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I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-10-16 | Author:Henry Orenstein

Budzyń They marched us toward what was obviously a prison camp; in the distance we could see guard towers and rows of barbed wire. This looked like a labor camp, ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Justin Kaplan

IV Also returning from a stay abroad in the autumn of 1879 was another American anomaly. The life of Ulysses Grant, like Mark Twain’s, had been a saga of the ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2015 )
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 5,2015 )
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Pope Who Quit by Jon M. Sweeney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Jon M. Sweeney

12 RIDING ON AN ASS After the papal election of 1294, when the Church authorities came for him, Peter, by then eighty-four years old, must have thought that he would ...
( Category: Europe April 5,2015 )
My Father's Rifle by Hiner Saleem
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Hiner Saleem

On the road there were many families, like us, going to give themselves up to the Iraqi authorities. Our small truck came to a stop; we climbed out and, after ...
( Category: Iraq April 5,2015 )
Love, Fiercely by Jean Zimmerman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean Zimmerman

11. For Richer or Poorer In one sense, Paris came through for Edith and Newton. Their extended honeymoon cum escape in the City of Light allowed the young couple to ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Hatchepsut by Joyce Tyldesley
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Both these women chose to shun conventional female dress in order to challenge the way that their societies perceived them. However, there are clear differences between the two cases. Joan ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Dying Every Day by James Romm
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:James Romm

Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe. He no longer kept up the routine ...
( Category: Rome April 5,2015 )
Six Months in Sudan by Dr. James Maskalyk
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Dr. James Maskalyk

27/04: time. abyei is under water. well, much of it. the cracked fields that stretched from its sides are filled. in the middle of these lakes sit poorly placed tukuls ...
( Category: Medical April 5,2015 )
Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (9781401304423) by Niven Jennifer
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Niven, Jennifer [Niven, Jennifer]

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis by Julie Kavanagh
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Julie Kavanagh

The veteran actor Marie Bouffé had recently been taken on at the Variétés by Nestor Roqueplan—a significant coup, as Bouffé had made the fortune of the Théâtre du Gymnase. But ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Untold Story of Bonnie;Clyde Go Down Together: The True by Jeff Guinn
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER 21 Buck and Blanche Doctors Keith Chapler and Robert Osborn were performing an early-morning tonsillectomy in Dexter on the 24th of July when the posse arrived at their office ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals April 5,2015 )
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jeanne Theoharis

On the preceding pages you have seen pictures of the leaders of every major race incident in the South from May 1954 until the time of this meeting, Labor Day, ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )

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