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That Summer in Paris by Callaghan Morley;
epub |eng | | Author:Callaghan, Morley;

“Zelda has to get up early in the morning. She’s taking those ballet lesson,” and he pointed out that girls as a rule started studying ballet when they were about ...
( Category: Memoirs November 7,2018 )
The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West by Robert M. Utley
epub |eng | 2017-11-05 | Author:Robert M. Utley [Utley, Robert M.]

CHAPTER SIX EDWARD O. C. ORD Edward Ord was an individualist, his character and personality not entirely in harmony with military structure. An impulsive, restless nonconformist, he often ran afoul ...
( Category: Americas November 6,2018 )
The Last Love of George Sand by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Chapter Fourteen “MY SOUL HAS GROWN OLD AND WEARY” The coincidence between Nini’s passing and the completion of Story of My Life was striking. The last words were addressed to ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
Queen (The Bloodline Series Book 3) by Mary Duke
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:Mary Duke [Duke, Mary]

Chapter Nine Kamara made her introduction and gave her speech. She reminded the wolves what it meant to be a wolf, what she saw in them when she created them. ...
( Category: Europe November 6,2018 )
Churchill's Bestiary: His Life Through Animals by Brendon Piers
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-24 | Author:Brendon, Piers [Brendon, Piers]

Despite Sheba’s ferocity the press implausibly reported that Churchill petted as well as fed the 21-month-old, 50-pound leopard, March 1955. LIONS F rom the lion rampant on the Marlborough coat ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 5,2018 )
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:Andrew Roberts

After warning that Hitler would use ‘the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression’, to invade Britain, he went on: I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their ...
( Category: Historical November 5,2018 )
Voices of Liberation by Leo Zeilig
epub |eng | 2017-11-05 | Author:Leo Zeilig

It is understandable that in this atmosphere, daily life becomes quite simply impossible. You can no longer be a fellah, a pimp, or an alcoholic as before. The violence of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 4,2018 )
Secret Commandos by John L. Plaster
epub |eng | | Author:John L. Plaster

10 Operation Ashtray Two would assemble a twelve-man team of eight Americans and four indigenous soldiers. From my RT California that meant Sergeant First Class Rex Jaco and Staff Sergeants ...
( Category: Military November 3,2018 )
The Theatre of E. E. Cummings by e. e. cummings
epub |eng | | Author:e. e. cummings

ANTHROPOS or THE FUTURE OF ART SCENE: one-half of the dim interior of a hemispherical cave. In the foreground — to the audience’s left, three uncouth infrahuman creatures smothered in ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 2,2018 )
Power, Prime Ministers and the Press by Robert Lewis
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Robert Lewis [Lewis, Robert]

We now know how that ended. Newman ran with his “man for our time” idea for a while and started writing an upbeat book on Ignatieff. The project ended as ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 2,2018 )
Dallas, November 22, 1963 by Robert A. Caro
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Robert A. Caro [Caro, Robert A.]

ENTERING THE PLANE, Johnson walked forward down a narrow aisle, past a sitting area with six first-class-type plane seats, and then past a small bedroom that contained beds for the ...
( Category: Historical November 1,2018 )
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island by William R. Stein
epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:William R. Stein

A PB4Y Privateer cruises over Ault Field in 1946. This photograph, taken by Ens. Malcolm Barker, a navigator in VPB-120, shows Ault Field as it looked for its first 10 ...
( Category: Military November 1,2018 )
Freak Kingdom by Timothy Denevi
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Timothy Denevi

Thompson’s account of Ed Muskie’s Sunshine Special appeared as part of his political coverage in Rolling Stone no. 106. It immediately became a hit with his fellow correspondents, whose own ...
( Category: Historical November 1,2018 )
When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Kara Cooney

* * * NEFERTITI’S EXPANDED POLITICAL ROLE is just now being uncovered by archaeologists and historians, and more major discoveries are on the verge of taking place. Egyptologists are engaged ...
( Category: World October 31,2018 )
Black Boy (1945) by Richard Wright
epub |eng | 1945-01-02 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

11 I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. I found Beale Street, the street ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 31,2018 )

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