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Report From Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Dennis Smith

It is three-thirty in the morning now. Ladder 712 went off duty three hours ago. Ladder 31 was special-called to an “all-hands” down on 149th Street, and while they were ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Susan Orlean

Plant Crimes Plants disappear all the time in south Florida. So do most other living things. One day after my trip to Kerry’s Bromeliads, after all the Elaines had disappeared, ...
( Category: Orchids March 25,2014 )
An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Sunset and the evening star From Aden to Zanzibar. The bonds of the Empire sundering And final salutes are thundering And man will not cease his wondering . . . ...
( Category: Weaving March 25,2014 )
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-07 | Author:Tracy Kidder

Jim Kim tried rhetoric first in the opening speech the next day. Many people had asked him, he told the crowd, why a little organization like PIH had taken on ...
( Category: Pathology March 25,2014 )
The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Curtis Wilkie

“Zeus” ascending—a young Dick Scruggs, in flight gear, as a navy pilot. (photo credit i15.1) “If I get the same response … I won’t call again.”—After being rebuffed in previous ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Caitlin Moran

Days later, I escape the house with the stupid new dog – now old – and walk to the Heath. I lie under a tree – dressed in my nightie, ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 25,2014 )
Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-11 | Author:Rick Bragg

Federal men and county sheriffs harried him for thirty years, and while they locked him up now and then for carrying too much moonshine around in his bloodstream, they never ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Money & Power: The History of Business by Howard Means
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Howard Means

Within five years more cotton spindles had been put in motion, more iron furnaces erected, more iron smelted, more bars rolled, more steel made, more coal and copper mined, more ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-08 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

When Ponzi arrived at 27 School Street, the adoring crowd he’d found a day earlier had been replaced by a larger, edgier horde, their bodies drenched in sweat, their eyes ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Ronald Reagan by Benge Geoff
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Benge, Geoff [Benge, Geoff]

Patrick Henry (Precepts Instilled In Him By His Uncle) To be true & first in all my dealings. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:James L. Swanson

THE NOTORIOUS GURNEY IMAGE, TAKEN INSIDE NEW YORK CITY HALL. EDWARD D. TOWNSEND STANDS AT THE FOOT OF THE COFFIN IN THE ONLY SURVIVING PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN IN DEATH. and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Kennedy: The Classic Biography by Ted Sorensen
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Ted Sorensen

PERSISTING PROBLEMS In the end the President sided with us. He realized that he faced a deep-rooted sluggishness in the economy which posed a more serious and longer-range problem than ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 5 The World of One Physicist ———————– Would _You_ Solve the Dirac Equation? ———————– Near the end of the year I was in Brazil ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

The Spanish refused to shoulder the blame. The mass suicide resulted from the Indians’ “own stubbornness,” said Peter Martyr. “The Indians purposely destroyed all their bread [cassava] fields,” Columbus told ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )

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