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The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership by Sharpton Al
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Sharpton, Al [Sharpton, Al]

13 * * * PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH My social activism is my religion in practice. It is the daily embodiment of my lifelong service to God. As a Christian, ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Holding Juno by Mark Zuehlke
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

[ 14 ] With Rage and Sorrow BLOODY TOIL was the order of the day for both the Germans and Allies on June 9, with neither able to gain significant ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:David Cordingly [Cordingly, David]

The latter method was called “woolding,” after the word used to describe the binding of cords around a mast. It was a favorite pirate torture because it was fast and ...
( Category: Caribbean & West Indies March 25,2014 )
American Prince by Tony Curtis
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Tony Curtis

Before we began filming Trapeze, I spent two months in Paris training with a fine company of acrobats attached to the Cirque d’Hiver. I had learned how to tumble before, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 25,2014 )
For Honour's Sake by Mark Zuehlke
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

Prevost’s claim that Yeo had engaged in an act of daring greatly stretched the truth. Throughout July the British commodore had trolled Lake Ontario in a vain attempt to embarrass ...
( Category: War of 1812 March 25,2014 )
Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront by Harry Kyriakodis
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Harry Kyriakodis

CARPENTER’S STAIRS William Penn conveyed a larger (204-foot-wide) bank lot to Carpenter on August 4, 1684, the day after issuing his decree that bankers could develop their riverbank property as ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Bolivar: American Liberator by Arana Marie
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Arana, Marie [Arana, Marie]

THERE ARE FEW LANDSCAPES AS magnificent or unforgiving as the geologic exuberance that lies between Huaraz and Huánuco. The mighty peaks of Huascarán and Yerupajá pierce the skies and send ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Lone Star by T.R. Fehrenbach
mobi, epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:T.R. Fehrenbach

Texans were intransigent in defending states' rights against the Confederacy; they were strikingly not a problem-oriented breed, who would willingly sacrifice individual freedoms in furtherance of a common goal. This ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Hell's Angel by Thompson Hunter S
epub | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S [S, Thompson, Hunter]

Hell's Angel 13 That was the trouble with Porterville -- they had four thousand people down?town watchin two hundred of us. -- Terry the Tramp Our final purchase at the ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

20 “WELCOME BACK, ISAAC. And Mrs. Bell, what a pleasure to see you again.” Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson—a remarkably fit-looking forty-three-year-old black man—cut a splendid figure in a dark ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Nathaniel Hawthorne]

XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART. A fter the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins]

He drew his chair close, and took her hand, when he said "hopeless love." There was a momentary silence. He, who thrilled everybody, had doubtless thrilled HER. I thought I ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
Salems Lot by Stephen King
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Stephen King

'Salems Lot Chapter Eleven BEN (IV) It was ten past nine on Sunday morning - a bright, sunwashed Sunday morning - and Ben was beginning to get seriously worried about ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
Sharpe's Waterloo - 22 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The artillery park was placed at the forest's edge, well back from the guns, and the infantry sourly noted how the gunners were provided with tents, for the artillery alone ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Sharpe's Rifles - 06 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

It was then that the Riflemen appeared from the house, splintering down the bullet-riddled door and running into the yard with sword-bayonets fixed. They cheered the Spaniard. “East!” Vivar shouted ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )

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