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Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History by Kati Marton
mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Kati Marton

BETTY, A BORN PERFORMER, loved the role. Like Jacqueline Kennedy, though from another world, she understood the symbolic power of her undefined position. She grasped what Pat Nixon did not: ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-04 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Chapter 7: Land of Wine or Walrus A ship came to Greenland from Norway that summer. Its captain was a man named Thorfinn Karlsefni. He was the son of Thord ...
( Category: Europe December 18,2017 )
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times by Michael Burleigh
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Burleigh

The sharp-eyed will notice that Xi Jinping holds the highest cards, with close connections to the PLA as well as experience governing booming provinces. After graduating, through gritted teeth, in ...
( Category: Americas December 18,2017 )
Escape by Mark Blackstone
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Blackstone [Blackstone, Mark]

Chapter Six The sexual attraction among the three men was to Nix as clear as Spiri itself shining above them, and their shared lust was as hot as the star ...
( Category: Americas December 18,2017 )
Watkin Tench's 1788 by Flannery Tim; Tench Watkin;
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Flannery, Tim; Tench, Watkin;

† Sailors were in the habit of calling the salt meat they ate on long voyages ‘junks’, but the word was also used synonymously with ‘chunks’. †† A dirk was ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 17,2017 )
History Buff's Guide to the Presidents by Thomas R. Flagel
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Thomas R. Flagel [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
The Party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | 2004-09-09 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

The commander sighed, thought a moment, and said in a loud voice: "I am thinking of going to see Alexandra Yevgrafovna. I must call on her. Well, good-bye. I shall ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 17,2017 )
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-07-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

345.jpg (145K) My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. I painted the ball of the client's thumb, took a print of it on ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

And, at the same time, to countenance the belief that he had been disappointed, he would affect to sigh, exclaiming—"Ah! that I should thus fruitlessly have squandered a sum of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
TARIQ, ali - The Duel by TARIQ ali
mobi | | 2008-09-15 | Author:TARIQ, ali [TARIQ, ali]

The tragedy led to the PPP’s being treated as a family heirloom, which was unhealthy for both party and country. It provided the Bhuttos with a vote bank and large ...
( Category: Asia December 16,2017 )
Building Home by Abrahamson Eric John
epub |eng | | Author:Abrahamson, Eric John

CULTURE IN THE MANAGED ECONOMY As Ahmanson transitioned from entrepreneur to cultural patron, others in the savings and loan industry in Southern California followed the same path, including Mark Taper ...
( Category: Americas December 16,2017 )
The Letters of John F. Kennedy by Martin W. Sandler
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Martin W. Sandler

A tongue-in-cheek Kennedy responded by demonstrating that he was heeding Lyon’s warning. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 11, 1961 Dear Leonard: I appreciate your letter about the market on Kennedy ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2017 )
Bill and Hillary by William H. Chafe
epub |eng | | Author:William H. Chafe

NINE The Health Care Debacle and the Emergence of Kenneth Starr Eleven months after the White House decided to say no to The Washington Post’s request for the Whitewater records, ...
( Category: Historical December 16,2017 )
Nana by Zola Émile
epub |eng | 1925-02-14 | Author:Zola, Émile [Zola, Émile]

( Category: Classics December 16,2017 )
Hitler in Los Angeles by Steven J. Ross
epub |eng | | Author:Steven J. Ross

GYSSLING UNDER ATTACK At the same time the German consul stepped up pressure on the studios, he found himself attacked on several fronts: from studio heads and trade press columnists ...
( Category: Americas December 16,2017 )

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