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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Hoose

Letter from Kaj Munk to Edvard Pedersen * * * Kaj Munk Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, commonly called Kaj Munk (1898–1944), was a Danish playwright, poet, Lutheran priest, and activist. ...
( Category: Europe May 27,2015 )
Women Heroes of the American Revolution by Susan Casey
epub |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Susan Casey

Mary Lindley was born in 1726 and raised in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas Lindley, a blacksmith who had moved from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1719. Thomas Lindley was a ...
( Category: Military May 25,2015 )
The Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:William L. Shirer [Shirer, William L.]

One battleship! Was it the Bismarck? Admirals and captains went quickly to their chart rooms and marked the given position on their maps. So far as they knew no British ...
( Category: Europe November 26,2014 )
Queen of Someday by Sherry Ficklin
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Sherry Ficklin [Ficklin, Sherry]

Click above for access to bonus video footage. http://bit.ly/1rzaF3C We walk slowly through the outer chamber and into the hall, down the corridor and to an area I don’t think ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2014 )
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People by Jared Diamond
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Jared Diamond

Class Divisions Farming brought another curse to humanity: class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources such as orchards or herds of cows. They ...
( Category: Customs, Traditions, Anthropology November 19,2014 )
The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Swanson James L
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Swanson, James L. [Swanson, James L.]

( Category: 1900s November 14,2014 )
Between Shades Of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
mobi |eng | 2012-01-21 | Author:Ruta Sepetys

Capítulo 44 I SAT AT A TABLE in the kolkhoz office. I shook out my hands, hoping to stop them from quivering. A map was placed to my upper left, ...
( Category: Europe November 11,2014 )
My Name is Number 4 by Ting-Xing Ye
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Ting-Xing Ye [Ye, Ting-xing]

13. “Bourgeois” was a critical term meaning “opposed to Party policies” or “anti-revolutionary.” CHAPTER TWELVE To celebrate the New Year, Lao Chang ordered the cooks to slaughter a pig, which ...
( Category: History November 7,2014 )
Battle of Britain by Chris Priestley
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Chris Priestley

September 1940 It felt like the world was slowing down. I could feel my pulse in my thumb on the stick as it rested next to the red firing button. ...
( Category: History October 27,2014 )
Gettysburg by Iain C. Martin
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Iain C. Martin

HOOD AND MCLAWS ATTACK THE WHEAT FIELD At the center of the Third Corps’ line was a twenty-acre wheat field owned by famer John Rose. Colonel Régis de Trobriand commanded ...
( Category: Civil War Era August 20,2014 )
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson

TATTOO AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 8, 1944 The motorcycle stirs up dust as it roars past us. Mommy has barely enough stamina to straggle along. The train ride from Krakow has drained ...
( Category: History July 27,2014 )
Incredible Incas by Deary Terry
epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Deary, Terry

1572 The last Incan rebel stronghold is captured and emperor Tupac Amaru, son of Manco, is beheaded. Without a head the new Incan Empire is finished – and without a ...
( Category: Peru July 4,2014 )
Alive in the Killing Fields by Nawuth Keat
epub |eng | 2009-03-26 | Author:Nawuth Keat

Chapter Seven CROSS FIRE “The Vietnamese are entering the cities!” Van Lan told me in a low voice as I was just about to fall asleep one night. “They will ...
( Category: Asia March 27,2014 )
The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Mariatu Kamara [Kamara, Mariatu]

When the skit was over, Mariatu and Victor approached me. “So you finally came out,” Victor said with a smile, punching me gently on the shoulder. “I just wanted to ...
( Category: Canadian March 26,2014 )
Horrible Histories Special: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens by Deary Terry
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

Henry Vlll (1509–1547) – Henry Ate Claim to fame • Got rid of the Catholic Church in England and made himself head of the new Church. That gave him the ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )

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