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Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks
epub |eng | | Author:Inara Verzemnieks

IN THOSE EARLY DAYS, the story of the missing is a story they tell one another without saying a thing, the anxious transmissions of a hive mind, the entire village ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Jacobo Timerman

8 A woman doctor is dragged by her hair, hands tied behind her, through the long corridor of a city hospital in Buenos Aires. The man dragging her is fat ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 25,2017 )
Vietnam War Nurses by Patricia Rushton
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Patricia Rushton

Merlan Owen Ellis Many nurses serving their country during the Vietnam Era did not serve in Vietnam. Yet their contribution to the nursing profession and to the service members they ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
Hitler by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson

SEVEN The Road to War In January 1936, Hitler summoned all his Gauleiters and Reichsleiters to a meeting. Disputes had arisen among them. There was disgruntlement among the old Brownshirt ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson [Wilson, A. N.]

In times when nothing stood But worsened, or grew strange, There was one constant good: She did not change.75 Philip Larkin’s quatrain for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 neatly ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Chasing Grace by Sanya Richards-Ross
epub |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Sanya Richards-Ross

PACE Sometimes the idea of winning or being the best clouds our judgment. We desire more—more money, more power, and more things. We become fixated on a destination and mesmerized ...
( Category: Miscellaneous August 25,2017 )
Coming of Age by Deborah Beatriz Blum
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Beatriz Blum

18 HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA Margaret, we must have a little child together someday. In or out of wedlock. I just feel the mystical necessity. —EDWARD SAPIR July 1925 While they were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Jumpin' Jack Flash by Keiron Pim
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Keiron Pim

* * * fn1 The reference to South Africa connects more closely still with the Richardsons, who had mining interests there. fn2 Referred to in the script as the Hayloft ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
D-Day With the Screaming Eagles by George Koskimaki
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:George Koskimaki

Mort Smit’s Patrol During the morning, Battalion Commander, Lt. Colonel Pat Cassidy, had directed Captain Fred Hancock of Charley Company to set up a perimeter defense of the command post. ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
The Diaries of Nella Last by Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson

CHAPTER TWELVE A SORT OF PEACE September 1945–January 1946 Thursday, 20 September. The years slipped back to six years ago, when war had only started and we were sewing cloth ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
My Broken Pieces : Mending the Wounds from Sexual Abuse Through Faith, Family and Love (9781101990087) by Rivera Rosie
epub |eng | 2015-12-22 | Author:Rivera, Rosie

I lift up my hands, Even when I don’t have strength I lift my hands Even with a sea of problems When I lift my hands . . . I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2017 )
The Great Agnostic by Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2013-02-16 | Author:Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby [Ingersoll, Robert & Jacoby, Susan]

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Standing Alone by Asra Nomani
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Asra Nomani

TRAVEL WARNINGS AND WAR CLOUDS ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM—Just before we left the United States, the State Department had issued a travel warning. “The Department of State warns U.S. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (Vintage) by Richard Lyman Bushman
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Richard Lyman Bushman

RETURN The day after dictating the letter to the Church, Joseph answered a letter from his “Affectionate Wife.” Emma had written, her “hands stiffened with hard work” and “heart convulsed ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )
Charlie Mike by Joe Klein
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Klein

Eric was named Grand Marshall of the St. Louis Veterans Day parade in 2008. He decided to use the occasion to celebrate the first anniversary of The Mission Continues, and ...
( Category: Job Hunting & Careers August 24,2017 )

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