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Casanova's Women by Judith Summers
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-11-12 | Author:Judith Summers

Between 1753 and May 1755, while Christoforo Capretta believed that his daughter was safely out of harm’s way in the convent, she was being debauched by Marina Morosini, Casanova and ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Halima Bashir

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Rumors of War I knew how valuable my qualifying as a doctor would be for the people of our village. That gave me the strength and fortitude to ...
( Category: Africa April 5,2015 )
Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Helen Rappaport

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Jennet Conant

How like the Autumn’s warmth is Julia’s face So filled with Nature’s bounty, Nature’s worth. And how like summer’s heat is her embrace Wherein at last she melts my frozen ...
( Category: World War II April 5,2015 )
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Kingdom of Fear by Thompson Hunter S
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

The Lion and the Cadillac Fear? I know not fear. There are only moments of confusion. Some of them are deeply stamped on my memory and a few will haunt ...
( Category: Journalists April 5,2015 )
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Farley Mowat

And so the first day of this story comes to an end. Beyond it lay the time when the snows came and the River of Men lay hidden under the ...
( Category: Polar Regions April 5,2015 )
Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nancy Mitford

9 NANCY PAID ANNUAL visits to her parents who had chosen to live apart in their old age—Lord Redesdale in a cottage at Otterburn, Northumberland, and Lady Redesdale at lonely ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President by Jack Cashill
mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Jack Cashill

Wrote Goodwin: Mrs. Harvey Gibson gave a tea in her honor to introduce her to some of the other girls—hardly a routine practice for new recruits. Goodwin added only the ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 5,2015 )
Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...
( Category: Japan April 5,2015 )
Over a Hot Stove by Flo Wadlow
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Flo Wadlow

In the general run of things, the kitchen staff would tend not to mix with the other staff, but Flo was probably an exception to the rule: It happened to ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler

Jackie’s Saddest Days At the same time that Ted and Joan moved into their new rented home, Jackie purchased a fourteen-room, brick town house close to them, at 3017 N ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
To Conquer the Air by James Tobin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Shadow King by Jo Marchant
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant

LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...
( Category: Royalty April 5,2015 )
The Woman from Hamburg by Hanna Krall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )

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