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Gandhi: A Life Inspired by Lynn M. Hamilton & Wyatt North
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Lynn M. Hamilton & Wyatt North [Hamilton, Lynn M.]

However, prior to Gandhi's arrival in Champaran, things had shifted. New, synthetic dyes had been invented. They were cheaper and easier to manufacture, and the indigo industry was circling the ...
( Category: Hinduism October 14,2017 )
Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors by Evan Handler
epub |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:Evan Handler [Handler, Evan]

The lush dampness of summer in the Catskill Mountains was the perfect climate to plant the seeds for a new beginning. The adventure began with a cab ride up to ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 14,2017 )
Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Koehn

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The World after Frederick Douglass During his life, Frederick Douglass became the most famous African-American in the United States. As an abolitionist, an advocate for women’s rights, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
Ali by Jonathan Eig
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Eig [Eig, Jonathan]

36 Trickeration It’s never about the money. It’s always about the money.” It was one of Bob Arum’s favorite lines, and the truth of it never failed the promoter. Boxers ...
( Category: Biographies October 14,2017 )
The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein
epub |eng | 2005-06-20 | Author:Edward Klein [Klein, Edward]

C H A P T E R T W E N T Y - F I V E ‌ The Education of Hillary Clinton n Sunday morning, January 3, 1999, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
The Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Andrew Klavan

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the Valley of Death Rode the six hundred. The professor, a mild-mannered woman ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 14,2017 )
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway [Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L.]

POLICING THE BATTLEFIELD Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. --The Duke of Wellington, in a dispatch from Waterloo, 1815 In our Mad ...
( Category: Military October 14,2017 )
Heroines of Mercy Street by Pamela D. Toler PhD
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Pamela D. Toler PhD

Tending the Whole Man Bandaging wounds, “putting up” splints, and assisting at amputations were the most dramatic part of nurses’ work. But, in fact, most of the soldiers who ended ...
( Category: Americas October 14,2017 )
Life Worth Living by Campbell Lady Colin
mobi |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Campbell, Lady Colin [Campbell, Lady Colin]

9 The end of any marriage is a time for grieving, and grieve I did. I wept for the loss of my dreams, for all the good times I had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
Life Worth Living by Lady Colin Campbell
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Lady Colin Campbell [Campbell, Lady Colin]

9 The end of any marriage is a time for grieving, and grieve I did. I wept for the loss of my dreams, for all the good times I had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Elizabeth Edwards [Edwards, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER 7 2007 nother city, another town hall, another morning shower. The moments that will change our lives are often not in the monumental events writ large on our calendars. ...
( Category: Motivational October 14,2017 )
Angry Conversations With God by Susan E. Isaacs
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Susan E. Isaacs [ISSACS, SUSAN E.]

One Sunday morning Pastor Craig started his sermon as he often did—with an illustration from a movie. He’d just seen a black comedy with spiritual overtones that he felt we ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion October 14,2017 )
Fallen Founder by Nancy Isenberg
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Nancy Isenberg

HAD “TURNED HIMSELF WHOLLY TOWARD MEXICO” Burr’s fascination with the West began long before his duel with Hamilton. He had probably thought about the tremendous possibilities of this territory as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
The Reaper by Irving Nicholas; Brozek Gary;
epub |eng | | Author:Irving, Nicholas; Brozek, Gary;

7. A Whole ’Nother Danger As painful as it had been to be crammed into that Humvee, I was grateful that we were no longer being shot at. I’d been ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 14,2017 )
High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Donald Spoto [Spoto, Donald]

GEORGIE. Can you stand him up on his feet, Mr. Dodd? Because that’s where all my prayers have gone—to see that one holy hour when he can stand alone! And ...
( Category: Specific Groups October 14,2017 )

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