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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 )
An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

THE FIRST CONFRONTATION By the end of October, some observers already feared that when the tea arrived, a mob would board the ships and either burn their cargo or throw ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding May 27,2015 )
The Canal Builders by Julie Greene
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Julie Greene [Greene Julie]

The song suggests the importance of women in producing good food for their husbands and families. A woman would help weed the crops so that bad grasses (“bayma,” or Bahama ...
( Category: Panama May 27,2015 )
Canada and Other Matters of Opinion by Rex Murphy
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Rex Murphy [Murphy, Rex]

A JOINT IS A SMOKE | Novemeber 27, 2004 Social pressure accounts for the decline of smoking. It is surely not the risible Health Canada public-service messages, or the extravagantly ...
( Category: Canadian May 27,2015 )
Operation Overflight by Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry
epub |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

FOUR USA One Reporters were watching all the major airports, but particularly Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, D.C. Possibly this was because it was here that President Kennedy had ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
All the Great Prizes by John Taliaferro
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Taliaferro

CHAPTER 15 Spheres of Influence As much as Hay had complained about the clammy climate and diplomatic frustration of Washington, he fretted obsessively about the business yet unfinished. “I am ...
( Category: American Civil War May 27,2015 )

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