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A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...
( Category: Russia May 30,2015 )
The Alchemy of Air
epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Thomas Hager

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and ...
( Category: Germany May 30,2015 )
A Man and His Ship
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Ujifusa

After making a series of frantic phone calls, William Francis and Frederic Gibbs grimly called a meeting with their decorators in September 1950. Dorothy Marckwald and Anne Urquhart, who had ...
( Category: Marine Engineering May 30,2015 )
The Wild Blue
mobi | | 2001-08-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SIX - Learning to Fly in Combat THE AAF POLICY IN THE FALL OF 1944was to have the pilots fly their first five combat missions as co-pilots with a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
First Love (Little Blue Book #1195)
mobi |eng | | Author:Various,

* * * One morning in May, 1852--that is, four years after the scene just described--a friend of mine, who told me this story, stopped his horse in front of ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
Representative Men
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
mobi |eng | | Author:Bird, Isabella L. [Bird, Isabella L.]

* * * End Project Gutenberg Etext of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains * * * * * * A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains from http://manybooks.net/ ...
( Category: State & Local May 29,2015 )
Crazy Horse: A Life by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

11 BY THE SUMMER of 1875 the crisis over the Black Hills could no longer be postponed. Custer’s grand announcement caught the nation’s attention: after that the miners could not ...
( Category: Native American Studies May 28,2015 )
A Cool and Lonely Courage by Susan Ottaway
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Huang Yunte
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Huang, Yunte [Huang, Yunte]

IN JUNE 2008, during a research trip to Honolulu, I went to visit Apana’s house at 3737 Waialae Avenue. As soon as the sun rose from behind craggy Diamond Head ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective May 27,2015 )
The Class of 1846 by John Waugh
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:John Waugh [Waugh, John]

Delightful Excitement If General Banks saw salvation across the river and Stonewall Jackson saw the hand of Providence in victory, Abraham Lincoln saw opportunity still alive in the Valley. The ...
( Category: Performing Arts May 27,2015 )
What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill Your Wife? by David Harris-Gershon
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David Harris-Gershon

From the beginning, attempting to procure an audience with Mohammad – the process itself – proved to be nothing short of maddening. My frustration with the Israeli government bubbled over ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 27,2015 )
Live by the Sword
epub |eng | | Author:Gus Russo [Russo, Gus]

The air traffic controller at Redbird on November 22, 1963 was Louis D. Gaudin. He told the author (and the FBI) that on the day of the shooting, he saw ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Cathy Porter
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Cathy Porter

26th March. It’s a great pity I haven’t kept an accurate account of the various events and conversations that have taken place. What interested me most were all the letters, ...
( Category: Russia May 27,2015 )
Death of Caesar : The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (9781451668827) by Strauss Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry

MARCH 17: RECONCILIATION That same day, March 17, the conspirators invited the Roman people to the Capitoline and a large number accepted. Brutus addressed them, speaking, it seems, either in ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2015 )

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