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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
epub |eng | 2003-05-02 | Author:Doug Stanton [Stanton, Doug]

The rafts of marine private McCoy and Captain McVay drifted ahead of what remained of the other groups. McCoy and McVay were about eight miles apart, and each was about ...
( Category: Naval December 27,2014 )
A Light in the Wilderness by Jane Kirkpatrick
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Jane Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Jane]

“We’ll be leaving tomorrow morning, with Captain English,” Davey told Letitia as she moved a firkin so she could put the scrub board away. He hoped she wouldn’t resist his ...
( Category: Christian Historical Fiction December 27,2014 )
Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz

CHAPTER TWENTY THESE DEEDS OF BLOOD Hands Deformed by Gout To anyone who saw him in the early 1850s, Mütter still seemed the picture of health. Now entering his early ...
( Category: General Surgery December 27,2014 )
The Great Agnostic by Susan Jacoby & Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Susan Jacoby & Susan Jacoby

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
The Wild Marsh by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

July is its own month too, in addition to being a bridge between others—July is the hammock, July is a crowded West, happy people on vacation, crowded gas pumps in ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The American Future by Simon Schama
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Simon Schama

We’ll soon be free We’ll soon be free We’ll soon be free When de Lord will call us home “Dey tink de Lord mean for say de Yankees,” a drummer ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant by Humberto Fontova
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Humberto Fontova [Fontova, Humberto]

CHAPTER ELEVEN OPERATION CUBAN FREEDOM—NOT! “Freedom is our goal,” roared Pepe San Roman to the men he commanded. “Cuba is our cause. God is on our side. On to victory!”1 ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism December 27,2014 )
Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Michael Winter [Winter, Michael]

BEES IN CELLOPHANE I bicycled back to Beaumont-Hamel. The trees appeared on the horizon and I coasted down the quiet paved road towards them. I turned in at the now ...
( Category: 20th Century December 27,2014 )
Redeemers by Enrique Krauze
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Enrique Krauze

Popular Icons 6 Eva Perón THE MADONNA OF THE SHIRTLESS ONES Thinkers and politicians through the ages have long been aware that politics is a kind of theater, but after ...
( Category: History & Theory December 27,2014 )
When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition by Neil Hayes
epub |eng | 2014-07-06 | Author:Neil Hayes [Hayes, Neil]

17 1986–87 COLLISION COURSE The high school football community was clamoring for it, but it wasn’t going to happen. They weren’t going to play each other. No way. The programs ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Opening Kickoff by Dave Revsine
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Dave Revsine

Chapter Fifteen A Premature End Upon returning home from New Haven, Pat O’Dea dropped a bombshell. This would be his last year playing for the Badgers. Though, under the rules ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
First Ladies by Margaret Truman
epub |eng | 1995-12-26 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

Here Lady Bird relaxes in a field of bluebonnets, reminding us she was the First Lady who revitalized America’s love of natural beauty. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library) Lady Bird personally ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Kahiki Supper Club by David Meyers
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:David Meyers

12 PASSING THE TIKI TORCH Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got. —Peter Drucker Of the two partners, ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Second Oswald by Popkin Richard
mobi |eng | 2003-07-25 | Author:Popkin, Richard [Popkin, Richard]

Nine The Assassination If we take at face value the cases in which people saw someone who looked like Oswald, used Oswald’s name, imitated Oswald’s life and family, then how ...
( Category: Democracy December 27,2014 )
The Victory Season by Robert Weintraub
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Robert Weintraub [Weintraub, Robert]

The loss in Grodzicki’s debut was one of the few in the 8–3 run that the Cards were on when Brooklyn came to Missouri for a four-game set on July ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )

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