epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Michael O. Tunnell [Tunnell, Michael O.]

Mercedes Simon wrote to Lt. Halvorsen about her chickens that stopped laying eggs because of the noisy C-54s flying overhead. In this picture, taken the year before the Airlift began, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jim Murphy

George and Martha Washington, along with two young relatives and a servant, at Mount Vernon in Virginia. (THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA) On October 28, Washington climbed aboard a coach ...

epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge [Yonge, Charlotte Mary]

“I have spoken the truth—I always speak it!” cried Richard. “Whoever says otherwise lies in his throat.” Osmond here hastily interfered, and desired permission to tell the whole story. The ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-10-10 | Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

Being a reporter puts you in some real uncomfortable, dangerous spots. I’d followed Father’s advice and was taking the initiative with my work. Without Miss Cary assigning it to me, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yoko Kawashima Watkins

SIX THE TRACKS SEPARATED, HEADING IN two directions. Hideyo stood there. Which way? He looked at the sun, which was going down, and using the sun as his guide, he ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:Jim Murphy

Fossil hunting was a rough, dangerous business back in the nineteenth century. Here O. C. Marsh (center back row) is surrounded by his well-armed research assistants. (© Louie Psihoyos/Corbis) It ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Margaret Frith

Here was an alphabet that was simple to read and worked for different languages, not just French. A person could write in German, English, Italian, and many more! Louis was ...

mobi |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Bow, James [Bow, James]

Rosemary rolled over in her sleep. Her arm flopped out and dangled off the edge of the bed. It took her a moment to realize what was wrong with that. ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gladiator [Gladiator]

Walking to school Monday morning, Annarita thought Gianfranco seemed quieter than usual. Had Eduardo talked to him? If he had, what had he said? Annarita didn't want to come straight ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Leon Leyson [Leyson, Leon]

ONCE AGAIN I WALKED THROUGH Kraków in a daze, this time unable to believe my good fortune. Had I really escaped Płaszów? Was I really standing beside my mother? Would ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Kathy Kacer

A couple of the boats come too close to the St. Louis, and are shooed away by police vessels that have also come from the harbor. The small crafts move ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Haya Leah Molnar

ON SUNDAY MORNING Mama asks me to go and help clear out her things at the ballet school. “How are you going to get in?” I ask. “Easy,” Mama answers. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Neil Smith

Colchis The Argo sailed on, aided by a stiff wind, past the island of Philyra and the lands of the Becheiri, Sapeires, and Byzeres. The Argonauts saw the Caucasus Mountains, ...

epub |eng | 1938-05-31 | Author:Erika Mann [Mann, Erika]

THE STATE YOUTH AT THE CENTER OF THREE concentric circles stands the German child, with no escape, surrounded by the Men in Power. The closest circle is the family; but ...