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Hylton, Donna - A Little Piece of Light by Hylton Donna
epub |eng | 2018-06-05 | Author:Hylton, Donna

4 INMATE #86G0206 Outside the courthouse as cameras snap and reporters shout their questions, Judge Torres refers to Mr. V’s death as “the crime of the century.” This will do ...
( Category: Social Sciences February 13,2019 )
Itzkoff, Dave - Robin by Itzkoff Dave
epub |eng | | Author:Itzkoff, Dave

14 HOT FLASHES There seemed to be children everywhere you went in the old house at 2640 Steiner Street, one of the elegant Victorian residences that stood squarely on this ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 13,2019 )
Devil's Chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (9780062276216) by Talbot David
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Talbot, David

Part III 15 Contempt On Monday April 17, 1961, as over fourteen hundred CIA-trained anti-Castro exiles waded ashore at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs—an operation that would quickly become the biggest ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 13,2019 )
William Howard Taft: The 27th President, 1909-1913 by Jeffrey Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Rosen

5 “Popular Unrest”: The Election of 1912 and the Battle for the Constitution On February 21, 1912, after delivering a speech called “A Charter for Democracy” at the Ohio Constitutional ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 13,2019 )
Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | | Author:Ted Widmer

5 Panic After years of scraping, Martin Van Buren finally stood atop the Matterhorn of American politics. Like a mountain goat, he had leapt upward from one craggy promontory to ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )
Hindsight by Justin Timberlake
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Justin Timberlake

The City That Never Sleeps Never Lies I LOVE NEW York City. It truly is the greatest city in the world—in my opinion. One of my favorite things about this ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 13,2019 )
Battle Scars by Jason Fox
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Jason Fox

19 This is not good. This is really not good. As I bunkered down in a luxury hotel room, unable to push away my bed covers, unwilling to face the ...
( Category: Memoirs February 13,2019 )
Margolis, Matt - The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Margolis Matt
epub |eng | 2018-07-28 | Author:Margolis, Matt [Margolis, Matt]

157. Skipping the Paris Anti-Terrorism Rally George W. Bush famously said in his 2002 State of the Union Address, in which he laid out a vision for his response to ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 13,2019 )
Parkland by Dave Cullen
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Dave Cullen

14 March for Their Lives 1 Daniel Duff said it was going to be huge. Huge? What did that mean? He had no idea, really, but expected it to feel ...
( Category: Americas February 12,2019 )
The Pianist From Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad & Emanuel Bergmann
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Aeham Ahmad & Emanuel Bergmann [Ahmad, Aeham & Bergmann, Emanuel]

* * * One day at around noon I was crouching on the ground, as always, ceaselessly frying falafel, with Samer by my side. The line seemed endless: somewhere between ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 12,2019 )
1932 by David Pietrusza
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:David Pietrusza

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “We always call her ‘Granny’” TO SOME POLITICS WAS A WAR NOT ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING. Just before midnight Monday, September 12, Joe Kennedy and his loyal henchman Eddie ...
( Category: Americas February 12,2019 )
Free Roll by Brandt Tobler
epub |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Brandt Tobler [Tobler, Brandt]

PAR FOR THE COURSE In the days following the party, my dad started bringing around these young white trash kids who were trying so hard to be thugs. Except, they ...
( Category: Memoirs February 12,2019 )
Helmet for My Pillow-From Parris Island - Robert Leckie by Robert Leckie
epub | | | Author:Robert Leckie

1 I have heard it said that General Smedley Butler was fond of observing: “Give me a regiment of brig-rats, and I’l lick the world.” It may be that Old ...
( Category: Military February 11,2019 )
How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
epub |eng | 2007-09-19 | Author:Michael Gates Gill

6 The Million-Dollar Punch “Try a little tenderness…” —lyric by Otis Redding, played during a closing at Starbucks SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER More than a month passed, and I began to get into ...
( Category: Memoirs February 10,2019 )
Grant and Sherman by Charles Bracelen Flood
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: Americas February 10,2019 )

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