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Four Sisters of Hofei : A History (9781439125878) by Chin Annping
epub |eng | | Author:Chin, Annping

YUN-HO Yun-ho (left), with Yuan-ho, when she was a college student in Shanghai. WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, Yun-ho did not like love scenes in an opera, or scenes with ...
( Category: China December 27,2014 )
Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay Janet Lloyd & Paul Cartledge
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd & Paul Cartledge

FIGURE 9. Ostraka of Cimon (ca. 462 B.C.). From S. Brenne, 1994, “Ostraka and the Process of Ostrakophoria,” in W.D.E. Coulson et al., eds., The Archaeology of Athens and Attica ...
( Category: Greece December 27,2014 )
Meet You in Hell
epub |eng | 2005-04-17 | Author:Les Standiford

15 OVER THE EDGE HAD THIS BEEN A MODERN-DAY standoff, with Frick in close touch with his emissaries by cell phone and Carnegie observing the scene via CNN satellite feed, ...
( Category: Company Profiles December 27,2014 )
The Roosevelts by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A Manhattan bread line operated by the Salvation Army. By 1931 there were 82 bread lines in New York, serving some 85,000 meals a day to those who had no ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Cherry by Sara Wheeler
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sara Wheeler

After a glorious rail journey on his own up through Harbin to Siberia and across central Russia, Cherry arrived home on 10 May to find The Times sprouting with stories ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 27,2014 )
Beverly Hills Confidential : A Century of Stars, Scandals and Murders by Schroeder Barbara & Clark Fogg
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Schroeder, Barbara & Clark, Fogg [Schroeder, Barbara & Clark, Fogg]

The murder took place at the Hayden Home at 817 North Whittier Drive Samuel Hayden and his new wife Ann were victims of a burglary in their new home; perpetrators ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Epidemic by David DeKok
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:David DeKok

Schurman’s troubles were far from over. As jubilant as he had a right to feel in fixing the deal for the filtration plant, he still had to win the battle ...
( Category: Infectious Disease December 27,2014 )
A Writer's Life by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

19 AS I DROVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN SELMA ONTO HIGHWAY 80 toward the Holiday Inn, which was where I and most of the out-of-town media who were here for the silver ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Secrets My Mother Kept by Hardy Kath
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Hardy, Kath [Hardy, Kath]

27 My Secret Sister We had the phone connected when I was about seventeen and it had been a revelation. No more going to the phone box! Aunty was wary ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Lion of Liberty
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

Chapter 11 A Belgian Hare When the Virginia legislature reconvened in Richmond, British depredations had left fewer than 300 homes standing, and the depleted population was unable to offer legislators ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 27,2014 )
All in One Basket by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire]

The Organ Recital When two or three old people are gathered together in the name of lunch, you can be sure of the subject of conversation to start the ball ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Unto the Sons by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

25. The surprise attack that killed Muffo, Branca, and two other soldiers in Antonio’s unit and injured half a dozen more was one of many setbacks suffered by Italian reconnaissance ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Princesses by Flora Fraser
epub |eng | 2004-12-26 | Author:Flora Fraser

12 Passion Princess Amelia’s passion for General Fitzroy continued to rage, her open assertions of it causing difficulties in a household where feelings might run deep but were customarily confided ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Death of a King by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Tavis Smiley

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...
( Category: Civil Rights & Liberties December 27,2014 )

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