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Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin by Merridale Catherine
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Merridale, Catherine [Merridale, Catherine]

9 Acropolis Conservatism was not the only cultural news in Nicholas II’s Russia. An urgent, vigorous demand for change had also found its voice during the nineteenth century. The outside ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
Russia by Philip Longworth
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Longworth [LONGWORTH, PHILIP]

The besetting imperial dilemma of St Petersburg’s bureaucrats at that time was whether to devolve power in the Empire or to centralize it. Should governors be accorded the freedom to ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
The Post-Soviet Wars by Zurcher Christoph
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Zurcher, Christoph [Zurcher, Christoph]

After the Wars Soviet ethnofederalism no longer exercises its destructive energy, but it has left open wounds. After a decade of stalled negotiations, a solution to the Ossetian and Abkhazian ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
Underground by unknow
epub |eng | 2001-04-10 | Author:unknow

I had such trouble finding a job after college; every place was “No,” straight down the list. I’d wanted to go into fashion design, but the big fashion manufacturers weren’t ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions August 19,2017 )
The Awakening by LA Banks
epub | | 2010-05-21 | Author:LA Banks [Banks, LA]

Time was of the essence. He stood outside Damali's compound on the dark side of the road and willed the phone inside to ring. A male voice answered, and sounded ...
( Category: Music August 19,2017 )
The Damned by LA Banks
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-21 | Author:LA Banks [Banks, LA]

Stopping abruptly as he made his way to stand twenty-five yards away from the house, Carlos lowered his head in shame, bent his knees, and dropped, not caring that small ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 19,2017 )
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Morris, Jan]

1 Whose grandson, the third baron, now lives at 7, Lord Sinha Road, Calcutta. 2 ‘Because the great Harcourt Butler Sahib is taking care of us,’ Indian mothers were alleged ...
( Category: Europe August 19,2017 )
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots by Adeline Yen Mah
epub |eng | 2009-10-23 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Adeline Yen]

Oh! The melting melody of his words! I never went out with H. H. again. The Cold War was at its height during the 1950s and 1960s. A few of ...
( Category: Asia August 19,2017 )
Fanny and Stella by Neil McKenna
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Neil McKenna [Neil McKenna]

19 The Battle of the Bottoms An Awkward Question ‘Mamma dear,’ said the youth, ‘what is the meaning of the word bugger?’ ‘Bugger, my child? Why do you ask?’ ‘Because ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling August 19,2017 )
Black Detroit by Herb Boyd
epub |eng | 2017-04-20 | Author:Herb Boyd

20 UNDER DURESS FROM STRESS As the sun was setting in 1971 for the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, it was rising in several sections of Detroit’s social, political, and ...
( Category: Americas August 19,2017 )
Tudor : Passion. Manipulation. Murder. the Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family by Leanda de Lisle
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-24 | Author:Leanda de Lisle

Part Three SETTING SUN: THE TUDOR QUEENS Let men that receive of women authority, honour, or office, be most assuredly persuaded, that in so maintaining that usurped power, they declare ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2017 )
El chino by Mankell Henning
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-03 | Author:Mankell, Henning [Mankell, Henning]

–Ah, pues no lo sabía. –Al parecer, le dijo a su marido que los trenes no se ajustaban al horario. Él no entendió el mensaje. Luego la encontraron en las ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 19,2017 )
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Multatuli [Multatuli]

* * * VYFTIENDE HOOFDSTUK Havelaars voorganger, die wel het goede wilde doch tevens de hooge ongenade van de Regeering eenigszins scheen gevreesd te hebben--de man had veel kinderen, en ...
( Category: Literary August 19,2017 )
Born to Lose by James G. Hollock
epub |eng | | Author:James G. Hollock

17 “‘Not guilty!’ That’s what the sunuvabitch said, ‘not guilty’.” Chief Blackie DeLellis gave the news to Joe Zanella’s father, Joe Sr. “After all Hoss’s big talk about pleading guilty ...
( Category: Americas August 19,2017 )
The House of Wood by Anthony Price
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony Price

Chapter Thirteen Chelsea led the way up the long narrow staircase with me close behind. Even though my fear of the house had abated, I still didn’t want to find ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 19,2017 )

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