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Five Days in November by Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin [Hill, Clint & McCubbin, Lisa]

My emotions, as well as those of the other agents, must be suppressed because we cannot allow personal feelings to interfere with the job we have to do. We must ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 21,2016 )
Native American Almanac by Yvonne Wakim Dennis
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Yvonne Wakim Dennis

Native music and dance occur everywhere at specific sacred places, like Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and at public harvestings, such as powwows, fairs, and graduation ceremonies. Many performances have secret ...
( Category: Americas May 21,2016 )
The Big Marsh by Cheri Register
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Cheri Register

Mary Meighen and an unidentified child at the Meighen home in LeRoy, Minnesota, about 1890. Minnesota Historical Society Collections. Meighen’s promise not to marry before he could afford a respectable ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2016 )
Dead Distillers by Colin Spoelman
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Colin Spoelman

An eight-story aging warehouse at an unknown distillery PAUL JONES WHISKEY BROKER 1841–1895 Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky Paul Jones at least carries this distinction: He has the largest tomb ...
( Category: Spirits May 20,2016 )
My Lost Brothers by Brendan McDonough
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Brendan McDonough

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN One morning, we got a call to southern Arizona. A fire was burning out of control in what we call the wildland-urban interface, the point at which the ...
( Category: State & Local May 19,2016 )
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Ted Gioia [Gioia, Ted]

Cool Jazz Bebop never found a large commercial audience, but it did attract a cadre of sophisticated devotees while earning begrudging respect from the general public as cutting-edge music, the ...
( Category: United States May 18,2016 )
33 The Adventure of the Christmas - Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie
epub |eng | | Author:Agatha Christie

"Ah vraiment,t" Gladys giggled again. "Sweet on her straight away he was. Miss Lily is just like a lily, isn't she, sir? So tall and such a lovely shade of ...
( Category: Murder May 18,2016 )
1443436909 (N) by Ron MacLean
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Ron MacLean

You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You? At the 2005 Juno Awards in Winnipeg, k.d. lang sang Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” It was transcendent. Kathryn Dawn Lang attended Red Deer ...
( Category: Hockey May 17,2016 )
Insight Guides: Pocket London by Insight Guides
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Insight Guides

Science Museum Next door is the Science Museum (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk; daily 10am–6pm; free), which traces the history of inventions from the first steam train to the battered command module from the ...
( Category: London England Travel Books May 16,2016 )
The One True Barbecue by Rien Fertel
epub |eng | | Author:Rien Fertel

CHAPTER 8 * * * South Carolina: The Battleground State I knew that what could be true of my pig could be true also of the rest of my tidy ...
( Category: Music May 15,2016 )
Gastropolis by Annie Hauck-Lawson
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Annie Hauck-Lawson

NOTES 1. Thomas F. De Voe, The Market Book: A History of the Public Markets of the City of New York (1862; repr., New York: Kelly, 1970), 15, 28–29. 2. ...
( Category: State & Local May 14,2016 )
Lone Star Nation by Richard Parker
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Parker

Perryman was right about the economy. Texas is a big, highly diversified and urbanized economy. The drought would do powerful damage but alone could not stop the economy’s growth. But ...
( Category: State May 14,2016 )
The Way Around by David Good
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:David Good

September 9, 2011 11:12 A.M. UPPER ORINOCO, YANOMAMI TERRITORY The Yanomami women, they gossip as they walk. These treks, they’re not just about collecting food and other resources needed to ...
( Category: Venezuela May 12,2016 )
The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon by James Schefter
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:James Schefter [Schefter, James]

8 Two weeks after his momentous declaration, Jack Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev for face-to-face talks in Vienna. Over lunch, Kennedy suggested that the two countries cooperate on a lunar program. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States by Phil Schermeister
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Phil Schermeister [Geographic, National]

Antelope jackrabbit Information How to Get There From Tucson, AZ, 13 miles southeast of the park, take Speedway Blvd. west to Gates Pass Rd. and go north on Kinney Rd. ...
( Category: General May 11,2016 )

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