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epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Rosemary Sutcliff [Sutcliff, Rosemary]

7 Captive Winter ‘What will they be keeping us for?’ someone asked. And ‘They will be having a use for us,’ someone answered. ‘We shall know it soon enough.’ It ...
( Category: History September 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lois Ruby

Chapter Thirty-Two March 1857 THE OLD MAN IS A - WAITING The surging Ohio River spread out before them, black and roaring and impossible to cross. Homer’s eyes were as ...
( Category: Mysteries & Detectives September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Lois Ruby [Ruby, Lois]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Like a Real Son July 1856 Pa was gone to Missouri with legal papers to try to get Solomon back, and so Miz Lizbet had free rein of ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Lee Lamb

18 W and by 7 E on Rock 30 SW. 14 N Tree 7 by 8 by 4 On Oak Island, two hand-drilled white granite stones had been discovered. One ...
( Category: Education & Reference September 10,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Bill Bryson

17. EN LA TROPOSFERA Menos mal que existe la atmósfera. Nos mantiene calientes. Si no existiera, la Tierra sería una bola de hielo sin vida, con una temperatura media de ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Mary Losure [Losure, Mary]

The wild boy’s new family also included Madame Guérin’s husband, Monsieur Guérin, but very little is known about him. And there was still one more member, an even more mysterious ...
( Category: Biographies September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Susan Hughes [Hughes, Susan]

Chapter Eleven The next day, the morning sky was dark and cloudy. The wind was high. Ellie was slow getting up. It seemed like night. She yawned, stretched and dozed. ...
( Category: History September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Laban Carrick Hill [HILL, LABAN CARRICK]

Above, Carl Van Vechten. Right, a caricature of Van Vechten by Miguel Covarrubias as an African American. “What Mr. Van Vechten has written is just what those who do not ...
( Category: History September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-19 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

Even if he didn’t cure them, patients were usually grateful. For many, it was the first time in their lives that someone had listened to them with full attention. They ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Charlotte Jones [Jones, Charlotte]

CELLOPHANE You see a lot of cellophane at the grocery store. That clear stuff covering the raw hamburger is a type of cellophane. You also seal your friend’s birthday gift ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

(art credit 15) He found it—a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village—and that Monday, Ted Geisel got busy at his old wooden drawing board. He had his colored pencils, his paints, ...
( Category: Biographies September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

CHAPTER SIX Suddenly Famous THE YEAR 1903 also brought the Curies the ultimate in gold medals: a Nobel Prize for Physics, shared with Henri Becquerel, for the discovery of radioactivity. ...
( Category: Biographies September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-09 | Author:Ellen Baumler

The volunteer shrugged and said that it was probably just another visitor. She did not want to scare them. She did not tell them what she knew. The volunteer realized ...
( Category: History September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Kate Cayley

That night, she was talkative. We spoke easily now, often, she taking pleasure in my questions if there were not too many of them, and answering them as she thought ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Margaret Peterson Haddix [Haddix, Margaret Peterson]

( Category: Action & Adventure September 8,2017 )