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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 )
Surviving the Angel of Death by Eva Kor
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eva Kor

CHAPTER SEVEN At Auschwitz-Birkenau we never knew what tomorrow would bring. Each day brought challenges for us to survive. Miriam was very sick with something besides just the incessant diarrhea ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
Tree By Leaf by Cynthia Voigt
epub |eng | 1988-03-24 | Author:Cynthia Voigt

Chapter 9 That evening, Clothilde sat in the parlor unstitching the cloak. What a long day it had been, she thought, although she couldn’t think why the day had seemed ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Bruchac [Bruchac, Joseph]

15. POCAHONTAS: Corn Although the corn, like all good things, was made by Ahone, it is said that corn was not owned by all the people at first. Those who ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary March 25,2014 )

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