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Duel With the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Paul Collins [Collins, Paul]

AARON BURR WAS NOT IMPRESSED BY THE CASE AGAINST HIS client. “Gentlemen of the jury,” he began, as he arose and solemnly paced the packed courtroom. “I know the unexampled ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 15,2016 )
Sunny's Nights by Tim Sultan
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Tim Sultan

* * * 16 Two Roses Somewhere in the National Archives there is a service record for one Airman Antonio Raffaele Balzano. I suspect it’s as deeply buried as that ...
( Category: State & Local March 14,2016 )
1944 by Jay Winik
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Winik

The movements of the Allied and Axis troops during the North Africa campaign The plan called for landing the army under the cover of darkness, and he was well aware ...
( Category: United States March 14,2016 )
The Evening Gun: Volume three in War of 1812 Trilogy by White William H
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:White, William H. [White, William H.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “Take your men and put ‘em aboard the gunboats you’ll find here and here.” Josiah Eldridge pointed a long manicured finger at different locations on the map he ...
( Category: United States March 14,2016 )
The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Schulman

CHAPTER FIVE The Gentrification of Gay Politics Election Day, November 2008. It's a new dawn for America. Barack Obama has triumphed at the polls and every constituency of people without ...
( Category: Urban March 14,2016 )
The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder
epub |eng | | Author:Angus Calder

He sees the Blitz as a challenge to the current resources of ‘common speech’ and to the English verse tradition, now ‘sunk in the throat’ between the opposing voices of ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2016 )
Seasons' End by North Will
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:North, Will [North, Will]

*** YOUNG ADAM WANDERED along the beach beyond the boat ramp to the place where the sand gave way to crushed oyster shells he’d learned were ancient remnants from before ...
( Category: Family Life March 14,2016 )
John Kennedy by Burns James MacGregor;
epub |eng | | Author:Burns, James MacGregor;

“Profiles in Courage” Once Kennedy was out of immediate danger from his operation, his aides began to worry about his mental state. How would he take this prolonged inaction? They ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 14,2016 )
Mesa of Sorrows by James F. Brooks
epub |eng | | Author:James F. Brooks

Hopi Mesas and the villages of Huk’ovi, Pivanhonkyapi. It came time that the residents of Pivanhokyapi staged their famous Ladder Dance, an event that drew an audience from many of ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 14,2016 )
Adventures With Ari by Kathryn Miles
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Kathryn Miles

The New Transcendentalists [september] For the next several mornings, I wake up face-to-face with a blue-eyed dog. This isn’t the cavorting puppy or even the bratty adolescent demanding a romp ...
( Category: State & Local March 14,2016 )
World's End (The Lanny Budd Novels) by Sinclair Upton
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]

21 The Thoughts of Youth I Lanny didn’t meet his grandfather again for quite a while. He saw him in church, but made no attempt to catch his eye; just ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
A Fine Tops'l Breeze: Volume Two in the War of 1812 Trilogy by White William
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:White, William [White, William]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “Aye, we seen a passel of small craft all around us last night. Real late, it was. Some was yellin’ somethin’ ‘bout Chesapeake and a battle, but couldn’t ...
( Category: United States March 14,2016 )
The Way Of The West by Elmer Kelton
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Elmer Kelton [Kelton, Elmer]

X With no expression, Marshal Anthony advised him that a wagon was waiting to take him to Waco where he would be held for trial. Dane told him to plan ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
Presidential Agent by Sinclair Upton;
epub |eng | | Author:Sinclair, Upton;

X Hansi and Bess arrived; they didn’t put up at the same hotel with Lanny, nor appear in public with him, but he would go to their rooms: and stay, ...
( Category: Espionage March 14,2016 )
Plant Life of Kentucky by Ronald L. Jones
epub |eng | 2005-03-13 | Author:Ronald L. Jones

CORYDALIS VENT. CORYDALIS. 1. Petals pinkish or purplish with yellow tips ___________________________________________ C. sempervirens. 1. Petals all yellow _________________________________________________________ C. flavula. C. flavula (Raf.) DC. Pale c. April–May. Mesic woodlands. ...
( Category: State & Local March 14,2016 )

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