Americas
epub |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Colleen Morton Busch

Letting go of the idea they’d held collectively for nearly three weeks—that they’d be there when the fire came through—the residents enacted the one scenario they’d never discussed or drilled ...
( Category: Buddhism June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Charles Royster [Royster, Charles]

CHAPTER 7 THE BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN DESPITE the daily June rains, well-dressed Southern ladies went to the top of Kennesaw Mountain and looked through telescopes to see the war ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-14 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

What a long strange trip it’s been … It isn’t difficult to imagine the details of that morning sometime in March of 2004, even though the moment itself became historical ...
( Category: Biography & History June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:William McGowan

An especially rich target was the Minutemen, a group of armed volunteers patrolling the southern border with the aim of providing information to the Border Patrol on the movements of ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Evan Thomas [THOMAS, EVAN]

He has lost his head to this unutterable folly of deserting his post where he is of most service and running off to ride a horse and, probably, brush mosquitoes ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Maryjean Wall [Wall, Maryjean]

Pierre Lorillard’s Iroquois became the first American horse to win the Epsom Derby in England in 1881. Americans were so excited over his victory that the New York Stock Exchange ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-10 | Author:Jonathan Waterman

In 1983 Roger wrote an understated article for Mountain magazine that showed the power of the mountain while omitting our near collapse as human beings. Will also wrote a concise ...
( Category: Mountaineering June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Mark Harris

PART THREE TWENTY The two girls were naked. That fact alone represented three problems. Naked was, of course, the first problem; even if there had been no other issues, naked ...
( Category: Movies June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Allan Gurganus [Gurganus, Allan]

Good Help A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.—It is better to go to the house of mourning, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

The Impromptu Floor Speech That Wasn’t But there was one last weird drama to play out. The final scene in Kansas City was to be a reminder that Reagan left ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Ken Burns

[Plate 160] In a barren field stripped of most vegetation, soil scientist H. Howard Finnell contemplates the daunting challenge of “Operation Dust Bowl.” Under typical farming methods, he concluded, nearly ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Anthony Summers

_____ Nixon wanted “permanent tails” placed on “Teddy”—Edward Kennedy—“Muskie”—Senator Edmund Muskie, the likely Democratic front-runner—and “Hubert”—Humphrey, the former vice president Nixon had narrowly defeated in 1968. Muskie and Kennedy were ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-07-24 | Author:Burke Davis

Half the staff were in love with the Dandridge girls or their visiting cousins, and the house was under constant siege. Young Pelham courted several and squired them in a ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-02 | Author:Unknown

Chapter 9 I read the script for Dirty Dancing one evening in our new house. Right away it filled me with emotion—but not the kind it was supposed to. I ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Jamie Malanowski [Malanowski, Jamie]

Verbatim Treason or Law? From an editorial in the Boston Daily Atlas and Bee (Massachusetts), February 1, 1861 The people decided, three months ago, that slavery should be excluded from ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )