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The Lost Girls by D. J. Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:D. J. Taylor

If the world through which the Lost Girls wandered was one of living for the moment, of sexual recklessness and social opportunism, then there were other ways in which it ...
( Category: World War II February 6,2020 )
Letters from the Front: J. Gresham Machen's Correspondence from World War 1 by Waugh Barry
epub |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Waugh, Barry [Waugh, Barry]

August 1, 1918 My dearest Mother: When I give you a little outline of my daily life and at the same time tell you that I am now alone in ...
( Category: Letters February 6,2020 )
Run Run Run by Jack Hoffman & DANIEL SIMON
epub |eng | 2019-11-15 | Author:Jack Hoffman & DANIEL SIMON

In January 1972, I’d received a call from Mark Solomon, a Simmons College professor and Shirley Chisholm adviser. Mark wanted to know if I would consider running as a delegate ...
( Category: Radicalism February 5,2020 )
The End of the Habsburgs by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:John Van der Kiste [Kiste, John Van der]

7 ‘He no longer understands the times’ Between Emperor Francis Joseph and his nephew, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, since 1896 also his heir, relations were civil but never close. They became ...
( Category: Royalty February 5,2020 )
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jessica Simpson [Jessica Simpson]

13 The Gilded Cage Spring 2005 We sat in the living room on a rare afternoon home together. By then, it wasn’t often that we were even in the same ...
( Category: Country & Folk February 5,2020 )
You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Alexis Coe

* * * As an adult, Washington had often proved to be a negligent son, and the busy spring and summer of 1789 were no exception. By the time Betty ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 5,2020 )
New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters by Paul D. Gardner
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Paul D. Gardner

JOB Job is the central character of the book of Job. The book recounts his experiences through the most terrible troubles and sufferings in life. Who he was or when ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias February 3,2020 )
Japan by Edwin Reischauer
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Edwin Reischauer

Japanese intellectuals have always drawn a sharp distinction between the early reforming years of the occupation, of which they in general approved, and the occupation’s later years, when a 180-degree ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions January 31,2020 )
Augustine's "Confessions by Wills Garry
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Wills, Garry

( Category: Ancient & Classical January 29,2020 )
Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
epub |eng | | Author:Kim Ghattas

Egypt’s famous filmmaker Youssef Chahine believed that religious fundamentalism was alien to Egyptians and described it as a “black wave” from the Gulf: “The Egyptian has always been a very ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 29,2020 )
Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President by Fulsom Don
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Fulsom, Don [Fulsom, Don]

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 29,2020 )
Angler by Barton Gellman
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Barton Gellman

Losses were not always permanent for the vice president. Nor were they obvious, because Cheney cloaked them in loyal public support. He stepped aside when Bush felt strongly, swallowing disagreements ...
( Category: United States January 29,2020 )
Mengele by David G. Marwell
epub |eng | 2019-11-10 | Author:David G. Marwell

Meeting in May Our May meeting in Frankfurt came three months after the attorney general had ordered the investigation. Much had happened in that time: two Senate hearings in the ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2020 )
My War Criminal by Jessica Stern
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Jessica Stern

NOTES 1.Serbian Epics, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, documentary (BBC Films, 1992). 2.Robert J. Donia, Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 34. 3.Marc Bennetts, ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals January 29,2020 )
Kobe Bryant by Belmont & Belcourt Biographies
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Belmont & Belcourt Biographies [Biographies, Belmont & Belcourt]

The Arrest Eagle County Sheriff investigators first confronted Bryant with the sexual assault accusation on July 2. During the July 2003 interview with investigators, Bryant stated that the sex was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 28,2020 )

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