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Twelve Years a Slave (AmazonClassics Edition) by Northup Solomon
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Northup, Solomon [Northup, Solomon]

CHAPTER 14 Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845—Demand For Laborers in St. Mary’s Parish—Sent Thither in a Drove—The Order of the March—The Grand Coteau—Hired To Judge Turner on Bayou ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2019 )
Light-Horse Harry Lee by Ryan Cole
epub |eng | | Author:Ryan Cole

13 CRACKED Long before the march to Pittsburg, even before the political tussles over the Constitution, Lee had been promised a golden medal. It was for his exploits during the ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2019 )
The Banished Immortal by Ha Jin
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Ha Jin

The poem outraged many local Confucianists, who regarded themselves as capable men, truly learned and virtuous. Their outcries were so persistent and overbearing that Li Bai was forced to withdraw ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2019 )
Bluff City by Preston Lauterbach
epub |eng | 2018-11-29 | Author:Preston Lauterbach

As darkness fell on August 10, 1967, Ernest Withers stood on the sidewalk outside Centenary Methodist, Jim Lawson’s church. He sported a fresh haircut, a gold-plated watch, and a neat ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2019 )
Horses Don't Fly by Frederick Libby
epub |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Frederick Libby

18 First Flight over German Lines, One Enemy Plane Confirmed Through all of this I have remainded quiet, but finally come alive enough to inquire what is so wonderful in ...
( Category: Historical January 14,2019 )
Rival Queens by Kate Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Williams

Chapter Twenty-Three ‘They Have Robbed Me of Everything I Have in This World’ THE LORDS HAD expected that the people would attack and mock their queen, but the people of ...
( Category: Europe January 13,2019 )
Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
epub |eng | 2018-09-06 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

This was open-ended musing rather than ringing defence. It positively invited denunciation of those unnamed, and could not have been written with Cromwell anywhere near the King’s chamber. In fact ...
( Category: Historical January 13,2019 )
Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Rena Kornreich Gelissen [Gelissen, Rena Kornreich; Macadam, Heather Dune]

IT IS SUNDAY. I walk around camp looking for any tidbits or anything that might be useful lying in the mud. “Rena!” Someone calls my name. Looking around, I see ...
( Category: World January 13,2019 )
The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby by Richard Mahoney
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Richard Mahoney

If you have not lost your self-control and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2019 )
Queen Victoria--Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life by Lucy Worsley
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Lucy Worsley

Five years later, at half past nine on the grey morning of 24 August 1861, Victoria was travelling south-west from Dublin by railway. She was going deeper into Ireland, towards ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2019 )
The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Brad Meltzer

47 New York, New York June 1776 The Life Guards. They’re George Washington’s elite unit. His trusted bodyguards. The most disciplined men. The best-trained soldiers. In an army otherwise made ...
( Category: Americas January 9,2019 )
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life by Lucy Worsley
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Lucy Worsley

Five years later, at half past nine on the grey morning of 24 August 1861, Victoria was travelling south-west from Dublin by railway. She was going deeper into Ireland, towards ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2019 )
LIFE Jesus by The Editors of LIFE
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:The Editors of LIFE

RICHARD T. NOWITZ A man rides a donkey through the Old City, just as Jesus once did. © NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON/ART RESOURCE, NY A Piero della Francesca painting made circa ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 6,2019 )
The American President by Kathryn Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Moore

HERBERT HOOVER ★ ★ ★ THIRTY-FIRST PRESIDENT ★ ★ ★ LIFE SPAN • Born: August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa • Died: October 20, 1964, in New York City ...
( Category: Historical January 6,2019 )
The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener & Steve Berry
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:James A. Michener & Steve Berry

7 THE MAN FROM CSEPEL A few months before the Budapest revolution, the communist government of Hungary published an official guide to the country, composed by devoted communists and fine-tooth-combed ...
( Category: Europe January 6,2019 )

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