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Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2013-2014 Edition (College Test Preparation) by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, Princeton]

58. “And chattering on the air” (line 8) refers to I. the girls II. the bluebirds III. the teachers (A) I only (B) I and II only (C) I and ...
( Category: SAT July 10,2014 )
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Lisa See [See, Lisa]

At that, Ticie intervened. “Ming will give you the money.” “Six hundred dollars, and not a penny more.” That six hundred dollars—a fortune miraculously saved by the family during those ...
( Category: State & Local July 9,2014 )
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Kiernan Denise
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

CHAPTER 10 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Curiosity and Silence A three-year concentration of curiosity should be quite a potent brew for the average woman. —Vi Warren, Oak Ridge Journal ...
( Category: State & Local July 9,2014 )
Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-07-08 | Author:David M. Oshinsky

II Marshall was sent to Oakley Farm, a 2,700-acre tract for white state convicts in Hinds County, south of Jackson. As an educated man, he became the prison’s commissary clerk, ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 9,2014 )
On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, the San Francisco party. ABOVE. the Seventh Floor Squad. FROM LEFT: ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 8,2014 )
Public Burning by Robert Coover
epub, azw3 |eng | 1976-07-06 | Author:Robert Coover

16. Third Dementia It is on. The Rosenbergs are to die at last. Television networks interrupt scheduled programs with the announcement: “President Eisenhower and the Supreme Court of the United ...
( Category: Biographical July 7,2014 )
Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Douglas Preston [Preston, Douglas]

Walter on his horse Pedernal. Photo Douglas Preston. We continued along the dirt road, climbing steeply, winding back and forth, up one mountainside after another. As we climbed our feelings ...
( Category: State & Local July 7,2014 )
American Spartan by Ann Scott Tyson
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Ann Scott Tyson

CHAPTER 20 ONE WARM SPRING EVENING under a sky brimming with stars, Noor Afzhal rose from a wooden cot in the courtyard of his Mangwel qalat. The village was quiet ...
( Category: United States July 7,2014 )
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

GUARIGLIA'S SHOP was in a ramshackle building that was part of a ruin. Hanging from heavy wooden beams and cast-iron rods were hundreds of harnesses and bridles. Two dozen saddles ...
( Category: War July 6,2014 )
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies

The locations of standing stones in Massachusetts. After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the ...
( Category: China July 6,2014 )
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Donald Miller

The publishing company I work with is in Nashville, so I found myself there recently sitting with a group of publishers who looked confusingly at me when I told them ...
( Category: Religious July 5,2014 )
Incredible Incas by Deary Terry
epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Deary, Terry

1572 The last Incan rebel stronghold is captured and emperor Tupac Amaru, son of Manco, is beheaded. Without a head the new Incan Empire is finished – and without a ...
( Category: Peru July 4,2014 )
Tales of Times Square by Friedman Josh Alan
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Friedman, Josh Alan [Friedman, Josh Alan]

Pross and Pimps After Eighth Avenue’s streetwalker monopoly was terminated by 1980, girls gravitated to a dozen crosstown thoroughfares, as if dispersed by some antitrust action. The whole city combined ...
( Category: State & Local July 1,2014 )
Katharine Hepburn by Me
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Me [Me]

With Red Hammond after the storm Hurricane Well—that hurricane of ’38. The hurricane of ’38 was a real adventure. As I said, we were at Fenwick. It was a very ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers June 30,2014 )
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton
epub |eng | | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton

* * * * * * Over the following weeks we launched a full-court press to persuade Bibi to reconsider extending the freeze. Much of the action played out in ...
( Category: Political June 30,2014 )

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