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1858 by Bruce Chadwick
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Bruce Chadwick [CHADWICK, BRUCE]

VICTORY The way out came during the first week of July. The kidnappers realized that they might go to prison for substantial periods of time if their trial was heard ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 1,2015 )
Jupiter's Bones
epub |eng | | Author:Faye Kellerman

21 Sergeant Deputy Kirt Johannsen was a terse man. “What big picture am I missing?” Decker started his story while Johannsen snapped gum. Talking outside in almost complete blackness, the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals May 31,2015 )
Recollections of a Pioneer
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:J. Watt Gibson [Gibson, J. Watt]

When Billy found his navy and came out, he saw men at the east end of the house firing across at us from the rear so he ran down the ...
( Category: United States May 31,2015 )
All Things Rise
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Missouri Vaun

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ava felt a knot building in the pit of her stomach the closer they got to Easton. Thankfully, Jenna was quiet on the flight back. Ava felt like ...
( Category: Arts & Literature May 30,2015 )
The Wild Blue
mobi | | 2001-08-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SIX - Learning to Fly in Combat THE AAF POLICY IN THE FALL OF 1944was to have the pilots fly their first five combat missions as co-pilots with a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
When Day is Done
mobi |eng | | Author:Guest, Edgar A. [Guest, Edgar A.]

Produced by Ted Garvin, Ginny Brewer and PG Distributed Proofreaders Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions ...
( Category: State & Local May 30,2015 )
The Jesuit Missions
mobi |eng | | Author:Marquis, Thomas Guthrie [Marquis, Thomas Guthrie]

CHAPTER VI THE MARTYRS We have observed that the Hurons were at war with the Five Nations and that Iroquois scalping parties haunted the river routes and the trails to ...
( Category: Canada May 30,2015 )
First Love (Little Blue Book #1195)
mobi |eng | | Author:Various,

* * * One morning in May, 1852--that is, four years after the scene just described--a friend of mine, who told me this story, stopped his horse in front of ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
Battlefield Earth
mobi | | 2000-05-15 | Author:L. Ron Hubbard

Chapter 8 “Who are you?” said Terl. He had no trouble at all in seeing the figure who stood in the shadow of the post. It was a brilliantly clear, ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 29,2015 )
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
mobi |eng | | Author:Bird, Isabella L. [Bird, Isabella L.]

* * * End Project Gutenberg Etext of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains * * * * * * A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains from http://manybooks.net/ ...
( Category: State & Local May 29,2015 )
NUTS AND BERRIES OF CALIFORNIA by Nyerges Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Nyerges, Christopher

Sometimes called husk tomato; one species (cultivated) is the popular tomatillo. The ripe fruits were eaten by the native peoples living in the desert near the Colorado River. The fruits ...
( Category: State & Local May 28,2015 )
The Class of 1846 by John Waugh
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:John Waugh [Waugh, John]

Delightful Excitement If General Banks saw salvation across the river and Stonewall Jackson saw the hand of Providence in victory, Abraham Lincoln saw opportunity still alive in the Valley. The ...
( Category: Performing Arts May 27,2015 )
Billy Martin by Bill Pennington
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Pennington

31 GRUDGE MATCHES ARE RARE and often overstated. When it came to the Yankees and Royals of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no need to exaggerate. The ...
( Category: State & Local May 27,2015 )
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Koolhaas Rem
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Koolhaas, Rem [Koolhaas, Rem]

A machine for metropolitan bachelors … Madelon Vriesendorp, Flagrant délit. How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center I get so sentimental when I see How perfect perfection ...
( Category: State & Local May 27,2015 )
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow [Edmonds, David & Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Chess May 27,2015 )

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