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Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephanie LaCava

I didn’t need to go any closer to the mansion. There was no longer someone looking at me through the window, and the swans had gone elsewhere. I knew the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 2,2017 )
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Stephanie Dalley

Fig. 49 (a) Palace attendants bringing cakes, grapes, pomegranates, and locusts in the South-West Palace. Fig. 49 (b) Palace attendants bringing drink, drawn from a panel found in Sargon’s palace ...
( Category: Middle East September 2,2017 )
Christendom Destroyed by Mark Greengrass
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Mark Greengrass

BEFORE THE PLACARDS . . . AND AFTER There are parallels between the reception of the Protestant Reformation in Italy and France. If Italy’s was the Reformation that never was, ...
( Category: World September 2,2017 )
The French Revolution, 1789-1799 by McPhee Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-06 | Author:McPhee, Peter [McPhee, Peter]

THE TERROR 700 new titles were produced across the revolutionary decade, with 41 per cent of them in 1793–4. In the first half of 1794, five issues of ‘Collections of ...
( Category: Europe September 2,2017 )
Dirty Old London by Jackson Lee
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Jackson, Lee [Jackson, Lee]

T H E G R E AT U N WA S H E D 149 stated the rules in the first-class bath: ‘All bathers to use bathing drawers either their ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 2,2017 )
A Problem From Hell by Samantha Power
epub |eng | | Author:Samantha Power [Power, Samantha]

Defeat on All Fronts Not everyone quieted down. Like a broken record, Congressman McCloskey continued to seize every opportunity to badger administration officials. When Christopher blamed all sides as a ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 2,2017 )
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Lively Penelope
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Lively, Penelope [Lively, Penelope]

Memory A couple of years ago, Izzy yearned for an old-fashioned manual typewriter: “Vintage!” A Smith Corona was found off eBay, and she rejoiced in it until a new ribbon ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
The Woman in the Photograph by Mani Feniger
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Mani Feniger [Feniger, Mani]

So many people lost far more than my mother. She was one of the lucky ones. Yet I had never acknowledged the value of her paltry treasures—enameled teaspoons, a silver ...
( Category: World September 2,2017 )
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Blum Howard
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Blum, Howard [Blum, Howard]

IN NEW YORK, THE OTHER team was on the move. When the clock maker left his office just before noon, he had headed out on a meandering route across lower ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
Strapless by Davis Deborah
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Davis, Deborah [Davis, Deborah]

Dancing on a Volcano At the end of March, Sargent traveled again to London, and again he saw Henry James. While there, he solidified some of the relationships he had ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream by Mark Osteen
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mark Osteen

To Build a Dream On Two 1950s noirs perpetuate the stereotype of musicians as overgrown children. Yet these films also present—implicitly, at least—the potential for new American identities founded on ...
( Category: Women in History September 2,2017 )
Killing Fields of Scotland by R J M Pugh
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:R J M Pugh [Pugh, R J M]

Pinkie Cleugh, known as Black Saturday, was the worst disaster in Scotland’s history since Flodden. The day after the battle Leith was committed to the flames, then Broughty Castle, near ...
( Category: Europe September 2,2017 )
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
epub |eng | 2007-06-26 | Author:Ann Fessler [Fessler, Ann]

I had to stay in the hospital for an extra two days and the adoption agency came to get my son. They didn’t know I was still there. I remember ...
( Category: Women's Studies September 2,2017 )
Under the Red Flag by Jin Ha
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-06-15 | Author:Jin, Ha [Jin, Ha]

Fortune Blind Bea, a locksmith, used to be a street fortune-teller in the old days. Though his practice was banned in the New China, people in Dismount Fort had never ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 2,2017 )
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer William
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Shirer, William [Shirer, William]

But Coulondre, over the past months, had heard enough of Ribbentrop’s falsifications. After listening a little longer to the Nazi Foreign Minister, who had gone on to say that he ...
( Category: Europe September 2,2017 )

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