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Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences by Pelonero Catherine
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Pelonero, Catherine [Pelonero, Catherine]

PART TWO TRIALS AND JUDGMENTS The sound of screaming was repeated several times . . . then it abruptly ceased. The silence that followed, as the night suddenly stood still, ...
( Category: State & Local March 4,2015 )
A History of Vampires in New England by Thomas D'Agostino
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Thomas D'Agostino

Hopewell Cemetery in Griswold, Connecticut, where the remains of the Walton burial lot were relocated in an undisclosed location. It seems weird—almost surreal—in this day and age to have such ...
( Category: State & Local March 3,2015 )
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Chernow Ron
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

Two weeks later, Lamont followed this up by meeting with Neville Chamberlain, then chancellor of the Exchequer. It was a vintage Lamont performance—tough resolve beneath suave civility. He said Morgans ...
( Category: State & Local March 3,2015 )
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways by Earl Swift
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Earl Swift [Swift, Earl]

It didn't take long for the states to jump on the program. Barely a month after the president signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, they had more than $800 ...
( Category: Transportation February 15,2015 )
American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

11 AN UNEASY AND CONSTANT WATCH “The prisoner,” as John Winthrop took to calling Anne Hutchinson that winter, saw little of her children during her house arrest. One-year-old Zuriel; Susan, ...
( Category: State & Local February 13,2015 )
Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]

CHAPTER 10 GRADUALLY THE VETERAN YANKEE players were coming to know Stengel. He was shrewd, talkative, and theatrical. He could be arbitrary, and sometimes he seemed a bit odd. When ...
( Category: State & Local February 3,2015 )
Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Scott Ridley [Ridley, Scott]

AS KENDRICK’S BOAT DREW ALONGSIDE, the Columbia fired another salute, and the men gave three cheers. Here was the captain who had remained on the unknown side of the world ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding January 29,2015 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte by Berkin Carol
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Berkin, Carol [Berkin, Carol]

Chapter Eleven “That Was My American Wife” While the debacle of Bo’s proposed marriage played itself out, Betsy began a peripatetic life in Europe, dividing her time between Geneva, Florence, ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
God'll Cut You Down : The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, Amurder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi (9780698170537) by Safran John
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Safran, John

Plan B So much for the big set piece. I was counting on the trial to settle the questions of what Richard Barrett was thinking that night, and what Vincent ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )

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