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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 by William Manchester
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-11 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

( Category: World War I June 8,2017 )
THE SANDMAN: His Sea Stories (Yesterday's Classics) by Hopkins William J
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Hopkins, William J. [Hopkins, William J.]

The Stowaway Story ONCE upon a time there was a wide river that ran into the ocean, and beside it was a little city. And in that city was a ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2017 )
Hannibal (Yesterday's Classics) by Abbott Jacob
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CROSSING THE MARSHES Still, Hannibal concluded to cross it, and, in the attempt, he involved his army in difficulties and dangers as great, almost, as he had encountered upon the ...
( Category: Rome June 8,2017 )
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln (Yesterday's Classics) by Baldwin James
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Baldwin, James [Baldwin, James]

III.—Ezekiel and Daniel EZEKIEL WEBSTER was two years older than his brother Daniel. He was a strong, manly fellow, and was ready at all times to do a kindness to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 8,2017 )
A Great and Terrible King by Marc Morris
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-14 | Author:Marc Morris [Morris, Marc]

He arrived there on 11 December to find the might of the entire middle March ranged ready to meet him. Coincidence or conspiracy? There is circumstantial evidence to suggest that ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2017 )
Romulus (Yesterday's Classics) by Abbott Jacob
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VIII The Twins ALTHOUGH the temple of Vesta itself, at Alba Longa, was the principal scene of the duties which devolved upon the vestal virgins, still they were not ...
( Category: Europe June 7,2017 )
Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls (Yesterday's Classics) by Weston W. H
epub |eng | 2010-11-13 | Author:Weston, W. H. [Weston, W. H.]

CORIOLANUS AND THE MATRONS OF ROME 'O mother!' cried he, as he raised her from the ground and tenderly pressed her hand, 'what is this that you have done? You ...
( Category: Europe June 7,2017 )
Kleider machen Leute by Gottfried Keller
epub |eng | 1997-07-30 | Author:Gottfried Keller [Keller, Gottfried]

Zu dieser Ausgabe Zur Textgestalt Die Novellensammlung Die Leute von Seldwyla von Gottfried Keller (1819 – 1890) erschien 1856 bei Vieweg in Braunschweig. Das Buch enthielt fünf Novellen: Pankraz, der ...
( Category: Translating June 7,2017 )
American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-11-18 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

Or if one were searching for a classic rendering of the principle of free speech, no American statesman had ever put it so succinctly: “If there be any among us ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 7,2017 )
The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey From Prisoner to Peacemaker by Jen Marlowe & Sami al Jundi
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Jen Marlowe & Sami al Jundi [Marlowe, Jen & Jundi, Sami al]

I was quick to learn: money was essential on the outside. I was ashamed to take pocket money from my father. I needed a source of income. The brothers in ...
( Category: Middle East June 7,2017 )
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
epub | | 2009-12-30 | Author:Tracy Kidder [Kidder, Tracy]

In his conscious mind, Deo was aware of being afraid, not of dying, but of dying the way his uncle the doctor had, or the family in the house in ...
( Category: Medical June 7,2017 )
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Heinrich Harrer

9 Asylum Granted Many people came to visit us. Tibetans journeyed from far and wide to Lhasa to attend the New Year Festival, among them people whom we had got ...
( Category: China June 7,2017 )
The onion field by Joseph Wambaugh
epub | | 1973-12-21 | Author:Joseph Wambaugh [Wambaugh, Joseph]

Pierce Brooks, during the days to follow, talked individually many times to both of them, on virtually every crucial point, until one of them verified each event told by Karl ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 7,2017 )
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
epub | | 2001-06-06 | Author:Ian McEwan

PART TWO THERE WERE HORRORS enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterward would not let him go. When they reached the level crossing, after a ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction June 7,2017 )
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Yesterday's Classics) by Baldwin James
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Baldwin, James [Baldwin, James]

Androclus and the Lion IN Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was Androclus. His master was a cruel man, and so unkind to him that at last ...
( Category: Short Stories June 7,2017 )

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