garcia [Garcia, Belinda Vasquez]

Chapter Thirteen By the time she swung the bathroom door open at Cherry Hill Camp, her skin had air-dried. She wiggled into her pajamas and carried her damp robe over ...
( Category: Americas August 14,2017 )
War Diaries, 1939-1945 by Astrid Lindgren
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Astrid Lindgren

25 DECEMBER For us, the fourth Christmas of the war was spent in Stockholm. It was the first Christmas of my life away from Näs. But we’ve had such a ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2017 )

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