epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Cate Lineberry [LINEBERRY, CATE]

Exhausted after a day of grueling hiking, the weary party arrived at Sheper, a village of about one hundred stone houses and roughly fifteen miles north of the border with ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-11-07 | Author:Winston Groom

* Military officers in those times were permitted to bring a servant along with them. Since Emory was from a slaveholding family in Maryland, it is highly probable that his ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:James L. Swanson

OUTSIDE ON the street, a pasty-complexioned, unattractive man wearing a dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, dark hat, and dark shoes approached the mouth of the driveway and the armored ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Matthew Lysiak [Lysiak, Matthew]

Nearby dispatchers continued warning of more gunmen and flooded the area with local ambulances. 9:55:25 A.M.: “Be advised, we have multiple weapons. One rifle and a shotgun.” 9:57:25 A.M.: “Any ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Bruce Catton [Catton, Bruce]

CHAPTER FIVE Turning Point 1: The Signs of the Times There had been a good deal of artillery fire along the Yorktown lines during the night, and there had also ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Abraham Lincoln

LETTER TO HANNAH ARMSTRONG Hannah Armstrong was the wife of Jack Armstrong, leader of the Clary’s Grove boys at New Salem, the man with whom Lincoln had had a famous ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Scott Miller [Miller, Scott]

LUNCHROOM Emma Goldman found herself in an unlikely place for an aspiring anarchist the summer of 1892—behind the counter of a lunchroom in Worcester, Massachusetts, preparing sandwiches and grilling pancakes. ...

epub | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S [S, Thompson, Hunter]

Gonzo 1 - The Great Shark Hunt PART 3 Traveler Hears Mountain Music Where It's Sung Renfro Valley, Ky.-- The Bluegrass country is cold and brown in the winter. Night ...

epub |eng | | Author:George Packer

TAMMY THOMAS In early 2008, a little over a year after Tammy lost her job at the factory, a man named Kirk Noden asked her to meet him for coffee. ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

THREE Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer—the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds pasted ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Laskin

Ole and Charley had gotten the wagon loaded up with hay and were about half a mile from home when the storm overtook them. The wind came up so fast ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

The wire did not have to go all the way to Washington; the Secretary was at Fort Monroe. He had arrived two days ago with Lincoln and Chase, primarily for ...