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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-21 | Author:Sarah Bradford

She had completely misjudged him, he told her. Now think me false as much as you will, believe the truth as little as you please, but like it or not, ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman & Paul Pompian & Jr
mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Frank Calabrese & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman & Paul Pompian & Jr.

I was in prison. The trip from the MCC in downtown Chicago to FCI Milan had one stopover. I arrived by bus at USP (United States Penitentiary) Terre Haute, Indiana, ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago by Simon Baatz
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Simon Baatz

WHILE ROBERT CROWE AND CLARENCE Darrow each argued his case in the pages of the Chicago newspapers, a novel proposition, one that neither side had anticipated, suddenly elbowed its way ...
( Category: Jazz March 25,2014 )
Charlatan by Pope Brock
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Pope Brock

For several hours prosecutor William Smith tried to crack Brinkley’s studied aplomb. He couldn’t do it. But as it turned out, he didn’t need to. Sometimes ignorance has an eloquence ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
Young Men and Fire by Maclean Norman
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

He set out alone for a while and before long, at the corner of Canal and Scott, he encountered a small boat. It was a military craft, with three men ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
A Secret Gift by Ted Gup
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ted Gup

Dear Mr. Virdot: I think that what you are doing this Christmas is a very beautiful and fine thing. It is something I had often wished I could do too. ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Report From Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Dennis Smith

It is three-thirty in the morning now. Ladder 712 went off duty three hours ago. Ladder 31 was special-called to an “all-hands” down on 149th Street, and while they were ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Simon Winchester

Joseph Needham would remain in China for eighteen months more. By the time he left he had visited 296 Chinese institutes, universities, and research establishments; he had arranged for the ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Steeped in Blood by David Klatzow; Sylvia Walker
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:David Klatzow; Sylvia Walker

CHAPTER 16 POST-MORTEMS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE TOTALLY INEPT Disabling Professions – IVAN ILICH, Austrian philosopher, book title Investigating a crime – getting as close to the true ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:Homer Hickam

IKE and Mary Bykovski didn’t have a telephone, so I walked to their house after school. Mrs. Bykovski opened the door and frowned when she saw it was me. She ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Geoffrey Robertson

Cooke publicly defied his would-be murderers: ‘It is for a Cain to be afraid that every man that meets him will slay him.’17 He did not care whether he was ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Curtis Wilkie

“Zeus” ascending—a young Dick Scruggs, in flight gear, as a navy pilot. (photo credit i15.1) “If I get the same response … I won’t call again.”—After being rebuffed in previous ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Rick Bragg

21 Running hot He was running from the law again, in a flatbed pickup that wouldn’t outrun a riding lawn mower, but on the narrow and twisting roads of home, ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution by Devlin Keith
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Devlin, Keith [Devlin, Keith]

Find a number such that if it be raised to the third power, and the result added to twice the same number raised to the second power, and if that ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )

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