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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by de Waal Edmund
mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:de Waal, Edmund

20. HEIL WIEN! HEIL BERLIN! The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These ...
( Category: Jewish June 11,2015 )
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Humberto Fontova

7 The “Intellectual and Art Lover” as Book Burner and Thief Che is not only an intellectual, he was the most complete human being of our time—our era’s most perfect ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 11,2015 )
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
mobi |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Anne Frank

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 11,2015 )
Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond; James Moore
mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Adrian Desmond; James Moore

10 The Contamination of Negro Blood America began haemorrhaging in spring 1856. As Darwin started writing up his evolutionary theory, Kansas lay torn between rival free-soil and pro-slavery legislatures, with ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death by Roger Manvell; Heinrich Fraenkel
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-02-15 | Author:Roger Manvell; Heinrich Fraenkel

further meeting at Bad Godesberg. While awaiting word from Hitler Goebbels addressed a steadying pep-talk to five hundred gau officials in Berlin.37 Hitler invited him down to the Obersalzberg for ...
( Category: Germany June 11,2015 )
Between Silk and Cyanide by Marks Leo
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Marks, Leo [Marks, Leo]

THIRTY-NINE Appointment With Royalty 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' caused forty-eight hours of purgatory when an F-section agent spelt hell with three 'l's. But that was ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )
The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom by Ronald Reagan
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Ronald Reagan

Robert Browning Grow old with me—the best is yet to be—the last of life for which the first was made. Chinese Proverb The beginning of wisdom is calling things by ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2015 )
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Standiford Les
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Standiford, Les [Standiford, Les]

FITS AND STARTS IN THE END, THE FUNDING SLOWDOWN ACTUALLY WORKED in Mulholland’s favor. With much of the hardest tasks behind him, any walkouts simply meant fewer men to pay, ...
( Category: Environmental June 10,2015 )
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Thomas Fleming

IV In the summer of 1791, Hamilton was riding the crest of the huge wave of public enthusiasm he had created by persuading Congress to approve his plan for overhauling ...
( Category: United States June 9,2015 )
Of This Earth by Rudy Wiebe
epub |eng | 2006-06-08 | Author:Rudy Wiebe [Wiebe, Rudy]

Her first desire is for a “pretty little cottage,” but one wish fulfilled can never be enough for the woman: the next is for a big stone castle; then she ...
( Category: Canada June 9,2015 )
Hemingway on Hunting by Ernest Hemingway
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A Good Country” (from Green Hills of Africa) It is easier to keep well in a good country by taking simple precautions than to pretend that a country which is ...
( Category: Hunting June 6,2015 )
The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

Plutarch, from a sixteenth-century engraving Of all who thought that Plato derived his ideas from Pythagoras, no other was so convinced and outspoken as Moderatus of Gades, known as the ...
( Category: Greece June 6,2015 )
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs by Michelle Malkin
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Michelle Malkin [Malkin, Michelle]

Back to the Future: The Resurrection of Vitrum Flexile Remember the legend of the hapless inventor who lost his head when he brought a sample of unbreakable glass to the ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions June 5,2015 )
A Mind at Sea by John Fry
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:John Fry

While at sea the law lays its heavy hand upon him. By night and by day, almost without interruption, he is subject to the severest discipline. Any disobedience of a ...
( Category: History June 4,2015 )

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