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1610396766 (N) by Jo Ann Jenkins
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Jo Ann Jenkins

More and Better Choices If Home Is No Longer an Option While we focus on innovations to help make communities more livable and offer new solutions to help people age ...
( Category: Gerontology June 26,2016 )
1476743959 (N) by Christopher Andersen
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Christopher Andersen

* * * THE FATE OF THE HOUSE of Windsor would have to wait as Prince William sorted out his academic future. After he aced his A-levels—the British equivalent of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 26,2016 )
Douglas MacArthur by Arthur Herman
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

CHAPTER 19 GREEN HELL There is hardly any celebrated enterprise in War which was not achieved by endless exertion, pains, and privations; and as here the weakness of the physical ...
( Category: World War I June 16,2016 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Political June 16,2016 )
A History of the Classical Greek World by Rhodes P. J
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Rhodes, P. J.

The Origins of the Common Peace When the Peloponnesian War ended, Sparta was committed to the unqualified return of the Asiatic Greeks to Persia if the treaty of 411 was ...
( Category: Historical June 16,2016 )
Elizabeth II by Douglas Hurd
epub |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Douglas Hurd

8 Vox Populi It is now possible to measure scientifically the state of public opinion about the Queen and the monarchy. In earlier centuries the ebb and flow of royal ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2016 )
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) by John Guy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:John Guy

5 A Second Solomon Like King Solomon, the most famous of the Old Testament patriarchs, who was said to have sat in majesty on an ivory throne and who completed ...
( Category: Europe June 15,2016 )
Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
epub |eng | 2001-05-22 | Author:Philip Pullman [Pullman, Philip]

EIGHT THE TOWER OF THE ANGELS Will said, “Who is this man who’s got the knife?” They were in the Rolls-Royce, driving up through Oxford. Sir Charles sat in the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy June 14,2016 )
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:David Jaher [Jaher, David]

House of Crimson In Walter Prince’s dream, the doomed young woman begged him to hold her hand while she was beheaded—as if by a guillotine. One of his hands was ...
( Category: United States June 14,2016 )
Dark History of the Popes by Brenda Ralph Lewis
epub |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:Brenda Ralph Lewis [Lewis, Brenda Ralph]

His chief rivals for the papal succession were Cardinal Ascanio Sforza of Milan and Cardinal Giuliani della Rovere, the latter being bankrolled to the tune of 200,000 gold ducats by ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries June 14,2016 )
An Italian Home - Settling by Lake Como
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Paul Wright [Wright, Paul]

Chapter 10 Lavoro Regolare - Regular Work for Nicola When we left the UK, the recession had really set in. In mainland Europe there did not seem to be any ...
( Category: General June 12,2016 )
The Essential Adam Smith by Smith Adam
azw3, epub |eng | 1987-03-16 | Author:Smith, Adam [Smith, Adam]

* * * The next inquiry is what rules determine exchangeable value. Value may mean either value in use or value or value in exchange. * * * The word ...
( Category: Theory June 11,2016 )
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger & Jon Lee Anderson
epub |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Wilfred Thesiger & Jon Lee Anderson [Thesiger, Wilfred & Anderson, Jon Lee]

( Category: Travel June 9,2016 )
The Flaneur by Edmund White
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Edmund White

The flâneur wanders to the Parc Monceau in the eighth arrondissement, just a stroll north and east of the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées. Proust lived near here when ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 2,2016 )
Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America by Evan Carton
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Evan Carton [Carton, Evan]

Lying prone in the tall grass, hidden from view, the men spoke little. The waiting was interminable. Only the altered shadows of the trees as the sun inched across the ...
( Category: American Civil War June 1,2016 )

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