epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jon Lee Anderson [Anderson, Jon Lee]

IV A great many changes had occurred in Cuba in Che’s absence. Fidel now had more political power, but the atmosphere was tenser and more polarized than ever. The agrarian ...

epub |eng | 2002-10-08 | Author:Mara Leveritt [Leveritt, Mara]

Chapter Nineteen The Motive THE TRIAL WAS ENTERING ITS THIRD WEEK. Prosecutors Davis and Fogleman had welcomed the judge’s decision to bar evidence about other suspects. Still, their case was ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * A LEGEND OF THE RHINE. CHAPTER I. SIR LUDWIG OF HOMBOURG. It was in the good old days of chivalry, when every mountain that bathes its shadow ...

mobi |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Robert B. Parker

34 Ollie's clubhouse was locked. There was a big crime-scene sign on the door. But I had a key from Belson, and unlocked the door, and strolled brazenly in. I ...

mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Robert B. Parker

34 Ollie's clubhouse was locked. There was a big crime-scene sign on the door. But I had a key from Belson, and unlocked the door, and strolled brazenly in. I ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Neil Gaiman

CHAPTER NINE IN WHICH FAT CHARLIE ANSWERS THE DOOR AND SPIDER ENCOUNTERS FLAMINGOS Fat Charlie’s luck was changing. He could feel it. The plane on which he was returning home ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Kingsley Amis

XIV 'THAT was all very efficient,' Christine said. 'You're getting good at this sort of thing, aren't you? First the table, then the Evening Post thing, and now this.' 'I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces... The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy— uncontrolled military violence against civilians, the apparent ability of ...

mobi | | 2010-05-14 | Author:Steven Wright

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it? Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them? Why do we put suits ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2003-10-21 | Author:Mara Leveritt

Occult, or Cult? Having decided to pursue the cult-activity motive, the prosecutors pulled out all the stops. Fogleman asked Burnett “to consider taking judicial notice that there was a full ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Amity Shlaes

Eleven: The Siege and the Spruce Washington, D.C. WHAT JUMPED OUT WAS the number. It was $1,841,759,316.80, the total income tax revenues for the fiscal year that had ended in ...

mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1996-12-13 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:MacGregor, Neil [MacGregor, Neil]

He made in it great pictures of gold and silver, and a great basin, whose surfacing outside and inside was plates of silver, and he put on it a tree ...

epub |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Jess Walter [Walter, Jess]

FIFTEEN KAREN DEGAN GRIPPED TIGHTLY the hands of her two sons and walked into the slate-roofed Sacred Heart Church, where nineteen years earlier she’d married a strong, quiet football player. ...