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In the Shadow of the Noose: Mad Earl Ferrers: The Last English Nobleman Hanged for Murder by Randall Dan Alexander
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Randall, Dan Alexander [Randall, Dan Alexander]

Chapter 6 THE TRIAL, DAY TWO – THE DEFENCE ‘OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ! Lieutenant of the Tower, bring forth your prisoner, Laurence Earl Ferrers, to the bar, pursuant to the order ...
( Category: World December 27,2014 )
Nellie Taft
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Fourteen Return of the Comet I am bound to say that his [Roosevelt’s] speeches are fuller of the ego now than they were, and he allows himself to fall into ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
Beijing Bastard by Val Wang
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Val Wang

Part Four Chapter Eighteen Fifty Years Later My parents looked wordlessly around their hotel room, taking in the sagging beds and peeling paint. They had arrived a week before their ...
( Category: China December 27,2014 )
Alice, The Enigma - A Biography of Queen Victoria's Daughter by Croft Christina
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Croft, Christina [Croft, Christina]

Chapter 12 – Strength of Mind & Self-Sacrifice Paralysed by shock and bewilderment, Queen Victoria withdrew from the world, refusing to see anyone but Alice and the Duchess of Kent’s ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell by John Schofield
epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:John Schofield

PART III The King’s Chief Minister 11 The Administrator Once he had entered the king’s service, Thomas Cromwell held various offices of state. He was made master of the king’s ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by Loades David
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Loades, David [Loades, David]

7 THE FALL OF THOMAS CROMWELL, 1539–1540 Master Cromwell … you are now entered into the service of a most noble, wise and liberal prince … you shall in your ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Marquis by Laura Auricchio
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Laura Auricchio [Auricchio, Laura]

CHAPTER 15 TRIUMPH Lafayette emerged victorious from a night that could well have been his last, but the time for celebration was not yet at hand. A seasoned general, he ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
Ansel Adams by Mary Street Alinder
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Mary Street Alinder

Chapter 16: Conclusions By early 1950, Ollie, now eighty-seven years old and bedridden, was failing fast. In January, Ansel hired a night nurse for his mother so that his father, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
Now They Call Me Infidel by Nonie Darwish
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Nonie Darwish

Child rearing: American parents’ traditional upbringing standards are also very different. First of all, they instill in their children—boys and girls equally—the American values of respect, thrift, hard work, and ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism December 27,2014 )
Lady Jane Grey by Plowden Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Plowden, Alison

FIVE JANA NON REGINA Although my fault be great, and I confess it to be so, nevertheless I am charged and esteemed guilty more than I have deserved. For whereas ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Lev Golinkin [Golinkin, Lev]

Now, at Binder’s, I was forced to concede that those lessons may have been useful after all. Over and over, I muttered the alphabet, chewing on the acrid feeling of ...
( Category: Russia December 27,2014 )
Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France by Hilton Lisa
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Hilton, Lisa [Hilton, Lisa]

Chapter Eleven “Jealousy feeds on doubts, and as soon as doubt turns to certainty it becomes a frenzy, or ceases to exist.” In 1667, soon after their love affair had ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
Fields of Home by Ralph Moody
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

When I was a little boy, Mother used to sing snatches of an old song that I always liked. She only sang it when she was spinning, and never more ...
( Category: Biographical December 27,2014 )
50 Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies by Decker Kristyn
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-12 | Author:Decker, Kristyn [Decker, Kristyn]

***** It took me a while to forgive Diane and Mark again. In spite of all the hardships in our family and in those plural families all around us, Diane ...
( Category: Religious December 27,2014 )
Eugénie: The Empress & her Empire by Seward Desmond
epub |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]

( Category: France December 27,2014 )

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