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On the Road with The Oak Ridge Boys by Joseph S. Bonsall
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph S. Bonsall

Another fan the Boys came to love was Aunt Una Reeks. We first met her around 1977 at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, in an unusual way. Right before the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2018 )
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Deborah Cadbury

The week Coventry was bombed, telegrams were flying across the Atlantic about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. There was an emergency concerning the duchess’s teeth. Wallis needed medical treatment ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
Bomber Flight Berlin by Mike Rossiter
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Mike Rossiter [Rossiter, Mike]

11 THE NEXT FIVE MISSIONS AFTER GEOFF AND the crew’s successful fulfilment of their first mission on 23 September 1943, two operations were cancelled because of bad weather over the ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
Zen Encounters with Loneliness by Terrance Keenan
epub |eng | | Author:Terrance Keenan

14 WILD APPLES, CROWS IN THE RAIN But of course each of us does carry a burden. For some of us the burdens are so huge we simply collapse, or ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2018 )
Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Glusman

Nosu was known as the “Mad Butcher” of Ichioka, and his behavior struck the navy doctors as nothing short of bizarre. To cure diarrhea and dysentery he placed punks on ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 10,2018 )
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge by Paul Lockhart
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Lockhart

in the first instance tell you, that they wish for nothing more than the honour of serving in so glorious a cause, as Volunteers—The next day sollicit rank without pay—the ...
( Category: Historical March 10,2018 )
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas “Part of what?" “The dope ring,” I said. “You must know what's going on in this hotel. Why do you think we're here?” She ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 9,2018 )
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-02-03 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS LECTURE READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY IN AMORY HALL, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1844 In the suburb, in the town, On the railway, in the square, Came a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 9,2018 )
The Sugar King of Havana by John Paul Rathbone
mobi |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:John Paul Rathbone

Nine IMPERIAL AFFAIRS Fortune is a woman and the more she does for me the more I demand from her. —NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The cartoon says it all. With one hand, ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2018 )
The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier by Tom Kuntz; Phil Kuntz
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-06-06 | Author:Tom Kuntz; Phil Kuntz

An editorial appearing in the March 23, 1960 edition of the Los Angeles Herald and Express severely criticized Sinatra for hiring Albert Maltz and, among other things, pointed out “the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 9,2018 )
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley; Attallah Shabazz
mobi |eng | 1940-01-02 | Author:Malcolm X; Alex Haley; Attallah Shabazz

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 9,2018 )
The Ghost Mountain Boys by James Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:James Campbell

East of the Girua River, as Colonel Smith began moving on the Triangle, he was heartened by the arrival of Major Stutterin’ Smith’s 2nd Battalion. Smith, too, was happy to ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
William Manchester by Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Goodbye
mobi |eng | 1980-08-14 | Author:Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Goodbye [Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War]

Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza, 1978 I have been told that there is now a strong Japanese presence in the islands, and that one Japanese, a Captain Honda, is particularly enterprising. ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Sarah Wildman [Wildman, Sarah]

Perhaps Valy and my grandfather sang it to each other once, perhaps they saw the play together. But now the words “and I shall wait, as I promised before” have ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Margaret MacMillan [MacMillan, Margaret]

1. Woodrow Wilson’s triumphal arrival in Paris before the start of the Peace Conference. His promise to establish a League of Nations to end war and to allow self-determination for ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )

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