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Lone Rider by Elspeth Beard
epub |eng | | Author:Elspeth Beard [Beard, Elspeth]

12 DOUBLE ENGINE, SELFIE START: CALCUTTA TO KATHMANDU Calcutta, 29 April 1984 Keen to get out of Calcutta before the roads became crowded, I left early. Relying on a very ...
( Category: Women July 14,2020 )
Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman
epub |eng | 2010-12-12 | Author:Gail Herman

Chapter 9 Spring Training In early 1946, Jackie was almost twenty-seven years old. It was a time of big changes. On February 10, Jackie married Rachel. A few weeks later, ...
( Category: Multicultural July 11,2020 )
Jerry Moffatt - Revelations by Jerry Moffatt
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Jerry Moffatt [Moffatt, Jerry]

NINE Out of the Fire Professor Feldmaier looked at me through his enormous glasses. ‘I am hopeful, Jerry, very hopeful.’ Feldmaier’s office in the Olympic hospital in Munich was bright, ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing July 11,2020 )
Geoff Boycott: A Cricketing Hero by Leo McKinstry
epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:Leo McKinstry [McKinstry, Leo]

18 Return of the Master Because his talent for attracting controversy matched his gift for making runs, Geoffrey Boycott has never really received the credit he deserved for his magnificent, ...
( Category: Cricket July 11,2020 )
99: Gretzky: His Game, His Story by Al Strachan
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Al Strachan [Strachan, Al]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN To a player like Wayne Gretzky, whose life was hockey, Maple Leaf Gardens was his hallowed hall, his Valhalla. It was where he had seen his first National ...
( Category: Hockey July 11,2020 )
Tomaž Humar by Bernadette McDonald
epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Bernadette McDonald [McDonald, Bernadette]

Reticent Wall YoSemite Valley, 1998 Following his return from Nuptse, and during his recovery from frostbite, Tomaz had ample time to think. As a club board member, he began to ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing July 11,2020 )
The IF in Life by Rashad Jennings
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Rashad Jennings

CHAPTER 9 THE BIG RUN Because I was so young when my brothers left for college, I missed having the experience of sharing a home with them for any length ...
( Category: Football July 11,2020 )
The Future of Tennis by Philip Slayton
epub |eng | 2018-07-01 | Author:Philip Slayton

He can play a good game of tennis. To play Fognini on one of his great days is hell. In June 2016 he married Flavia Pennetta, another Italian tennis star, ...
( Category: Business & Careers July 11,2020 )
Rockaway by Diane Cardwell
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Diane Cardwell

* * * “Hi, neighbor!” The voice boomed from behind the fence as I walked along the alley toward the house, masked by the tall, weathered wood pickets and Virginia ...
( Category: Surfing July 10,2020 )
Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

India, Britain and the Royal Visit Parvathi Raman observes that the Royal Visit was the one occasion when the NIC failed to take the advice of Nehru who had counselled ...
( Category: Drawing July 10,2020 )
Sleepers by Mark Dawson
epub |eng | 2018-09-01 | Author:Mark Dawson [Dawson, Mark]

42 Milton performed careful counter-surveillance on his journey. He took a bus from his flat in Chelsea, riding it for ten minutes before hopping off and getting another that headed ...
( Category: Espionage July 10,2020 )
The Korean Kid by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

With 12 members, the 1960 Antarctic Flight was the largest contingent ever deployed by the RAAF to the continent. The group are pictured in front of the C-47 transport sent ...
( Category: Other Media July 9,2020 )
Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir by Jean Trumpington
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Jean Trumpington [Trumpington, Jean]

CHAPTER TEN Cambridge and Eton When I had first met Barker at Yale, he had been a master at Eton, but during our courtship, he had taken up a history ...
( Category: Political July 9,2020 )
No Holding Back: The Autobiography by Michael Holding
epub |eng | 2010-05-20 | Author:Michael Holding [Holding, Michael]

14 FROM THE COMMS BOX Aside from the obvious importance of being able to earn a living, the greatest impact broadcasting has had on my life has been through my ...
( Category: Cricket July 9,2020 )
A New Beginning by Rose Pearson
mobi |eng | 2019-05-31 | Author:Rose Pearson

CHAPTER NINE Emily did her very best to forget about every single word Lord Havisham had spoken to her but found that, in the coming days, she had been unable ...
( Category: Regency July 9,2020 )

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