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Sideways on a Scooter by Miranda Kennedy
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Miranda Kennedy [Kennedy, Miranda]

During my first years in Delhi, I rarely caught more than a glimpse of the air-conditioned, generator-supported world of the elite. Because I’d shown up in India without a foreign ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
In the New World by Lawrence Wright
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Lawrence Wright [Wright, Lawrence]

I began reading The Tin Drum in Dublin and read it as I traveled past the graveyards of Holland and the battlefields of Belgium. I was reading it in a ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Living Our Language (Native Voices) by Treuer Anton
mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Treuer, Anton [Treuer, Anton]

The Sacred Art of Hunting [24] Hey, I want to tell you a little bit more about this here. There is still more that I remember in the morning about ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
The Juggler's Children by Carolyn Abraham
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Carolyn Abraham [Abraham, Carolyn]

In the days that followed the arrival of Dennis’s DNA results, memories of my grandmother haunted me. I had the strange sensation that she was listening to the internal dialogue ...
( Category: Evolution June 15,2017 )
Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Madeleine Albright

The crematory at Terezín Terezín Memorial (the interior of the crematory, FAPT 6283) Autumn arrived. The foliage in the surrounding Bohemian countryside turned crimson and gold. The air cooled, beginning ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 15,2017 )
Letters from the Editor by Thomas Kunkel
epub |eng | 2000-06-14 | Author:Thomas Kunkel [Kunkel, Thomas]

Ross made several runs at this during the war but the magazine never did skip any issues. When Harper's magazine published a profile of Ross, he took quite a ribbing ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
The President Is a Sick Man by Matthew Algeo
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Matthew Algeo

E. J. Edwards, photographed around 1870, the year he graduated from Yale. MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY His friends called him Eddie or Jay, but his byline read, “E. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides June 15,2017 )
Arrows of the Night by Richard Bonin
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Richard Bonin [Bonin, Richard]

Reaction to Perle’s article was instantaneous and pervasive. It was discussed all over major print and television media sources, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, and CNN, in ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
England's Mistress by Kate Williams
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-11 | Author:Kate Williams

CHAPTER 31 The Battered Hero I feel myself highly honoured and flattered by your ladyship's charming letter," enthused Earl St. Vincent, Nelson's commander, to Emma in May 1798. "The picture ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2017 )
The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) by Shonagon Sei
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-11-29 | Author:Shonagon, Sei [Shonagon, Sei]

[172]* One day in the ninth month, at a certain place, a gentleman who, though not exactly a court noble, was renowned at that time as a man of marvellous ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler
epub |eng | 2010-02-11 | Author:John Kobler [Kobler, John]

In March Capone took a short pleasure jaunt to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Drucci, who somehow got wind of it, followed him there, fired a shotgun at him, but missed. As ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
epub |eng | 2017-05-28 | Author:Sarah Gristwood [Gristwood, Sarah]

‘My estate being so uncertain’ ARBELLA, AMID THE bustle of the court, took time to think of her family. She could now be useful; a conduit in the all-important game ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
The Betrayal of Richard III by V. B. Lamb
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:V. B. Lamb

Henry VI, early sixteenth century, derived from a contemporary portrait. (Society of Antiquaries) Edward IV, early sixteenth century. (Society of Antiquaries) Elizabeth Woodville, perhaps painted as early as 1500. (Ashmolean ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-06-13 | Author:Claire Tomalin

I should have written immediately to congratulate you on your then approaching marriage, and to assure you of my most cordial and affectionate interest in all that nearly concerns you, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Plutarch

• He was the most virtuous citizen, one of the greatest generals, and the most popular consul Rome ever had. As he had taken more care to transmit his virtues ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 14,2017 )

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