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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir by Zelda la Grange
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Zelda la Grange [la Grange, Zelda]

8 Working with World Leaders Although Madiba appeared healthy and strong, he was not. In July 2001 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. One afternoon after having his lunch at ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 27,2014 )
Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Abby Lee Miller [Miller, Abby Lee]

DON’T OVERSTEP YOUR BOUNDARIES A good example of overstepping boundaries would be if I were to ask one of the moms at my studio to order rhinestones for the girls’ ...
( Category: Rich & Famous July 27,2014 )
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton by Dean Jensen
epub |eng | 2012-12-12 | Author:Dean Jensen [Jensen, Dean]

If Daisy and Violet had traveled to Hollywood in the belief that their roles in Freaks would lead to regular employment in the movies, their expectations may have vaporized the ...
( Category: History July 26,2014 )
Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

In November, Parliament reassembled. The Lord Chancellor declared in the House of Lords: “The manner in13 which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has hitherto discharged her duty in ...
( Category: Great Britain July 23,2014 )
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Ernst Jünger & Michael Hofmann

These idyllic positions have the one drawback that one's superior officers like to visit them, which is a great dampener to the cosiness of trench life. That said, my left ...
( Category: World War I July 23,2014 )
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Bugliosi [Bugliosi, Vincent]

With respect to shots allegedly coming from the grassy knoll, where, specifically, on the knoll do the conspiracy theorists claim the triggerman was? The consensus among theorists, including the HSCA, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 20,2014 )
Blacklisted by History
epub | | 2007-11-06 | Author:Evans, M. Stanton [Evans, M. Stanton]

TWO final suspects in this roster of midlevel McCarthy cases may be handled rather briefly. One was Prof. Frederick Schuman, who, despite a record of Communist-front affiliation exceeding that of ...
( Category: Political July 20,2014 )
Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam by Warren James A
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Warren, James A. [Warren, James A.]

PHASE TWO Giap renewed the attack at 1700 on March 30, when the 312th and the 316th jumped off from their trenches to seize five key hills within strongpoints Dominique ...
( Category: Strategy July 20,2014 )
Elizabeth, The Queen by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The Queen required all her female attendants to wear black and/or white, so that the vivid colours and embellishments of her own costume stood out dramatically. Woe betide the lady ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2014 )
The Princes In The Tower by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

There is more in the same vein, with the King pleading for aid against his enemies and detractors and, presumably, the threat of invasion from abroad. Then there is a ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
Children Of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Mary was delighted and moved to see them. After greetings were exchanged, the conversation was mainly about Henry Dudley’s arrest at Calais with incriminating evidence. Later, however, the Queen sent ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
Henry VIII: King and Court by Weir Alison
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

38 ‘Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!’ IT WAS AROUND 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

11 Shall I die without justice? ON THE DAY of Queen Katherine’s funeral, Chapuys noticed Henry paying marked attention to ‘Mrs Semel [sic]’ and giving her ‘very large presents’. During ...
( Category: England July 19,2014 )
De Niro: A Life by Shawn Levy
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]

You start with the name, an impossible encumbrance: Rupert Pupkin. “Often misspelled and mispronounced,” he repeatedly says, and before long we hear “Pipkin” and “Pumpkin” and “Pupnik.” There is the ...
( Category: Biographies July 19,2014 )
The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

After Barbara excused herself to take a shower, I went in search of fishing paraphernalia. I decided the garage behind the house would be my best bet. “Garage,” however, was ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural July 19,2014 )

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