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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel
epub |eng | 2004-08-16 | Author:Susan Nagel [Nagel, Susan]

Chapter 17 IN IRONS Mary wanted her husband to be by her side by the time their fourth child was born. If Napoleon had met with Lady Elgin in public, ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
Power Forward : My Presidential Education (9781476763361) by Love Reggie
epub |eng | | Author:Love, Reggie

15 * * * * * * ANGER MANAGEMENT * * * * * * For much of my young adult life, I struggled with the fear that I was ...
( Category: Biographies August 16,2017 )
Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah by Llewellyn-Jones Rosie
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie [Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie]

5 AT GARDEN REACH Life in the Bengal palaces, as Wajid ‘Ali Shah recreates the vanished world of Lucknow. He is wildly extravagant and continually in debt, which is made ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
The Monkey and the Dragon by Linda Jaivin
epub |eng | 2004-09-02 | Author:Linda Jaivin

Hou covered two of Luo Dayou’s songs as well, and sang one composed in collaboration with his Hong Kong friend Teddy Robin. What was truly innovative was Hou’s decision to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 16,2017 )
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange by Jan Jarboe Russell
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Jan Jarboe Russell [Russell, Jan Jarboe]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The False Passports On the morning of January 20, 1945, while Ingrid was still at sea on the MS Gripsholm, a fourteen-year-old girl, Irene Hasenberg, slept on a ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Harrington Rebecca
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Harrington, Rebecca [Harrington, Rebecca]

Day 2 Victoria Beckham actually tweeted about the alkaline diet relatively recently, and I took it upon myself to find out what that was all about. Usually VB (which is ...
( Category: Diets & Weight Loss August 16,2017 )
Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | 1999-08-16 | Author:Fred Kaplan

In spring 1957 Sam Zimbalist, appalled at the awful script he had for the remake of Ben-Hur, sounded out his young writing star about doing a thorough revision. Drastic changes ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Confessions by St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick [Augustine, St. & Chadwick, Henry]

BOOK IX Cassiciacum: to Monica’s death i (1) ‘O Lord, I am your servant, I am your servant and the son of your handmaid. You have snapped my chains. I ...
( Category: History August 15,2017 )
The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi by 9780834840713
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:9780834840713

11 The Tulkus BACK IN DELHI, picking up the threads of her former life, Freda’s thoughts were never far from the refugees, her powerful encounter with the Karmapa, and the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
Royal Renegades by Linda Porter
epub |eng | 2016-12-01 | Author:Linda Porter [Porter, Linda]

Her brothers Charles and James have been criticized for failing to visit her tomb but the seventeenth century did not have our modern preoccupation with public outpourings of grief and ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )
Tommy by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

This quotation tells us much, and not just about trench-digging. Harry Ogle, an educated man who had joined up as a private, was now a corporal, and would end the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
Trotsky by Robert Service
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE LEFT OPPOSITION Practically nobody in mid-1923, not even his friends, appreciated that Trotsky lacked a firm desire to be the leader. With Lenin he was routinely mentioned as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Otto Carius

“Report immediately to the unit” After its successful operation at the “Judennase,” the battalion returned to its assembly area in the rear. Lieutenant Karl Ruppel from the 3rd Company and ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )
The Father of Spin by Larry Tye
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Tye

7 At the OFFICE To his clients Eddie seemed the epitome of propriety. His uniform was a three-piece suit, a soft-collared white shirt, and black shoes. The style may have ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )
The Bettencourt Affair by Tom Sancton
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Tom Sancton

Chapter 18 FILTHY RICH The publication of the illicit recordings in June 2010 was devastating for the image of Liliane Bettencourt. Once admired as the main shareholder and a board ...
( Category: Biography & History August 15,2017 )

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