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Lincoln and the Power of the Press The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harold Holzer

Suspected of leaking the president’s 1861 annual message to the Herald: Mary Lincoln (left) and her friend “Chevalier” Henry Wikoff (right). But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 24,2014 )
The Last Year of Being Single by Sarah Tucker
epub |eng | 2003-11-23 | Author:Sarah Tucker

8th April Trip to Bath. Drive for an hour. Visit vegetarian restaurant. Play with food. Lose shoes. Cuddle and kiss in public. Feel furtive and look furtive. Notice other couples ...
( Category: History November 24,2014 )
People Like Us: Misrepresenting The Middle East by Joris Luyendijk
mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Joris Luyendijk

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 24,2014 )
The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

It was raining again when we reached Gleawecestre. Water was puddling in the fields, pouring down the road’s stone-choked gutters, and turning the stone of the Roman walls dark. We ...
( Category: Military November 24,2014 )
Jan Karon's Mitford Years by Jan Karon
epub |eng, eng | 2008-11-23 | Author:Jan Karon

“You were a wonderful palace guard,” she said, smiling over at him. “So fierce!” He zoomed around an RV with a sign that read Dollywood Or Bust. “It was a ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural November 24,2014 )
The Pen Friend by Ciaran Carson
epub |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Ciaran Carson [Carson, Ciaran]

Only an infinite present Leonardo da Vinci observes that if you look at a damp-stained wall long enough, you will begin to see landscapes in it, adorned with mountains, rivers, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 24,2014 )
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Terrence Holt [Holt, Terrence]

I HAVE A CLEAR MEMORY from this period, although what day exactly this might have happened I no longer recall, of the attending emerging from Marie’s room and stopping to ...
( Category: Reference November 24,2014 )
Harpo Speaks! by Marx Harpo & Barber Rowland
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Marx, Harpo & Barber, Rowland [Marx, Harpo]

Our summer seemed to divide itself into three phases—the Gambling Period, the Literary Period, and the Society Period. Woollcott broke me into the Literary Period by easy stages. Step number ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning November 24,2014 )
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts! by Frances O'Roark Dowell
epub |eng | 2006-11-23 | Author:Frances O'Roark Dowell

“Ladies and gentlemen,” I announced first thing, “only moments ago, without anyone noticing, I made someone in this class disappear. Look around you and see who’s missing!” It surprised me ...
( Category: Children's Books November 24,2014 )
American Genius: A Comedy by Lynne Tillman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-09 | Author:Lynne Tillman

My vanity isn't merely useless when it makes me glad, though it does gladly waste my days. The circumspect widow's vanity mostly didn't make her glad, since it allowed her ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting November 24,2014 )
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Ellen F. Brown & Jr. John Wiley
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen F. Brown & Jr. John Wiley [John Wiley, Jr.]

In the fall of 1938, the Marshes saw a glimmer of light at the end of the international rights tunnel—and it was not another oncoming train. Taft finished registering the ...
( Category: Book Industry November 24,2014 )
50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion by Daniele Bolelli
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Daniele Bolelli [Bolelli, Daniele]

Buddha's own teachings, after all, emphasized independent inquiry and personal experience over doctrine and strict rules. So, in an odd kind of way, Lin Chi and Hsuan Chien's words were ...
( Category: Comparative Religion November 24,2014 )
Lincoln and the Power of the Press by Harold Holzer
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
The Mystery of the Lion's Tail by Harper Paris
epub |eng | | Author:Harper Paris

A boy and a girl about Ethan and Ella’s age hung back in a doorway. The twins waved to them. The boy and girl waved back. “Habari!” Ella called out. ...
( Category: Chapter Books November 24,2014 )
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Dan Jurafsky [Jurafsky, Dan]

To Make Mackroons Take a pound & halfe of almonds, blanch & beat them very small in a stone morter with rosewater. put to them a pound of sugar, & ...
( Category: Linguistics November 24,2014 )

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