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Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of American: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War by Nancy Robinson Masters
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 28,2014 )
Cyberstorm by Matthew Mather
mobi |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Matthew Mather

Day 12: January 3 WE WERE CROWDED around the coffee table in Chuck’s apartment, looking at Damon’s laptop screen. Lauren was sitting beside me with Luke wedged between her knees. ...
( Category: Technothrillers May 28,2014 )
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor [Boulware, Jack & Tudor, Silke]

If the Kids Are United: Rock Against Reagan Mike Tsongas: The War Chest Tour was one of many predecessors to the Black Bloc. David Solnit hung around us a lot ...
( Category: Punk May 27,2014 )
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Wilbert Rideau [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick [Fitzpatrick, Ellen]

Yours sincerely, Dora W. Wildesen * * * John F. Kennedy was the first American President born in the twentieth century. At forty-three years of age, he was also the ...
( Category: Letters May 27,2014 )
The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-14 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

III BEFORE THE FIRING SQUAD They marched Barney before the staff where he urged his American nationality, pointing to his credentials and passes in support of his contention. The general ...
( Category: Classics May 27,2014 )
Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
epub |eng | 1984-01-15 | Author:Lorraine Hansberry [Hansberry, Lorraine]

WALTER —Do you hear the beating of the wings of the birds flying low over the mountains and the low places of our land— BENEATHA OCOMOGOSIAY! WALTER —Do you hear ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier by Robert N. Thompson
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Robert N. Thompson [Thompson, Robert N.]

This monument along County Route 8 west of Peora, West Virginia, marks the location of the Cunningham farm. The sandstone rock comes from the cave in which the Wyandot hid ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2014 )
Capote by Gerald Clarke
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Gerald Clarke [Clarke, Gerald]

37 WHEN he docked in New York, in late October, 1958, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was in the bookstores, and Holly Golightly had already taken her place in America’s fictional Hall ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Greil Marcus

Little Voice, directed by Mark Herman (Miramax, 1998). Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross (New Line, 1998). Bob Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” from The Times They Are A-Changin’ ...
( Category: Country & Folk May 26,2014 )
Vimy by Pierre Berton
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

3 Completing the arsenal of howitzers, guns, and mortars was the deadliest weapon of all – the one that had transformed warfare. The heavy, water-cooled Vickers machine gun and the ...
( Category: Canada May 26,2014 )
Prisoners of the North by Pierre Berton
epub |eng | 2004-05-24 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

Leopold M’Clintock, whose successful discovery of Franklin relics on King William Island brought an end to the great search. He is shown here as a rear admiral. In July 1858, ...
( Category: Historical May 26,2014 )
Pierre Berton's War of 1812 by Pierre Berton
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Pierre Berton

The Battle of Stoney Creek The American commander, Brigadier-General John Chandler, a former blacksmith, tavernkeeper and congressman, owes his appointment to political influence rather than military experience, of which he ...
( Category: Pre-Confederation May 26,2014 )
The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Pierre Berton

2 The displaced people The whole country marvelled, that spring and summer of 1883, over the feat of building the railway across the prairies in just fifteen months – everybody, ...
( Category: Railroads May 26,2014 )
The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914 by Pierre Berton
mobi |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Seven The Passing of the Old Order 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure 2 The new era 3 The Indian dilemma 4 The Imperial Force 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure Nineteen hundred ...
( Category: Canada May 26,2014 )

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