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Kate Summerscale by The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder & the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
mobi |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder & the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November–December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...
( Category: Mystery September 3,2017 )
Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards & True Kelley
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-02 | Author:Roberta Edwards & True Kelley

The biggest pyramid belonged to a pharaoh named Cheops. It took approximately one hundred thousand workers twenty years to complete. The body of Cheops was placed deep inside, in a ...
( Category: Biographies September 3,2017 )
Bond of Secrecy by Saint John Hunt
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Saint John Hunt [Hunt, Saint John]

Chapter Fourteen American Spy: A Story Of Betrayal The book, American Spy, that was published shortly after my father passed away was the direct result of everything that Eric Hamburg ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2017 )
Bloody Mary by Erickson Carolly 1943-
epub |eng | 1978-09-03 | Author:Erickson, Carolly, 1943-

hand to see mv Lady out of the country and in safety, and I was the first man to suggest it. And if you understand me, what I say is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 3,2017 )
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Guevara Ernesto Che
mobi |eng | 2003-08-01 | Author:Guevara, Ernesto Che [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

*Spanish-speaking Latin Americans, often used to refer to Indians who adopt Spanish ways. *The Inca Garcilaso, son of an Inca princess and a conquistador, was one of the chroniclers of ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 3,2017 )
Solo by Clyde Edgerton
epub |eng | 2005-09-03 | Author:Clyde Edgerton

AN AIR FORCE PILOT automatically accrued the informal status of the aircraft he flew. While the status of any particular aircraft can be argued about endlessly, a general ranking went ...
( Category: Transportation September 3,2017 )
Daughter of Empire by Pamela Hicks
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Pamela Hicks

11 After all the ceremonies and parties we next flew to Bombay. This was my chance to meet the student leaders who, following independence, had been released from prison. They ...
( Category: Memoirs September 3,2017 )
Blood on the Moon by Edward Jr. Steers
epub |eng | | Author:Edward , Jr. Steers

Left, Samuel Cox Sr. Booth and Herold stopped at Cox’s plantation home, Rich Hill, around midnight on April 15, 1865. Cox saw to their safe hiding in a pine thicket ...
( Category: Americas September 3,2017 )
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution by Ivan Bunin
epub, pdf |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Ivan Bunin [Bunin, Ivan]

Nighttime, the same day I was looking through my briefcase, and I tore up several poems and stories that I never finished. I already regret what I did. All this ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2017 )
Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2017 )
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Jacobs by Jacobs Harriet Ann
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Jacobs, Harriet Ann [Jacobs, Harriet Ann]

It was talked of by the slaves as a mighty grand funeral. Northern travellers, passing through the place, might have described this tribute of respect to the humble dead as ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
Memoirs (Vintage Classics) by Kingsley Amis
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Kingsley Amis [Amis, Kingsley]

* * * 1 I tried to put something of the feel of the place into a novel of mine, The Anti-Death League. 2 When a young lady writer from ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-03-04 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1944 Dearest Kitty, I (there I go again!) don’t know what’s happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how I’ve changed. By the way, I ...
( Category: World September 2,2017 )
The New York Times Book of The Dead by William McDonald
epub | | 2016-10-18 | Author:William McDonald

VIRGINIA WOOLF January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941 LONDON—Mrs. Virginia Woolf, novelist and essayist, who had been missing from her home since last Friday, is believed to have been drowned at ...
( Category: Regional U.S September 2,2017 )
Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe by Carroll Leslie
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Carroll, Leslie [Carroll, Leslie]

CAROLINE MATHILDE 1751–1775 QUEEN OF DENMARK: 1766–1772 (BANISHED) As king of England, George III, who acceded to the throne in 1760, had the authority, if not also the obligation, to ...
( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )

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