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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Mark Mathabane [Mathabane, Mark]

AUTHORIZED TO CARRY ONLY 65 SEATED PASSENGERS, AND 15 STANDING. But there must have been close to a hundred perspiring people squeezed into the stuffy bus. People sat on top ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 28,2016 )
The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down by Geoff Shepard
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Geoff Shepard [Shepard, Geoff]

CHAPTER 7 EVENHANDED, NONPARTISAN PROSECUTORS Equal protection of the law implies even-handed prosecutions for criminal conduct. But highly partisan WSPF prosecutors targeted Nixon’s top aides, charged them with highly questionable ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 28,2016 )
A Colossal Wreck by Alexander Cockburn
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Alexander Cockburn

What happened to the loofa? Maybe Abe Foxman called him on the other line to warn about “going Arab on us.” And what is O’Reilly planning to do with the ...
( Category: History & Theory June 28,2016 )
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Chris Given-Wilson

Nor was there any doubt about what Arundel placed at the top of that agenda; the outstanding achievement of his administration was the restoration of solvency to crown finance. Insofar ...
( Category: Historical June 28,2016 )
The Trouble with Tom by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Paul Collins

Comfort for the Ruptured "YEAH? " HE SAYS. It's bitter cold out on Twenty-eighth Street, and the Chinese truck driver stops and looks warily at his overloaded produce truck, and ...
( Category: United States June 28,2016 )
Jabotinsky (Jewish Lives) by Hillel Halkin
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Hillel Halkin [Halkin, Hillel]

4 Racing the Clock THE SHAW COMMISSION report led to the Passfield White Paper of October 1930. Openly pro-Arab, the White Paper amounted to an all but total abandonment of ...
( Category: Middle East June 27,2016 )
Kick Kennedy by Barbara Leaming
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Leaming

Nine Four weeks after Billy waded ashore in the rain from his landing craft on June 23, 1944, he could no longer pretend with Kick that their latest parting would ...
( Category: Great Britain June 27,2016 )
Disciples by Douglas Waller
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Waller

CHAPTER 21 TO GERMANY * * * The Doctor team spent its first five days hidden in the Scheffau farmhouse of the three Austrian deserters. The trio’s leader, who identified ...
( Category: World War II June 27,2016 )
Soul Standard by Richard Thomas
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Richard Thomas [Thomas, Richard]

I slump against the meat locker and trace the contour of her face in my palm. The empty seat vibrates in my bones. Sliced wrappings laid beside me, I shudder ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2016 )
Circle of Treason by Sandra V. Grimes
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Sandra V. Grimes [Grimes, Sandra;Vertefeuille, Jeanne]

CIC FORMATION AT THE BEGINNING OF 1988, plans for the reorganization of the CIA’s CI staff began to move into high gear. Various permutations and combinations were proposed and, as ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage June 27,2016 )
A Disposition to Be Rich by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

† Much later, Buck would claim that in early May 1883, he told Ferd expressly that the firm should have nothing to do with the contract business for fear his ...
( Category: United States June 27,2016 )
So Great a Prince by Lauren Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Johnson [Johnson, Lauren]

*1 ‘Ember days’ were the Fridays, Wednesdays and Saturdays following the feasts of St Lucy (13 December), Holy Cross Day (14 September) and the movable feasts of Whit Sunday and ...
( Category: Historical June 26,2016 )
1936941139 (N) by Bob Rosenthal
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Bob Rosenthal

CHAPTER 5 Floors and Walls Cleaning a floor or wall creates a progression of triangles. One side of the triangle is the floor. The second side is you leaning over ...
( Category: Poetry June 26,2016 )
Free World by Timothy Garton Ash
epub |eng | 2005-12-06 | Author:Timothy Garton Ash [Ash, Timothy Garton]

NEAR EAST In the beginning, none of the places we call the East thought of themselves as the East. All versions of the East—whether European, Communist, Near, Middle, or Far—were ...
( Category: History & Theory June 26,2016 )
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Jeffrey E. Garten

“You Haven’t Got a Hope” The first blow to Heath came not from Thatcher but from Keith Joseph, who made a decisive break in a speech saying the British government ...
( Category: Globalization June 26,2016 )

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