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Before the Trumpet by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

* * * 1. Another wealthy Hyde Park boy who attended Groton some years after FDR had moved on recalled how hard it had it been for him to adjust ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 31,2016 )
Mike Guardia by American Guerrilla
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:American Guerrilla [Guerrilla, American]

On 7 October 1943, back at “General Headquarters,” Volckmann welcomed the arrival of Dennis Molintas, who together with Bando Dagwa, had come out of hiding from the previous year’s anti-guerilla ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2016 )
Determined Prince (Captured by a Dragon-Shifter)
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle M. Pillow

* * * Kyran lay on the bed, his body taut. Every inch of him was aroused even though the woman frustrated the dragonfire out of him. He listened to ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy May 29,2016 )
All the Presidents' Gardens by Marta McDowell
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Marta McDowell [McDowell, Marta]

Ellen Wilson was adept at art and garden making. While her husband was president of Princeton University, she created a new garden for their residence at Prospect House, then rendered ...
( Category: Historical May 28,2016 )
Roosevelt and the Holocaust by Robert L. Beir
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Robert L. Beir

Chapter 15 “With a Determined Resolve” In the spring of 1940 an American code clerk named Tyler Kent was caught turning American-British diplomatic correspondence, including Roosevelt-Churchill exchanges, over to Axis ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2016 )
Radio Congo by Rawlence Ben;
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rawlence, Ben; [ Rawlence, Ben]

15 The intelligence director’s bath Railway carriages rust in Kalemie IT IS STILL DARK. The Moba is waiting to dock at Kalemie, once the east’s major port, the end of ...
( Category: General May 26,2016 )
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
epub |eng | | Author:David McCullough

3 That winter in New York was the busiest and possibly the happiest time Theodore had ever known. Even the most frenetic days at Harvard had never been quite so ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2016 )
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Edward Ball [Ball, Edward]

The redoubt in San Francisco known as Fort Gunnybags, from which vigilantes ruled the city using mob actions and lynching in 1856, the summer after E. J. Muggridge arrived. (Illustration ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2016 )
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Gopnik Adam
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Gopnik, Adam [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 25,2016 )
Gaddafi's Harem by Cojean Annick
epub, mobi |eng, fra | 2013-08-13 | Author:Cojean, Annick

2 “LIBYA,” KHADIJA, LEILA . . . AND SO MANY MORE I would like to be able to tell other stories besides Soraya’s. To mention other tragedies lived through by ...
( Category: Africa May 24,2016 )
An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David
epub |eng | 2015-05-23 | Author:Anthony David

33 Honor Killing In February 1970 Assi was enough of an international star to be invited to London to audition for the role of the communist Perchik in the movie ...
( Category: Middle East May 24,2016 )
The Bitter Taste of Victory by Lara Feigel
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

Culture was now pouring into Germany and it looked as though soon Marshall Plan money would be as well. It would be some time before daily life in Germany became ...
( Category: Germany May 23,2016 )
This Land that I Love by John Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:John Shaw [Shaw, John]

PAINFULLY AND PROUDLY, African Americans had embraced, in song, the complexity of loving and remaining loyal to a country that had mistreated and continued to mistreat them. What W. E. ...
( Category: Country & Folk May 22,2016 )
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Sebastian Haffner [Haffner, Sebastian]

~ 25 ~ “If you notice that they are entering people’s homes, Charlie, come to me,” I said as we parted, though I must admit I wondered how I could ...
( Category: Germany May 21,2016 )
The Great Survivors by Peter Conradi
epub |eng, eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Peter Conradi [Conradi, Peter]

‌Chapter 10 ‌Learning to Be a Monarch Situated deep in the countryside of north-eastern Scotland, Gordonstoun was founded in 1933 by Dr Kurt Hahn, a German Jew with some unusual ...
( Category: Europe May 21,2016 )

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