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Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Seventeen PATRICIA STEPHENS DUE “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” —Bondei proverb I had just been arrested again when I heard about the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2014 )
The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Aharon Appelfeld [Appelfeld, Aharon]

18 I TURN THE PAGES of my old diary. They are a yellowish-green, some have stuck together, and my uneven handwriting is already blurred. For many years the diary lay ...
( Category: Holocaust October 29,2014 )
Idyll Banter (2003) by Bohjalian Chris
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Bohjalian, Chris [Chris, Bohjalian,]

The veterinarians, Dr. Ross Prezant and Dr. Steven Metz, diagnosed the problem right away: egg jam. A cockatiel egg is roughly as big as a good-sized marble, which isn't big ...
( Category: United States October 28,2014 )
The Dog Who Could Fly by Damien Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:Damien Lewis

Thirteen Robert trained Antis never to cross the runway or approach one of their Wellington bombers when the engines were running—crucial for a dog on duty. Having watched his master ...
( Category: Great Britain October 27,2014 )
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace by Leon Panetta & Jim Newton
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Leon Panetta & Jim Newton [Panetta, Leon]

• • • Less than a week after the Christmas Day attempt, we were hit again, this time with much more tragic results. Throughout the fall of 2009, CTC had ...
( Category: Executive Branch October 27,2014 )
Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema by Anne Helen Petersen
mobi |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Anne Helen Petersen [Petersen, Anne Helen]

VOLUME FIVE BROKEN BY THE SYSTEM At the peak of the studio system, Hollywood stardom was engineered to be every girl’s fantasy: the glamour, the clothes, the handsome costars. And ...
( Category: State & Local October 27,2014 )
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Rosenfeld Seth
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Rosenfeld, Seth

24 A Key Activist Mario and Suzanne Savio loaded their seventeen-month-old son, Stefan, and their bags into their secondhand station wagon and drove away from Berkeley. Savio had been struggling ...
( Category: State & Local October 27,2014 )
1941 by Slavko Goldstein
epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Slavko Goldstein [Goldstein, Slavko]

Kušan believes that Pavičić signed this “Obligation” to save his life and to gain his freedom, not to work for the UDBA. However, the new government in Croatia in 1990–1991 ...
( Category: Holocaust October 27,2014 )
Affection and Trust by Truman Harry S
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Truman, Harry S [Truman, Harry S]

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (The Politically Incorrect Guides) by McClanahan Brion
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 27,2014 )
The Real Benjamin Franklin by Allison Andrew M
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

If the communication be through the air without any conductor, a bright light is seen between the bodies, and a sound is heard. In our small experiments we call this ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Cheney Dick
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Cheney, Dick [Cheney, Dick]

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
The Real George Washington by Allison Andrew M
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

By common agreement, at first the text of the treaty was kept secret. But then a disgruntled Virginia Senator leaked it to the press, triggering an explosive public uproar. How ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
The Jefferson Lies by Barton David
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese. Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
A Time to Betray by Kahlili Reza
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Kahlili, Reza [Kahlili, Reza]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 27,2014 )

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