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In the Shadow of Freedom by Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul

Wardha Six months had passed since Indumati had left her family home, and her father missed his favourite child immensely. He missed their evenings together, which had assumed the form ...
( Category: India & South Asia May 3,2016 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

By 5 September, the queen, weakened with fever, was declining; everyone knew that she could not live long. She was calmer, though, and had already asked Thomas for his consent ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
Warriors of God by James Reston Jr
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:James Reston, Jr.

CHAPTER TWENTY HOME FIRES SMOLDERING SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THESE PRODIGIOUS events in Acre, the indomitable, the incomparable, the irrepressible Eleanor of Aquitaine left her favorite son, Richard, in Sicily and ...
( Category: Royalty May 2,2016 )
1911095250 by Annie Haynes
epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Annie Haynes [Haynes, Annie]

Chapter Fourteen “IF YOU please, Sir Arthur, could you come into the houses for a minute? I am not quite satisfied with that new root from Chile. There’s a dryness—” ...
( Category: Crime May 1,2016 )
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Paul Strathern [Strathern, Paul]

17 The Bonfire of the Vanities PIERO DE’ MEDICI, now known as Piero the Unfortunate, has been harshly judged by history; and his weakness of character is said to have ...
( Category: Italy April 30,2016 )
Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires by Vovk Justin C
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Vovk, Justin C. [Vovk, Justin C.]

I send this message to tell every man how much we, the women of the British Empire at home, watch and pray for you during the long hours of these ...
( Category: Germany April 29,2016 )
Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder by Claudia Kalb
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Claudia Kalb [Kalb, Claudia]

WRIGHT SPENT THE FINAL YEARS of his life overseeing construction of the Guggenheim in New York City, where he set up camp at the Plaza Hotel. Never wavering from his ...
( Category: History April 28,2016 )
The Wild Muir by Lee Stetson
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Lee Stetson

Excerpted from The Mountains of California. New York: The Century Co., 1894. A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta In 1875, after only a half dozen years of mountaineering, Muir’s confidence ...
( Category: Pacific April 26,2016 )
Such Troops as These by Bevin Alexander
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Bevin Alexander

CHAPTER 8 Calamity in Maryland Robert E. Lee had gone into the summer campaign of 1862 intending only to maneuver John Pope out of Virginia. He had been forced into ...
( Category: American Civil War April 26,2016 )
The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Sydney George Fisher

In a letter to Lord Karnes which has been often quoted he explained at length, and for the most part in very technical language, the reasons for the superiority of ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 26,2016 )
Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
0062439650 (N) by Kate Andersen Brower
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 25,2016 )
The Boxer's Story by Nathan Shapow
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Nathan Shapow [Nathan Shapow and Bob Harris]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CRUISE TO HELL (STUTTHOF) Our unpaid labour was clearly crucial to the ever-weakening cause of the Third Reich. So much so that as the net began to ...
( Category: China April 24,2016 )
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Timothy Egan

At camp, the deflated band made plans to return home. War was horrible and, it was now clear, would not be short. The day after the battle, Lincoln signed a ...
( Category: United States April 23,2016 )
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Nathalia Holt

Punch cards used by the women to write programs Most of the computers had never used a typewriter—only secretaries at JPL used those—and didn’t even know how to type. But ...
( Category: Scientists April 23,2016 )

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