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An American Life: The Autobiography by Reagan Ronald
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Reagan, Ronald [Reagan, Ronald]

56 EVEN THOUGH I WAS constantly meeting new people and attending public events in the presence of thousands of people, I discovered a surprising dimension to the presidency—a bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson Hunter S
epub |eng | 1996-11-26 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Popular Culture October 27,2014 )
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

12 THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE END OF the summer semester were a jumble. There was much picture taking and sporting competition, as though the incessant activities would distract ...
( Category: North October 27,2014 )
The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture by Euny Hong
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Euny Hong [Hong, Euny]

THE GANGNAM CHAINSAW MASSACRE The adulation of K-pop stars had a bit of a dark side: it inevitably gave rise to legions of fans who were willing to go to ...
( Category: South October 27,2014 )
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Kara Cooney

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...
( Category: Women October 27,2014 )
Young Titan by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shelden

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain October 27,2014 )
The Quotable Thoreau by Cramer Jeffrey S
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Cramer, Jeffrey S [Cramer, Jeffrey S]

Let men tread gently through nature. Written April 26, 1857, in his Journal, vol. IX, p. 344 Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God. A ...
( Category: United States October 27,2014 )
Anne Frank by Francine Prose
epub |eng | | Author:Francine Prose

True, the ending happens just as the Franks and their friends had feared all along: their hiding place is discovered, and they are carried away to their doom. But the ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings by Twain Mark Griffin Benjamin
epub |eng | | Author:Twain, Mark, Griffin, Benjamin

a[It is missing—BG.] b[This entry and the two after it were written by Livy—BG.] MARK TWAIN At the Farm Summer of 1884—Jean nearly 4 yrs old. She goes out to ...
( Category: United States October 16,2014 )
Tutankhamen by Joyce Tyldesley
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Recent Examination Hawass’s team confirmed that Tutankhamen’s chest had suffered serious damage prior to mummification (or, less likely, during Derry’s autopsy) and that his pelvic bones were almost entirely missing. ...
( Category: Egypt October 16,2014 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *1 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: Russia October 16,2014 )
Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past (Sexuality Studies) by Thomas A. Foster
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 16,2014 )
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Enss Chris
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Enss, Chris [Enss, Chris]

ONE TIME HELPING TO DELIVER A CHILD LED PATTY BARTLETT SESSIONS TO PURSUE A MEDICAL PROFESSION. On Sunday, September 26, 1847, Patty assisted in the birth of the first male ...
( Category: Women October 16,2014 )
Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Edmund Metatawabin [Metatawabin, Edmund]

We named her Albalina. It is a name that everyone likes as soon as you say it. I read it in a story in one of those Life magazines, about ...
( Category: First Nations October 16,2014 )
The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Anne de Courcy

Back in Italy for Easter, he wrote to her just as assiduously: I have thought of you so often here. Everything is going well, so far at least. Everybody [i.e., ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )

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