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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship With Jackie by Carly Simon
epub |eng | 2019-10-22 | Author:Carly Simon [Carly Simon]

* * * THE DAY AFTER the memorable night at Kay’s, the First Family came to my house for lunch. It was planned at the very last minute, and the ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 17,2019 )
To the Heights: A Novel Based on the Life of Pier Giorgio Frassati by Brian Kennelly
epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Brian Kennelly [Kennelly, Brian]

19 Combating the Black Shirts The final days of October, 1922 changed the fate of all Italians when the Fascists, led by Benito Mussolini, seized control of the government during ...
( Category: Saints December 17,2019 )
Penny Wong by Simons Margaret;
epub |eng | | Author:Simons, Margaret;

10 PENNY WONG FAILS TO SAVE THE WORLD (PART 2: CLIMATE CHANGE) One image of Penny Wong has fixed in the minds of journalists who reported on the United Nations ...
( Category: Political December 17,2019 )
Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien
epub |eng | | Author:Tim O'Brien

33 Home School Our lesson for today is titled “Outrage.” The bullet points for discussion are these: If you support a war, go to it. Unless, of course, you support ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 17,2019 )
This All-at-Onceness by Wittes Schlack Julie
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Wittes Schlack, Julie

I was fifteen at a time when the pace of change was fantastically condensed, like the kind of time-lapse movies we were shown in science class. But instead of budding ...
( Category: Political December 17,2019 )
Me Elton John by Elton John
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Elton John [Elton John]

* * * In December 1983 we went back to Montserrat. Too Low for Zero had been a huge hit, the biggest album I’d made for nearly a decade – ...
( Category: Jazz December 17,2019 )
I Leap Over the Wall by Monica Baldwin
epub |eng | 2014-12-16 | Author:Monica Baldwin [Monica Baldwin]

Next day I reported what had happened. I was told that the authorities were ‘doing everything that they could to prevent such incidents.’ During the afternoon I looked in to ...
( Category: Church Institutions & Organizations December 17,2019 )
Royal Bastards by Roger Powell
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Roger Powell [Powell, Roger]

Lady Augusta Kennedy, later Hallyburton, (née FitzClarence) (1803–65) The fourth daughter of Mrs. Jordan (1761–1816), the well known comic actress, by the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, was ...
( Category: Europe December 16,2019 )
The Beast’s Blood Boils by N/A
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:N/A [N/A]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 15,2019 )
Sword Spirit by N/A
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-11-12 | Author:N/A [N/A]

Sword Spirit - Chapter 57 Chapter 57: Lu Family’s Crisis “Good!” Elder Xu laughed, “This old man indeed didn’t misjudge. Right now, I will reintroduce myself. This old man’s surname ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 15,2019 )
U.S. Presidents For Dummies by Marcus Stadelmann
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Stadelmann

In 1891, electricity was installed in the White House. The Harrison’s were afraid of the new technology and refused to touch the light switches. Losing in 1892 President Harrison ran ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 14,2019 )
Admiral Gorshkov by Norman Polmar
epub |eng | 2019-12-13 | Author:Norman Polmar

In the early planning for the Cuban undertaking—given the Soviet code name Operation Anadyr—Admiral Gorshkov and his key advisors had planned to base surface ships and submarines in Cuban ports. ...
( Category: Military December 14,2019 )
Back Story by David Mitchell
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:David Mitchell

- 21 - Attention I need pants. I’ve needed pants for some time but now it’s getting critical. A lot of them are ‘rogue’ pairs now – basically just waistbands ...
( Category: Rich & Famous December 12,2019 )
Rethinking Camelot: Jfk, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1993-04-11 | Author:Noam Chomsky

8. The Presidential Transition At the Honolulu meeting of November 20, a draft was prepared (signed by McGeorge Bundy) for what became NSAM 273, adopted after the assassination but intended ...
( Category: Canadian December 12,2019 )
St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate (Icons) by Karen Armstrong
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

This, of course, directly contradicts Paul’s insistence that “in Christ” there should be full gender equality. So glaring is this discrepancy that many scholars believe that this passage was inserted ...
( Category: Middle East December 11,2019 )

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