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Sleeping With the Enemy by Hal Vaughan
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Hal Vaughan [Vaughan, Hal]

EIGHT DINCKLAGE MEETS HITLER; CHANEL BECOMES AN ABWEHR AGENT À la guerre comme à la guerre. —FRENCH PROVERB IN EARLY 1941, Dincklage left Chanel in Paris. He traveled to Berlin ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 29,2017 )
Five Presidents by Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin
epub |eng | | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin

EARLIER IN THE day, Youngblood informed me that President Johnson was considering an intensive campaign trip when he returned to the United States to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming ...
( Category: Americas December 28,2017 )
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War by Flood Charles Bracelen
mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Flood, Charles Bracelen [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: Americas December 28,2017 )
Childhood at Court, 1819-1914 by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:John Van der Kiste [Kiste, John Van der]

5 ‘Dreadfully wild, but I was just as bad’ A new generation of royal children was growing up at court, overlapping with the old. Princess Beatrice was twenty-one months old ...
( Category: Historical December 28,2017 )
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T. Vanderbilt
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Arthur T. Vanderbilt [Vanderbilt, Arthur T.]

2. Even after his marriage, Mrs. Astor continued to fawn over Harry Lehr. “Kind motherly Mrs. Astor,” Bessie noted, “would smile her approval: ‘So nice to see young people so ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 28,2017 )
Gilded Lily by Isabel Vincent
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Isabel Vincent [Vincent, Isabel]

THE WINDING ROAD that circles the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro’s upscale Gavea neighborhood on a lush mountain overlooking the city is difficult to negotiate at the best ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 28,2017 )
Misconception by Paul & Shannon Morell
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Paul & Shannon Morell

I was eating lunch in my classroom when Abigail, one of my coworkers, popped in. She sat down at a desk and began to eat her lunch. “Guess what?” she ...
( Category: Christian Living December 28,2017 )
The Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell

Chapter Nine Compulsion and Abdication There was a third woman at that skating party at Virginia Water. Her name was Wallis Simpson, but she was regarded by the others as ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 27,2017 )
Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hil
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Clint Hil [Hil, Clint]

Clint Hill in working attire, Ravello, Italy I had seen how these paparazzi operated, however, and I was not convinced they would follow the “rules.” The morning after our arrival, ...
( Category: Memoirs December 27,2017 )
Politics by Nick Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Clegg

Douglas’s theory built upon the thinking of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structural anthropologist, who proposed the theory of binary opposites. According to Lévi-Strauss, meaning derives from the relationship between things ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 27,2017 )
Royal Romances by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine spent the next several days weeping, convinced that she would never be able to survive without him. “Prince Potemkin did me a cruel turn by dying! The whole burden ...
( Category: Europe December 27,2017 )
U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific by Gerold Frank & James D. Horan & J. M. Eckberg
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Gerold Frank & James D. Horan & J. M. Eckberg

A wonderful cruise. Your accomplishments rank among the greatest of all time. Congratulations. Captain Warder had copies typed and posted conspicuously about the Wolf. The men clustered around the bulletin ...
( Category: Military December 27,2017 )
Roosevelt by Brett Harper
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Brett Harper [Brett Harper]

FOR YEARS, REPUBLICANS had advocated high protective tariffs on imported goods and had credited the levies with producing the nation’s prosperity. But the tariffs had come under Democratic attack for ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 27,2017 )
The Book of Joe by Jeff Wilser
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Jeff Wilser

In 1991, Patricia Ireland was the acting president of the National Organization of Women (NOW). “This is not to say that there’s anything good about the Thomas hearings,” she says, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 27,2017 )
The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows by Hart Dolores & DeNeut Richard
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Hart, Dolores & DeNeut, Richard [Hart, Dolores & DeNeut, Richard]

Twenty-Two “Formation is from forever to forever.” This expression is not literal in the monastery but one that indicates that a person entering an enclosure of monastic formation needs to ...
( Category: Memoirs December 27,2017 )

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