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Connie's Secret: The True Story of a Shocking Murder and a Family Mystery at a Time When Appearances Were Everything by Anne Lovell
mobi |eng | 2008-08-31 | Author:Anne Lovell

and suggested they take a walk in the park. She took the opportunity to tell him she was thinking of going to the country to teach music. He seemed pleased ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 11,2018 )
William II (Penguin Monarchs) by John Gillingham
epub |eng | 2015-07-28 | Author:John Gillingham

5 Normandy, Maine and Britain Winning the war of 1088 did not mean that Rufus’s brother was no longer dangerous. Odo of Bayeux – that ‘fire-breathing dragon’, as Orderic called ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy by Gavin K. Watt
epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Gavin K. Watt

The Rebel Fire Ship Yet another New York loyalist had chosen to risk travelling with the rebel army as a spy. As noted earlier, in May 1775 Joseph Anderson was ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
The History of Montreal: The Story of Great North American City by Linteau Paul-Andre
epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Linteau, Paul-Andre [Linteau, Paul-Andre]

Social inequality was also visible in the world of education, with pronounced differences between Protestant and Catholic schools. Since each school board was funded largely by a property tax collected ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
Dialogues by Seneca
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Seneca

XV Cease then to say, “Will not the wise man, then, receive an injury if he be beaten, if his eye be knocked out? will he not receive an insult ...
( Category: Philosophy March 11,2018 )
The Gadfly by Ethel Voynich
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Ethel Voynich

At the first words the Gad­fly tore his hand from Gemma’s and shrank away with a stifled groan. She clasped both hands round his arm and pressed it firmly, as ...
( Category: Mystery March 11,2018 )
Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-10-27 | Author:Thomas De Quincey

He answered to the con­di­tions in every one of the items:—1, a mon­ster he was; 2, dread­ful; 3, shape­less; 4, huge; 5, who had lost an eye. But why should ...
( Category: Classics March 11,2018 )
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition by B.R. Ambedkar
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:B.R. Ambedkar [Ambedkar, B.R.]

3.6 But what is worthy of note is that the plebeians permitted themselves to be thus cheated because they too, like the patricians, held firmly the belief that the approval ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2018 )
The Lady of the Barge by W. W. Jacobs
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:W. W. Jacobs

Captain Rogers A man came slowly over the old stone bridge, and averting his gaze from the dark river with its silent craft, looked with some satisfaction toward the feeble ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 11,2018 )
Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Francisco de Quevedo

“It was some scoun­drel, cuck­oldy whoreson,” cried the mad rhymer, “that con­trived this pro­clam­a­tion; and if I knew the dog, I would write such a satire upon him as should ...
( Category: Children's Books March 11,2018 )
The Religion of Nature Delineated by William Wollaston
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-12-30 | Author:William Wollaston

He must consider even bodily and sensual affections, passions, and inclinations as intimations which many times he not only may, but ought to hearken to. What is said before of ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:Brian Dillon [Dillon, Brian]

Has the world come to an end? On the morning of the 12th of October 1654, Cornelius Soetens, a clerk employed by the city of Delft, approached the buildings of ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a disaster on the Kent marshes by Dillon Brian
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:Dillon, Brian

Has the world come to an end? On the morning of the 12th of October 1654, Cornelius Soetens, a clerk employed by the city of Delft, approached the buildings of ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins by Robert Spencer
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

The Unchanging Qur'an Changes The Qur'an: Muhammad's Book? The Qur'an is Muhammad's foremost legacy and the primary source for knowledge of Islamic doctrine and (to a lesser degree) history. According ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
Onward Muslim Soldiers by Robert Spencer
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

Chapter Seven THE MODERN MYTH OF ISLAMIC TOLERANCE The Fact of Modern Islamic Intolerance Muslim Spain: the myth MUSLIM SPAIN IS A BEACON of hope in a fractious and frightened ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )

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