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American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett by Buddy Levy
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-05 | Author:Buddy Levy [Levy, Buddy]

This portrait highlights Crockett’s high cheekbones, which he described as “Red Rosy Cheeks that I have carried so many years.” (David Crockett. Watercolor drawing by James Hamilton Shegogue, 1831. Smithsonian ...
( Category: Religious April 8,2016 )
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by Margaret A. Oppenheimer
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ji Xianlin [Xianlin, Ji]

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: China April 7,2016 )
Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Richard Snow [Snow, Richard]

CHAPTER 12 Terrible Efficiency The Crystal Palace; taking the work to the worker; speeding up; the twentieth century’s only industrial revolution; the workers hate it. Of course the Model T ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 2,2016 )
Black Mass by Dick Lehr
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dick Lehr

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Shades of Whitey By 1984 Billy Bulger was securely on top of the State Senate, running it smoothly and firmly with vinegar and honey. Yet he had ignored ...
( Category: State & Local March 31,2016 )
Uprising (Alternate Earth Series, Book 2) by S.J. West
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:S.J. West [West, S.J.]

CHAPTER ELEVEN When we go back upstairs, we find Leah and Xiulan in the kitchen. Apparently, they decided to take it upon themselves to finish making the pie I had ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2016 )
Camelot's Court by Robert Dallek
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Robert Dallek

Kennedy did not dispute the failure to do big things at home. But for the time being, he felt that foreign dangers still had to command his primary attention. And ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 25,2016 )
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

SCENE 2 Liberator CAST ALEXANDER II, emperor 1855–81, son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt), empress, ‘Marie’ Alexandra, their eldest daughter, ‘Lina’ Nikolai, ...
( Category: European March 24,2016 )
Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

JANE AUSTEN 1775–1817 Like Shakespeare, she took, as it were, the common dross of humanity, and by her wonderful power of literary alchemy, turned it into pure gold. Yet she ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2016 )
20110916 by Unknown
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
20110906 by Unknown
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
Room 1219 by Merritt Greg
epub |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Merritt, Greg

After Arbuckle’s testimony and over the prosecution’s objection, the deposition of Dr. Maurice Rosenberg was read into the record. (He had been interviewed by defense attorney Brennan in Chicago.) Rosenberg ...
( Category: State & Local March 23,2016 )
The Art of Acquiring by Mary Gabriel
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Gabriel

Back in Baltimore, the sisters anxiously awaited the arrival of their crates. That winter was the first of many spent arranging their homes to accommodate the new items, and showing ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 22,2016 )

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