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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 )
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 )
The Celebration Chronicles by Andrew Ross Ph.D
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Andrew Ross, Ph.D. [Ross, Andrew]

Apopka farmworkers before the last harvest. (Photo: Sister Ann Kendrick, The Last Harvest project, Crealdé School of Art) I wondered what the lunatics would have done. From what we had ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
God of the Rodeo by Daniel Bergner
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Daniel Bergner [Bergner, Daniel]

SEVEN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI HAD BEEN SURGING. WITH Easter six days away, the river at Angola’s bend climbed past record height and was starting to flood the prison. I traveled ...
( Category: Men March 22,2015 )
The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A History of Misery and Medicine (Landmarks) (PA) by Webster J.P
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-25 | Author:Webster, J.P. [Webster, J.P.]

A mere month later, he reported the situation as “hopeless” and claimed he had inherited a “medieval pesthouse.” He was, however, able to raise its standards to “the equivalent of ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
At the Plaza by Curtis Gathje
epub |eng | | Author:Curtis Gathje

Clockwise from top left: Bob Hope amusing friends onstage, Liberace with Ted Straeter (the room’s bandleader), a tent card from the fall of 1971, and Dorothy Kilgallen at a charity ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
Return to Wake Robin by Marnie O. Mamminga
epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom by James Green
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:James Green [Green, James]

Chapter 12 There Can Be No Peace in West Virginia May 30–August 7, 1921 Outraged by the military autocracy Major Davis had imposed in the Williamson minefield, Harold Houston decided ...
( Category: Natural Resource Extraction March 21,2015 )
American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Donald Critchlow
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Donald Critchlow [Critchlow, Donald]

Chapter 6 Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918 Self-gain, partisan loyalty, and corruption characterized politics after the Civil War at a time when United States became the world’s ...
( Category: State & Local March 21,2015 )
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Henry Wiencek

12 The Double Aspect Mary Hemings Bell had the good fortune, and the misfortune, to be a Hemings. As a Hemings, she had autonomy, which allowed her to leave Monticello ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 4,2015 )
The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Caro Robert A
epub |eng | 1975-03-03 | Author:Caro, Robert A

Other reformers would later describe their overriding emotion at Moses' philosophy and tactics as "shock." They had no justification for such an emotion. There was nothing new about that philosophy ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Bruce Orr

Lavinia was more concerned with her life than her soul and put her faith in the governor’s pardon more than God’s mercy. Courtesy of Kayla Orr. There are many opinions ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
My Old Neighborhood Remembered by Avery Corman
epub |eng | | Author:Avery Corman

* * * SCHOOLYARD BASKETBALL * * * Schoolyard basketball was played continuously, on scorching summer days and on courts cleared of snow, played by day and by night with ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York by Jory John
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jory John

ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF “ART WITHIN ART” Now imagine, if you will, that this artists rendering is inside another artists rendering. And the artist who created itwithout getting too graphic is ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )

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