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When Pride Still Mattered by Maraniss David
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-10-07 | Author:Maraniss, David [Maraniss, David]

16 A Night at the Elks MYTH BECOMES MYTH not in the living but in the retelling. The Lombardi myth grew less on the field of City Stadium when his ...
( Category: Football June 23,2014 )
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Meade Marion
mobi |eng | 2009-07-28 | Author:Meade, Marion [Meade, Marion]

“OH KING,” Gene wrote in a telegram to Art and Gladys Ficke, “we accept your royal invitation with servile brow in the dust but elated legs in the air. Oh ...
( Category: Women June 21,2014 )
State of Pursuit by Summer Lane
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Summer Lane

Chapter Ten The Holding Center. It looks exactly like the picture Alexander showed us. It sits on the corner of a boulevard in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a basic jail ...
( Category: Historical June 20,2014 )
India After Gandhi
mobi |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

( Category: India June 20,2014 )
Women and Children First by Francine Prose
epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Francine Prose [Prose, Francine]

She reads through the list again. She puts down the phone. She thinks: I have nothing to tell him that isn’t about animals. Electricity ANITA SAILS THE BABY over her ...
( Category: Historical June 9,2014 )
Sufferings in Africa by Captain James Riley
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-16 | Author:Captain James Riley

CHAPTER XVII. Some fresh fish are procured—they pass several small walled villages, and meet with robbers on horseback NEAR evening we met and passed a man driving an ass laden ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 7,2014 )
The Lady Penelope by Varlow Sally
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Varlow, Sally [Varlow, Sally]

CHAPTER TWENTY January–December 1596 “With best forewinds guide the journey, speed the victory” – Elizabeth I, 3 June 1596 Essex’s daring raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz in the ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
Two Americans by William Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:William Lee Miller [Miller, William Lee]

Eisenhower’s version of containment contrasted itself to Truman’s by claiming to have a new approach, a New Look, at the core of which was a greater reliance on nuclear weapons ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 6,2014 )
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Kati Marton [Marton, Kati]

* * * * Peter had been ABC News anchor once before, in the sixties, before he was ready for it. It was then that he began his apprenticeship as ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
Rascals in Paradise by James A. Michener & A. Grove Day
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener & A. Grove Day [Michener, James A. & Day, A. Grove]

* Actually the Quirós report was apparently set down by a young poet, Luis de Belmonte Bermudez, who acted as the Chief Pilot’s amanuensis aboard ship. 7 Bully Hayes, South ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 6,2014 )
Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

May ended as badly as it began for Wilbur and Orville. On the twenty-ninth of that month, Glenn Curtiss completed the first true cross-country flight in the United States and ...
( Category: Scientists June 6,2014 )
Mrs. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon
epub |eng | | Author:Meryl Gordon [Gordon, Meryl]

As Annette de la Renta headed out the door after a visit at 778 Park, she asked Pearline Noble what she could bring for Mrs. Astor the next time. "A ...
( Category: Women June 6,2014 )
Barbra by Andersen Christopher
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Andersen, Christopher [Andersen, Christopher]

A few days after Jason’s bar mitzvah, Barbra flew to New York B A R B R A 2 7 1 and was soon seen out on the town with ...
( Category: Home Repair June 6,2014 )
Between Two Evils by Lucyna B. Radlo
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Lucyna B. Radlo

14 Obshchina Soon after our arrival in Regensburg, we were told of a Russkaya obshchina (Russian community center), which was housed in that city in a rented German Gasthaus (restaurant) ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2014 )
spain 1808 by carr
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )

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