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Worthy Opponents by Edward Longacre
epub |eng | 2010-04-03 | Author:Edward Longacre

Sherman’s troops destroying Jackson, Miss. The only item of interest that Sherman left out of his report was that in advancing on Jackson he had engaged for the first time ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Ben & Jerry's by Fred Lager
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Fred Lager [Lager, Fred]

In August we put up a billboard on Route 128, the main arterial road around Boston. It featured a pint of our ice cream being squeezed by two white, pudgy ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Descent into Darkness by Edward Raymer
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Raymer

VI USS West Virginia FIRE PHENOMENON On the day of the attack, the West Virginia was struck by seven torpedoes that opened a three-hundred-foot-long hole in her port side. A ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'N' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic by Luke Longstreet Sullivan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Luke Longstreet Sullivan

The Millstone gates at night. THINGS THAT WERE SCARIER THAN DAD We used to play an incredibly scary version of hide-and-seek called “Beaster.” It was the last organized game any ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
The Best of C. L. Moore by C. L. Moore
epub |eng | 2011-02-12 | Author:C. L. Moore [Moore, C. L.]

On the television screen Mary of Scotland climbed the scaffold to her doom, the gown of traditional scarlet clinging warmly to supple young curves as anachronistic in their way as ...
( Category: Adventure June 15,2017 )
Cotton Tenants by James Agee
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:James Agee [Agee, James]

Speaking generally as well as of the Burroughses, the work clothes of the grown people become them as their own skins do. In their Good clothes they look stiff and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
The Last Spike by Pierre Berton
epub |eng | 2001-08-13 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

2 The displaced people The whole country marvelled, that spring and summer of 1883, over the feat of building the railway across the prairies in just fifteen months – everybody, ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 by David Dary
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:David Dary [Dary, David]

A drawing of an Allis Ether Inhaler being used on a patient. Invented by Oscar H. Allis (1836–1931) in Philadelphia in 1874, it became a popular means of administering ether ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

Neither A nor O. And the rhesus factor: impossibly negative. And zygosity offers no clues. And present in the blood, rare Kell antibodies. And my mother, crying, crying-crying, crying… 'I ...
( Category: Magical Realism June 15,2017 )
Nightmare In Red by Richard M. Fried
epub |eng | 1990-12-26 | Author:Richard M. Fried [Fried, Richard M.]

6 “Bitter Days” The Heyday of Anti-Communism EVEN independent of McCarthy, the years 1950–1954 marked the climax of anti-communism in American life. The Korean stalemate generated both a bruising debate ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer & David Wayne
epub |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Richard Belzer & David Wayne [Belzer, Richard & Wayne, David]

1 Heiner, Without Smoking Gun. 2 Roberts & Armstrong, The Dead Witnesses, 35. Evidentiary Inconsistencies in the National Security Assassination of Lieutenant Commander William Pitzer 1. Paraffin-tested negative for gunshot ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 15,2017 )
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Barton Gellman [Gellman, Barton]

Losses were not always permanent for the vice president. Nor were they obvious, because Cheney cloaked them in loyal public support. He stepped aside when Bush felt strongly, swallowing disagreements ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick
epub |eng | 1993-08-26 | Author:Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick [Elkins, Stanley & McKitrick, Eric]

So the situation was politically much inflamed; western Pennsylvania was becoming an especially strong salient of opposition sentiment, even though there had been a heavy proportion of support for the ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Brown Kate
mobi |eng | 2013-02-13 | Author:Brown, Kate [Brown, Kate]

In Richland, the sun shined 300 days a year. The corner drugstore and grocery, little league field and service station were a few short blocks from every residence. Good doctors ...
( Category: Industries June 15,2017 )
The Last Ride of the James-Younger Gang - Jesse James and the Northfield Raid 1876 by Sean Mclachlan
mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Sean, Mclachlan, [Sean, Mclachlan,]

Escape from Northfield The gang was in bad shape. Two of their members lay dead in the streets of Northfield, including the only one familiar with Minnesota. All of the ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )

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