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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Sarah Gristwood

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Elizabeth Woodville must have known the Princes were dead, or she would never have gone along with a plan to marry her daughter Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Historical October 17,2017 )
Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Monte Reel

IF PAUL wasn’t sure what to make of what he’d witnessed at that altar, London’s cultural critics knew exactly how to assess Spurgeon’s lecture: as a mockery deserving ridicule. Spurgeon ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 17,2017 )
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears [Sears, Stephen W.]

SOLDIER-CORRESPONDENT Captain Samuel Fiske, from his vantage point in the Second Corps' line on Cemetery Ridge, recorded his impressions as the battle rushed toward him: "The tremendous uproar of hundreds ...
( Category: Americas October 17,2017 )
My Men are My Heroes by Nathaniel R. Helms
epub |eng | | Author:Nathaniel R. Helms [Nathaniel R. Helms]

CHAPTER 11 THE TRAIN STATION One of the first objectives of the invasion was to capture a huge train station just north of the city and convert it into a ...
( Category: Military October 17,2017 )
Laura by George Sand
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:George Sand [George Sand]

IV WHEN HE AWOKE ME, I was very surprised not to find any of my companions around me. I no longer had need of them, he told me calmly, I ...
( Category: Children's Books October 17,2017 )
Clarks: Made to Last by Mark Palmer
epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Mark Palmer

Compared with women’s shoes, little money was spent marketing the Clarks men’s range – because there wasn’t much of a range to market. But in 1962, Clarks bought the established ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 17,2017 )
Operation Solo by John Barron
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:John Barron

MORRIS AND BOYLE WERE still filing reports and answering queries from Washington when Kissinger returned to Peking in October 1971, ostensibly to arrange for Nixon’s forthcoming visit. Actually, he and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 17,2017 )
The Oilman's Daughter by Evan Ratliff
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Evan Ratliff [Ratliff, Evan]

* * * The family Judith had begun to feel close to, she now saw, had some connection to M. A. Wright beyond just Louise’s several-month affair. Once-cryptic details—Wright’s query, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 17,2017 )
Growing Up In a War by Bryan Magee
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Magee

CHAPTER NINETEEN MY FATHER HAD kept his promise, and let me start learning the piano in my second year. The lessons were with the handsome young clergyman ‘Corks’ Cochrane, in ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 17,2017 )
The Sugar Girls by Duncan Barrett
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Duncan Barrett

With the new Blue Room came a number of new workers. While Gladys’s friend Betty had an uncle and a sister at the factory, fresh recruit Eva Browning seemed to ...
( Category: Sociology October 17,2017 )
Discovery by Lisa White
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Lisa White

Chapter Fifteen: The Mountains Tom sat on the couch in his apartment and stared at Ben’s recliner. The apartment seemed smaller with Ben gone but the empty recliner loomed ten ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 17,2017 )
Life on the Run by Bill Bradley
epub |eng | 1976-10-17 | Author:Bill Bradley [Bradley, Bill]

“Promptly after December 31 in each year commencing December 31, 1967, Player shall pay to Club 25 percent of net income (after applicable expenses but before income taxes) received by ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 17,2017 )
Behind the Times by Edwin Diamond
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Edwin Diamond [Diamond, Edwin]

3:45 P.M. Albert Scardino, a reporter specializing in stories about the media, finally accepted that Tuesday would be a lost day for him. He had just returned from Amelia Island, ...
( Category: History October 17,2017 )
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:John Birmingham [Birmingham, John]

Mr Oakes, – You will inform the persons who sent you here with the warrant you have now shewn me, and given me a copy of, that I never will ...
( Category: History October 17,2017 )
Vagabondia by Frances Hodgson Burnett
epub | | | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett

CHAPTER X. ~ IN SLIPPERY PLACES. THE wise one sat at the window and looked out. The view commanded by Bloomsbury Place was not a specially imposing or attractive one. ...
( Category: History October 17,2017 )

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