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Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag by Stevie Chick
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Stevie Chick [Chick, Stevie]

Early Panic rehearsal, 1978. Left to Right: Chuck Dukowski, R , obo Keith Morris, Greg Ginn. (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN/COURTESY RYAN RICHARDSON WWW.RYEBREADRODEO.COM) “Maybe sixty seconds into the first song, it began ...
( Category: Punk March 26,2014 )
FM by Richard Neer
epub |eng | 2001-12-17 | Author:Richard Neer

Good-bye Yellow Brick Road Jonathan Schwartz was tired. The grind of working seven days a week had become too much for him. He was entangled in a romantic situation that ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season by Tony La Russa
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Tony La Russa

AS GAME 2 GOT UNDER WAY, I FOUND MYSELF THINKING, AS I HAD since August: We have to be realistic in our goals, we have to make this a series. ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Mountains of California by John Muir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:John Muir

View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir It is in these woods the great granite domes rise that are so striking and characteristic a feature of the Sierra. And ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
New York at War by Steven H. Jaffe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Steven H. Jaffe

June 5, 1917, dawned fair and cool in New York. Through the morning and afternoon, thousands of men lined up outside neighborhood schools, barbershops, and storefronts to register for Selective ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...
( Category: Pacific March 25,2014 )
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Hero of the Pacific by James Brady
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace
mobi |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace

Mary Taylor and F. S. Chanfrau in the roles of Mose and his ladyfriend, Lize, in the premier of “A Glance at New York,” 1848. (The New York Public Library ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk through Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland “THE JIG’S UP—people are having sex in Portland,” says Teresa Dulce. An advocate for Portland’s sex workers and the publisher ...
( Category: Portland March 25,2014 )
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H G Bissinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:H G Bissinger

II A week after the game, Republican presidential candidate George Bush came to the Midland-Odessa area for a campaign appearance. The scene on the tarmac at the airport wasn’t as ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by Kirby David
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Kirby, David [Kirby, David]

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 by Douglas Brinkley
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

III World War II transformed Alaska, seemingly overnight, from a backwater territory to a major strategic asset that was well worth defending. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Timothy Egan

Chapter 7 FRIENDS OF THE HIDE At the Nisqually Delta, where Puget Sound picks up the runoff from one of Mount Rainier’s longest glaciers and then doglegs north, creatures of ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-14 | Author:Robert Stinnett

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )

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