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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War by Jared A. Brock
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Jared A. Brock

PROVEN INNOCENT Back at Dawn, a public meeting was called at the BAI premises in the autumn of 1851. One of the BAI’s founding trustees, Toronto Congregationalist minister John Roaf, ...
( Category: Americas May 22,2018 )
Young Elizabeth by Kate Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

8 ‘After all, she is only nineteen’ Playing tag with midshipmen on board HMS Vanguard on route to South Africa, 1947 ON 8 MAY 1945 THE crowds around the Victoria ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 22,2018 )
The Restless Wave by John McCain & Mark Salter
epub |eng | | Author:John McCain & Mark Salter

CHAPTER SEVEN * * * Nyet (Know Thine Enemy) I REGULARLY ATTEND AN ANNUAL security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The only thing unusual about the November 2016 meeting was ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 22,2018 )
Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Franchesca Ramsey

CHAPTER EIGHT STOP HATING AND START STUDYING I’m extremely flattered/slightly embarrassed when people describe me as a “super-woke black feminist queen.”†‡§ But as often as I’m praised for the conversations ...
( Category: Arts & Literature May 22,2018 )
GAME CHANGER Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics by Steve Howell
epub |eng | 2018-05-21 | Author:Steve Howell

1 Interview with Heather Stewart, the Guardian, 1.7.2017. 2 A less attractive side of the history of Britain’s railways under public ownership was the 1963 Beeching Report. Appointed as chair ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 21,2018 )
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards
epub |eng | 1949-05-21 | Author:Jonathan Edwards [Edwards, Jonathan]

Editor’s Note Up to this point, the record has been taken from “Brainerd’s Life and Diary.” The next sections, following in chronological order and covering the period from June 19, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 21,2018 )
Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal by Nixon Jon;
epub |eng | | Author:Nixon, Jon;

The only alternative to ‘the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture’ is ‘the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism, against its methods, against war’ (R: ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
Impossible Love by Craig Keener
epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Craig Keener [Keener, Craig and Médine Moussounga Keener]

Rising Tensions After the disruptive night, an eerie quiet settled over our district. We prayed and debated again what to do. Carrying Papa Jacques into the rainforest seemed suicidal. And ...
( Category: Christian Living May 21,2018 )
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
epub |eng | 2000-05-21 | Author:Chanrithy Him

9 Now I Know the Answer Under the Khmer Rouge, reunions are precious but brief, appearing like a sudden summer shower that opens the sweet plumeria, and ending just as ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Hugh Shelton & Ronald Levinson & Malcolm McConnell
epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Hugh Shelton & Ronald Levinson & Malcolm McConnell [Shelton, Hugh]

7:45 A.M., March 24, 2002, Walter Reed Intensive Care Unit An M1 Abrams tank weighs almost seventy tons, and I could not have been straining any harder had I been ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 21,2018 )
Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto by Lesley Hazleton
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Lesley Hazleton [Hazleton, Lesley]

SIX THE SENSE OF AN ENDING Defining the meaning of life is evidently an endless challenge. There are enough such definitions to fill a whole library, if not several of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 21,2018 )
The Person Who Changed My Life by Matilda Cuomo
epub |eng | 2012-05-19 | Author:Matilda Cuomo

LARRY KING TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS My mentors taught me to never be afraid to take a risk, never cop out on my values, never lie to a friend, and above ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion May 19,2018 )
Barbara Bush by Barbara Bush
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Bush

* * * I. An explosion in the U.S.S. lowa’s gun turret had killed forty-seven sailors on April 19 while the ship was participating in naval exercises near Puerto Rico. ...
( Category: Specific Groups May 19,2018 )
A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff
epub |eng | 2005-05-18 | Author:Stacy Schiff

The supplies that Washington and Lafayette had every reason to believe would turn up daily were still in France. Having made two false starts, Jones and the Ariel were again ...
( Category: Americas May 18,2018 )
Waiting Wives by Donna Moreau
epub |eng | 2005-05-18 | Author:Donna Moreau

Bonnie WHAT DO WE SAY TO OUR CHILDREN? (1969) The children raced down the hall. They could not wait to tell Bonnie who they thought had ridden up in the ...
( Category: Military May 18,2018 )

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