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1932 by David Pietrusza
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:David Pietrusza

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “We always call her ‘Granny’” TO SOME POLITICS WAS A WAR NOT ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING. Just before midnight Monday, September 12, Joe Kennedy and his loyal henchman Eddie ...
( Category: Americas February 12,2019 )
The Mountains Are Calling by Jonny Muir
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:Jonny Muir

Moss, the Paris-Rawlik’s puppy sheepdog, was savaging a Salomon trainer in the front room. He had already destroyed a stuffed pheasant, depositing shredded white fluff about the cottage. Jasmin has ...
( Category: Biographies February 11,2019 )
Wherever I Wind Up by R. A. Dickey
epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:R. A. Dickey [Dickey, R. A.]

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011 MINUTE MAID PARK, HOUSTON Thank you, Aaron Harang, wherever you are. I don’t mean this flippantly, or obnoxiously. I mean it sincerely. I’ve never met Aaron ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion February 7,2019 )
The Shaolin Way by Steve DeMasco
epub |eng | 2006-07-30 | Author:Steve DeMasco [DeMasco, Steve]

THE CONSCIOUS CAR-DEAL VICTIM You’re in the market for a new car: you want the best price, and maybe you are afraid the salesman will know you don’t have enough ...
( Category: Buddhism February 3,2019 )
Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life by Eric Legrand & Mike Yorkey
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Eric Legrand & Mike Yorkey [Legrand, Eric & Yorkey, Mike]

What Was Going On? Sometimes people who have been put in incredibly stressful situations—such as major trauma—will say they felt a sense of peace during the moment of the injury. ...
( Category: Biographies January 30,2019 )
Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos by Breitling Tom & Fussman Cal
epub |eng | 2008-03-18 | Author:Breitling, Tom & Fussman, Cal [Breitling, Tom & Fussman, Cal]

I had been in the liquor business earlier in my career. The man on the phone was the owner of this bar over on Sahara Avenue. He had run into ...
( Category: Industries January 30,2019 )
Gridiron Underground by James R. Wallen
epub |eng | 2019-01-25 | Author:James R. Wallen

Dave Buchanan went to John Muir High School, which had switched in 1954 from a junior college to a full four-year high school. The most famous student to ever wander ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 28,2019 )
His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir by Jenkins Dan
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jenkins, Dan [Jenkins, Dan]

SPORTSWRITERS LOVE A DYNASTY. A dynasty sells. Something else they love is the sheer fun of seeing a dynasty crash and burn. That sells, too. In golf there has never ...
( Category: Biographies January 24,2019 )
The Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum [Slocum, Joshua]

C H A P T E R X * * * Running to Port Angosto in a snow-storm – A defective sheet-rope places the Spray in peril – The Spray ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 22,2019 )
Murder of a Star Quarterback by R. Barri Flowers
epub |eng | | Author:R. Barri Flowers

NOTES 1. R. Barri Flowers and H. Loraine Flowers, Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century (Jefferson: McFarland, 2004), pp. 50-51. 2. Fox Butterfield ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2019 )
Working Class Heroes by Robbie Dunne
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Robbie Dunne

4 Rayo in the market Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Sevilla Atlético, Saturday, 14 January 2017 RAYO played their first home game of the new year on Saturday, 14 January, and were ...
( Category: Soccer January 17,2019 )
The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Lindsay Wong

By the middle of August, the entire family was required to shelter indoors for Hell Month. No one was permitted in or out of the Belcarra, not even to water ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 17,2019 )
Rowing for My Life by Kathleen Saville
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Kathleen Saville

July 7: Surviving the Grupos de Hormigas and Huaras “Can you tell where we are?” I yelled to Curt over the crashing sound of breakers too close for comfort. “Yeah, ...
( Category: Biographies January 17,2019 )
Why We Fight by Josh Rosenblatt
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Josh Rosenblatt

The spiritual father of Brazilian jiujitsu, Hélio Gracie, grew up an invalid in Rio de Janeiro, the youngest and frailest of five brothers. As a child he would faint after ...
( Category: Biographies January 15,2019 )
Black Boots and Football Pinks by Daniel Gray
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Gray

25 Home away, home away There was poetry in the rhythm. Home away, home away, home away. It soothed like the clickety-clack clickety-clack of an old train carriage, or dove ...
( Category: Biographies January 14,2019 )

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