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The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:G. Willow Wilson

Arabic Lessons Al qitu cat’u, al far rat’u, al nahr river’u. —early twentieth-century Arabic-English teaching song AS MY CONFIDENCE INCREASED, I BEGAN TO ASK FOR THE things I needed and ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart (Pimlico) by McLynn Frank
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:McLynn, Frank [McLynn, Frank]

24 A New Mistress (March–August 1748) THE POLITICAL SITUATION in early 1748 could hardly have been less promising for the prince. It was now certain that a general peace would ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
Strange Glory by Charles Marsh
epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Charles Marsh [Marsh, Charles]

When, two years earlier, in June of 1935, Barth had been removed from his post at the University of Bonn, he’d lashed out not only at Hitler but also against ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
The First Lady of Radio by Stephen Drury Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Drury Smith [Smith, Stephen Drury; Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

A typewritten postcard from San Francisco read: Why don’t you use some of this soap to scrub those BUCK TEETH of yours and maybe you could talk plainer . . ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )
Thirteen Soldiers by John McCain
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John McCain

PFC Guy Louis Gabaldon poses with a Japanese family he saved from mass suicide on the island of Saipan. CHAPTER EIGHT Lone Wolf Guy Gabaldon, alone and cave by cave, ...
( Category: American Revolution January 29,2015 )
Tom Sileo by Brothers Forever
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brothers Forever

7 THE WAR COMES HOME Brigadier General Dave Papak had been a close friend of Tom Manion for nearly two decades. Ever since they first served together in the Marine ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars January 29,2015 )
Lee and His Men at Gettysburg: The Death of a Nation by Clifford Dowdey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Clifford Dowdey

While he sang, the rifles continued to bang away, and the Confederate sharpshooters in Devil’s Den took a steady toll of the gunners on Little Round Top. With their own ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 29,2015 )
Celestine by Gillian Tindall
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall

Chapter 12 In departing for Bourges, Ursin Chaumette was very much a figure of his time, though not necessarily a laudable one. In France as in England, the idea of ...
( Category: France January 29,2015 )
Faith of My Fathers by John McCain
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-03-06 | Author:John McCain

III In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine” CHAPTER 14 ...
( Category: Political January 29,2015 )
The Pilgrim's Regress by C. S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:C. S. Lewis

VI The House of Wisdom THE STREAM THAT THEY had followed to the Steward’s house was now no longer a brook by the roadside, but a river that sometimes approached, ...
( Category: Inspirational January 29,2015 )
Mistress of the Vatican by Eleanor Herman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Eleanor Herman

Who says “lady” says harm. Who says “woman” says misfortune. Who says Olimpia Maidalchini Says lady, harm, ruin.12 On one occasion Pasquino quipped: “The Roman people are dying of hunger,” ...
( Category: Italy January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
It's So Easy by Duff Mckagan
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Duff Mckagan

PART FOUR I’D LOOK RIGHT UP AT NIGHT AND ALL I’D SEE WAS DARKNESS CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The shows in Rio should have marked the triumphant beginning of a new phase ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 27,2015 )
The Theology of John Calvin by Karl Barth
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Karl Barth

But he does it. And that is how the Institutes ends. What are we to do when we suffer under a bloodthirsty, avaricious, spendthrift, idle, and ungodly ruler? Answer: We ...
( Category: Systematic January 24,2015 )
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Adam Nicolson

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...
( Category: European January 24,2015 )

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