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Seasons on Harris by David Yeadon
epub |eng | | Author:David Yeadon

Highland Cow “I can’t go totally abstract,” she explained. “I’m not sure I want to. It can get far too personal—too self-focused. What I try to do is use my ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Hazan

This battle is an odd story, and singularly forgotten, apart from the monument to Moncey in the middle of the Place de Clichy, and the tiny Impasse de la Défense. ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Laurence Rees [Laurence Rees]

Although Groening does not exactly use the word “enjoyable” to describe his time at Auschwitz, it is hard to see how that is not an apt description of the life ...
( Category: Holocaust October 16,2014 )
The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Anne de Courcy

Back in Italy for Easter, he wrote to her just as assiduously: I have thought of you so often here. Everything is going well, so far at least. Everybody [i.e., ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )
Prince Harry by Penny Junor
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Penny Junor

THWARTED “The best thing that ever happened to Prince Harry in a military sense,” says one of his team, “was his commanding officer of the Household Cavalry at Windsor, Lieutenant ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 by Ginsberg Allen
epub |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Ginsberg, Allen [Ginsberg, Allen]

1956 SCRIBBLE Rexroth's face reflecting human tired bliss White haired, wing browed gas mustache, flowers jet out of his sad head, listening to Edith Piaf street song as she walks ...
( Category: Poetry October 16,2014 )
No Place to Call Home by Katharine Quarmby
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Katharine Quarmby [Quarmby, Katharine]

Strikingly, over half of all Irish Travellers in prison were there for property offences, compared to thirty per cent of prisoners from the general population. ‘All forms of theft tend ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 16,2014 )
The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hugh Thomas

* * * IThe first naval vessel to be copper-sheathed was the frigate Alarm in 1761, and the second the discovery ship Dolphin. IISee page 162. IIIThe publication of these ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 16,2014 )
The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

Chapter XXXVI. How D'Artagnan drew a Country-Seat from a Deal Box. The king's words regarding the wounded pride of Monk had inspired D'Artagnan with no small portion of apprehension. The ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy October 15,2014 )
The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum
epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Padraic Colum [Colum, Padraic]

THE TOWN OF THE RED CASTLE I Flann was the name that the Old Woman of Beare gave to Gilly of the Goatskin when he came back to tell her ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 15,2014 )
A General History of the Pyrates: / from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, / to the present time by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

( Category: World October 15,2014 )
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
epub |eng | 2003-02-28 | Author:Johann David Wyss [Wyss, Johann David]

I was pleased to see that they had fulfilled their orders intelligently, carrying out my intentions in the spirit and not blindly to the letter. Next morning we quitted the ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various
epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Various [Various]

But on the morrow, when the time grew near, the king's daughter and this hero of arms went to give a meeting to the beast, and they reached the black ...
( Category: Europe October 15,2014 )
How to Talk Like a Local by Susie Dent
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Susie Dent

k kappa slapper A YOUNG WOMAN in trendy clothes and flashy jewellery (northern England) Kappa slapper is the only one of the synonyms and near-synonyms of chav (with the exception ...
( Category: Linguistics October 15,2014 )
The Queen Mother by William Shawcross
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:William Shawcross

In fact her gowns in wartime were a constant worry. The King looked elegant in uniform throughout the war; the Queen had more difficulty deciding what she should wear. She ...
( Category: Great Britain October 15,2014 )

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