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The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon by Brian Thompson
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-04-15 | Author:Brian Thompson

2 Once Gounod was gone, the degree to which their financial affairs had mingled became apparent. A fortnight after he took his farewells of her at Charing Cross, repeatedly begging ...
( Category: Women December 27,2014 )
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown by Ridgway Claire
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Ridgway, Claire [Ridgway, Claire]

Sir Francis Bryan Sir Francis Bryan is thought to have been born around 1490 and was the first surviving son of Sir Thomas Bryan. His mother was Lady Margaret Bryan ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Blood Aces by Doug Swanson
epub |eng | 2014-07-20 | Author:Doug Swanson

Benny, Teddy Jane, and the children, along with some friends, out for a night on the Strip. 16 “NO WAY TO DUCK” Believe in justice. But spell it “Just Us.” ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 27,2014 )
King's Cross Kid by Victor Gregg
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Victor Gregg

At the time I was knocking around with a trio of lads who had left school at the same time as me. We liked hanging around Greek Street and Old ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz

CHAPTER TWENTY THESE DEEDS OF BLOOD Hands Deformed by Gout To anyone who saw him in the early 1850s, Mütter still seemed the picture of health. Now entering his early ...
( Category: General Surgery December 27,2014 )
The Phoenix Land by Miklos Banffy
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Miklos Banffy [Miklós Bánffy]

Notes 64. Where Bánffy owned some farmland. 65. The ancestral palace of the Esterházys at Galanta seems to be one of the models for the fictional castle of ‘Jablanka’, which ...
( Category: Europe December 27,2014 )
The Great Agnostic by Susan Jacoby & Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Susan Jacoby & Susan Jacoby

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
Redeemers by Enrique Krauze
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Enrique Krauze

Popular Icons 6 Eva Perón THE MADONNA OF THE SHIRTLESS ONES Thinkers and politicians through the ages have long been aware that politics is a kind of theater, but after ...
( Category: History & Theory December 27,2014 )
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Stangneth Bettina
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Stangneth, Bettina [Stangneth, Bettina]

In Argentina in 1957, Eichmann and Alvensleben were bound by more than just a shared admiration for Heinrich Himmler. As they fled Germany, they had both used identity papers produced ...
( Category: Germany December 27,2014 )
First Ladies by Margaret Truman
epub |eng | 1995-12-26 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

Here Lady Bird relaxes in a field of bluebonnets, reminding us she was the First Lady who revitalized America’s love of natural beauty. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library) Lady Bird personally ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss
epub |eng | 1954-12-26 | Author:Helen Doss [Doss, Helen]

CHAPTER 9 Farmers in the Dell WHEN we moved to Forestville, we were too busy to think about putting in a garden, especially with the extra church work at first, ...
( Category: Marriage & Family December 27,2014 )
The Bolter by Osborne Frances
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Osborne, Frances [Osborne, Frances]

And then, exactly one year after Idina had brought Joss to Kenya, after just about the length of time her marriage to Charles Gordon had lasted there, Idina discovered she ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Titanic's Last Hero by Adams Moody
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Adams, Moody [Adams, Moody]

Photo of John Dick CHAPTER 4 HE ROSE FROM THE RANKS OF THE WORKING MEN Tribute by Pastor John Dick Paisley Road Baptist Church, Glasgow, Scotland Reclaimed drunkards, gamblers, prize ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen by Seward Desmond
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

11 The Lost Years ‘Foolish woman, thou art now like a firebrand that hath kindled others and burnt thyself.’ Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore ‘O sovereign mistress of true ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
The Bookseller of Kabul
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

The three boys have been driving for a couple of hours when they catch up with the backlog of pilgrims. The queue is immovable. It has started to snow. Fog ...
( Category: Operation Desert Storm December 27,2014 )

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