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Mary Chesnut's Diary by Mary Boykin Chesnut
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

XII FLAT ROCK, N. C. August 1, 1862—August 8, 1862 FLAT ROCK, N. C., August 1, 1862.—Being ill I left Mrs. McMahan’s for Flat Rock.89 It was very hot and ...
( Category: American Civil War September 3,2019 )
The Irishman by Daniel Brand
epub |eng | 2018-10-06 | Author:Daniel Brand

Chapter 5: Supplying Arms for the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Assassination of JFK THE MAFIA APPROACHED the incoming Kennedy administration with both apprehension and hope. They knew Kennedy’s ...
( Category: Serial Killers September 3,2019 )
Five Days Gone by Laura Cumming
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Laura Cumming

9 Icarus The first image my mother ever owned, as a new student heady with freedom and hard-won post office shillings, was Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 30,2019 )
Red River Girl by Joanna Jolly
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Joanna Jolly

* * * — With all three interviews concluded, O’Donovan pondered what to do next. It had been a phenomenally good day for his investigation, and he was pleased with ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem August 30,2019 )
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War by Marcia Mitchell
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Marcia Mitchell

PART IV THE LEGAL CASE CHAPTER 11: The Blonde Who Dropped the Bombshell Katharine Gun, a former GCHQ civil servant, today has been charged with offences under the Official Secrets ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 29,2019 )
Thirty-Life Crisis by Lisa Schwartz
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Lisa Schwartz

I already made the video. I wanted to tell my coming-out story. I felt like I needed to. It’s going up in two hours. Two hours? As in, you only ...
( Category: Women August 29,2019 )
Normal Sucks by Jonathan Mooney
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Mooney

* * * Jake was my best friend in high school. He was a year older than me and drove a Chevy Malibu that had a different color hood from ...
( Category: Learning Disabled August 24,2019 )
True Virtue by Sister Annabel Laity
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Sister Annabel Laity

Gardening in Lower Hamlet, early 1990s. I was very happy when Sister Chan Vi came. To be able to live together with even just one other person in a Sangha ...
( Category: Women August 23,2019 )
Collected Lyrics by Patti Smith
epub |eng | 2015-08-22 | Author:Patti Smith [Smith, Patti]

AS THE NIGHT GOES BY Darlin’ come under cover Another night to discover Let’s slip where senses gather Let’s drift between the sea and sky As the night goes by ...
( Category: Songwriting August 23,2019 )
Casting off the Veil by Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi

7 The game of politics When Huda returned from Paris with Céza in July 1926, she called a meeting of the editorial board of L’Égyptienne to talk over how to ...
( Category: Women in History August 22,2019 )
The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends by Jim Motavalli
epub |eng | 2019-08-18 | Author:Jim Motavalli

Louis Vasquez, a second-generation mountain man who took up the fur trade in 1772. (Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society) Colter vowed not to visit the area again, and ...
( Category: United States August 19,2019 )
Professional Criminals of America by Thomas Byrnes
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Thomas Byrnes

132 KATE ARMSTRONG, alias MARY ANN DOWD, alias DILLON, alias SANDERS. PICKPOCKET AND SHOPLIFTER. ——— DESCRIPTION. Forty-five years old in 1886. Born in England. Married. Cook. Stout build. Height, 5 ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals August 18,2019 )
Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Charles King

Chapter Ten INDIAN COUNTRY While Hurston was making her way along the Gulf of Mexico and Mead and Fortune were planning new projects beyond Manus, Boas was more or less ...
( Category: African-American & Black August 18,2019 )
The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Karen Abbott

* * * When Remus came downstairs in the morning, Anna, Ryerson, and Klug were already gathered in the kitchen. Each of his senses was amplified, its power sharpened: the ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem August 16,2019 )
Broken Places & Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Nnedi Okorafor

8 Rusting Robot I remember how I used to be. On the tennis court, there were days when I could see through time. It happened most often when things got ...
( Category: Special Needs August 15,2019 )

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