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Sea of Slaughter by Farley Mowat
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Farley Mowat

Although the execution of the grey whale took place along much of the Atlantic seaboard of what is now the United States, by far the bloodiest destruction was committed in ...
( Category: Wildlife April 5,2015 )
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler

Jackie’s Saddest Days At the same time that Ted and Joan moved into their new rented home, Jackie purchased a fourteen-room, brick town house close to them, at 3017 N ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
To Conquer the Air by James Tobin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Gail Carson Levine

Chapter 21 SOLLY EXPLAINED AS we walked toward Convent Avenue. It was cold out, just like it was in. But I was warm because Mr. Meltzer had given me somebody’s ...
( Category: Children's Performing Arts Fiction April 5,2015 )
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Wiederhorn Jon & Turman Katherine
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Wiederhorn, Jon & Turman, Katherine [Wiederhorn, Jon]

PHOTO SECTION Ozzy Osbourne performs with Black Sabbath in Detroit, 1972. Photograph by Robert Matheu. Iggy Pop on a “Search and Destroy” mission in 1973. Photograph by Robert Matheu. Rob ...
( Category: Rock April 5,2015 )
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 5,2015 )
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Killer Show by John Barylick
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Barylick

Reporters and the public wanted answers from the town of West Warwick, too. How could a club with highly flammable foam on its walls pass fire inspections? Was the club ...
( Category: Rock April 5,2015 )
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Joe Hutto

Bubba in prime condition the day he was killed by a mountain lion. Bubba, the next day. Boar, alone at last. Having somehow made it my business to observe these ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Love, Fiercely by Jean Zimmerman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean Zimmerman

11. For Richer or Poorer In one sense, Paris came through for Edith and Newton. Their extended honeymoon cum escape in the City of Light allowed the young couple to ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Ringlingville USA by Jerry Apps
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerry Apps

* * * NOTES 1. Baraboo (Wisconsin) Evening News, November 1, 1905. In 1905 the Ringlings advertised their new spectacle, “The Field of the Cloth of Gold,” as “the grandest ...
( Category: Circus April 5,2015 )
If These Walls Had Ears by James Morgan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:James Morgan

Rita Grimes, second from right, with her two sons and Roy's sisters. Rita loved 501 Holly no matter what calamity came along. They told themselves the house was in a ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-06-19 | Author:Jeanine Basinger

Durbin posed in her own home with her real-life parents for their Christmas card. Deanna Durbin was quickly put into two new films to be made and released in 1938: ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-19 | Author:James Campbell

CHAPTER 7 Back-to-Nature Boys In 1975, when Heimo Korth left Wisconsin, leaving behind everything and everybody he knew, he was answering a universally familiar call—the yearning to escape home. When ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (9781401304423) by Niven Jennifer
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Niven, Jennifer [Niven, Jennifer]

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )

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