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Magnifico by Miles J. Unger
epub |eng | 2008-07-27 | Author:Miles J. Unger [Unger, Miles J.]

Despite signs of impending trouble, Lorenzo did not seem entirely displeased with the new state of affairs. From the rubble of the old triple alliance had emerged a new confederation, ...
( Category: Italy January 29,2015 )
Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:David Lawson [Lawson, David]

CHAPTER 14 “The World Is His Fatherland” Morphy’s formal challenge to the chess players of the world, offering the odds of Pawn and move, was never taken up. Thereafter, however, ...
( Category: Chess January 29,2015 )
Boardwalk Gangster by Tim Newark
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Tim Newark

The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano has long been criticized as more invention than truth, and many of its stories, supposedly from the mouth of Luciano, do not fit in ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals January 29,2015 )
Lincoln's Gamble by Todd Brewster
epub |eng | | Author:Todd Brewster

XI. WEAKENED IT WOULD BE HARD to reconcile any of the many stalwart portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, anything from the pen of Carl Sandburg, say, or from the big-screen representations ...
( Category: American Civil War January 29,2015 )
Vindication by Lyndall Gordon
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lyndall Gordon

A week after Godwin had tea with ‘Wolstencraft’, his diary notes that ‘Imlay calls’ on Friday 22 April 1796 and that the following day he, in turn, called on ‘Imlay’. ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )
Cavalier by Worsley Lucy
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Worsley, Lucy [Worsley, Lucy]

The two armies prepare for battle at Marston Moor They are drawn up on Marston Hill, beyond the road and ditch running east-west between the villages of Long Marston and ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Still Life in Harlem by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

My father wants to know if I regret the life I have lived, wants to know too, I suppose, if I regret missing the life I never had. At first ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The Final Curtsey by Margaret Rhodes
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Rhodes [Margaret, Rhodes]

Our wedding Wedding day: Among this group are the King and Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret, my parents and my mother-in-law The annulment hearing had been before an ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
The World of Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]

I don’t think any of the changes made were in conflict with your basic conception. In fact, you would have had to make them yourself. I do not doubt that ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective January 29,2015 )
Cagney by Cagney
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:James Cagney [Cagney, James]

6 Psychologically I needed no preparation for Yankee Doodle Dandy, or professionally either. I didn’t have to pretend to be a song-and-dance man. I was one. In just about every ...
( Category: Reference January 29,2015 )
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Linda Porter [Porter, Linda]

At first glance, this seems a curiously stilted effort. It is, nevertheless, very revealing, once the allowances for etiquette, formality of address and Elizabeth’s still imperfect grasp of the Italian ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
ELIZABETH AND ESSEX: a tragic history by Strachey Lytton
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Strachey, Lytton [Strachey, Lytton]

With some unwillingness she allowed the fleet to make another attack upon Spain. But it was now too weak to effect a landing at Ferrol; it must do no more ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )
Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz [West, J. B.]

2 AFTER LUNCH, THE KENNEDY children were bedded down, the maids and houseman scuttled away, and silence reigned upstairs at the White House. For the President of the United States, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart (Pimlico) by McLynn Frank
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:McLynn, Frank [McLynn, Frank]

24 A New Mistress (March–August 1748) THE POLITICAL SITUATION in early 1748 could hardly have been less promising for the prince. It was now certain that a general peace would ...
( Category: Great Britain January 29,2015 )
The First Lady of Radio by Stephen Drury Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Drury Smith [Smith, Stephen Drury; Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

A typewritten postcard from San Francisco read: Why don’t you use some of this soap to scrub those BUCK TEETH of yours and maybe you could talk plainer . . ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )

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