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A Stranger to Myself by Willy Peter Reese
epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Willy Peter Reese

THE GHOST WOOD Sand slowly slipped through the hourglass, and every grain rested in God’s hands. We had no sense of that. We experienced the beginning30 of the New Year ...
( Category: Military June 9,2014 )
Bigger is Better by Ang Big
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ang, Big [Ang, Big]

“Ang was devastated. For the first couple of days, she was the only one of the siblings there, and it was all on her to deal with the situation. My ...
( Category: Essays June 9,2014 )
The Lady Penelope by Varlow Sally
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Varlow, Sally [Varlow, Sally]

CHAPTER TWENTY January–December 1596 “With best forewinds guide the journey, speed the victory” – Elizabeth I, 3 June 1596 Essex’s daring raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz in the ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
Two Americans by William Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:William Lee Miller [Miller, William Lee]

Eisenhower’s version of containment contrasted itself to Truman’s by claiming to have a new approach, a New Look, at the core of which was a greater reliance on nuclear weapons ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 6,2014 )
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Kati Marton [Marton, Kati]

* * * * Peter had been ABC News anchor once before, in the sixties, before he was ready for it. It was then that he began his apprenticeship as ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Strub Sean
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Strub, Sean [Strub, Sean]

CHAPTER 15 Unexpected Expire I lost several close friends between 1987 and 1989, but 1988 was particularly difficult, beginning with the drawn-out agonizing death of Bobby Barrios in January. Bobby ...
( Category: AIDS June 6,2014 )
Alex's Wake by Martin Goldsmith
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Martin]

ONCE UPON A TIME, many years ago, there was a colorful country of wide plains and towering peaks, inhabited by noble swordsmen and gentle damsels, husbandmen and troubadours, shepherds and ...
( Category: World War II June 6,2014 )
The Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Nicholas Dawidoff [Dawidoff, Nicholas]

THE INFORMATION BERG was sending to Washington from the top floor of 24 Dufourstrasse wasn’t as dramatic as his cables describing the meeting with Heisenberg, but intelligence work rarely manages ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Kai Bird [Bird, Kai]

January 22, 1979, was a cold and gray day in Beirut. It was the birthday of Salameh’s young niece, and Ali Hassan had promised he would stop by his mother’s ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
Saddam: His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Con Coughlin [Coughlin, Con]

By the summer of 1982 the glory Saddam had hoped to acquire from the “second Qadisiya” was fast becoming a distant memory. The brutal reversal in Iraq’s fortunes in a ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
Mrs. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon
epub |eng | | Author:Meryl Gordon [Gordon, Meryl]

As Annette de la Renta headed out the door after a visit at 778 Park, she asked Pearline Noble what she could bring for Mrs. Astor the next time. "A ...
( Category: Women June 6,2014 )
Gabriele D'Annunzio by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett [Hughes-Hallett, Lucy]

After the Germans drew back, d’Annunzio obtained a permit to drive out into the territory they had occupied in the weeks before. On a day of pouring rain he set ...
( Category: World War I June 6,2014 )
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty by Daniel Schulman
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Daniel Schulman [Schulman, Daniel]

At 3:09 p.m., in the dimly lit pipeline control center at Koch Industries’ Wichita headquarters, an alert flashed red on one of the six screens Danny Mills was monitoring. This ...
( Category: Business June 6,2014 )
The World Is My Home: A Memoir by James A. Michener
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

The point of these memories about my introduction to publishing at Macmillan is that because of my inside experiences in the industry I saw the writer’s life from a perspective ...
( Category: Authors June 6,2014 )
Inventing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World by Staggs Sam
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Staggs, Sam [Staggs, Sam]

22 How to Become a Movie Star at Fifty-five Given that every day in Elsa’s life was tops, a climax, the summit of living, it is difficult to assign one ...
( Category: Journalists June 6,2014 )

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