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The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Johnson Graham
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Johnson, Graham [Johnson, Graham]

CHAPTER 26 ROUND TWO 1996 THE HANDS-OFF APPROACH was common among Cartel operators. Once they had established their reputation, they could sit back and let others do the legwork without ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
The News Sorority by Sheila Weller
epub |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Sheila Weller

PART FOUR SWEEPS CHAPTER SEVEN The Cool Drink of Water Versus the Girl Next Door Diane and Katie: 1999 to 2005 DIANE SAWYER—the queen—was in play. In December 1998, Good ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 24,2014 )
Just As I Thought by Grace Paley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Grace Paley [Paley, Grace]

—1984 Of Poetry and Women and the World Our panel has a kind of odd definition, and I think the three of us have taken it to mean whatever we ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
Lincoln and the Power of the Press The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harold Holzer

Suspected of leaking the president’s 1861 annual message to the Herald: Mary Lincoln (left) and her friend “Chevalier” Henry Wikoff (right). But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 24,2014 )
People Like Us: Misrepresenting The Middle East by Joris Luyendijk
mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Joris Luyendijk

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 24,2014 )
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser
epub | | | Author:Richard Brookhiser [Brookhiser, Richard]

Eleven THE ELECTION OF 1860. THE TOWERING GENIUS (II) THE COOPER UNION ADDRESS KICKED OFF LINCOLN’S RUN for the White House; the next fourteen months were consumed with presidential politics ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor by Penny Junor
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-04 | Author:Penny Junor

TWENTY-EIGHT Community Spirit His experiment at Poundbury is by no means the first time the Prince of Wales has had an influence on government. The Department of Work and Pensions ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder by John E. Miller
epub |eng | | Author:John E. Miller

It was good advice, hard-won from a decade of learning the writing trade herself. But Rose's sincere desire to transform her mother into a more professional writer, and thereby also ...
( Category: Women November 24,2014 )
Bomb Girls--Britain's Secret Army by Jacky Hyams
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]

CHAPTER 6 LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE ‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’ Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2014 )
Lincoln and the Power of the Press by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 24,2014 )
The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Janice Hadlow

CHAPTER 11 An Intellectual Malady LIKE LORD HERVEY BEFORE HER, Fanny Burney thought the royal family had little true understanding of what it was like to be ill. ‘The fatigues ...
( Category: Great Britain November 24,2014 )
Here We Are Now by Charles R. Cross
epub |eng | | Author:Charles R. Cross

Kurt’s writing on the end of his shoe would play a small role in yet another controversy involving him. In 2006, the music publishing and marketing firm Primary Wave acquired ...
( Category: Rock November 24,2014 )
Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Buckley Veronica
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Buckley, Veronica

Christina and Azzolino swiftly became important to each other for reasons apart from their mutual love. She became politically useful to him, and he, in turn, gave her something to ...
( Category: Sweden November 24,2014 )
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]

Joan and her army set out for Reims with the dauphin and his retinue on Monday, June 27, 1429. Cravant, Bonny, Lavau, Saint-Fargeau, Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Auxerre, Saint-Florentin, Brinon, Saint-Phal: all the ...
( Category: France November 24,2014 )

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