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The Storm of the Century by Al Roker
epub |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Al Roker

CHAPTER 10 THE NIGHT OF HORRORS AS NIGHT FELL ON GALVESTON, THE STORM ONLY GAINED strength. Isaac Cline’s realization had been correct: the hurricane that was passing straight through the ...
( Category: State & Local October 10,2015 )
Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football by John U. Bacon
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:John U. Bacon [Bacon, John U.]

CHAPTER 43 THE STUDENTS WIN A ROUND While the elected student government officers wrestled with general-admission seating, the elected Regents had to find a new president. Mary Sue Coleman’s two-year ...
( Category: State & Local September 12,2015 )
Other People's Money by Charles V. Bagli
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Charles V. Bagli

• • • For MetLife, the results of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village transaction could not have been better. The sale sent the company’s share price to a fifty-two-week high ...
( Category: State & Local September 9,2015 )
Pinstripe Empire by Appel Marty
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Appel, Marty [Appel, Marty]

DIMAGGIO WAITED UNTIL December 11 to make his plans public. Similar to what Ruth had done after his last Yankee season, he toured Japan and Korea with a traveling U.S. ...
( Category: State & Local September 8,2015 )
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness by Brian Murphy
mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Brian Murphy

Leon Crane, right, with his father Louis, who emigrated in 1913 from Ukraine to Philadelphia along with his wife Sonia. Crane had a letter from his father in his parka ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
81 Days Below Zero by Brian Murphy
epub |ara, eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Brian Murphy

The row house at 5464 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia where Crane spent much of his boyhood with his two brothers and a sister. The neighborhood became a magnet for ...
( Category: World War II September 8,2015 )
Shots on the Bridge by Ronnie Greene
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Ronnie Greene [Greene, Ronnie]

FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, it was time to act. They began on the outside, approaching Detective Jeffrey Lehrmann, who worked closely with Kaufman in crafting the initial reports. The Feds ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 8,2015 )
Capital Ideas by Bernstein Peter L
epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L.

Chapter 10 Risky Business Knack, feel, whim, and intuition are . . . useless relics. Markowitz, Tobin, and Sharpe all describe rational investors as masters of their fate. The theories ...
( Category: State & Local September 7,2015 )
Whitey by Dick Lehr
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Dick Lehr [Lehr, Dick]

In this combustible atmosphere, Whitey Bulger may have backed off from street violence but he hardly retreated. Like most hard-liners in Southie, he brimmed with disdain for the Boston Globe, ...
( Category: State & Local September 5,2015 )
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John L. Esposito
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:John L. Esposito [Esposito, John L.]

[Barney was there] every night.... His word was everything.... He was the owner, the actual owner and manager.... His word was the say at the Cocoanut Grove. Mickey Alpert 0 ...
( Category: England September 4,2015 )
Banned in Boston by Neil Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Neil Miller [Miller, Neil]

Bostonians were of various minds as to what was occurring. In a joint statement, the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, and Company—two of the leading Boston publishing ...
( Category: State & Local August 27,2015 )
The Tastemaker by Edward White
epub |eng | | Author:Edward White

A caricature of Carl Van Vechten as a black man by Miguel Covarrubias, entitled A Prediction That positive distinction had a crucial effect on his relationships with Harlemites. Behind his ...
( Category: State & Local August 23,2015 )
A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Roberts

● 54 ● “To City” Sign The “Outer” Boroughs The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, “is always the city seen for ...
( Category: State & Local August 19,2015 )
Grunge Seattle by Justin Henderson
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Justin Henderson

chapter 4 the end of the innocence The End of the Innocence, the title of a multimillion selling 1989 album by rock star (and former Eagle) Don Henley, aptly describes ...
( Category: State & Local August 2,2015 )
Thomas Jefferson Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 31,2015 )

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