epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Jerrold Ladd [LADD, JERROLD]

In December 1986, the winter weather was still around, and everybody stayed bundled up. Lisa invited me to a Christmas party her family intended to throw. Word was around the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Stephan Talty

At the neck of the lagoon, Don Alonzo waited. A stream of informers stole toward his flagship and gave the admiral a series of reports: The pirates were working on ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Troy Jackson [Jackson, Troy]

With any growing organization emerging quickly in response to a specific challenge, infrastructure often lags. A lack of clear organization policies and guidelines did allow for MIA monies to be ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Carlotta Walls Lanier [LaNier, Carlotta Walls]

Me at about eight years old, around the time I took my first life-changing trip to New York City. (Photo by M. A. Binns) At home with my parents (Cartelyou ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Sam Roberts [ROBERTS, SAM]

PERHAPS THE TERMINAL’S MOST ENDURING EXPORT is about time. Until 1883, virtually every town in the country set local time by the sun. Typically, noon would be regularly signaled so ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Robert Jenkins

6 | Friends and Strangers In mid-1981, we all had to go back to teaching at the school where we had taught before. We were still English instructors, but the ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Seymour I. Schwartz

Doctor Garden writes Doctor Whytt, that, in the summer 1754, he met, about a mile from the town of New York in New England, with a plant, which, at first, ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Alison Thompson [Thompson, Alison]

CHAPTER 9 By May, life in Peraliya was beginning to feel like something out of Lord of the Flies. We had to watch our backs, as some villagers had nothing ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-16 | Author:Barry Rubin [Rubin, Barry]

THE GREAT SATAN To some extent, they succeeded far more than just hijacking four planes and crashing three of them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It was also ...

epub |eng | | Author:William M. Fowler Jr.

Chapter Eleven Stoked by the disappointing report of the committee to Congress and Colonel Brooks’s “particulars,” the mood of the officers encamped along the Hudson had turned ever more sour. ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Harry Kyriakodis

CARPENTER’S STAIRS William Penn conveyed a larger (204-foot-wide) bank lot to Carpenter on August 4, 1684, the day after issuing his decree that bankers could develop their riverbank property as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:T.R. Fehrenbach

Texans were intransigent in defending states' rights against the Confederacy; they were strikingly not a problem-oriented breed, who would willingly sacrifice individual freedoms in furtherance of a common goal. This ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Cohen, Rich [Cohen, Rich]

To defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, you were either an adjective or a number. Here he is with number 55, Otis Wilson, celebrating a victory over the Giants in the second ...

mobi |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Christopher Kimball

FRIED BABY ARTICHOKES The secret to this recipe is forcing the artichokes open so that they produce a fan of crisply breaded leaves. When done just right, you get a ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:Richard Kurin

MARIAN ANDERSON AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL BY ROBERT SAUNDERS, SCURLOCK STUDIO National Museum of American History After the Lincoln Memorial concert, Anderson went on to enjoy a full and acclaimed career. ...