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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John L. Esposito
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:John L. Esposito [Esposito, John L.]

[Barney was there] every night.... His word was everything.... He was the owner, the actual owner and manager.... His word was the say at the Cocoanut Grove. Mickey Alpert 0 ...
( Category: England September 4,2015 )
Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2015 Edition (College Test Preparation) by Princeton Review
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Princeton Review

Phase Diagram for Water You should recognize how the phase diagram for water differs from the phase diagram for most other substances. In the phase diagram for substances other than ...
( Category: Advanced Placement September 3,2015 )
Nightmare Alley: Film Noir And The American Dream by Mark Osteen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mark Osteen [Osteen, Mark]

To Build a Dream On Two 1950s noirs perpetuate the stereotype of musicians as overgrown children. Yet these films also present—implicitly, at least—the potential for new American identities founded on ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 3,2015 )
At the Devil's Table by William C. Rempel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:William C. Rempel [Rempel, William C.]

THE MOTHER LODE OF DOCUMENTS and cartel records scooped up by Bloque raiders at Pallomari’s expense finally gave Colonel Velásquez a big victory, his first real measure of satisfaction in ...
( Category: Colombia September 2,2015 )
Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Lisa Belkin

Part Two The Rebuilding 1992 The Lottery By twos and threes, with fingers crossed and lucky charms palmed, hundreds of people stepped from the darkness of School Street and into ...
( Category: United States September 1,2015 )
Engaging the Past by Alison Landsberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Alison Landsberg [Landsberg, Alison]

3 Encountering Contradiction Reality History TV It suddenly sunk in in a way that it hadn’t until then that I was going along and being an imperialist. . . . ...
( Category: United States August 29,2015 )
Banned in Boston by Neil Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Neil Miller [Miller, Neil]

Bostonians were of various minds as to what was occurring. In a joint statement, the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, and Company—two of the leading Boston publishing ...
( Category: State & Local August 27,2015 )
The Tastemaker by Edward White
epub |eng | | Author:Edward White

A caricature of Carl Van Vechten as a black man by Miguel Covarrubias, entitled A Prediction That positive distinction had a crucial effect on his relationships with Harlemites. Behind his ...
( Category: State & Local August 23,2015 )
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman by Neal Thompson
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Neal Thompson [Thompson, Neal]

At times Henri Landwirth felt caught between his two favorite astronauts: Alan Shepard and John Glenn. He knew they were two very different men, but there were qualities in each ...
( Category: United States August 23,2015 )
The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders: The Story of a Town in Terror by James Presley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:James Presley

TEXARKANA CHILD RACKETEER GANG DISCLOSED AS ‘FAGANS’ ARE SOUGHT Three boys were held in the Bowie County holdover jail on Main Street after their arrest for theft and possession of ...
( Category: United States August 23,2015 )
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]

CHAPTER TEN THE ORACLES Mattera flew back to Santo Domingo after his journey to the archive in Seville, but he didn’t go on to Samaná to rejoin his team. Instead, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries August 21,2015 )
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Donald J. Trump [J. Trump, Donald]

My father, Fred Trump, in a recent photograph. With my sisters and brothers in 1951. Left to right: me, Freddy, Robert, Maryanne, and Elizabeth. HENRY KERN PHOTOGRAPHERS At age twelve, ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship August 20,2015 )
The Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Pierre Berton
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

1935 1 Bennett’s New Deal 2 Speed-up at Eaton’s 3 The tin canners 4 On to Ottawa 5 The Regina Riot 6 Changing the guard 1 Bennett’s New Deal Nineteen ...
( Category: Canada August 19,2015 )
A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith
mobi, epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Patricia Highsmith [Highsmith, Patricia]

18 The following morning, Mrs. Sneezum telephoned Sydney and said that she and her husband would like to drop in and see him in the afternoon. Just that, brief and ...
( Category: Suspense August 19,2015 )
A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Roberts

● 54 ● “To City” Sign The “Outer” Boroughs The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, “is always the city seen for ...
( Category: State & Local August 19,2015 )

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