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The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881 by Pierre Berton
epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

* Though the British Columbians blamed Blake for this smear, it was actually the British Colonist that first spoke of the route through which the railway would run as “a ...
( Category: Canada May 26,2014 )
Niagara: A History of the Falls by Pierre Berton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Eight 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly 2 The ice bridge 3 Annie 4 Fame and fortune or instant death 5 Aftermath 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly In the dying days of ...
( Category: State & Local May 26,2014 )
The Kraken Project by Douglas Preston
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Douglas Preston [Preston, Douglas]

32 Jacob followed his father into his workshop. He wished he hadn’t agreed to help reprogram Charlie. This was turning into a real pain in the butt. As a kid, ...
( Category: Suspense May 26,2014 )
My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Noelle Hancock

Chapter Eleven The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear, for newer and richer experience. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ...
( Category: Women May 21,2014 )
American Nations by Colin Woodard
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Colin Woodard

CHAPTER 17 Appalachia Spreads West It is little wonder that historians have long identified the Appalachian people with the frontier. Borderlanders were the first to move across the Appalachians, forcing ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 20,2014 )
The Mob and the City by C. Alexander Hortis
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:C. Alexander Hortis

Mob front groups used similar tactics. In 1960, a member of an “Italian-American service organization,” identified as “William Bonanno, a wholesale food distributor from Tucson, Ariz.,” condemned the “stereotyping of ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2014 )
S. J. Bolton
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kurban [Kurban]

( Category: Murder May 19,2014 )
Rabelais by Gargantua
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gargantua [Gargantua]

Metni «Güvendiğimiz, birleşik olduğumuz eski dostlar yaşlı günlerimin esenliğini bozmasalardı, okumada gösterdiğin coşkunluk; seni uzun süre felsefi huzurunla baş başa bırakmamı gerektirirdi. Ama madem kader en çok bel bağladığım kimselerin ...
( Category: Literary May 19,2014 )
Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

XL The play lasted over an hour longer, but Maria Nikolaevna and Sanin soon gave up looking at the stage. A conversation sprang up between them again, and went on ...
( Category: Anthologies May 19,2014 )
Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists by McDowell R.B
mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:McDowell, R.B. [McDowell, R.B.]

1 Parl. Debates, 5 series, cxxx, 2080. 2 Dáil Éireann Debates, p. 67. 3 Parl. Debates (Lords), 5 series, lx, 203. 4 Parl. Debates, 5 series, cxxvii, 959. 5 Parl. ...
( Category: Historical May 18,2014 )
Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Georgette Heyer [Heyer, Georgette]

* * * Chapter Twelve The Chief Inspector, reaching London again shortly after nine o'clock, betook himself to Scotland Yard, and found Inspector Grant awaiting him patiently in his office. ...
( Category: Crime May 16,2014 )
Night And Day by Woolf Virginia
epub |eng | | Author:Woolf, Virginia

Night And Day CHAPTER XXI MARY walked to the nearest station and reached home in an incredibly short space of time, just so much, indeed, as was needed for the ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 16,2014 )
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy F. Geithner
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Timothy F. Geithner [Geithner, Timothy F.]

TALF Revived Consumer Lending Markets Consumer Asset-Backed Securities Issuance The markets for auto loans, credit cards, and other consumer credit (excluding mortgages) that could be packaged into securities averaged nearly ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 16,2014 )
White Cargo - The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordan
epub |eng | 2008-03-07 | Author:Don Jordan [Jordan, Don]

CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE PLANTER FROM ANGOLA All through these middle years of the seventeenth century, a vast trade in black slaves was developing but it largely passed by the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 15,2014 )
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
epub |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Churchwell, Sarah [Churchwell, Sarah]

Zelda tended to hear the ripple of music throughout life; her memories were often washed deep in musical images. “Paul Whiteman played the significance of amusement on his violin,” she ...
( Category: United States May 13,2014 )

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