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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Pierre Berton

2 The displaced people The whole country marvelled, that spring and summer of 1883, over the feat of building the railway across the prairies in just fifteen months – everybody, ...
( Category: Railroads May 26,2014 )
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
epub | | 2011-05-16 | Author:Randy Shilts [Randy Shilts]

June 2, 1983 SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH “Dr. Silverman, this poster says people should have fewer sexual partners. Does that mean that if somebody had ten sexual partners ...
( Category: Pathology May 17,2014 )
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History May 7,2014 )
Flight Lessons by Patricia Gaffney
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Patricia Gaffney

Mac hadn’t had any religious faith to speak of, so the memorial service was in the funeral home, not a church, where more people than Jay must’ve been expecting showed ...
( Category: Contemporary May 7,2014 )
Automotive Wiring and Electrical Systems (Workbench Series) by Candela Tony
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Candela, Tony [Candela, Tony]

The underhood fuse panel of the Mustang houses relays, MAXI fuses, and those fuses that power accessories connected to the battery directly. The fuse holder in the foreground is an ...
( Category: Electrical Systems April 25,2014 )
How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frances Wilson

When Ismay was finally called to the stand for the second time on 30 April, Senator Smith found himself addressing an apparently contrite and more responsive man. Perhaps Ismay was ...
( Category: History April 6,2014 )
Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic by Daniel Allen Butler
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Daniel Allen Butler [Butler, Daniel Allen]

No one ever knew how well or how poorly John Jacob Astor met his end. It would be nice perhaps to say that, like the Thane of Cawdor, “nothing in ...
( Category: History April 6,2014 )
OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Daniel Allen Butler

The story went on to tell of the working class streets in Southampton and the loss they had suffered. It told of Mrs. Allen, whose husband George was a trimmer ...
( Category: History April 6,2014 )
Nothing by Chance
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Richard Bach [Bach, Richard]

( Category: Scientists April 5,2014 )
No Way Down by Graham Bowley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Graham Bowley

The second one also lay head-down against the ice but at a less steep angle. Both of the climbers, he saw, were still clipped onto the rope and hanging in ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 31,2014 )
Taking to the Skies by Jim Eames
epub |eng | 2013-11-28 | Author:Jim Eames

8 There’s something about low flying It was Lae, Papua New Guinea, early 1966. The telephone rings in the New Guinea Times Courier office. Brian Costello, local manager for Ansett-ANA, ...
( Category: History March 30,2014 )
The Second Ship by Richard Phillips
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Richard Phillips [Phillips, Richard]

39 Vice President George Gordon crawled out of bed quietly, pausing to stare down at his wife's naked body sprawled across the bed. The slight smile that lifted the corners ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain de]

Milan Kundera was being suggested as a guide to Prague, and Raymond Carver depended upon to reveal the hidden character of the small towns between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. ...
( Category: Commercial March 27,2014 )
The Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill Adair
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Bill Adair [Adair, Bill]

Jim Hall, the NTSB’s new chairman, had just replaced the retiring Carl Vogt. A short man with sandy hair and a mild Tennessee drawl, Hall was a Vietnam veteran, a ...
( Category: Commercial Aviation March 27,2014 )
Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Patrick Smith

That last one sounds like a chapter from a fantasy novel. Head instead to La Layal, a great little Lebanese place up the street, where, once you get past the ...
( Category: Commercial March 27,2014 )

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