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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Mackrell Judith
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Mackrell, Judith [Mackrell, Judith]

Chapter Nine NANCY When Tallulah made her debut in The Green Hat, she was not the only woman in London reputed to be the inspiration for its lovely, errant heroine, ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Matthew Goodman

DECEMBER 18–23, 1889 South China Sea ON BOARD THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP THAMES BOUND for Singapore, Elizabeth Bisland slept “the languorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics.” Her stateroom had ...
( Category: Women April 4,2015 )
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-21 | Author:Primo Levi [Levi, Primo]

Henri, on the other hand, is eminently civilized and sane, and possesses a complete and organic theory on the ways to survive in Lager. He is only twenty-two, he is ...
( Category: Authors April 3,2015 )
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers by Edward Mendelson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Edward Mendelson

he was unrepentant when he confronted this aspect of his life. . . .“If I had to do it all over again I don’t suppose I would change anything. The ...
( Category: United States March 31,2015 )
The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus by Nostradamus
mobi |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Nostradamus

After having conquered Italy: The bloodthirsty black one, red, will be exposed, Fire, blood shed, water colored by blood. 39 The child of the realm through the capture of his ...
( Category: Prophecy March 30,2015 )
Winter King by Thomas Penn
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

10 New Heaven, New Earth In autumn 1504 Desiderius Erasmus was in Paris; as usual, he was broke. News reached him from England, where his friend John Colet, the ascetic ...
( Category: England March 27,2015 )
Stephen & Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Bradbury Jim
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]

THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category: England March 25,2015 )
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 1980-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Two days later, Peter wrote again: I beg you to do everything that can possibly be done without me. When I was well, I let nothing pass, but now God ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 1995-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
Just Kids From the Bronx by Arlene Alda
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Arlene Alda [Alda, Arlene]

VALERIE SIMPSON Pianist, singer, composer (1946– ) Both my grandmothers lived in the Bronx and had pianos, but nobody in the family could play them. That was the setup for ...
( Category: United States March 23,2015 )
Alcatraz: The Hardest Years 1934-1938 by Chandler E. F. & Chandler Roy F
mobi |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Chandler, E. F. & Chandler, Roy F. [Chandler, E. F.]

R. O. Culver in 1934 It should be re-emphasized that E. F. Chandler was a dead shot. His ability with a 30/06 Springfield rifle had been proven on numerous Army ...
( Category: United States March 22,2015 )
Parkland (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Bugliosi Vincent
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

11:00 a.m. Robert Oswald arrives at the Hotel Adolphus and finds that room 906 is a suite. A stranger answers his knock. “I’m Robert Oswald. Is my mother here?” “In ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

JAMES II OF ENGLAND/JAMES VII OF SCOTLAND and Anne Hyde 1637-1671 The prodigiously buxom and flirtatious Anne Hyde was the daughter of Edward Hyde, a Wiltshire lawyer who turned to ...
( Category: England March 22,2015 )
Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian
epub |eng | 2003-12-15 | Author:Chris Bohjalian

IT’S NOT MIND OVER MATTER—IT’S MIND OVER MANURE THIS AUTUMN I fell off a horse for the first time. I’ve been riding for three years, and so I was due. ...
( Category: United States March 22,2015 )
Lillian Alling by Susan Smith-Josephy
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Susan Smith-Josephy

Stories of a Russian Countess Dietger Hollmann, an amateur historian who followed Lillian Alling’s trail to the Atlin area in the late autumn of 1970, met with Jim Grant, owner ...
( Category: Canada March 22,2015 )

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