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Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by Michael D'Antonio
mobi |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Michael D'Antonio

10 TRUMP THE SPECTACLE I am the creator of my own comic book, and I love living in it. —DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump never went bankrupt. He would frequently and ...
( Category: Rich & Famous February 26,2017 )
Zapata by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

SCENE Villa and Zapata meet in the castle of Chapultepec. It is in the same throne room where we have seen Zapata as a young delegate, and now these two ...
( Category: Biographical February 26,2017 )
Core of Conviction : My Story (9781101563571) by Bachmann Michele
epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Bachmann, Michele

CHAPTER EIGHT Stillwater Activism IT was the declining quality of education—ominously visible in Minnesota by the nineties, and in America as a whole—that proved the decisive factor in getting me ...
( Category: Political February 25,2017 )
Shot Down: The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom by Kerr Alex
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:Kerr, Alex [Kerr, Alex]

CHAPTER 17 ON THE LOOSE, 1942 We emerged in our twos and threes, faces and hands blackened, knives, other implements and rations concealed in our clothing. We had to crawl ...
( Category: World War II February 25,2017 )
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shirin Ebadi

My two daughters were growing old enough that they came home from school each day with a barrage of questions. Thud. They would toss their backpacks in the hallway. Thud ...
( Category: Human Rights February 24,2017 )
The Portable John Adams by John Adams
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:John Adams [Adams, John]

No. VIII. It has often been observed by me, and it cannot be too often repeated, that colonization is casus omissus at common law. There is no such title known ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2017 )
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
epub |eng | 2005-02-14 | Author:Tom Reiss

While the Muslim nationalists and right-wing press attacked Lev’s inauthentic “Orientalist” writings, some on the pro-communist left went after him for his unflattering depictions of the Soviets and the revolution. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 24,2017 )
White House Years by Henry Kissinger
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Henry Kissinger [Unknown]

“Polo II” WHEN I review the exchanges preceding what we code-named “Polo II,” it is difficult to imagine how we had ever made it to Peking three months earlier with ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2017 )
Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission by Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney [Baier, Bret & Whitney, Catherine]

And, he might have added, the potential for destruction. CHAPTER 9 THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 24,2017 )
The Magnolia Story (with Bonus Content) by Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines & Mark Dagostino
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines & Mark Dagostino

NINE CHIPPING IN As I mentioned earlier, my mom and dad grew up in Archer City, Texas, a town of maybe two thousand people. When compared to Archer City, Waco ...
( Category: Rich & Famous February 24,2017 )
Reporting on Hitler by Wainewright Will;
epub |eng | 2017-02-22 | Author:Wainewright, Will; [Will Wainewright]

- CHAPTER XI - RHINELAND The Nazis celebrated their third anniversary of taking power in January 1936. They had achieved much in the first three years, consolidating their control over ...
( Category: Fascism February 23,2017 )
Katharina and Martin Luther by Michelle DeRusha
epub |deu, eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Michelle DeRusha

Shunned Martin Luther wasn’t the first monk to marry, nor was Katharina the first nun. Augustinian monk Bartholomew Bernhardi married in 1521, and in 1522 the former monk Martin Bucer ...
( Category: Christianity February 23,2017 )
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima by Tatum Chuck
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Tatum, Chuck [Tatum, Chuck]

Pillbox Bustin’ Aided as we were by tanks, afternoon gains were better than those previously achieved; however, heavy fighting continued against stubborn enemy resistance. We were still receiving sporadic mortar ...
( Category: World War II February 20,2017 )
Dorothy Day by Kate Hennessy
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Hennessy

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Tamar could barely tear herself away from her garden—the marigolds, zinnias, and cosmos were in bloom—when she, Dorothy, and the eight children headed up to Vermont on a ...
( Category: Religious February 18,2017 )
God's Wolf by Jeffrey Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Lee

Reynald’s destination was the holiest place of all – the very wellspring of the crusading spirit. Pilgrims flocked from all over Christendom to pray nearby at Christ’s birthplace in Bethlehem, ...
( Category: General January 21,2017 )

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