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Personal Impressions by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Lee Hermione Annan Noel
epub |eng | 2014-03-07 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Lee, Hermione, Annan, Noel

1 Principal representative of the British Treasury in Washington 1944–6. 1 [i.e. her pronunciation of his name ended with a soft Russian ‘r’, the Russian soft sign ь being indicated ...
( Category: Authors March 8,2015 )
The Book of Job by Harold S. Kushner
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Harold S. Kushner [Kushner, Harold S.]

Job’s Plea for a Redeemer: Chapter 19 Job responds to Bildad in chapter 19 in an outburst that is more despairing than anything we have yet heard from him. This ...
( Category: Religious March 7,2015 )
Her Majesty by Robert Hardman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Hardman

* Some have accused Blair of breaking the code of secrecy surrounding the meetings of monarch and Prime Minister by describing them in his memoirs. But there are no complaints ...
( Category: Great Britain March 6,2015 )
The Philosophical Life by James Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:James Miller [Miller, James]

ROUSSEAU Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, terra-cotta, by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828). The most renowned sculptor of his day, Houdon was allowed to make a death mask as the basis for this ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The King in the North by Max Adam Max Adams
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Widow Clicquot (P.S.) by Mazzeo Tilar J
mobi |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Mazzeo, Tilar J. [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

After her stunning coup in Russia, Barbe-Nicole discovered that she had a new set of problems. Increasingly, it was production that worried her. With Louis in Saint Petersburg capitalizing on ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

Isabella decided that she would exercise the duties of a regent, even though the title and recognition had been withheld. Mortimer and Adam of Orleton had been given places on ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

After her stunning coup in Russia, Barbe-Nicole discovered that she had a new set of problems. Increasingly, it was production that worried her. With Louis in Saint Petersburg capitalizing on ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Henry Wiencek

12 The Double Aspect Mary Hemings Bell had the good fortune, and the misfortune, to be a Hemings. As a Hemings, she had autonomy, which allowed her to leave Monticello ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 4,2015 )
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Francisco Goldman [Goldman, Francisco]

7 Interior Circuit Redux IN FEBRUARY 2013, Jovi suddenly left me. Throughout the fall of 2012 and into the winter of 2013, I’d flown regularly, sometimes on a weekly basis, ...
( Category: Mexico March 4,2015 )
Mitterrand by Philip Short
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Philip Short [Philip Short]

* * * fn1 Mitterrand confessed years later that he put the codes in his jacket pocket and promptly forgot about them, remembering their existence only the next day when ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
These Few Precious Days by Christopher Andersen
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Christopher Andersen [Christopher Andersen]

BY MID-MAY, JACKIE FELT SHE had earned the right to flee to Virginia—ostensibly to indulge her true passion by competing in the Loudoun Hunt horse show. In truth, she was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2015 )
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Caro Robert A
epub |eng | 1975-03-03 | Author:Caro, Robert A

Other reformers would later describe their overriding emotion at Moses' philosophy and tactics as "shock." They had no justification for such an emotion. There was nothing new about that philosophy ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
The Real Custer by James S Robbins
epub |eng | | Author:James S Robbins [Robbins, James S.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE COURT-MARTIAL The Custers arrived at Fort Riley in late October 1866 to join the newly formed 7th Cavalry regiment. George was disappointed at not being named regimental commander; ...
( Category: American Civil War March 4,2015 )

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