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Zealot by Reza Aslan
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]

PART III Blow a trumpet in Zion; raise a shout on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 5,2018 )
Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Triggs [Triggs, Gillian]

Monis v The Queen: Splitting the High Court Man Haron Monis became notorious as the lone gunman responsible for the siege in Sydney’s Martin Place and the resultant deaths of ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 5,2018 )
My Darling Winston by David Lough
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:David Lough

WINSTON WROTE his next letter to his mother after his detachment of troops had passed Korosko, 120 miles south of Aswan. Their next stop would be seventy miles further up ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 5,2018 )
Nothing but a Circus by Daniel Levin
epub |eng | 2017-01-25 | Author:Daniel Levin

Part Two * * * Chess à la Russe ‘I have asked a good friend of mine to join us for dinner, if you don’t mind,’ Vitaly said. ‘Of course ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 4,2018 )
Fame by Justine Bateman
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Justine Bateman

Justine Bateman’s 1987 look . . . saw her reject the floor-length dress code for pieces she could actually wear. Red carpet style doesn’t have to be stuffy or old; ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 4,2018 )
Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Ramachandra Guha

Gandhi printed large chunks of the letter in Harijan, leaving out, however, the references to Gokhale, Bernard Shaw et al., as well as the (even more telling) sentence pointing out ...
( Category: Asia October 4,2018 )
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Stormy Daniels

FOUR You know that moment when you’re watching a horror movie and the girl thinks she can go back into the house and get her cat or whatever? And you ...
( Category: Memoirs October 3,2018 )
Ghost by Michael R. McGowan
epub |eng | | Author:Michael R. McGowan

11 THE ITALIAN MOB—CASE #1 In early January 1999, two weeks after wrapping up the Russian case, I met with six-foot, 350-pound Mob informant Big Ron Previte. A self-proclaimed “general ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 3,2018 )
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Urban

13 THE FATEFUL LETTER On a chilly January morning, the Guardia Civil prison bus dropped its passengers outside the Audiencia Provincial. Just two men descended, walking up towards the shiny ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 3,2018 )
At the Heart of the Reich by Gerhard Engel
epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Gerhard Engel

23 May 1941 Visited Field Marshal v Kluge.340 Kluge more or less confirmed scenario. Russians were marching up and massing near border. Numerous grass airstrips in immediate proximity to frontier. ...
( Category: Military October 3,2018 )
Coming of Age by Madeleine May Kunin
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Madeleine May Kunin

MY POSSESSIONS ARE MOVED out in separate brigades. Three cars and six Burlington library volunteers arrive on schedule one morning to take away all the boxed books. First Adam and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 3,2018 )
Six by Ten by Mateo Hoke
epub |eng | 2018-09-06 | Author:Mateo Hoke

* * * 29. McAllen, Texas, is a city of 140,000 that is part of the Reynosa-McAllen metropolitan area of 1.5 million on the Texas-Mexico border at Texas’s southern tip. ...
( Category: Sociology October 3,2018 )
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Guha Ramachandra
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

IV Gandhi read The Annihilation of Caste soon after it was published. Meeting a deputation of the Depressed Classes in Bangalore on 10 June, he remarked that ‘when Dr. Ambedkar ...
( Category: Historical October 1,2018 )
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs by Greg King & Penny Wilson
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Greg King & Penny Wilson

PART III CHAPTER THIRTEEN Rudolf’s interment did nothing to stop the onrush of escalating rumors about events at Mayerling. Within twenty-four hours of his funeral, newspapers had managed to ferret ...
( Category: True Crime September 30,2018 )
A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes by Louise Miller
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Louise Miller [Miller, Louise]

Chapter 13 Breakthrough 1918 By early September preparations were well under way for an attack spearheaded by the Serbs. The plan, devised by General Živojin Mišić, the Serbian Chief-of-Staff, had ...
( Category: Military September 29,2018 )

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