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The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice De Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll by Paul Spicer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Paul Spicer [Spicer, Paul]

Eight The Return to Happy Valley WHENEVER ALICE ARRIVED IN NAIROBI FROM EUROPE, it was her habit to go immediately to stay with Joss and Idina at Slains. But this ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Mark Lee Gardner

WITHIN A WEEK OF killing the Kid, Garrett threatened to resign as sheriff of Lincoln County. The job did not pay well, he explained at the time, and he did ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid by Pat Garrett
epub | | | Author:Pat Garrett

Chapter XIV * Nabbed Again—Handwriting on the Wall—Another Escape—Defying the Sheriff—Kills a Texas Desperado —The Kid as a Financier—Promiscuous Horse and Cattle Stealing LEAVING LINCOLN AFTER his interview with Evans, ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
For the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Simon Baatz

WHILE ROBERT CROWE AND CLARENCE Darrow each argued his case in the pages of the Chicago newspapers, a novel proposition, one that neither side had anticipated, suddenly elbowed its way ...
( Category: Jazz March 26,2014 )
Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue & Susan Schindehette
epub |eng | | Author:Roger L. Depue & Susan Schindehette [DEPUE, ROGER]

If there was one area that fascinated me about homicidal sexual predators, it was how key fantasy was to their development and the evolution of their crimes. In time, we ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Brendan I. Koerner [Koerner, Brendan I.]

FLIGHT 364 WAS now so close to Maison Blanche Airport that Holder could make out the beaches along the Mediterranean, still full of bathers soaking up the day’s last rays ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David Herlihy
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David Herlihy [Herlihy, David]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling March 26,2014 )
Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers by Lee Sandlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...
( Category: Weather March 26,2014 )
Two Rings by Millie Werber
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Millie Werber [Werber, Millie]

8 THE WORST PART WAS THE RATS. I WAS PETRIFIED THAT they were going to eat my eyes. Several days after the Noremburskys’ escape, a man I knew came into ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-Exiled Jew by Thomas R. Nevin
epub |eng | 1991-03-15 | Author:Thomas R. Nevin [Nevin, Thomas R.]

In her vigorous partisanship for the oppressed, how could she have ignored the tsedeka of the Deuteronomic laws, their compassionate justice extended to foreigners and slaves, proofs of a far ...
( Category: Women in History March 26,2014 )
Clara's War by Clara Kramer
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Clara Kramer [Kramer, Clara]

It was our third sleepless night since the fight. We had run out of food and water. We sat in such lethargy that despite the heat we barely remembered to ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy by Eric Lamet
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Eric Lamet [Lamet, Eric]

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...
( Category: Philosophers March 26,2014 )
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Julia P. Gelardi [Gelardi, Julia P.]

For the normally indefatigable Marie of Romania, the task of rallying those around her proved daunting. In mid-December 1916, she confessed in her diary that many were coming to her, ...
( Category: Russia March 26,2014 )
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-04 | Author:Michael Patrick MacDonald [MacDonald, Michael Patrick]

C H A P T E R 6 A U G U S T I ALMOST GOT SHOT LAST NIGHT,” JOE LAUGHED, CRAWLING out of bed for another Saturday morning ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Fortunately the King's strong constitution triumphed, and he was soon up and about again. He would never, however, be a fit man afterwards. The old wound on his leg had ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )

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