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Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Hilary Mantel

CHAPTER 6 Breakfast time again. Sylvia slapped some diet margarine onto a minute square of toast and slowly spread it out. “Do you know what I read? I read that ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

I DEPARTED SAMOZA Hall by the same route Tex Johnson had taken. I sat down on a bench at the edge of the Quadrangle, across from the library, next to ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Carl Hiaasen

Sixteen Evan Shook was surprised to see a muddy Toyota parked out front. The Oklahoma tag didn’t make sense; the Lipscombs had said they were from Virginia. Plus they weren’t ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Public Enemies by Bernard-Henri Levy
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

*Competitive civil service examinations, which those aspiring to teach at the second or third level must pass. *Joseph Haïm Sitruk, former chief rabbi of France. *Marcellin Cazes, owner of Brasserie ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Jason Zinoman

BY THE SEVENTIES, the werewolf had gone out of fashion in the movies, and the Frankenstein monster grumbled angrily less often than he once did. Zombies were multiplying, and the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Alistair Urquhart

A full-time burial party of six men now worked in the camp. It was comprised of the same six souls, who never went out to work on the railway. While ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-02-02 | Author:Robert Leckie

Our new encampment accommodated the entire First Regiment. It was set on the slope of one of the hills, which a land pitifully poor in altitudinous earth has called the ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Citizen soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
mobi, epub | | 2002-08-31 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Chapter Seven The Ardennes: December 16-19, 1944 WHEN THE Americans reached the German border, their best intelligence sources dried up. Inside Germany the Wehrmacht used secure telephone lines rather than ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Brian Castner

I’m sitting with Jimbo in another faceless airport, before dawn, drinking another cup of black coffee, waiting for another flight to I-can’t-remember. Texas? North Carolina? It all blends together. If ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Neil Ansell

6. The Bird in the Bush The goshawks caught me unawares. So far as I knew they had died out in Britain decades ago, and their stealthy return had passed ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
A Guest in my Own Country by George Konrad
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:George Konrad

I have presented these developments to give the reader a sense of the future trajectory of the man who sat to my right in the front seat of the car. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Anna Funder

15 Herr Christian Several days pass in which my main activity seems to be feeding and emptying the heater. Now I’m rugged up and off to the station. Near the ...
( Category: Germany March 25,2014 )
A history of Zionism by Walter Laqueur
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Walter Laqueur

The Third Aliya The third immigration wave constituted at the time by far the strongest element among Jewish labour in Palestine. About 65 per cent of all agricultural and urban ...
( Category: Nationalism March 25,2014 )
A History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Walter Laqueur

The Third Aliya The third immigration wave constituted at the time by far the strongest element among Jewish labour in Palestine. About 65 per cent of all agricultural and urban ...
( Category: Nationalism March 25,2014 )
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tony Judt

Back in 1970 the École boasted quite a few self-styled “Maoists.” One of them, a talented mathematician, took pains to explain to me why the great Bibliothèque des Lettres should ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )

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