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Cowards by Glenn Beck
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Glenn Beck

A REAWAKENING Very few of the evangelicals who now follow Leftists like Jim Wallis realize that the technique of exploiting the churches for progressive policies has been tried before. And ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:David Hackett Fischer

Penrith Beacon stands high on a hill near the Cumbrian town of the same name. Its purpose was to warn the English countryside when Scottish raiders were over the border. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
A people's history of the United States: 1492-present by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Howard Zinn

The conditions of women working in a Milwaukee brewery were described by Mother Mary Jones, who worked there briefly in 1910 (she was close to eighty at this time): Condemned ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
mania by David
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David

Chapter 5 Chirp! Chirp! Chirp! I’m lying on the bed listening to the birds. I find their blabbering very pleasant now. I’ve had a shower. The bathroom has been tidied, ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
October 1964 by David Halberstam
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:David Halberstam

15 THE CARDINALS WERE A troubled team at the All-Star break. The addition of Lou Brock had added a badly needed spark and given them a new dimension of speed, ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Jessica B. Harris

Pre-and post-E mancipation African Americans longed for a place where the past didn’t hang over their heads like live oaks dripping Spanish moss. They wanted out of the South, and ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-10-28 | Author:Stephen Nissenbaum

?HE ISSUE came to a head at Christmas. Here was the one occasion on which even those parents who held to the more traditional idea of child-rearing tended to give ...
( Category: Christmas March 25,2014 )
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Edwin Black

The message was transcribed as coming from Woods and therefore was envel oped in the authority of the commercial attache.48 Joining Watson in the conference call were Nichol and Chauncey. ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story by Alison Thompson
mobi |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Alison Thompson

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 ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
A Reason to Believe by Governor Deval Patrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Governor Deval Patrick

Over the years, we’ve opened our doors to these and many other people who were hungry for company, attention, and affection. Growing up, I know that I too longed for ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Curtis Wilkie

“Zeus” ascending—a young Dick Scruggs, in flight gear, as a navy pilot. (photo credit i15.1) “If I get the same response … I won’t call again.”—After being rebuffed in previous ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-11 | Author:Rick Bragg

Federal men and county sheriffs harried him for thirty years, and while they locked him up now and then for carrying too much moonshine around in his bloodstream, they never ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Charlie Leduff

MAMA’S BOY WITH GENERAL MOTORS stock trading at levels not seen since the Great Depression, Kwame Kilpatrick walked out of jail shortly after midnight on February 2, 2009. Kilpatrick had ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

PART FOUR When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. I could have bypassed ...
( Category: Road Travel March 25,2014 )
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-11-23 | Author:Henry Adams

CHAPTER XVII PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) THE first effect of this leap into the unknown was a fit of low spirits new to the young man's education; due in part to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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