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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii by James L. Haley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:James L. Haley [Haley, James L.]

13. Mountains of Sugar Whaling, which once anchored the islands’ commerce with the outside world, had peaked in the early 1850s. But the decline in the number of whales, then ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
Blood Prize (Bloody Dance #1) by A Muse
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:A Muse [Muse, A]

My eyes snapped open and there was a weight against my shoulder. My eyes shifted to see strawberry blonde hair. My lips pulled up into a slight smile as I ...
( Category: Americas June 11,2015 )
Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 by Brian Douglas Tennyson
epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Brian Douglas Tennyson

2. By way of comparison, Australia, with a population of 4 million—about half that of Canada—raised 421,809 men, representing 38.7% of its male population between the ages of eighteen and ...
( Category: 20th Century June 11,2015 )
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )
Static Line by
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:

Chapter Nine “Were you just going to leave me here?” A familiar voice from behind her called out. Stunned, she stopped and turned around and saw him. He had a ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics June 11,2015 )
4 Beyond Belief by Helen Smith
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Smith

CHAPTER THIRTEEN HOW TO DISAPPEAR “There!” she shrieked. “Up there!” Others joined in, pointing, shouting. Cameras and phones flashed ineffectually. People clapped their hands, whooped and wolf whistled. They wanted ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives June 11,2015 )
Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided by W Hunter Lesser
epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:W Hunter Lesser [Lesser, W Hunter]

Confederate General Wise held the James River and Kanawha Turnpike on the New River at Hawks Nest, six miles east of Federals under General Cox. Wise was positioned there ostensibly ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Deborah K. King Deborah King, associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth College, is completing a book on the enforcement of affirmative action policies in American higher education. Her groundbreaking essay, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Kevin M. Kruse [Kruse, Kevin M.]

The Supreme Court’s decisions striking down state-mandated programs of prayer and Bible reading in public schools generated a wide range of reactions. Here, Charles Schulz captured the popular panic that ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 11,2015 )
The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865 by Emory M. Thomas
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Emory M. Thomas [Thomas, Emory M.]

“There is,” said the girl solemnly; “We celebrate our right to live. We are starving. As soon as enough of us get together we are going to the bakeries and ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Blom Philipp
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Blom, Philipp [Blom, Philipp]

Life in Amerikanka THE CONTROVERSIES ABOUT STALINIST OPPRESSION—indeed, full knowledge of the extent of that oppression—was still some way in the future in 1929, despite the questions asked by Lady ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
epub |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Robert Whitaker [Whitaker, Robert]

Samuel Fritz’s Map of the Amazon, 1707. By permission of the British Library. FROM THE BEGINNING of the French expedition, there had been some talk that the group, as a ...
( Category: Ecuador & Galapagos Islands June 11,2015 )
The Lost Ranger: A Soldier's Story by Mehlo Noel
epub |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Mehlo, Noel [Mehlo, Noel]

Figure 218: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map of Omaha Beach, West (NARA) Figure 219: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map reverse side, of Omaha Beach, West (NARA) Figure 220: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George C. Herring
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:George C. Herring

14 "A Novel Burden Far from Our Shores" Truman, the Cold War, and the Revolution in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 With a touch of modesty—and no small hyperbole—former secretary of ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )
How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Mark Stein

NEVADA Is there any question as to why Nevada has the borders that it has? Aren't they obviously just straight lines that follow the lines established by its neighboring states? ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )

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