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Mary Stuart by Stefan Zweig
epub, azw3 |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Once more we look through this letter into the shadowy room that is so distant both in time and space. We picture Mary Stuart sitting by the sick man’s bed ...
( Category: Europe June 28,2017 )
Augustus by Anthony Everitt
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Anthony Everitt [Everitt Anthony]

XIV SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C. * * * In early 32 B.C., it became obvious to everyone that Antony and Cleopatra had made an important and highly controversial decision. She was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 28,2017 )
The Investigator by Terry Lenzner
epub |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Terry Lenzner

CHAPTER 6 WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY I continued working at my law firm, sometimes on cases requiring investigation that helped hone my skills, but they were relatively ...
( Category: Americas June 28,2017 )
The Stranger by Albert Camus
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Albert Camus

II THERE are some things of which I’ve never cared to talk. And, a few days after I’d been sent to prison, I decided that this phase of my life ...
( Category: Classics June 28,2017 )
The Family by Kitty Kelley
epub |eng | 2004-09-13 | Author:Kitty Kelley

CHAPTER NINETEEN George Herbert Walker Bush wanted the White House more than anything else in the world. “I mean, like, hasn’t, uh, everybody dreamed about becoming President someday?” he asked ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 28,2017 )
King John by Marc Morris
epub |eng | 2015-06-27 | Author:Marc Morris

10 Tyrannical Will 1210–1212 The horrific death of Matilda de Briouze and her eldest son clearly dealt a deeply damaging blow to John’s already battered reputation. News of their starvation ...
( Category: Historical June 28,2017 )
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]

MY BROTHER ARSENAL v TOTTENHAM 30.8.80 There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting ...
( Category: Soccer June 28,2017 )
Hitler by Joachim C. Fest
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Joachim C. Fest

Reject what confuses you Outlaw what seduces you, What did not spring from a pure will, Into the flames with what threatens you! Even Theodor W. Adorno noticed in the ...
( Category: Europe June 28,2017 )
Prince of Darkness by Shane White
epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Shane White

Nine The Trial Ostensibly, the article Moses Beach published in his New York Sun on August 7, 1843, was about the Atlantic Insurance conspiracy case, but its content and language ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 28,2017 )
Elizabeth by Arlene Okerlund
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Arlene Okerlund

CHAPTER SIXTEEN War and Peace Early 1475 found England preparing for war. Edward had first announced his intention of invading France during the Parliament of October 1472,1 and in the ...
( Category: Historical June 28,2017 )
Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Paul Cartledge [CARTLEDGE, PAUL]

Just beyond the oasis town of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan (then in Soviet Central Asia) a tell, or man-made mound, known locally as the Hill of Gold yielded a remarkable ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 28,2017 )
Defiance by Behan Tom
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Behan, Tom [Behan, Tom]

A Mafia God Walks the Earth The high point of Badalamenti’s career came with his ‘Pizza Connection’ system in the United States – the distribution of hard drugs through pizza ...
( Category: Historical June 28,2017 )
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? by Mark Zwonitzer
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Zwonitzer

* * * In the six years since Coy Bays and his family headed west out of Poor Valley, Virginia, a lot had changed. Even in the chill February of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 27,2017 )
Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif
epub |eng | | Author:Manal al-Sharif

On the morning of Wednesday, October 9, 2002, my parents saw me off at the Jeddah airport, and I promised them that I would live up to their expectations. In ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 23,2017 )
Capone by Laurence Bergreen
epub |eng | 2017-06-21 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

CHAPTER 9 Secret Agents THE SUMMER OF 1930 HAD BEEN LONG, hot, and frustrating for Frank J. Wilson, who led the IRS investigation of Al Capone. Wilson had watched the ...
( Category: Americas June 23,2017 )

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