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Wrestling with the Devil by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
epub |eng | 2018-02-24 | Author:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

4 Makhan Singh was a communist. He said so both before and after his detention and imprisonment. As such, he was opposed to capitalism. J.M. Kariũki was a nationalist. He ...
( Category: Africa March 12,2018 )
The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor Roper
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Trevor Roper [Trevor-Roper, Hugh]

It was not in this cloud-cuckoo-land that the affairs of Germany were being, or would be, decided. All this time the evacuation of ministries from Berlin was continuing; but Hitler ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2018 )
The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford
epub |eng | 2018-02-01 | Author:Kathie Lee Gifford

MORE FROM RABBI JASON THE MAN BORN BLIND AND DIVINE DNA Immediately after Jesus left the temple in Jerusalem, He came across a man born blind from birth. Upon seeing ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 12,2018 )
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Dani Shapiro

49. In Connecticut, on our hilltop, life was quiet. Gone were the city sounds: the sirens, hisses, street fights, car alarms, the teeming, throbbing, ceaseless pulse of life. Our pace ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Inside Nuremberg Prison: Hitler's Henchmen Behind Bars by Helen Fry
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Helen Fry [Fry, Helen]

‘We found Goering distancing himself from war crimes, denying any guilt, but in reality clearly at the heart of the extermination program. He felt he had done nothing wrong and ...
( Category: Military March 12,2018 )
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Jane Jacobs
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Jane Jacobs [Jacobs, Jane]

KUNSTLER: You’ve said that it is much nicer to live in a city where things are getting better, not worse. I agree with you because I live in a city, ...
( Category: Sociology March 12,2018 )
Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Ashley Smith

17 learning me I learned forward on the bed to see where he was going. He was walking across the hall to the bathroom. What’s he doing? Those guns are ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 12,2018 )
Land of the Living by Unknown
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-12 | Author:Unknown

Ten I woke with a start and for a moment I couldn’t remember where I was. The room was dark and there was no sound at all. I lay in ...
( Category: Music March 12,2018 )
Chosen by Matthew K
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Matthew, K. [Matthew, K.]

Excerpt from Collared (White Wolf, Volume #2) Richard pulled off his boots and warmed his feet by the fire. His body ached after a long day of work on his ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2018 )
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist by Yossi Klein Halevi
epub | | 2016-11-07 | Author:Yossi Klein Halevi

FIVE Crossing the Border 1. THE EXODUS ended. In August 1972 the Kremlin imposed a “ransom tax”: Would-be émigrés had to reimburse the government for their state-sponsored education. Few Soviet ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship by Martin Gilbert
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ‘THESE VILE CRIMES’ On 21 June 1941 the armed might of Germany turned against the Soviet Union. As the German Army advanced, SS killing squads began the systematic ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Arthur Koestler [Arthur Koestler]

XIV Our chief pre-occupation, pastime, and obsession was, of course, the weighing of our chances of release. In fact, there seemed no hope at all. For the Austrians and Germans ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 12,2018 )
The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul by Robert M. Price
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Robert M. Price [Price, Robert M.]

Romans 11:1-10 concerns the fall of Jerusalem. The allusions in verses 3 and 9 to the destruction of the temple and its altar (“table”) are anachronistic, given the usual dates ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference March 12,2018 )
The Complete Francis of Assisi by Jon M. Sweeney
epub |eng | | Author:Jon M. Sweeney

Francis’s remains were buried in the new basilica in 1230, but the brothers concealed them extraordinarily well. Almost six hundred years later, in September 1818, Pope Pius VII gave his ...
( Category: Catholicism March 12,2018 )
Sandringham Days by John Matson
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:John Matson

The Duchess had married into a family which for years had been self-sufficient, a family which the Princess’s genius for affection had turned into something that was certainly a closely-guarded ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )

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