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Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History by Kati Marton
mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Kati Marton

BETTY, A BORN PERFORMER, loved the role. Like Jacqueline Kennedy, though from another world, she understood the symbolic power of her undefined position. She grasped what Pat Nixon did not: ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-04 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Chapter 7: Land of Wine or Walrus A ship came to Greenland from Norway that summer. Its captain was a man named Thorfinn Karlsefni. He was the son of Thord ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:Paul Keany

Chapter 14 LOCKDOWN I WAS SURE THERE WOULD BE SOME FALLOUT FROM THE SHOOT-OUT – AND there was. A few days later we got the news. It would mean my ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 18,2017 )
Mary Tudor by Linda Porter
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Linda Porter

The picture of Mary as a woman who had little grasp of what was going on, who could not work with her politicians and was essentially run by her cousin, ...
( Category: World December 18,2017 )
A Circle of Sisters by Judith Flanders
epub |eng | 2006-12-17 | Author:Judith Flanders

The mother’s care and … attentions have completely demoralized me and … I have decided that when I marry it must be a lady well versed in domestic knowledge, not ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
29 by Adena Halpern
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Adena Halpern [Halpern, Adena]

the point of no return A moment comes in everyone’s life when they realize they’re old. I’m not talking about the day you see your first gray hair or the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 17,2017 )
Jane Goodall by Dale Peterson
epub |eng | | Author:Dale Peterson

Every question was either circumnavigated or firmly squashed. Every plea was answered with a sneer. Oh yes, with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders, oh yes, we could certainly edit ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 16,2017 )
The Pink Elephant In the Middle of the Getto by TiTi Ladette
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:TiTi Ladette [Ladette, TiTi]

Chapter 5 Healing “You can fill your life with if only’s or you can get on with it….. In my family, we get on with it.” -Judy Blume “Summer Sisters” ...
( Category: Personal Transformation December 16,2017 )
The Mistress of Mayfair by Lyndsy Spence
epub |eng | | Author:Lyndsy Spence

Doris at Faringdon, surrounded by Gerald Berners, Daphne Weymouth and Mad Boy. In his diary, Beaton wrote: ‘Peter loves people that are not in love with him and I in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 16,2017 )
Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein
epub |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:Elyse Schein

PAULA: Since I’ve been to Paris before and have visited most of the popular tourist attractions, I let Elyse guide me through her own personal tour of Paris, the places ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 16,2017 )
Diamonds at Dinner by Hilda Newman & Tim Tate
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Hilda Newman & Tim Tate [Hilda Newman and Tim Tate]

Who wouldn’t want to explore such a place? I laced up my sensible shoes and set off to the east in search of it. I think it must have taken ...
( Category: Memoirs December 15,2017 )
The Case of Rose Bird by Cairns Kathleen A.;
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Cairns, Kathleen A.; [Cairns, Kathleen A.]

8 Big Business v. Rose Bird It was just after midnight in November 1974 when Charles Bigbee left his job as a custodian at Los Angeles City Hall and drove ...
( Category: Americas December 15,2017 )
Affection by Krissy Kneen
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Krissy Kneen

BECOMING CATHERINE DENEUVE Brisbane 2008 Every day I come back to my computer. I trawl through my sex life, one post at a time. I begin to find the patterns, ...
( Category: Sexual Health December 15,2017 )
A Woman on the Edge of Time by Gavron Jeremy;
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:Gavron, Jeremy;

January 1965 We have a great many friends in their forties — I don’t feel they have a great advantage in knowledge or experience. It’s hard to say why — ...
( Category: Women's Studies December 14,2017 )
The Grandes Dames by Stephen Birmingham
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Stephen Birmingham

16 A LITANY OF GOOD WORKS Mary Emery’s first important philanthropy came not long after her husband’s death, when she donated $250,000 to build a YMCA in Newport, specifically for ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 14,2017 )

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