Biographies
mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Nixon, Joan Lowery [Nixon, Joan Lowery]

Chapter Thirteen Dora was Nanny’s fifth cousin and lived with her husband, Ed, in nearby Huntington Park. Overly round and rouged, Dora was pleasant and friendly with an ever-ready smile ...
( Category: Composition & Creative Writing April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-18 | Author:Jack Batten

From mid-December 1914 to mid-January 1915, the clinic hid ten French soldiers, survivors of the battle at Charleroi, and twenty British soldiers that fought at Mons. The escaping men were ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jane Yolen

10. THE BATED BOY WHEN HE WOKE AGAIN THE ROOM WAS DARKER and the light through the windows shaded. There was a new loaf and a bowl of milk by ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-27 | Author:Richard Platt [Platt, Richard]

The gun captain holds a glowing taper to the touch hole and the ball is fired with a deafening crash. The Ranger was the first to hit the target and ...
( Category: United States March 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Veronica Bennett [Bennett, Veronica]

James, Henry and Eliza Tom Lefroy was to return to Ireland in two weeks. When he and his young cousin George made the customary visit to Steventon the day after ...
( Category: European March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Nancy Plain [Plain, Nancy]

32. Bald Eagle, America’s national bird. “I do any thing for money now a days,” he told Lucy.23 In between his stays in the big cities of Scotland and England, ...
( Category: Art March 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Paul Zindel [Zindel, Paul]

Anyway, the Sunday before I was to start school, Nonno Frankie saw me stumbling around in our half of the backyard in a frightened stupor. He called me over to ...
( Category: Literary March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Ann Hood

Maisie did not want to go up into the hills with Leonardo. “But he’s Leonardo da Vinci,” Felix said to her in disbelief. How could anyone, even his sister, Maisie, ...
( Category: Renaissance February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Ned Vizzini [Vizzini, Ned]

*Many of these “creatures” are scantily clad, buxom females. In fact, some early Magic cards were banned from later editions because they were too sexually suggestive. The one I remember ...
( Category: General February 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Sy Montgomery & Temple Grandin [Montgomery, Sy & Grandin, Temple]

When a Door Opens Temple was daydreaming one Sunday in chapel, a weekly feature of her life at Hampshire Country School. The minister droned on and on. The sermons were ...
( Category: Farm Life February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Malala Yousafzai & Patricia McCormick [Yousafzai, Malala & McCormick, Patricia]

Adam took us to Islamabad. It was the first time I had ever visited. Islamabad was a beautiful place with nice white bungalows and broad roads, though it has none ...
( Category: Middle East February 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Richard Bernstein [Bernstein, Richard]

The person on the receiving end of these communications was the head of the China desk in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, John Carter Vincent, a distinguished-looking forty-five-year-old Kansan ...
( Category: Asian January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Orhan Pamuk

11 The pleasure of reading, which natty older gentlemen complain is lacking in our culture, must be in the musical harmony I heard reading the documents and murder reports in ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Carolyn Meyer

Chapter 28 BERENIKE In spite of Berenike’s edict, rumors of the fate of Tryphaena and Titus grow even more gruesome. Announcements from the palace are now dated YEAR 2 IN ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peg Kehret

From the ending of Night of Fear: Gently, T. J. helped her to her feet. Then he put his arms around her and held her close. A deep love for ...
( Category: Composition & Creative Writing January 29,2015 )