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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

10 A Parrot in the Pepper Tree Outside our holiday cottage, El Duque, is a false pepper tree. We planted it as a seed, a little thing encased in what ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
Dry Guillotine by René Belbenoît
epub |eng | 1937-12-31 | Author:René Belbenoît

Nineteen In the hospital on Isle Royale I found that during my absence a scandal had broken out – a scandal far more serious than any which the guard’s daughter ...
( Category: France December 8,2014 )
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

9 Casa & Campo Some years later I found myself reflecting on Mourad’s reaction to our home, after a phonecall from one Eduardo Mencos. El Valero had looked depressingly like ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Iris Chang

The next morning Rabe awoke to the sound of yet another air raid. Apparently not all of the Chinese army had been forced from of the city, he thought. It ...
( Category: Holocaust December 8,2014 )
The UnDutchables by Colin White & Laurie Boucke
epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Colin White & Laurie Boucke

The Other Cult The Dutch possess a proven respect for religion. Traditionally, the country is divided between the Catholic and Protestant faiths (reference books are contradictory about the exact ratio; ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
Where Have All The Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

- Transcribed newspaper cutting from the Union Jack, 1945 The compère for the contest is Captain Philip Ridgeway, the announcer. He is as informed on Dance Bands as Mrs Thatcher ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
Senseless Acts of Beauty by George McKay
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:George McKay

Certain drugs have commonly been associated with different subcultures over the years – speed with mods and punks, acid and cannabis with hippies, for instance26 – but it’s in rave ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
Key Dali by Robert Tacoma
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert Tacoma

18 Marina There’s something about the morning air in the tropics. In the cool months, the breeze coming off the water can energize a person and sharpen the senses. On ...
( Category: Germany December 8,2014 )
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Lipscomb Suzannah
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England December 6,2014 )
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas & Alexandra by Rappaport Helen
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Rappaport, Helen [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia December 5,2014 )
Letters from the Trenches by Lamin Bill
epub |eng | | Author:Lamin, Bill [Lamin, Bill]

As readers have probably come to expect by now, Harry used the time out of the line to write to both Kate and Jack. Feb 7th /1918 32507/ 9th Batt ...
( Category: Veterans November 30,2014 )
Royal Murder by Alexander Marc
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Alexander, Marc [Alexander, Marc]

One day too late, I fear, my noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. O, call back yesterday, bid time return, And thou shalt have twelve thousand ...
( Category: Great Britain November 26,2014 )
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Jessie Childs

Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost. The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost.58 Surrey’s implication in these lines is that God took Wyatt from his ...
( Category: Great Britain November 26,2014 )
The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution by Azar Helen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Azar, Helen [Azar, Helen]

— Saturday. 31st December. We 2 to Znamenie and to the infirmary. Rita was helping to replace Val.[lentina] Iv.[anovna]30 in the operating room, and I was [helping] a little on ...
( Category: Russia November 26,2014 )
THE FRESCO by The Fresco
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Fresco [Fresco, The]

From Chiddy's journal Dearest Benita, Vess and I have just learned that we must leave Earth for a short time. An emergency has arisen on Pistach-home, and all athyci are ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 26,2014 )

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