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The Last Voyage of Columbus by Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Martin Dugard [DUGARD, MARTIN]

After less than a week of drifting, Jamaica’s inland mountains loomed on the horizon. Thirty miles off the coast, Columbus landed on a sandy cay and sent the men ashore ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 17,2017 )
Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu [NAMU, YANG ERCHE]

The City Ishould have found it ugly. The guest house was a squat gray concrete building three stories high, with large glass windows in metal frames, and underneath, white and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 17,2017 )
Virile by Virile (Evernight)
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Virile (Evernight) [Virile (Evernight)]

Chapter Nine “I can’t go for breakfast like this if there’s someone else in the house.” Adara wanted to stamp her foot, and it was all she could do to ...
( Category: Men's Health August 17,2017 )
The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:Mary Renault [Renault, Mary]

Curtius says they had been branded too. Both sources agree that Alexander wept for them. He offered to give them transport home and provide for their remaining lives. Conferring, they ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 17,2017 )
Shadow Warrior by Randall B. Woods
epub |eng | | Author:Randall B. Woods [Woods, Randall B.]

14 BIRDS OF PEACE AND BIRDS OF WAR While Colby’s CORDS programs were making progress in South Vietnam, new actors appeared on the American political stage; indeed, a new play ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People by Donald Richie
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

Tamasaburo Bando He impersonates that male invention, feminity, and does it so well that only those seams which he wants to show are allowed to be visible. A man imitating ...
( Category: Photography & Video August 17,2017 )
Just Mary by Mary O'Rourke
epub |eng | | Author:Mary O'Rourke [Rourke, Mary O’]

Chapter 11 PUBLIC ENTERPRISE I approached my new role as Minister for Public Enterprise in a way which for the most part was very much in line with my own ...
( Category: World August 17,2017 )
The Romanovs by Robert K. Massie
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
The Wars of Watergate by Stanley I. Kutler
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Stanley I. Kutler [Kutler, Stanley I.]

Ehrlichman stared across the table, eyebrows furrowed, jaw set, and replied: I am afraid that has been considerably eroded over the years, has it not? Talmadge never hesitated: Down in ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette by John Dummer
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:John Dummer

The waitress came over to tell us she'd found us a place. 'Come and eat with us, Marcel,' said Serge. 'We'll have a laugh.' 'OK, I won't eat with you, ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
Siren Years : A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945 (9781551996783) by Ritchie Charles
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Ritchie, Charles [Ritchie, Charles]

24 November 1941. Visited by my familiar devils which I fondly thought I had exorcised. I do not know what brings on these attacks when I am reduced almost to ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
Diplomatic Passport : More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962 (9781551996790) by Ritchie Charles
epub |eng | 2001-09-04 | Author:Ritchie, Charles [Ritchie, Charles]

1 German parliament. 1 Pearson was then Secretary of State for External Affairs. 1 Frank Giles, British journalist, since Editor of the Sunday Times, and his wife, Lady Katherine Giles. ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 17,2017 )
Bend, Not Break by Ping Fu
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Ping Fu

THE PERSONAL FACTORY: 1996–1999 THE YEAR 1996 was nearing its end and I was determined to get a company started. Xixi was three, sweet and chatty, and I truly enjoyed ...
( Category: Memoirs August 17,2017 )
A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child by Soames Mary
mobi |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Soames, Mary [Soames, Mary]

AFTER THIS EMOTIONAL and upsetting interlude I found getting back to work quite difficult, particularly as I had told my companions in the library about my engagement, and a number ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 17,2017 )
A Lizard In My Luggage by Anna Nicholas
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Anna Nicholas

'What a waste!' she says sadly. We walk to the car where Alan is trying to squeeze Charlotte's three Louis Vuitton cases into the back of the Renault. 'Alan, you ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )

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