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Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...
( Category: World War I 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 )
African Laughter by Doris May Lessing
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Doris May Lessing

OVER THE RAINBOW In Harare they talk endlessly about the new agreement over Namibia in the same way we do about the ending of the Iran–Iraq War, and the end ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C White; Jr
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White; Jr.

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents 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 )
English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
Churchill by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: Royalty 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 Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

At the Western Palace When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
20 Remember When
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nora Roberts

Part Two Big Jack All things change; nothing perishes. —Ovid Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. —William Shakespeare Chapter Seventeen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )

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