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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado by Holly Bailey
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Holly Bailey [Bailey, Holly]

CHAPTER 12 3:15 P.M., MAY 20 Lando Hite was inside one of the barns at Celestial Acres, a horse-training facility on the grounds of the 160-acre Orr Family Farm just ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
Ready For a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

We worked at home, Hitsville, where we all felt at home. We had the kitchen working—chili cooking. You could go back and get a cup of chili so you didn’t ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 12,2015 )
43*: When Gore Beat Bush--A Political Fable by Greenfield Jeff
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Greenfield, Jeff [Greenfield, Jeff]

September 11, 2001 “I can’t believe it!” First Officer LeRoy Homer said to Jason Dahl, the pilot of the Boeing 757. “Wheels up at 8:10? At Newark? When was the ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Eye in the Sky: The Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites by Dwayne Day
mobi |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Dwayne Day

A mockup of the Sputnik II payload complete with Soviet dog. When the Soviet Union launched Sputniks I and II, they raised fears of surprise attack among many in the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics June 12,2015 )
Boston Strong by Casey Sherman
epub |eng | | Author:Casey Sherman

Over at Massachusetts General Hospital, there was confusion. Patty and Billy Campbell arrived at the hospital at around 2 a.m. with the hope of being reunited with their daughter, Krystle. ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up by Victor D. Brooks
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Victor D. Brooks [Brooks, Victor D.]

6 CAMELOT KIDS FRIDAY MORNING, January 20, 1961, dawned cold and blustery in Washington, D.C., as the nation’s capital joined most of the Northeast in digging out from the third ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
On the Burning Edge by Kyle Dickman
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Kyle Dickman [Dickman, Kyle]

But for many hours, the hotshots droned through the flat, windswept high desert that lies between Jemez Springs and Prescott. The crew didn’t pull into the base until after seven ...
( Category: Fire Science June 11,2015 )
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii by James L. Haley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:James L. Haley [Haley, James L.]

13. Mountains of Sugar Whaling, which once anchored the islands’ commerce with the outside world, had peaked in the early 1850s. But the decline in the number of whales, then ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )
Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided by W Hunter Lesser
epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:W Hunter Lesser [Lesser, W Hunter]

Confederate General Wise held the James River and Kanawha Turnpike on the New River at Hawks Nest, six miles east of Federals under General Cox. Wise was positioned there ostensibly ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Deborah K. King Deborah King, associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth College, is completing a book on the enforcement of affirmative action policies in American higher education. Her groundbreaking essay, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Kevin M. Kruse [Kruse, Kevin M.]

The Supreme Court’s decisions striking down state-mandated programs of prayer and Bible reading in public schools generated a wide range of reactions. Here, Charles Schulz captured the popular panic that ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 11,2015 )
The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865 by Emory M. Thomas
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Emory M. Thomas [Thomas, Emory M.]

“There is,” said the girl solemnly; “We celebrate our right to live. We are starving. As soon as enough of us get together we are going to the bakeries and ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Blom Philipp
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Blom, Philipp [Blom, Philipp]

Life in Amerikanka THE CONTROVERSIES ABOUT STALINIST OPPRESSION—indeed, full knowledge of the extent of that oppression—was still some way in the future in 1929, despite the questions asked by Lady ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
The Lost Ranger: A Soldier's Story by Mehlo Noel
epub |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Mehlo, Noel [Mehlo, Noel]

Figure 218: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map of Omaha Beach, West (NARA) Figure 219: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map reverse side, of Omaha Beach, West (NARA) Figure 220: Operation OVERLORD BIGOT Map ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )

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