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The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It by John W. Dean
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:John W. Dean [Dean, John W.]

April 15, 1973, the White House Because the president had stayed up late talking with Bebe, he slept in on Sunday morning. When Kleindienst tried to phone him at 8:41 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 22,2014 )
Dry Divide by Ralph Moody
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

10 Bamboozling Bones BY the end of our second week we were so far along that there was no doubt of our finishing the harvest with time to spare. When ...
( Category: Westerns September 22,2014 )
Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address by Levin Jack E
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Levin, Jack E. [Levin, Jack E.]

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 22,2014 )
Un Mundo Sin Fin by Follett Ken
epub | | 2009-11-08 | Author:Follett, Ken [Ken, Follett,]

Salieron de la botica. Aunque la cámara que la albergaba lindaba con la biblioteca, para acceder a ésta tuvieron que atravesar el claustro de las monjas y el de los ...
( Category: Political September 18,2014 )
First Muslim : The Story of Muhammad (9781101602003) by Hazleton Lesley
mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Hazleton, Lesley [Hazleton, Lesley]

Fourteen The Battle of Badr was fought on March 17, 624, and if it was not quite what Muhammad had sought, it would turn out to be exactly what he ...
( Category: Islam September 18,2014 )
Blood Sisters : The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses (9780465038688) by Gristwood Sarah
epub |eng | | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Elizabeth Woodville must have known the Princes were dead, or she would never have gone along with a plan to marry her daughter Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
Blood Sisters : The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Gristwood Sarah
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

John Talbot, in his Garter robes, presents a copy of the beautifully illustrated Shrewsbury Book to Marguerite of Anjou, shown hand in hand with her new husband, Henry VI. Daisies—Marguerite’s ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
Black Count : Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (9780307952950) by Reiss Tom
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
The Black Count : Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Reiss Tom
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Reiss, Tom [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: France September 18,2014 )
Man Without a Face : The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (9781101560600) by Gessen Masha
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Gessen, Masha [Gessen, Masha]

I WAS ALREADY GONE, having taken the job at U.S. News & World Report the previous summer. Before I started, I had flown to the Black Sea for a short ...
( Category: Russia September 18,2014 )
One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Chris Ballard

Thursday morning dawned blessedly clear. At 1 P.M., the boys fled class and headed for the bus, playing cards on the hour-long ride to Champaign Central High. Located two miles ...
( Category: State & Local September 18,2014 )
Anne Neville by Michael Hicks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower by Hancock Peter A
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by Ashdown-Hill John
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses by Santiuste David
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )

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