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Portrait of Camelot by Richard Reeves
epub |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Richard Reeves

December 27 Among the holiday season visitors to Palm Beach was Golda Meir, once a schoolteacher in Milwaukee and now the foreign minister of Israel. December 29 The Kennedys board ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 13,2018 )
A Handful of Summers by Gordon Forbes
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Gordon Forbes

Eight My only reservation about envying the lives of the rich, young tennis professionals of today is the fact that very few of them will ever know what it is ...
( Category: Racket Sports March 13,2018 )
1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

AS THE FALL of 1917 moved on into winter, mobilization wasn’t moving anywhere. The U.S. Shipping Board had spent half a billion dollars but hadn’t built a single ship. A ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 13,2018 )
Waiting for the Last Bus by Richard Holloway
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Holloway

What is it that prompts what Barnes calls the ‘old, visceral, rational fear’ of death? What is he afraid of ? If what awaits us after death is not samsara ...
( Category: Memoirs March 13,2018 )
Flunk. Start. by Sands Hall
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Sands Hall

every sorrow in this world comes down to a misunderstood word The Course Supervisor finished up with the student he’d been helping and headed toward me. “Hello there,” Tim said. ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion March 13,2018 )
Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride & Joe Biden
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Sarah McBride & Joe Biden

When you’ve never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it’s almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home. As openly transgender people, we had ...
( Category: Social Activists March 13,2018 )
Prison Diary 2 by Jeffrey Archer
epub, mobi | | 2004-07-02 | Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]

solitary position. I ask Darren about him. Tragic,' he says. 'Alistair is one of your lot - public school, followed by university, where he graduated as a heroin addict. If ...
( Category: Memoirs March 13,2018 )
Keep Smiling Through by Dame Vera Lynn
epub |eng | | Author:Dame Vera Lynn

Interestingly, although Ma noted in her diary that she had gone as far south as Elephant Point at the mouth of the Rangoon River, a claim repeated in various places ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
The Woman Who Fought an Empire by Gregory J. Wallance
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Gregory J. Wallance [Wallance, Gregory J.]

On April 19 Aaron, Sarah, Yosef, and Liova arrived in Cairo. Sarah and Aaron went to the Grand Continental Hotel while Yosef and Liova checked in to the Metropole Hotel. ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
American Princess by Laurie Dennett
epub |eng | 2016-03-13 | Author:Laurie Dennett

9.2 The villa at Ninfa, made habitable again by Gelasio Caetani in the 1920s. Countess Piccolomini had died in 1932, and, in his sorrow, Gelasio buried himself in his projects. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Annette Dumbach

THIRTEEN ALTHOUGH Sophie had some grounds for rejoicing in the early days of October 1942, she seemed to remain depressed. The good news was that Robert Scholl, after serving two ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc by Joseph Pearce
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Joseph Pearce [Pearce, Joseph]

As ever, Belloc sought practical relief from the melancholy musings of his mind and soul in the love and laughter of friends and family. Apart from regular meetings with old ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 13,2018 )
Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate by Kim Stallwood
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Kim Stallwood [Stallwood, Kim]

II NONVIOLENCE Scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 12,2018 )
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
epub |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand [Hillenbrand, Laura]

As the officers finished each day of abuse, honey-dipping, and errant sewing, the enlisted slaves were driven back to camp. The first time Louie saw them return, he learned where ...
( Category: Military March 12,2018 )
Peace Child by Don Richardson
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-08-08 | Author:Don Richardson [Richardson, Don]

Joining three villages into one was an experiment the Sawi had tried only rarely in living memory—it was the kind of experiment that so readily ended in bloodshed! Even the ...
( Category: Ministry & Evangelism March 12,2018 )

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