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Through My Father's Eyes by Franklin Graham
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Franklin Graham

God’s Love Letter My father did a lot of writing throughout his life. He authored more than thirty-three books, the last two at ages ninety-five and ninety-six. He wrote newspaper ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 1,2018 )
Ali on Ali by Hana Ali
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Hana Ali

“The man who will whup me will be fast, strong, and hasn’t been born yet.” My father said this to a reporter after winning the world title on February 25, ...
( Category: Biographies May 1,2018 )
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Jon Kukla [Kukla, Jon]

A year after Governor Henry crushed Arthur Campbell’s separatist schemes, he was confronted with recurrent skirmishes between Kentucky settlers and Wabash Indians in the Ohio Valley near Vincennes (in modern ...
( Category: Americas April 30,2018 )
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Moorehead, Caroline]

Nello, ostensibly free but in fact kept under constant surveillance on the mainland, was also at work on the shape of Italy’s future, only in his case it was a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 30,2018 )
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House by Joshua Zeitz
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Joshua Zeitz [Zeitz, Joshua]

* * * • • • • • The “Fabulous Eighty-ninth” began its work against a dramatic backdrop. By early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. had already determined to stage ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 30,2018 )
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Jane Kamensky [Kamensky, Jane]

Copley, BENJAMIN WEST, ca. 1776–80 [Plate 12] Copley, SELF-PORTRAIT, ca. 1780–84 [Plate 13] By the time Copley painted him, London newspapers regularly cast Benjamin West as an English artist. “To ...
( Category: Historical April 30,2018 )
An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

7 Breaking Ground, to Be a Man My father, 1941 EVEN FOR US CHILDREN, personal problems and pleasures were always secondary to economic concerns. We realized that everyone on the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 30,2018 )
The Invisible Girls by Sarah Thebarge
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Sarah Thebarge

Chapter Forty-Five TWO MONTHS AFTER I met the Somali family, the older girls came home from school and told me they’d started learning about the American holiday Thanksgiving at school, ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 29,2018 )
Panzer Ace by Richard Freiherr von Rosen
epub |eng | 2018-03-30 | Author:Richard Freiherr von Rosen

Generalfeldmarschall Rommel inspecting the Normandy coastal sectors shortly before the invasion. General Feuchtinger (right) explains the defensive measures. Later Rommel inspected the Sherman tanks captured by the author. On the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 29,2018 )
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Mark Riebling [Riebling, Mark]

IN THE FIRST WEEK OF 1945, FATHER DELP TRIED TO DECODE HIS own fate. “This is a moment in which the whole of existence is focused at one point and ...
( Category: Military April 29,2018 )
The Avengers by Rich Cohen
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Rich Cohen [Cohen, Rich]

Vitka Kempner. “These people go to the forest,” said Sonia, “or they die.” Vitka said she would make a decision after the mission. The partisans spent the night in the ...
( Category: World April 28,2018 )
James I by Thomas Cogswell
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Thomas Cogswell

6 Gorget and Armour Paul van Somer’s portrait of King James standing next to his crown, sceptre and orb initially seems regal, if a little routine. But then something unusual ...
( Category: Historical April 28,2018 )
Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berkheimer
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Drema Hall Berkheimer

Hursey, home for the summer, was threatening to tear a page out of the Bobbsey Twins book I was reading because he claimed I’d lost a piece of his jigsaw ...
( Category: Christian Living April 27,2018 )
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling by Amy Chozick
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Amy Chozick

27 “Saint Hillary” Flint, Michigan, February 2016 “Saint or Sinner, Moralist or Machiavelli, Mother Theresa or Lady Macbeth,” Diane Blair wrote in a 1996 journal entry. “Hillary, like most of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 27,2018 )
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Frederick Jim
epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Frederick, Jim [Frederick, Jim]

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )

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