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The Mammoth Book of the West by Jon E. Lewis
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jon E. Lewis

What me, the descendant of old grandees of Spain, the owner of a land grant embracing millions of acres, the owner of gold mines and villages and towns situated on ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Farley Mowat

And so the first day of this story comes to an end. Beyond it lay the time when the snows came and the River of Men lay hidden under the ...
( Category: Polar Regions April 5,2015 )
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli & Beth Fowler

Jackie’s Saddest Days At the same time that Ted and Joan moved into their new rented home, Jackie purchased a fourteen-room, brick town house close to them, at 3017 N ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
To Conquer the Air by James Tobin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Woman from Hamburg by Hanna Krall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Hanna Krall

16 His conversations with his father, conducted in his maximum security cell, ended in a silence behind which Stefan W. could feel a stubborn, unreconciled disapproval. At first this had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...
( Category: Rivers April 5,2015 )
I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-10-16 | Author:Henry Orenstein

Budzyń They marched us toward what was obviously a prison camp; in the distance we could see guard towers and rows of barbed wire. This looked like a labor camp, ...
( Category: Holocaust April 5,2015 )
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jill Lepore

Franklin’s story doesn’t fit neatly on one side of that divide, nor Jane’s on the other. Their lives were messier than that. John Adams found Benjamin Franklin impossible to account ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 5,2015 )
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith Flanders

A City chophouse, fitted out with standard booth-style seating, or ‘boxes’, as they were known. The waiter looks anxious to serve: he was not an employee, but instead he paid ...
( Category: England April 5,2015 )
Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha by Harvey Rachlin
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Harvey Rachlin

The Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln’s hallowed manifesto of liberty and freedom, is a curious anomaly. After the states of the South seceded from the United States to form the ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Breasts by Florence Williams
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
Hatchepsut by Joyce Tyldesley
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Both these women chose to shun conventional female dress in order to challenge the way that their societies perceived them. However, there are clear differences between the two cases. Joan ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves by Jacqueline Yallop
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Jacqueline Yallop

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Treasures of the North F ive years after opening his museum, Joseph Mayer found himself standing in a crowded field under a hot May sun, choking in ...
( Category: World April 5,2015 )
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Jack Turner

The Hindus who are the neighbours of those regions believe that the small-pox is a wind blowing from the island of Lanka towards the continent to carry off souls. According ...
( Category: Herbs, Spices & Condiments April 5,2015 )
The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down by Jesse Browner
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Jesse Browner

CHAPTER VI GERMANS! A great many things keep happening some of them good, some of them bad. The inhabitants of different countries keep quarrelling fiercely with each other and kings ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 5,2015 )

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