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Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. Job ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 14,2020 )
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
epub |eng | 2018-01-22 | Author:Fintan O'Toole [O'Toole, Fintan]

5. SADOPOPULISM ‘I hurt myself today to see if I still feel’ – TRENT REZNOR, ‘Hurt’ If you are English and in your fifties or early sixties, two things are ...
( Category: European October 9,2020 )
True North by Jim Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

THE POMEGRANATE, THE APPLETREE, AND THE BRAMBLE A Pomegranate and an Apple-tree were disputing about the quality of their fruits, and each claimed that its own was the better of ...
( Category: Family Saga October 8,2020 )
Air Canada by Peter Pigott
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Peter Pigott

The Gimli Glider: There is a saying in aviation that fuel in the tanks is limited but gravity is forever. This was never better proven than on July 23, 1983, ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 1,2020 )
The Battle of Mogadishu by Matt Eversmann;Dan Schilling
mobi | | 2004-08-03 | Author:Matt Eversmann;Dan Schilling

Dan Schilling getting his “Ranger” haircut the day before Task Force Ranger deployed. Note non-regulation mustache. TIM WILKINSON Raleigh Cash ’93 RALEIGH CASH Tim Wilkinson in front of his helo ...
( Category: Historical October 1,2020 )
The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David V. Herlihy [Herlihy, David V.]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling October 1,2020 )
Live Free Or Die by Sean Hannity
epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Sean Hannity

FAKE NEWS VS. FOX NEWS If you listen to my radio show and watch my TV program, then you know about the Fake News Media’s obsession with Fox News—and their ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins
epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Max Allan Collins

AFTER TWO YEARS in the federal service, Ness’s interest began to wane. The work still offered challenges and affirmation—Ness’s scrapbook bulged with newspaper clippings and letters of praise and thanks, ...
( Category: Law Enforcement August 6,2020 )
Famous Samurai: Yagyu Munenori by William de Lange
epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:William de Lange [Lange, William de]

The scene of the Oyama war conference On September 6 Ieyasu called to his side a number of his closest retainers, among them Yagyū Munenori. This, he told them, was ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
The Enigma of Isaac Babel by Freidin Gregory
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
Elaine's by Amy Phillips Penn
epub |eng | 2015-05-10 | Author:Amy Phillips Penn

The Good Penny Curt Block Curt Block couldn’t resist contacting me with this role-reversal story. His date, after trying to make nice to Elaine with dismissive responses, finally told Elaine ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. Kaplan
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

The first morning we had slept late and treated ourselves to cappuccinos and pastries in a bar before taking a short bus ride to the archaeological museum, located halfway between ...
( Category: Greece August 6,2020 )
Looking for Miss America by Margot Mifflin
epub |eng | 2020-05-21 | Author:Margot Mifflin

EVEN AS ITS STAR WAS dimming in the 1970s, the pageant was progressing, quietly, in a few ways. During her 1972 reign, Laurel Lea Schaefer became a spokesperson for families ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Renegade by Richard Wolffe
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Richard Wolffe [Wolffe, Richard]

Trinity was the place where Barack married Michelle and they baptized their daughters. But its role in Obama’s religious and political life was vague: a presence, but not a pivotal ...
( Category: Elections August 6,2020 )
Into the Blue by Andrea Curtis
epub |eng | 2003-08-14 | Author:Andrea Curtis [Curtis, Andrea]

Sunday, November 25, 1906, 6 a.m., the Crawford house Lillie stokes the kitchen stove and sits down at the table. The children are still asleep and the streets outside are ...
( Category: Canadian August 6,2020 )

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