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Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM by Breanne Fahs
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Breanne Fahs

THE “LOWLY TOAD” Valerie spent most of the following month directing her hostilities toward Maurice Girodias, whom she continued to portray as manipulative, cruel, self-serving, and the epitome of why ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 4,2015 )
Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President by Dan Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Dan Emmett [Emmett, Dan]

FROM CAT TO THE SHIFT When PPD absorbed CAT in 1992, everyone on CAT became members of PPD. While few of us wanted to be adopted by the detail and ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 4,2015 )
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Haleh Esfandiari [Esfandiari, Haleh]

THE BARREN YEARS: BUSH II These obstacles only multiplied during the presidency of George W. Bush. The new administration came to office believing that, as the world’s sole superpower, it ...
( Category: Women March 4,2015 )
There is No Alternative by Claire Berlinski
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Claire Berlinski

I offered Scargill the chance to reply to Kinnock’s characterization of him, but he didn’t take me up on it. Linda Sheridan, however, held forth with gusto. Dear Claire I ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Greatest Traitor by Mortimer Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

* On the day of the coronation the Scots had launched an exploratory raid on Norham Castle. They had been beaten back, but in March the court was informed by ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Living in Hope and History by Nadine Gordimer
epub |eng | 1999-03-03 | Author:Nadine Gordimer

HEROES AND VILLAINS Pascale, my French granddaughter, aged four and enraged at not getting her own way, would shriek at her mother, ‘Vilaine!’ It seems to me there’s something both ...
( Category: African March 4,2015 )
Everything is Wonderful by Sigrid Rausing
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Sigrid Rausing

( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
Put on by Cunning
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rendell, Ruth [Rendell, Ruth]

Part Two 12 The will, published in the Kingsmarkham Courier, as well as in the national press, showed Sir Manuel Camargue to have left the sum of £1,146,000 net. This ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 4,2015 )
The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mike Ashley

NC. JORVIK (YORK) Jorvik, the Danish kingdom of York, was essentially the same as the old Saxon kingdom of Deira in Northumbria (see page 269). From 910 the kingdom was ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub, pdf | | 2015-03-02 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Ronald Susan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Ronald, Susan [Ronald, Susan]

For the time being, Elizabeth and her Councillors were blissfully unaware that Pius V had proclaimed his papal fatwa on England’s queen. In February 1570, word had reached them of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
1536 by Lipscomb Suzannah
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Schofield John
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Schofield, John [Schofield, John]

1 Foxe 5, pp. 376–8, 384; ET, p. 10 = OL 1, p. 15. 2 LP 10, no. 942. 3 Elton: Policy pp. 244–5; Merriman 2, pp. 111–13; Burnet 4, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Ives Eric
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-19 | Author:Ives, Eric [Ives, Eric]

So far the theme appears classical, but the relevant Vergil passage had been understood ever since the fourth century to refer to the advent of the Blessed Virgin, the mother ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Catherine Howard by Smith Lacey Baldwin
mobi |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Smith, Lacey Baldwin [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Harry With the Crown’ Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Heads had fallen, the international scene had been confounded, and the world cynically speculated upon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )

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