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epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]
The Three Golden Apples Did you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great ...
( Category:
Greek & Roman
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy
Chapter VII Dick Makes Himself Useful The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category:
British & Irish
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:James Stephens
Chapter V Friday This morning there are no newspapers, no bread, no milk, no news. The sun is shining, and the streets are lively but discreet. All people continue to ...
( Category:
Great Britain
January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Percy Fitzpatrick
* * * Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons. No one had doubted Jess’s courage, even when we saw her come back alone: we knew there was something wrong, but ...
( Category:
General
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]
The Pomegranate Seeds Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, ...
( Category:
Classics
January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Charles Dickens
***** This file should be named 807-h.htm or 807-h.zip****** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/8/0/807 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old ...
( Category:
International Mystery & Crime
January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Kevin Kenny [Kenny, Kevin]
In the English-speaking Caribbean, Christian slaves deployed supernatural powers both to inflict harm (obeah) and to counteract witchcraft and other forms of evil. The religious practices of convince and kumina, ...
( Category:
Emigration & Immigration
January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Jolyon Mitchell
Reforming martyrdom in historical context King Henry VIII (1491–1547) bequeathed to his children a nation divided over religion. Henry had effectively made a declaration of independence from the pope’s authority ...
( Category:
General
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Jackson, Sophie
8 LIVING WITH DISILLUSIONMENT Himmler’s headquarters in East Prussia were neatly arranged as Hanna paid her long-postponed visit in July 1943. It was early evening and Hanna was worried about ...
( Category:
World War II
January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Gilbert [Oscar Gilbert]
RED BEACH THREE: THE MASSACRE OF THE THIRD PLATOON All four tanks of the third Platoon landed without mishap, and by noon the platoon was functioning as one of the ...
( Category:
Conventional
January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]
CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category:
World War II
January 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Darren Oldridge [Oldridge, Darren]
For the evil one, this was a matter of strategy rather than desire. As a disembodied spirit, he was not impelled by physical needs. In this respect, his sexual activities ...
( Category:
Christianity
January 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe & Restall, Matthew [Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe]
To pass as a conquistador, Catalina de Erauso had to act out the conquistador stereotype to a degree that parodied it; the conquistador par excellence. Trouble finds Erauso wherever she ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-11 | Author:Charles Kurzman [Kurzman, Charles]
The cunning of the Great Powers was on display in the democratic revolutions of the early and late twentieth century—cunning not just in the 258 | Erstwhile Allies sense of ...
( Category:
Comparative Politics
January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Boston, Robert [Boston, Robert]
The interaction of religion and politics raises two issues, one relatively straightforward and one more nuanced. The straightforward issue concerns what United States law says about nonprofit organizations and how ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
January 6,2016 )
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