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Beyond the Garden by S.Y. Thompson
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:S.Y. Thompson [Thompson, S.Y.]

**** Dana awakened to the sound of voices. For a split second, Dana tensed in irrational fear that the insurgents had returned for them. She relaxed when she realized the ...
( Category: True Crime January 6,2018 )
Speakeasy by M.J. Williamz
epub |eng | 2014-03-22 | Author:M.J. Williamz [Williamz, M.J.]

Chapter Fourteen Helen sat in her headquarters, trying to focus on numbers, but her mind constantly drifted to Maria. She needed to see her. Work had kept her busy for ...
( Category: Americas January 6,2018 )
Denial by Jackie Kennedy
epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Jackie Kennedy [Kennedy, Jackie]

Chapter 33 That evening, lying in bed, alone and exhausted, Amy wondered why the day had gone so wrong. She pushed and pulled her pillows into shape, then pulling the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 6,2018 )
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History by Lillian Faderman
epub |eng | 2000-06-07 | Author:Lillian Faderman [Faderman, Lillian]

What M. Carey Thomas Accomplished for the Cause of Women As the head of Bryn Mawr College in the late nineteenth century, still under the spell of the values of ...
( Category: Women's Studies January 6,2018 )
Modern War by English Richard
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:English, Richard [English, Richard]

6. Damage done by German rockets in London, 1944 7. Damage done by Allied bombing, Hamburg, 1943 Wilson’s argument here is that Ulster’s more clear-cut religious boundary required less (and ...
( Category: Military January 6,2018 )
Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Paul Johnson [Johnson, Paul]

FOURTEEN The Bandung Generation The same historical process which created the superpowers placed traditional powers in a dilemma. What was their role? The defeated nations, France, Germany and Japan, were ...
( Category: World January 6,2018 )
The Front Runner by Patrica Nell Warren
epub |eng | | Author:Patrica Nell Warren

TWELVE EARLY in April, Billy took a good two-week rest. It would be the last rest he’d get till after the Olympics —if he made the team. I cut him ...
( Category: LGBT Genre Fiction January 4,2018 )
Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura
epub |eng | | Author:Janice P. Nimura

BY THE END of that first spring, Ume despaired of ever repaying the debt she owed Japan. On bad days, she expressed her unhappiness in the same bleak terms Sutematsu ...
( Category: Specific Groups January 4,2018 )
The Crazy Makers by Carol Simontacchi
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Carol Simontacchi

CRAZY MAKER AWARD TEENAGE DIVISION/ SECOND PLACE : The entire teen food culture, including the fast-food chains and the soft drink marketers. For encouraging poor nutritional habits by expensive advertising ...
( Category: Nutrition January 4,2018 )
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-09-18 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

19 MONTICELLO, VIRGINIA AUGUST 1, 1778 MORNING Thomas Jefferson is safe. The Virginian is now thirty-four and hundreds of miles away from the British threat here at his five-thousand-acre mountaintop ...
( Category: Americas January 4,2018 )
When the World Seemed New by Jeffrey A. Engel
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey A. Engel

Unless otherwise stated, all photographs courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Witness to the war that seared his generation, Bush served as one of the youngest aviators ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 4,2018 )
Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Dallek
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Robert Dallek

CHAPTER 12 Faux Neutral That Europe was again at war left people across the continent bewildered and horrified. Whether in France or Britain or Italy or in any of Europe’s ...
( Category: Historical January 4,2018 )
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew J. Bacevich
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Andrew J. Bacevich [Bacevich, Andrew J.]

10 TRAHISON DES CLERCS Those who sit at the high table of American intellectual life pride themselves on their capacity to detect inconsistencies, contradictions, and hypocrisy. Yet that instinct does ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 4,2018 )
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: Historical January 3,2018 )
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino
mobi |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Kevin Peraino [Peraino, Kevin]

17 NO DEVIL SHALL ESCAPE On the morning of August 17, in the free moments before his regular staff meeting, Truman peered down at a number of weather maps that ...
( Category: Americas January 3,2018 )

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