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The Makers of Rome (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

8 BRUTUS [85–42 B.C.] 1. Marcus Brutus was a descendant of that Junius Brutus in whose honour the ancient Romans erected a statue of bronze and placed it in the ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Martha Long [Long, Martha]

24 I looked at the thrupenny bit in me hand, feelin the weight of it. I saved it up, doin all the messages fer the neighbours. I wanted te buy ...
( Category: Irish May 11,2014 )
The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank Ann
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Frank, Ann [Frank, Ann]

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1944 Dearest Kitty, I (there I go again!) don’t know what’s happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how I’ve changed. By the way, I ...
( Category: Women May 11,2014 )
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Mehta Suketu
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Mehta, Suketu [Mehta, Suketu]

IT WAS JAIMAN who had first pointed her out to me. Jaiman, the first Marwari editor of Russian Playboy and a friend of mine from New York, had half a ...
( Category: Women in History May 2,2014 )
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Daniel, Stashower, [Daniel, Stashower,]

Baltimore’s police marshal George P. Kane, whose loyalties Pinkerton doubted. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Marshal Kane had become a key figure in Baltimore’s effort to erase its “Mobtown” ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem April 28,2014 )
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Bannister Nonna & Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin
epub |eng | 2009-01-04 | Author:Bannister, Nonna & Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin [Bannister, Nonna]

26: Papa Is Found in Hiding One day a man from Grandmother’s neighborhood came looking for Mama and told her that she needed to go back home because her husband ...
( Category: Women in History April 15,2014 )
The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Bannister Nonna & Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin
mobi |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Bannister, Nonna & Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin [Bannister, Nonna]

26: Papa Is Found in Hiding One day a man from Grandmother’s neighborhood came looking for Mama and told her that she needed to go back home because her husband ...
( Category: Women in History April 15,2014 )
Hitler's Furies by Wendy Lower
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wendy Lower

I would never have committed theft. I know that one is not supposed to do that. In the bad times [prewar depression years] I was a saleswoman, and I had ...
( Category: Holocaust April 8,2014 )
Mussolini's Italy by R. J. B. Bosworth
epub |eng | | Author:R. J. B. Bosworth

12 Dictating full-time If, by the early 1930s, men and women at the bottom of Italian society still cherished a complex set of identities, what had a decade of Fascist ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 8,2014 )
Nazi Princess by Jim Wilson
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Jim Wilson

Her apartment has become the focus for those British aristocrats who have a friendly stance towards Nazi Germany. Her soirees are the talk of the town. Prominently displayed in her ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2014 )
Lincoln's Boys by Joshua Zeitz
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Joshua Zeitz

CHAPTER 13 Breadwinners The house that Amasa Stone built for his daughter and son-in-law on Euclid Avenue was a lasting monument to his family’s wealth. Fashioned out of sandstone, it ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 2,2014 )
Shade it Black by Jessica Goodell
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Jessica Goodell

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) quickly became the favorite weapon of the insurgents. They were easy to make, transport, conceal, and detonate. And they were effective. (Photo courtesy of Bill Thompson) ...
( Category: Veterans March 28,2014 )
A Vast Conspiracy by Jeffrey Toobin
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Jeffrey Toobin [Toobin, Jeffrey]

As Tripp drew the Starr investigators deeper into the intrigue surrounding her own and Lewinsky’s affidavits and depositions, the question remained: Why was the Whitewater independent counsel investigating the Paula ...
( Category: National March 26,2014 )
Millions Like Us by Virginia Nicholson
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Virginia Nicholson [Nicholson, Virginia]

If you really wanted a dress, and you didn’t have the coupons … well, I used to think, you know, when the war’s finished I’m going to buy material and ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Elizabeth Abbott [Abbott, Elizabeth]

DIVORCE AT THE DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Until World War I, Canada remained hostile to divorce. Only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia had the divorce courts recommended ...
( Category: Marriage March 26,2014 )

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