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The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
My Life in France by Julia Child
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Julia Child

IN OUR FIRST MAIL delivery in Marseille came a letter from Avis De Voto. In responding to some photos we’d sent of ourselves, she wrote: “I am very pleased with ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
Einstein For Dummies by Calle Carlos I
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Calle, Carlos I. [Calle, Carlos I.]

With his principle of equivalence, Einstein made Galileo’s observation the foundation of his new extended theory, the general theory of relativity. Another way to state Einstein’s principle of equivalence is ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 25,2014 )
3,096 Days by Kampusch Natascha
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Kampusch, Natascha [Kampusch, Natascha]

Ovid, Metamorphoses Today I believe that Wolfgang Priklopil, in committing a terrible crime, wanted to create nothing more than his own little perfect world with a person that could be ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
The life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-08-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Billy Crystal

CHAPTER 7 Around this time Uncle Berns really entered our lives, and he would forever change them. A wild man, a Zero Mostel kind of personality, Berns was a mystical ...
( Category: Jazz March 25,2014 )
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:George Orwell

XX THE PATRON had engaged me as kitchen plongeur, that is, my job was to wash up, keep the kitchen clean, prepare vegetables, make tea, coffee and sandwiches, do the ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Elizabeth Hand

15 We walked back most of the way without talking. We were both pretty loaded; it took most of our energy just to keep our footing in the icy mist. ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 25,2014 )
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:William Shakespeare

MRS. PAGE. Adieu, good Sir Hugh. Exit SIR HUGH Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long. Exeunt SCENE 2. FORD'S house Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD FALSTAFF. Mistress ...
( Category: Shakespeare March 25,2014 )
Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Jan Swafford

Everyone responded in his and her style—some applauding, some cheering, Clara sobbing. Brahms rose dutifully but said only, If I allow myself now to say a couple of words, I ...
( Category: Classical March 25,2014 )
The Amber Room by Adrian Levy
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Adrian Levy

Paul Enke's book on the search for the Amber Room, published in 1986 'Stolz' throws the book on to the bed and turns back to look down on Kurfurstendamm. Bernsteinzimmer ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
mobi |eng | 2008-10-07 | Author:Robert Clark

At eight o’clock on the morning of November 8, the Casa del Popolo of Santa Croce officially opened as the de facto relief center of the quartiere. Food tables were ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch
epub |eng | 1996-10-29 | Author:Neale Donald Walsch [Walsch, Neale Donald]

For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do, and have whatever produces the highest good for another. Yet I tell you ...
( Category: Mysticism March 25,2014 )

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