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A White Heron and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

The Town Poor MRS. WILLIAM TRIMBLE and Miss Rebecca Wright were driving along Hampden east road, one afternoon in early spring. Their progress was slow. Mrs. Trimble’s sorrel horse was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Female Tommies by Elisabeth Shipton
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Elisabeth Shipton

… I felt like screaming, like beating myself against the wall with agonised suspense. I was in a terrible quandary; against my will I had become a spy for friend ...
( Category: World War I December 27,2014 )
The Passion of Mary-Margaret
epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Lisa Samson

After withdrawing from the order of the School Sisters of St. Mary, a day that still hurts my back teeth so much I hate to think about it, I cried ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 27,2014 )
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Moore Lucy
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moore, Lucy [Moore, Lucy]

Lacombe’s brave defence of a victim of injustice was enough to incriminate her in Chabot’s ‘cockroach eyes’ (as she described them). ‘I told him that we didn’t get rid of ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 by Fraser Antonia
epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER TWELVE The Gentler Tortures The gentler tortures are to be first used unto him [Guy Fawkes]… …and so God speed your good work. – James R LETTER OF KING ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
A History of Pan-African Revolt (The Charles H. Kerr Library) by James C. L. R
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:James, C. L. R. [James, C. L. R.]

The Old Colonies Let us begin with revolts in one of the oldest colonies on the West Coast, Sierra Leone. The Negroes in the actual colony are some of the ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies December 27,2014 )
Someday You Will Understand by Nina Wolff Feld
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nina Wolff Feld

* Yiddish for “miserable Jews.” CHAPTER 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany Finito, my father’s puppy. While my father was en route ...
( Category: Holocaust December 27,2014 )
Bird Dream by Matt Higgins
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Matt Higgins [Higgins, Matt]

Chapter 13 THE TRIAL That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish ...
( Category: Extreme Sports December 27,2014 )
I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Moore Tim
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moore, Tim [Moore, Tim]

Chapter Five If a common theme connected all the previous periods I'd stuck a grubby toe into, it was the daily struggle for survival. The Iron Agers had led a ...
( Category: Humor December 27,2014 )
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Frances Larson [Larson, Frances]

In Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, a man’s head is kept in a church as a relic, but he is not a saint. Simon Sudbury’s head may well have ...
( Category: Death December 25,2014 )
Das Reich by Hastings Max
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hastings, Max [Hastings, Max]

But Macpherson embodied the exact spirit that SHAEF had intended to send with the Jedburghs. He had no interest in clandestine life – he considered that his business was to ...
( Category: France December 25,2014 )
Himmler's Crusade by Christopher Hale
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

Chapter Ten WEIRD BARBARITY ‘The veil has been torn aside and the naked city [of Lhasa] has been revealed in all its weird barbarity.’ – Colonel Sir Thomas H. Holdich, ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
The Deluge by Adam Tooze
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Adam Tooze [Tooze, Adam]

17 Compliance in Asia At the signing ceremony on 28 June 1919 the Chinese were the only delegation to stay away. Since the first week of May the Versailles conference ...
( Category: World War I December 25,2014 )
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]

Phase II: Women and children With Hitler’s instruction of 16 July and the decision in principle it indicated about the structure of the civil administration, the moment had come for ...
( Category: Germany December 25,2014 )
Citizen of the World by John English
epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...
( Category: Political December 25,2014 )

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