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The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Zachary Leader [Leader, Zachary]

THAT AUGIE IS JEWISH and speaks an English in which Yiddish inflections, constructions, and expressions are heard, is part of what makes him a Columbus. In recounting his adventures, he ...
( Category: United States May 13,2015 )
PATTON: A BIOGRAPHY by Alan Axelrod
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Alan Axelrod

CHAPTER 8 Conqueror of Sicily As originally drawn up in Washington and London, far from the scene of the proposed action, the plan for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, ...
( Category: World War II May 11,2015 )
Michelangelo by Miles J. Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Miles J. Unger

IV. AGE OF ANXIETY The quarrel with his father increased Michelangelo’s sense of isolation; all the world seemed to have turned against him, and he was left feeling exhausted and ...
( Category: Europe May 7,2015 )
1781254168 by Unknown
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

English has no loanwords from Latvian. Aizvakar – Latvian is one of many languages that have one word for ‘the day before yesterday’ (for which English used to have ‘ereyesterday’). ...
( Category: United States May 3,2015 )
And the Band Played on . . .: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank by Christopher Ward
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Christopher Ward [Ward, Christopher]

HUME, ANDREW, born Dumfries 7th May 1864. Violinist, bassoonist, banjo player and composer. Pupil of M Sainton. Established in his native city as professor of the above instruments and teacher ...
( Category: Great Britain April 23,2015 )
The Residence - Inside the Private World of The White House by Kate Andersen Brower
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower [Kate Andersen Brower]

CHAPTER VI Sacrifice That first day, I thought the Usher’s office was a twelve-by-twelve-foot madhouse. People ran in and out of the room all day, the phone rang incessantly, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2015 )
Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I) by Churchill Randolph S
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Churchill, Randolph S. [Churchill, Randolph S.]

( Category: Great Britain April 14,2015 )
20110920 by Unknown
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Historical April 12,2015 )
201109201 by Unknown
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Historical April 12,2015 )
20110818 by Unknown
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Historical April 12,2015 )
The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II by Donald Crawford
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Donald Crawford [Crawford, Donald]

A sealed copy of the abdication was handed over to Guchkov and another to Ruzsky for transmission to the army commands and to Petrograd and other key centres, including the ...
( Category: Europe April 9,2015 )
Life Together by Bonhoeffer Dietrich
mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bonhoeffer, Dietrich [Bonhoeffer, Dietrich]

After the first morning hour the Christian’s day until evening belongs to work. ‘Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening’ (Ps. 104.23). In most ...
( Category: Christian Theology April 9,2015 )
Looking Back by Joyce Maynard
epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Joyce Maynard [Maynard, Joyce]

I CAN UNDERSTAND THE Jesus freaks turning, dope-muddled, to a life of self-denial and asceticism. The excesses of eighth-grade psychedelia left me feeling the same way and I turned, in ...
( Category: Journalists April 7,2015 )
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason by Iain McCalman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Iain McCalman

Jeanne’s own house was now almost literally overshadowed by the far grander maison de Cagliostro at 1 rue St.-Claude, off the boulevard St.-Antoine. Rohan had chosen the premises himself so ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2015 )

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