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Still Life in Harlem by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

My father wants to know if I regret the life I have lived, wants to know too, I suppose, if I regret missing the life I never had. At first ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Alamo Traces by Thomas Ricks Lindley
epub |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Thomas Ricks Lindley

Simply put, the Louis Rose data is not an independent verification of the Rose story because Blake never proved Louis Rose and Moses Rose were the same person. Still, Lord ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Pen and Ink Witchcraft by Calloway Colin G
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Calloway, Colin G.

FIGURE 6.2 George Bent and his Cheyenne wife, Magpie, 1867. Magpie gave birth to a daughter on the opening day of the Medicine Lodge council. (Courtesy of History Colorado, Scan ...
( Category: Colonial Period January 29,2015 )
The Lion in Autumn by Frank Fitzpatrick
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Fitzpatrick

After Robinson left the field, Paterno immediately told Galen Hall to eliminate most of the plays they had drawn up that week. Then, surprisingly, he turned not to Morelli, who ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Cagney by Cagney
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:James Cagney [Cagney, James]

6 Psychologically I needed no preparation for Yankee Doodle Dandy, or professionally either. I didn’t have to pretend to be a song-and-dance man. I was one. In just about every ...
( Category: Reference January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

At its March 3 meeting the Federal Reserve Board discussed the growing number of states with bank holidays. Miller advocated the use of clearinghouse certificates, but he opposed any plan ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
The Edge of Maine by Geoffrey Wolff
epub |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Geoffrey Wolff

Sometime around 1820, William Bradstreet came up the Kennebec in his little 125-ton brig Orion. It was late in the fall, and she was frozen in at Dearborn’s wharf in ...
( Category: New England January 29,2015 )
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Pamela Grim [GRIM, PAMELA]

Two Dr. Daiquiri patients in one day, I thought sourly as I stomped back down the hall. And one an aspirin overdose no less. Back in the acute room my ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The Battle Of New Orleans Reconsidered by Curtis Manning
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Curtis Manning [Manning, Curtis]

Le Chevalier Anne-Louis de Tousard would not have much time to reconsider his boast that “We are all Americans.” He left New Orleans in 1816 and died in Paris the ...
( Category: Civil War January 29,2015 )
Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:J. B. West & Mary Lynn Kotz [West, J. B.]

2 AFTER LUNCH, THE KENNEDY children were bedded down, the maids and houseman scuttled away, and silence reigned upstairs at the White House. For the President of the United States, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Yanks Are Coming! by H. W. Crocker III
epub |eng | | Author:H. W. Crocker, III [Crocker, H. W.]

“A MAN WHO WAS GOING TO BE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY ONE DAY” Bearing a recommendation from the superintendent at VMI and from New York senator John Wise ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Assassins' Gate by George Packer
epub |eng | | Author:George Packer

8 OCCUPIED IRAQIS “WE MUST GO OUT OF IRAQ! We must travel! We must see America! Can you give us hope?” A young woman named Aseel and one of her ...
( Category: Iraq War January 29,2015 )
Working by Studs Terkel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Studs Terkel

“When you make a mistake, you get three chances. Then they take it out of your pay, which is right. You can’t make a ten-dollar mistake every week. It’s fishy. ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations January 29,2015 )
The First Lady of Radio by Stephen Drury Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Drury Smith [Smith, Stephen Drury; Cook, Blanche Wiesen]

A typewritten postcard from San Francisco read: Why don’t you use some of this soap to scrub those BUCK TEETH of yours and maybe you could talk plainer . . ...
( Category: Women January 29,2015 )
Pawprints of Katrina by Cathy Scott
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Cathy Scott

On January 9, 2006, Red was transferred to the Celebration Station triage center and had just a one-day return visit to the hospital in February for a bad case of ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )

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