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Papillon by Henri Charriere
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henri Charriere [Charriere, Henri]

The great door of the Réclusion opened to let us through. Escorted by one guard, we walked slowly down the path that led to the camp. The sea lay below ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
One Generation After by Elie Wiesel
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

THE END OF A REVOLUTIONARY Somewhere, far away: noisy streets, crowded with people strolling and laughing, with window-shoppers and policemen. And much ado. About nothing. Aimless shouting and calling. And ...
( Category: Holocaust March 26,2014 )
Stilwell & the American Experience in China 1911-45 by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Monica Wood [Wood, Monica]

I slip over to the Vaillancourts’ as often as I can, where Denise and I sit on the whaleback of grass that passes for her front yard, planning stakeouts or ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
J. R. R. Tolkien: a biography by Humphrey Carpenter
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-06 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Part Five 1925-194900: The Third Age Enter Mr Baggins Really that missing piece had been there all the time. It was the Suffield side of his own personality. His deep ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
epub, mobi |ukr | 2008-11-04 | Author:Claire Tomalin [Tomalin, Claire]

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Marmee & Louisa by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

Chapter Thirteen The Bitter Drop in This Cup I never began the year in a stranger place than this,” Louisa scribbled on the first page of her new journal on ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roger Angell [Angell, Roger]

We raced the next day and I did well. Not a win but maybe another one of the little red cotton burgees they handed out in those days—red for second—or ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-15 | Author:Mary S. Lovell [Lovell, Mary S.]

14 Irreconcilable Differences (1940–41) Although in the brief telephone conversation Unity sounded normal it was obvious from what Janos told them that she was far from well. The family learned ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-08 | Author:John Richardson [Richardson, John]

Above: Picabia, Olga, Picasso, and Germaine Everling at Château de Mai, 1925. Photograph by Poupard-Lieussou. Left: Picabia. Mardi Gras (The Kiss), 1925. Ripolin on canvas, 92×73 cm. Private collection. Picabia ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 26,2014 )
The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds by Langley Philippa & Jones Michael
epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Langley, Philippa & Jones, Michael [Langley, Philippa]

8 Richard as King ON 26 JUNE 1483, the first day of his reign, Richard III seated himself on the marble throne of the Court of the King’s Bench in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-03-25 | Author:Michael Lang

ALAN DOUGLAS: I kept pushing him—“Michael, we’ve got to get started”—so it was about two weeks before the festival was to begin and there was no film deal yet. Although ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues March 26,2014 )
Da Vinci's Ghost by Lester Toby
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lester, Toby [Lester, Toby]

IT WAS THE moment Leonardo had been waiting for. “When fortune comes,” he would write in about 1490, “seize her firmly by the forelock, for she is bald at the ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro [Ishiguro, Kazuo]

It had not, in the end, been a difficult task to discover Kuroda’s whereabouts. The art professor at Uemachi College, once I had assured him of my good intentions, had ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Age of Revolution 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

III However, the economic development of this period contains one gigantic paradox: France. On paper no country should have advanced more rapidly. It possessed, as we have seen, institutions ideally ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )

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