Travelers & Explorers
mobi |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Andrew Chaikin
THE MULTICOLORED BRILLIANCE of another space sunset faded from view as Friendship 7 coasted into its third orbital night. Below, in the light of the full moon, Glenn could see ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Jamie Doran & Piers Bizony [Doran, Jamie & Bizony, Piers]
Early on the morning of April 14 Gagarin left for Moscow. He climbed the gangway of a large Ilyushin-18 airliner capable of long-distance flights. In a few weeks’ time he ...
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Travelers & Explorers
October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Jose Saramago
March 26: A Question of Color The text of a dialogue in a TV car ad. A six- or possibly seven-year-old girl sitting in the front passenger seat of a ...
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Authors
October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Mozingo
Chapter 12 Back to the Northern Neck As he accepted the alabaster Christ and the bloody cross—in the bearing of which he would find his redemption, as, indeed, to our ...
( Category:
Historical
October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-04 | Author:Grant, Richard [Grant, Richard]
MY FIRST ATTEMPTS to communicate with the Guarijios were a comprehensive failure. The schoolchildren avoided my eyes and curled in on themselves with discomfort and embarrassment when I tried to ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
October 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:A Texas Cowboy or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
CHAPTER XVIII. Seven weeks among Indians. ON OUR ARRIVAL back to the ranch, Moore rigged up a scouting outfit to do nothing but drift over the Plains in search of ...
( Category:
Americas
October 6,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Tracy Ross [Ross, Tracy]
My parents drove Andrew and me to Interlochen. They used up all of their vacation time to do it. I remember singing as we pulled up to the bucolic campus. ...
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Travelers & Explorers
October 6,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:LaCava, Stephanie [LaCava, Stephanie]
I didn’t need to go any closer to the mansion. There was no longer someone looking at me through the window, and the swans had gone elsewhere. I knew the ...
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Essays & Correspondence
October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-22 | Author:Robert Morgan [Morgan, Robert]
CHAPTER TWELVE Farthest Outpost of Rebellion 1778–1779 After Boone and the other negotiators escaped from the treaty site and reached safety inside the fort, the firing from the fort and ...
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Travelers & Explorers
October 6,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Lovell, Mary S. [Lovell, Mary S.]
The duchess died while the book was in the press and never saw the published result of her gossipy chats with the writer. Undoubtedly she had heard the story from ...
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Leaders & Notable People
October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Wickenden, Dorothy [Wickenden, Dorothy]
PART FOUR Reckonings “Hero No. 1” 13 THE CREAM OF ROUTT COUNTY Oak Hills, 1915 The teachers worked Monday through Friday, and except for their morning duties at Sunday school ...
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Specific Groups
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Leigh Newman [Newman, Leigh]
“We’d like to welcome Flight 4924, service to JFK International,” a man’s voice singsongs on the microphone. I start, jumping out of my seat—back in Sea-Tac, back in reality. I ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:My Invented Country [Country, My Invented]
It has often been said that we Chileans are envious, that we are bothered by others’ success. It’s true, but the explanation is that what we’re feeling isn’t envy, it’s ...
( Category:
Arts & Literature
October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-02 | Author:Ofir Drori
FEBRUARY 2002 Israel THE COMPROMISE Half of winter blew through the door as I stepped into the one-room flat in Tel Aviv that I shared with Rachel. It was hardly ...
( Category:
Africa
October 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Donnie Eichar [Eichar, Donnie]
17 2012 WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE TRAIN STATION, IT WAS STILL dark. Kuntsevich’s martial discipline had us at the station at eight thirty in the morning, with over an ...
( Category:
Hiking & Camping
October 2,2017 )
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