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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Timothy Egan

FEAST FOR BIBLIOPHILE REMARKABLE WORK ON RED MAN OF AMERICA That was a Washington Post headline of a story touting “one of the most remarkable and expensive publications ever planned.” ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Houses of the Presidents: Childhood Homes, Family Dwellings, Private Escapes, and Grand Estates by Hugh Howard & Roger Straus
mobi, azw, pdf |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Hugh Howard & Roger Straus

was ever his confidante, either.” He was variously described by trusted colleagues as “the most complicated human being I have ever known” and as possessed of a “thickly forested interior.” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Elizabeth Hand

15 We walked back most of the way without talking. We were both pretty loaded; it took most of our energy just to keep our footing in the icy mist. ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 25,2014 )
Frost/Nixon by David Frost
mobi |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:David Frost

( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Alan Lomax by John Szwed
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:John Szwed

When Pete Seeger returned from the war he was on fire with ideas about changing the world through song. With the help of Alan, John Hammond, Oscar Brand, the remaining ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 25,2014 )
The Anatomist by Bill Hayes
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Bill Hayes

The topmost takes its name, as tendons tend to, from the muscle from which it emerges, the flexor digitorum superficialis, located way up in the forearm. This muscle also has ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
Freedom Riders by Arsenault Raymond
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Arsenault, Raymond

7 Freedom’s Coming and It Won’t Be Long We took a trip on a Greyhound bus, Freedom’s coming and it won’t be long. To fight segregation where we must, Freedom’s ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Krishnamurti's Notebook by Jiddu Krishnamurti
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-14 | Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]

27th Several of us were chanting and singing; learning new chants and songs; the room overlooked the garden that was with great difficulty maintained as there was little water; the ...
( Category: Meditation March 25,2014 )
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Dan Jones

War on All Fronts The sea routes across the English Channel and along the Atlantic coast of France were major trading arteries during the thirteenth century, as merchants from the ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
A Renegade History of the United States by Russell Thaddeus
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Russell, Thaddeus [Russell, Thaddeus]

FROM NERO TO BIANCO Despite his popularity, by the height of his career, Louis Prima was part of a dying breed. In 1906 an Italian government official named Luigi Villari ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
epub |eng | 2012-11-18 | Author:Deborah Rodriguez [Rodriguez, Deborah]

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, Therefore, not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, That is illumination of heart. A loud crash ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Gus Russo [Russo, Gus]

Other Outfit members had maintained a presence in the Cuban paradise. As captured in photos in extant family albums, Curly Humphreys had been traveling with his family to Cuba at ...
( Category: Midwest March 25,2014 )
Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Global Crisis by Parker Geoffrey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Parker, Geoffrey [Parker, Geoffrey]

16 Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan1 The Pax Tokugawa EARLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE FOREMOST JAPANESE CHRONICLER of his day rejoiced that ‘In this age, there are none ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Cold War by Priscilla Roberts
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Priscilla Roberts [Roberts, Priscilla]

The Olympians warm up on three relatively routine games: negotiations for a disarmament treaty; simultaneous crises in Berlin and Cuba; and turmoil in the Middle East. The games introduce the ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )

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