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A Time to Stand by Walter Lord
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Walter Lord [Lord, Walter]

CHAPTER ELEVEN “Take Care of My Little Boy” IN THE DIM MOONLIGHT that bathed the Alamo plaza, John W. Smith saddled up once again. It was nearly midnight, Thursday, March ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
A Desert Reckoning by Deanne Stillman
epub |eng | | Author:Deanne Stillman

TENDER GOODNESS Sit in the mud, my friend, and aspire to the skies! —Ivan Turgenev, “Enough” FOR TEN YEARS OR SO, DON’S FAMILY HAD NO CONTACT WITH him. There were ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
State by State
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland

Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America (9781466860926) by Trask Kerry A
epub |eng | | Author:Trask, Kerry A.

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America by Trask Kerry A
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Trask, Kerry A. [Trask, Kerry A.]

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees From Before the Babe to After the Boss by Marty Appel
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Marty Appel [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 January 20,2015 )
Can't Anybody Here Play this Game?-The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year by Jimmy Breslin
mobi |eng | 1963-04-28 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

5 “They’re Afraid to Come Out” THE SECOND HALF OF the season for the New York Mets was, generally speaking, a catastrophe. The second half of the season consisted of ...
( Category: State & Local January 19,2015 )
Empire of Sin by Gary Krist
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Gary Krist [Krist, Gary]

UP on Esplanade Avenue—far from the ongoing turmoil in Black and White Storyville—retired madam Josie Arlington had fallen gravely ill. Sometime in early 1913, right around the time of the ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2015 )
Belonging: A Culture of Place by Bell Hooks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

10 Earthbound: On Solid Ground Kentucky hills were the place of my early childhood. Surrounded by a wilderness of honeysuckle, wild asparagus, and sheltering trees, bushes shielding growing crops, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 12,2015 )
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brandon Stanton [Stanton, Brandon]

( Category: State & Local January 11,2015 )
Punching Out One Year in a Closing Auto Plant
mobi | | | Author:Paul Clemens

I’d told Matt the day before that I’d be in around 7:30 in the morning to see the crown of 16-1 come down. How long would it take? “If everything ...
( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )
Killer Colt Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
mobi | | | Author:Harold Schechter

( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )
Going Rogue An American Life
mobi | | | Author:Sarah Palin

( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )
The Kingdom of New York Knights, Knaves
mobi | | | Author:The New York Observer

( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )

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