Biographies
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

NO MATTER HOW HORRIBLE the events at Colfax, obtaining justice for the victims was going to be extremely difficult. Grant Parish was in a remote area, with no permanent army ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:T. R. Simon [Simon, T. R.]

The next day was long. I spent from sunup till late afternoon in the washhouse. The humidity kept my back from drying, and the open sores wept through the bandages ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Lloyd Alexander

13 The Consulting Detective Mrs. Jossbegger died in November. My grandmother and The Gawgon did not feel up to a funeral. Leaving me with them, my mother and my aunts ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nancy J. Hajeski

“ Great lives never go out; they go on.” —BENJAMIN HARRISON First Lady Caroline Harrison introduced the first Christmas tree to the White House. DID YOU KNOW . . . ...
( Category: Biographies October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-28 | Author:Margaret Frith [Frith, Margaret]

At first Tom thought companies would use his phonograph in business. He saw it as a kind of dictating machine for writing letters. Businesses did use it. It was called ...
( Category: Biographies September 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-27 | Author:Dennis Brindell Fradin [Fradin, Dennis Brindell]

Sally Hemings was not only a slave. She was closely related to Jefferson’s late wife. Martha Jefferson’s parents were John and Martha Wayles. Martha’s father also had six children with ...
( Category: Biographies September 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-11-10 | Author:Kate Boehm Jerome [Jerome, Kate Boehm]

George Putnam became Amelia’s manager. He set up lots of public appearances for her. In six months Amelia made over one hundred speeches and gave more than two hundred interviews. ...
( Category: Biographies September 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-24 | Author:Gare Thompson [Thompson, Gare]

Mr. Anagnos asked Annie to write a paper about Helen. At nights when Annie was at her desk writing, Helen sat quietly beside her, writing her own letter to the ...
( Category: History September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-17 | Author:Jess Brallier [Brallier, Jess M.]

Albert’s oldest son, Hans Albert, grew up to become a distinguished science professor in California. Occasionally he visited with his father. Eduard, born in 1910, the younger son—whom Albert nicknamed ...
( Category: Biographies September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Charles M. Schulz [Schulz, Charles M.]

( Category: Comics & Graphic Novels September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-10 | Author:Janet Pascal [Pascal, Janet]

The Royal Society thought the best way to advance knowledge was to discuss ideas, so each man could build on—or knock down—what the others were thinking. Their motto was Nullius ...
( Category: Biographies September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Liz Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Liz]

As Maud’s fame increased, Ewan’s fortunes slowly rose. He’d become a popular minister at his small parish, and he began once more to turn his attention and ambitions to the ...
( Category: Regional Canada September 24,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Yousafzai, Malala & McCormick, Patricia [Yousafzai, Malala]

23 A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER The second Tuesday in October started out the same as any other. I was late, as usual, because I’d slept in, as usual. I’d ...
( Category: Biographies September 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Planaria Price

The Beginning of the End One way or another—I will tell you quite openly—we must finish off the Jews. —Hans Frank (1900–1946), governor of occupied Poland, December 16, 1941 MAY–AUGUST ...
( Category: Biographies September 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Planaria Price & Helen West

The Beginning of the End One way or another—I will tell you quite openly—we must finish off the Jews. —Hans Frank (1900–1946), governor of occupied Poland, December 16, 1941 MAY–AUGUST ...
( Category: Biographies September 7,2018 )