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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Lisa See

I believe you show very poor taste in telling people how little you’ve always had and how you’ve sometimes not had enough to eat. Anyone knowing the family knows better ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Mortimer Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

poultry (8s) nineteen acres of wheat (£27 10s) three horses (£6 10s) four acres of rye (£5) six pigs (£2 13s 4d) thirty-two acres of barley (£32) eight cows (£16) ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight We left Bearddan Igge in a thick fog just two mornings after Saint Oswald had been so miraculously discovered entangled in the fish trap. One hundred and thirty-three men ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-21 | Author:Eric Metaxas [Metaxas, Eric]

CHAPTER 20 MARS ASCENDING 1938 Confirmands today are like young soldiers marching to war, the war of Jesus Christ against the gods of this world. It is a war that ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Faithful by Stephen King
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

Benoit’s thrown okay as well, but in the fifth Johnny hooks one around the Pesky Pole, and while Benoit gets the next three guys, they all hit the ball hard. ...
( Category: Baseball March 25,2014 )
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Brooks Max
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-12 | Author:Brooks, Max [Brooks, Max]

Always? You wanna talk about being alone in a hostile environment, try my four years at Colorado Springs. But there were other women… Other cadets, other competitors who happen to ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
Chiefs by Stuart Woods
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-07-05 | Author:Stuart Woods [Woods, Stuart]

11 FOXY FUNDERBURKE woke about nine and took his time about rising, as was his custom. When he had shaved and dressed, he went to the kitchen, looking forward to ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST. Lord Roberts never showed his self-command and fixed purpose more clearly than during his six weeks' halt at Bloemfontein. De Wet, the most ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature March 25,2014 )
Drop City by T. C. Boyle
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:T. C. Boyle

“Sess!” Skid Denton was shouting over the uproar, waving a full shot glass as if he were proposing a toast. “Where’d you find these freaks, anyway—the Ringling Brothers’ circus?” “And ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:J.K. Rowling

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO— The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and Ron ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln by Lincoln Abraham
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in extent of territory, and equal in the number of people, wherein is ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]

Signs of that change were everywhere—in the bouquets of flowers and gushing letters that arrived daily from female admirers; in the stares he drew from other prisoners whenever he stepped ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 25,2014 )
Decision Points by George W. Bush
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-12-01 | Author:George W. Bush

On Sunday morning, March 16, I boarded Air Force One and winged my way to the Azores Islands, a Portuguese territory about two thirds of the way from Washington to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Remnick

The killing of Fred Hampton initiated the decline of the Black Panthers but became an emblematic moment in the history of race relations in Chicago. The murder thrust Bobby Rush, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

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