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Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Morris Sarah A
epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Morris, Sarah A. [Morris, Sarah A.]

Almost two weeks later, my mother and I arrived back at Hever, having spent Twelfth Night celebrations as guests of honour of Sir Henry Wyatt and his wife, Elizabeth at ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Pirates: A History by Travers Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Travers, Tim [Travers, Tim]

7 Death to the Pirates In the western world of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and along the coasts of the Americas, government forces were engaged in a concentrated campaign of ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Thief-Taker Hangings by Aaron Skirboll
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Aaron Skirboll

XIV The Trial of Jack Sheppard Sheppard, the notorious housebreaker, who lately escaped from the New Prison and was retaken by Jonathan Wild and committed to Newgate, attempted to escape ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 27,2014 )
Uncorking the Past by Patrick E. McGovern
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Patrick E. McGovern

SIX SAILING THE WINE-DARK MEDITERRANEAN MY WIFE AND I CAUGHT our first glimpse of the azure Mediterranean in 1971, when we traveled south from Germany to Italy, on our way ...
( Category: Wine December 27,2014 )
Exit the Colonel
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Ethan Chorin

PART III FITNA (CHAOS) Like so many of its utopian counterparts in the 20th century, this was a regime likely to self-destruct. LISA ANDERSON1 CHAPTER 9 Benghazi: The First Five ...
( Category: African December 27,2014 )
Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford
epub |eng | 2003-08-04 | Author:Les Standiford

However, reports of Flagler’s demise were greatly exaggerated, as the saying goes. Even as the Journal account was being published, crews were back at work, rebuilding work camps and replacing ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Gilbert Martin
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Gilbert, Martin [Gilbert, Martin]

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS are British sovereign territory, but the largest island, Jersey, is only fifteen miles from the coast of France, and seventy-five miles from Britain. In June 1940 the ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Princesses by Flora Fraser
epub |eng | 2004-12-26 | Author:Flora Fraser

12 Passion Princess Amelia’s passion for General Fitzroy continued to rage, her open assertions of it causing difficulties in a household where feelings might run deep but were customarily confided ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Death of a King by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Tavis Smiley

PART II THE FINAL SEASON The Last Three Months Chapter Thirteen THIRTY-NINE The year begins ominously. The war is six years old, soon to be the longest in American history—nearly ...
( Category: Civil Rights & Liberties December 27,2014 )
Krueger's Men by Lawrence Malkin
epub |eng | 2008-03-23 | Author:Lawrence Malkin [MALKIN, LAWRENCE]

As the pressure of producing more pounds slacked off, and apprehension rose about progress toward acceptable replicas of dollars, the prisoners amused themselves and even satirized their jailers in a ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]

I was a dead man I don’t remember the dawn of the next day. I have a vague idea that during the entire morning I lay prostrate, between life and ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino December 27,2014 )
The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
epub |eng | 2001-12-26 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

Barely was the ink dry on the pages of these books, however, than they were challenged. Challenged is perhaps too weak a word, for the view they represented was in ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture December 27,2014 )
Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Kate Grenville

I left Duncan not on a night of moon while stockmen snored and dreamed of wild exploits, but among quinces in syrup and bottled peas like pearls. Duncan and I ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )

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