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Surface Detail by Banks Iain M
mobi, epub | | 2010-07-09 | Author:Banks, Iain M. [Banks, Iain M.]

“Thank you,” she said as the door to her quarters hinged open like a valve behind her. The ship drone dipped a little and drifted in, carrying her overnight bag. ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-01 | Author:Jon Krakauer

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE In the predawn hours of March 23, 2003, as Jessica Lynch’s convoy rolled across the Euphrates River and entered An Nasiriyah, Pat Tillman was asleep on his cot ...
( Category: Afghan War March 25,2014 )
The First American by H.W. Brands
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-27 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
London: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jack Weatherford

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
My Life in France by Julia Child
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Julia Child

IN OUR FIRST MAIL delivery in Marseille came a letter from Avis De Voto. In responding to some photos we’d sent of ourselves, she wrote: “I am very pleased with ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing
mobi, epub |eng | 1960-09-22 | Author:Doris Lessing

Chapter Four I had come to England with pounds of tinned food in my trunk as to a starving country, prepared to tighten my belt and to suffer, as the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Frank McCourt

Nancy Chu asks if she can talk to me after the last class of the day. She sits at her desk and waits for the room to empty. She reminds ...
( Category: Educators March 25,2014 )
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Rebecca Solnit

The Blue of Distance Blue was the title I gave a compilation tape I made a dozen years ago, and some of the songs were about sadness, some about the ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Malhotra Rajiv
epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Malhotra, Rajiv [Malhotra, Rajiv]

Sanskrit and Contexts Sanskrit texts, by their very nature, require interpretation in a given context. Content cannot be separated from context or given an absolute meaning. A.K. Ramanujan explains: No ...
( Category: India March 25,2014 )
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by Nirenberg David
epub |eng | 2013-02-03 | Author:Nirenberg, David [Nirenberg, David]

“A Jew First, after a Cartesian, and Now an Atheist” If Spinoza was not singular in his “anti-Judaism,” he was nearly unique in his Judaism, and in this, too, he ...
( Category: Judaism March 25,2014 )
On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Andrzej Stasiuk

We drove to the city of Soroca with W., who had business there. Soroca lies to the north of the Dniester, and beyond it is Ukraine. As you head north, ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
Bond 9 - Thunderball by Fleming Ian
epub | | 2010-06-05 | Author:Fleming, Ian [Ian, Fleming,]

Bond 9 - Thunderball 13. "My Name Is Emilio Largo'' Leiter's “sixpenny sick'' was the hotel launch, a smart Chrysler-engined speedboat that said it would be $20 an hour. They ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )

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