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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love by Barrett Duncan; Calvi Nuala
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Barrett, Duncan; Calvi, Nuala [Barrett, Duncan; Calvi, Nuala]

The next day was a Sunday, and Bob proudly showed Sylvia around the local area, all the time holding her hand and stealing kisses whenever he could. It was a ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-09-10 | Author:Daniel James Brown

I hope good Santa Claus will fill Rob’s stockings tonight, that Mildred’s, Agnes’s, and [Annie’s] may break down with good things. I do not know what he may have for ...
( Category: State & Local September 15,2014 )
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by Cooper John
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Cooper, John [Cooper, John]

Reading this letter in context, it almost rings true. The Elizabethan age praised those willing to face peril in the pursuit of fame. Berden’s work was undoubtedly dangerous, and by ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Thug: The True Story Of India's Murderous Cult by Mike Dash
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash, Mike]

My wife was still sleeping over the grave of the water carriers unconscious of what was doing or to be done. (She has often since declared that she never had ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 15,2014 )
Unlocking the Sky by Seth Shulman
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Seth Shulman

For the AEA, the path to a working airplane has been remarkably swift, with surprisingly few missteps. By December 1907, the group completed its first glider, the Cygnet, based on ...
( Category: History September 10,2014 )
The Lady In Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale Of Sex, Scandal, And Divorce by Hallie Rubenhold
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Hallie Rubenhold [Rubenhold, Hallie]

… Lady Worsley used to come to the cold bath near Maidstone to bathe, and that she [Marriott] used to attend her; that Sir Richard and Mr Bissett [sic] were ...
( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )
The Lady In Red An Eighteenth-
mobi | | | Author:Hallie Rubenhold

( Category: Great Britain September 10,2014 )
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Road Travel September 7,2014 )
The Historians of Late Antiquity by David Rohrbacher
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Rohrbacher

The bureaucracy With the exception of the army, the Roman empire had always operated with a surprisingly small number of government employees by modern standards. Tax collection and the erection ...
( Category: Rome September 6,2014 )
European Diary, 1977-1981 by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1989-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

SATURDAY, 23 DECEMBER. East Hendred. I had a fairly excited evening telephone call from Cheysson, he having seen François-Poncet for two hours that morning, who was obviously going on trying ...
( Category: Economics September 6,2014 )
Dilke by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1965-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

Chapter Twelve An Inconclusive Verdict The Case of Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke was heard before Mr. Justice Butt on Friday, February 12th. Dilke appeared with a formidable array of ...
( Category: Political September 6,2014 )
Mr Balfour's Poodle by Roy Jenkins
epub |eng | 1954-09-05 | Author:Roy Jenkins

X The King and then the People On Novemberc 10, the day of the breakdown of the Constitutional Conference, Asquith did not go to Sandringham to see the King, as ...
( Category: Great Britain September 6,2014 )
Skin 2 Skin by Beast
mobi |eng | 2014-06-27 | Author:Beast [Beast]

UPCOMING RELEASES If you enjoyed this hot little tale please be sure to leave a review. Aside from word of mouth, your reviews are my best methods of getting new ...
( Category: Holocaust September 6,2014 )
The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zacks
epub |eng | 2003-06-17 | Author:Richard Zacks [Zacks, Richard]

13. Stranded . . . with Treasure On St. Mary’s Island on June 16, 1698, the day after Culliford had sailed north, Captain Kidd found himself stranded in pirate paradise. ...
( Category: State & Local September 5,2014 )
Right Path : From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again (9780812996159) by Scarborough Joe
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Scarborough, Joe [Scarborough, Joe]

“As I began the new term,” Nixon recalled in his memoirs, “I had a sense of urgency about the need to revitalize the Republican Party lest the New Majority slip ...
( Category: Executive Branch September 5,2014 )

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