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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Blaine Harden [Harden, Blaine]

It is still the only song Shin knows. ____ In November, not long after Park was assigned to the textile factory, four Bowiwon guards paid a surprise visit to the ...
( Category: North November 13,2014 )
Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber [Bolz-Weber, Nadia]

CHAPTER 11 Pirate Christian You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, “Love your enemies and pray ...
( Category: Alcoholism November 13,2014 )
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Pat Conroy [Conroy, Pat]

CHAPTER 13 Tom’s Breakdown I never got to know my brother Tom. I was fifteen when he was born while Dad was stationed at Quantico. My father woke me in ...
( Category: Military November 13,2014 )
Loss of Eden by Joyce Milton
epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Joyce Milton [Milton, Joyce]

In retrospect, it is unfortunate that the Lindberghs were unable to assuage their grief by making some positive social contribution. In contrast to Harry Guggenheim, who had his crime-fighting committee, ...
( Category: United States November 13,2014 )
Tip and the Gipper by Chris Matthews
mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

Momentarily stunned, staff members of the Senate Republican Conference who had worked hard to arrange the event, sprang to the defense of their pie, leaping into the apples and attempting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Amanda Lindhout

23 Blame the Girl I lay for a long time on my mattress, hoping that something would reverse itself. I waited for one of the boys to come in carrying ...
( Category: Women November 13,2014 )
A Cruel and Shocking Act by Philip Shenon
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Philip Shenon [Shenon, Philip]

35 THE OFFICES OF THE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC MAY 1964 At their late-night staff dinners, Specter and some of the other young lawyers began to mock the commissioners. They joked ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
Days of Fire by Peter Baker
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Peter Baker

BUSH HAD HAD IT with the conservatives who were beating up Harriet Miers. The more they attacked her, the more he dug in. “I do not care about them at ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
Si-Cology 1 by Si Robertson
mobi |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Si Robertson

The guy staying with me reached under his bed, grabbed a pineapple grenade, and popped the pin. Then he threw it over the partition into the next room! Hey, I ...
( Category: Rich & Famous November 13,2014 )
The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods by Hank Haney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Hank Haney [Haney, Hank]

That led to my venting about Tiger’s habit of going off plan, and I included this zinger: Your track record for ball striking when you are flying the plane alone ...
( Category: Rich & Famous November 13,2014 )
Tell My Sons by Lt Col Mark Weber
mobi |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Lt Col Mark Weber

Chapter Five … TO SEEK A TEMPER OF THE WILL, A QUALITY OF THE IMAGINATION, AND TO EXERCISE A TEMPERAMENTAL PREDOMINANCE OF COURAGE OVER TIMIDITY. December 2003 MARCH-SEPTEMBER 2011 Going ...
( Category: Afghan War November 13,2014 )
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence by Ben Carson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Ben, Carson [Ben, Carson]

CHAPTER 9 Not Enough If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. P. T. Barnum Despite the difficulty involved and the lengthy ten hours in the operating ...
( Category: Religious November 12,2014 )
Gilligan's Dreams: The Other Side of the Island by Denver Dreama
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Denver, Dreama [Denver, Dreama]

19 Who Says You Can't Go Home We were back in Las Vegas, which looked all the browner and more barren after two weeks in the green lushness of the ...
( Category: Rich & Famous November 12,2014 )
Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Guralnick [GURALNICK, PETER]

THIS WAS THE ATMOSPHERE that twenty-five-year-old Kathy Westmoreland came into when she joined the show as high soprano Millie Kirkham’s replacement on Sunday, August 16. Kathy had agreed to take ...
( Category: Rock November 12,2014 )

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