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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Killer Show by John Barylick
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Barylick

Reporters and the public wanted answers from the town of West Warwick, too. How could a club with highly flammable foam on its walls pass fire inspections? Was the club ...
( Category: Rock April 5,2015 )
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Joe Hutto

Bubba in prime condition the day he was killed by a mountain lion. Bubba, the next day. Boar, alone at last. Having somehow made it my business to observe these ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
Love, Fiercely by Jean Zimmerman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean Zimmerman

11. For Richer or Poorer In one sense, Paris came through for Edith and Newton. Their extended honeymoon cum escape in the City of Light allowed the young couple to ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Ringlingville USA by Jerry Apps
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerry Apps

* * * NOTES 1. Baraboo (Wisconsin) Evening News, November 1, 1905. In 1905 the Ringlings advertised their new spectacle, “The Field of the Cloth of Gold,” as “the grandest ...
( Category: Circus April 5,2015 )
If These Walls Had Ears by James Morgan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:James Morgan

Rita Grimes, second from right, with her two sons and Roy's sisters. Rita loved 501 Holly no matter what calamity came along. They told themselves the house was in a ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-06-19 | Author:Jeanine Basinger

Durbin posed in her own home with her real-life parents for their Christmas card. Deanna Durbin was quickly put into two new films to be made and released in 1938: ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-19 | Author:James Campbell

CHAPTER 7 Back-to-Nature Boys In 1975, when Heimo Korth left Wisconsin, leaving behind everything and everybody he knew, he was answering a universally familiar call—the yearning to escape home. When ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Untold Story of Bonnie;Clyde Go Down Together: The True by Jeff Guinn
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER 21 Buck and Blanche Doctors Keith Chapler and Robert Osborn were performing an early-morning tonsillectomy in Dexter on the 24th of July when the posse arrived at their office ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals April 5,2015 )
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jeanne Theoharis

On the preceding pages you have seen pictures of the leaders of every major race incident in the South from May 1954 until the time of this meeting, Labor Day, ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Matthew Goodman

DECEMBER 18–23, 1889 South China Sea ON BOARD THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP THAMES BOUND for Singapore, Elizabeth Bisland slept “the languorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics.” Her stateroom had ...
( Category: Women April 4,2015 )
All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Bethany McLean [McLean, Bethany]

The blind spot was AIG-FP’s credit default swap business. Ever since that original BISTRO deal with J.P. Morgan, FP had created a profitable niche by taking on the risk of ...
( Category: United States March 24,2015 )
Alcatraz: The Hardest Years 1934-1938 by Chandler E. F. & Chandler Roy F
mobi |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Chandler, E. F. & Chandler, Roy F. [Chandler, E. F.]

R. O. Culver in 1934 It should be re-emphasized that E. F. Chandler was a dead shot. His ability with a 30/06 Springfield rifle had been proven on numerous Army ...
( Category: United States March 22,2015 )
Parkland (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Bugliosi Vincent
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Bugliosi, Vincent [Bugliosi, Vincent]

11:00 a.m. Robert Oswald arrives at the Hotel Adolphus and finds that room 906 is a suite. A stranger answers his knock. “I’m Robert Oswald. Is my mother here?” “In ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 22,2015 )
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Montgomery Ben
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Montgomery, Ben [Montgomery, Ben]

Mary Snow’s story about Emma ran in Sports Illustrated on August 15—the day Emma would face death—under a black-and-white photograph of her on the trail. The headline was: PAT ON ...
( Category: Women March 22,2015 )

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