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The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain by Massie Allan
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Massie, Allan [Massie, Allan]

Chapter 12 The Interregnum and the Scattered Family (1649–60) The news of the King’s execution shocked the courts of Europe. Few probably would have been surprised, or even distressed, if ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

CHAPTER FIVE Turning Point 1: The Signs of the Times There had been a good deal of artillery fire along the Yorktown lines during the night, and there had also ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:William J. Mann

2. In just twelve hours, the temperature in New York had plunged thirty-three degrees, bottoming out at five above zero. Snow blew into Barbra’s face as she stepped out of ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 25,2014 )
Jackie After O by Tina Cassidy
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tina Cassidy [Cassidy, Tina]

Her words for Ari would surely be a lot less poetic. France is a country that loved her as much as she loved it. After her junior year abroad studying ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LETTER TO HANNAH ARMSTRONG Hannah Armstrong was the wife of Jack Armstrong, leader of the Clary’s Grove boys at New Salem, the man with whom Lincoln had had a famous ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson M.D
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Ben Carson, M.D. [Carson, Ben M.D.]

After my year of internship I faced six years of residency, one more year of general surgery, and five of neurosurgery. I was supposed to do two years of general ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership by Sharpton Al
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Sharpton, Al [Sharpton, Al]

13 * * * PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH My social activism is my religion in practice. It is the daily embodiment of my lifelong service to God. As a Christian, ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Friar of Carcassonne by Stephen O'Shea
epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Stephen O'Shea

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INTRIGUE IN THE ROUSSILLON ONE DAY SHORTLY AFTER EASTER IN 1304, two robed figures on horseback picked their way southward alongside the Mediterranean Sea. Once past the border ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Alastair, Campbell [Alastair, Campbell]

Tuesday, November 26 Struggling to get a grip on Iraq co-ordination. There was definitely now something of a turf war between the FCO and the CIC operation, driven by John ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 25,2014 )
Bolivar: American Liberator by Arana Marie
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Arana, Marie [Arana, Marie]

THERE ARE FEW LANDSCAPES AS magnificent or unforgiving as the geologic exuberance that lies between Huaraz and Huánuco. The mighty peaks of Huascarán and Yerupajá pierce the skies and send ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Good Soldiers by Finkel David
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Finkel, David [Finkel, David]

Inside: A soldier was howling. He’d been the driver. Part of the EFP had gone under the Humvee and sent shrapnel up through the floorboards, breaking the bones in one ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
. . . And His Lovely Wife by Connie Schultz
epub |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Connie Schultz

( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Mickey Rourke by Sandro Monetti
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sandro Monetti [Monetti, Sandro]

6 SIN CITIZEN Mickey felt on top of the world late in the evening of 9 November 2008 as he strolled along Sunset Boulevard on his way into hip Hollywood ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning March 25,2014 )
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Terence McKenna

GRAVES'S PSILOCYBIN THEORY Should future research indicate that ergot played no part at Eleusis, then Graves's insistence that psilocybin mushrooms constituted the mystery would need to be looked at very ...
( Category: Substance Abuse March 25,2014 )

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