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The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Gerritsen Tess
mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Gerritsen, Tess [Gerritsen, Tess]

The great city of Ch’ang-an had long been the capital of all China. At this time, Tai Tsing of the dynasty of Tang was on the throne. The whole land ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 3,2017 )
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I by Tracy Joanne Borman
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Tracy Joanne Borman [Borman, Tracy Joanne]

It seems the royal family overestimated the healing effects of Henry’s birth on the Saxon population. At the end of 1068, they felt their monarchy secure enough to return to ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2017 )
Rabid by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy [Wasik, Bill]

Shortly afterward, Pasteur left Paris for a much-needed rest and relied upon frequent updates from the physicians still monitoring Meister to reassure him of his successful treatment. On August 3, ...
( Category: Medicine September 3,2017 )
Queens of England by Norah Lofts
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Norah Lofts [Lofts, Norah]

Traitor's Gate, the Tower of London, even in sunlight and today, still retains its sinister appearance. Both Dereham and Culpepper were found guilty of treason and executed at Tyburn. Dereham ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Dan Jones [Jones, Dan]

[…] Emitte lucem tuam et veritatem tuam: ipsa me deduxerunt et adduxerunt in montem sanctum tuum, et in tabernacula tua. Et introibo ad altare Dei: ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
Venice by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

20 Iustitia On one of the three exposed corners of the ducal palace, there is a sculpture concerning the judgement of Solomon. On the west façade of the palace is ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
Kate Summerscale by The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder & the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
mobi |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder & the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November–December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...
( Category: Mystery September 3,2017 )
The Statue by Stevens Ben
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Stevens, Ben [Stevens, Ben]

Most of Hawarden gathered for Monday’s trial. The shire-reeve sat at a table in the field, beside him a scribe who would record everything that was said and done. For ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present by Rebecca Fraser
epub |eng | 2006-11-16 | Author:Rebecca Fraser [Fraser, Rebecca]

George II (1727–1760) In most ways George II was a far nicer man than his father; like George I he was a brave soldier, but taller and better looking. He ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

Chapter Five FLORENTINE HISTORY, IN ITS great period, is a history of innovations. The Florentines wrote the first important work in the vulgar tongue (the Divina Commedia); they raised the ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas & Kerem Nişancıoğlu
epub |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Alexander Anievas & Kerem Nişancıoğlu [Anievas, Alexander]

( Category: Economics September 3,2017 )
White Boar and the Red Dragon, The by Price Margaret W
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Price, Margaret W [Price, Margaret W]

‘My lord, you are safe! Duke Francis has relented and has sent me to get you back to safety. He has been persuaded by his favourite councillor, John Chenlet, that ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
Medici Money by Parks Tim
epub |eng | 2006-09-03 | Author:Parks, Tim

THROUGHOUT THE 1440S and 1450s, draconian balias are instituted, made semi-permanent, then suddenly dissolved in the face of angry public reaction. New scrutinies are compiled with new rules. How many ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
Agricola and Germany by Tacitus; Tacitus Cornelius;
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Tacitus; Tacitus, Cornelius;

ON THE ORIGIN AND LAND OF THE GERMANS The above was apparently the proper title of the work, Germania or Germany simply being a convenient short form: Anderson, 33; Lund, ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
France and the Nazi Threat by Jean-Baptiste Duroselle
epub | | 2015-06-22 | Author:Jean-Baptiste Duroselle [Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste]

2. THE BEGINNING OF NON-INTERVENTION IN SPAIN Léon Blum was unlucky. On July 17, six weeks after forming the Popular Front government, Spain was rocked by a military coup. The ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )

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