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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers by Lawson Valerie
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Lawson, Valerie [Lawson, Valerie]

11 Monsieur Bon Bon Says Au Revoir She posed for a snapshot at the door of Pound Cottage in her gingham skirt, layered and frilled in the Navajo style. Pamela ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Wake by Anna Hope
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Anna Hope

The pub is on the corner, a few doors down from the office: one of those brown-hued workingmen’s pubs where women are rarely seen. Usually she would avoid it, but ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Liri Valley by Mark Zuehlke
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

While the Canadian gunners were helping the French repel the German armoured counterattack, 1 CIB Brigadier Dan Spry and a party of Royal Canadian Regiment officers crossed the river in ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History by Berger Glen
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Berger, Glen [Berger, Glen]

11 * * * Breakdowns Spectacular, innovative and interesting things are happening at Broadway’s newly renamed Foxwoods Theatre . . . Taymor is very close to a finished product that ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson
epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Great Plains by Ian Frazier
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Frazier

9 NICODEMUS, Kansas, is a town with a population of about fifty in the western part of the state. Like many other towns on the Great Plains, Nicodemus was founded ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

"I don't mean that I shall. I'm too much of a coward, I fancy." A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
Ortona by Mark Zuehlke
epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

For fifteen-year-old Antonio Di Cesare, artillery was more of a danger than ever. Villa Deo, near Villa Grande, was being fired on more often by the Canadian guns. Some distance ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )
A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

In my early years I don't recall homosexuality, or any sexual irregularity for that matter, being discussed by the "grownups" in the family or their friends. No doubt it was ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Storm Kings by Lee Sandlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
Fire in the Belly by Cynthia Carr
epub |eng | 2004-09-23 | Author:Cynthia Carr [Carr, Cynthia]

When Flash Art commissioned Carlo to write yet another East Village roundup, he got David to collaborate on it. They decided to feature, said Carlo, “anyone who was not making ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
A Great Game by Stephen J. Harper
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen J. Harper

The Royals, though not as bad as St. Kitts, were also a winless squad. Rumours of the two clubs’ imminent demise were circulating wildly in both centres and their morale ...
( Category: Hockey March 25,2014 )
Out of the Madness by Jerrold Ladd
epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Jerrold Ladd [LADD, JERROLD]

In December 1986, the winter weather was still around, and everybody stayed bundled up. Lisa invited me to a Christmas party her family intended to throw. Word was around the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Stephan Talty

At the neck of the lagoon, Don Alonzo waited. A stream of informers stole toward his flagship and gave the admiral a series of reports: The pirates were working on ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
To the End of the War by James Jones
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:James Jones [Jones, James]

Jones’s agent Maxwell Aley wrote Jones on March 25 1945: “The Red Cross attack will probably run into trouble with any publisher. It sounds too exaggerated to be convincing. Defeats ...
( Category: Music March 25,2014 )

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