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Download | Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln by: Ian Michael Spurgeon

2011-12-31T11:58:00.000+07:00

In 1855, this former Mexican War colonel and Indiana congressman entered Kansas Territory to take a leading role in its quest for statehood, and over the next twelve years he followed a seemingly inconsistent ideological path from pro-Douglas Democrat to Free Stater to pro-Lincoln Republican. His fiery stump speeches and radical ideas won him a Senate seat along with an army of critics and a

Download | Poetry: The Basics by: Jeffrey Wainwright

2011-12-31T11:33:00.001+07:00

How do I read a poem? Do I really understand poetry?This comprehensive guide demystifies the world of poetry, exploring poetic forms and traditions which can at first seem bewildering. Showing how any reader can gain more pleasure from poetry, it looks at the ways in which poetry interacts with the language we use in our everyday lives and explores how poems use language and form to create

Download | Shadows and Light by: Anne Bishop

2011-12-31T11:25:00.001+07:00

The national bestselling author of the Black Jewels Trilogy returns with book two in the thrilling Tir Alainn Trilogy-a dazzling tale of romance, high adventure, and thrilling fantasy. An encroaching evil threatens the lives of every witch, woman, and Fae in the realm. And only the Bard, the Muse, and the Gatherer of Souls possess the power to stop the bloodshed. ch_client = "

Download | End-Timers: Three Thousand Years of Waiting for Judgment Day by: Martin Ballard

2011-12-31T11:06:00.001+07:00

End-Timers: Three Thousand Years of Waiting for Judgment Day examines the high and low points of millennial expectation across the centuries. It shows how and why such beliefs first developed in antiquity, and it explores how end-timers influenced events as varied as the persecutions of Hellenistic ruler Antiochus Epiphanes and Roman Emperor Nero, the Crusades, the settlement of North America,

Download | To Darkness Fled by: Jill Williamson

2011-12-24T22:32:00.000+07:00

Achan, Vrell, and the Kingsguard Knights have fled into Darkness to escape the wrath of the former prince. They head for Ice Island to rescue two of Sir Gavin's colleagues who were falsely imprisoned years ago. Darkness is growing and only one man can push it back. Achan wanted freedom, not a crown. His true identity has bound him more than ever. He must learn decorum, wear fancy clothes,

Download | By Darkness Hid (Blood of Kings, book 1) by: Jill Williamson

2011-12-24T22:24:00.002+07:00

Half of Er'Rets is locked beneath an impenetrable shroud. On the side that still sees the sun, two young people struggle to understand the mind-communication abilities thrust upon them. It's called bloodvoicing. Some say it's a gift. One of the newly "gifted" wish it had never come.Achan has been a slave all his life. He is consigned to the kitchens of a lord and forced to swallow a foul

Download | Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by: David O. Stewart

2011-12-24T22:01:00.001+07:00

In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state governments, and disgusted by Johnson's brawling

Download | The Second Duchess by: Elizabeth Loupas

2011-12-24T21:53:00.001+07:00

A rich, compelling historical novel-and a mystery of royal intrigue. In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfonso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, takes a new bride. Half of Europe is certain he murdered his first wife, Lucrezia, the luminous child of the Medici. But no one

Download | Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by: Chesley B. Sullenberger

2011-12-24T21:51:00.000+07:00

On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. Highest Duty is Sully's story—a story of dedication, hope, and preparedness, revealing the

Download | Iran at War: 1500-1988 by: Kaveh Farrokh

2011-12-24T21:45:00.001+07:00

Irans complex, violent military history encompasses two world wars, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, border disputes, a revolution, a war against Iraq that lasted over eight years, and its desperate quest to become a nuclear power. Following his award-winning book, Shadows in the Desert, which explored the military history of ancient Persia, in Iran at War Kaveh Farrokh turns his

Download | Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture by: Ruth Prigozy

2011-12-24T21:41:00.000+07:00

Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture is the first serious study of the singer/actor's art and of his centrality to the history of twentieth-century popular music, film, and the entertainment industry. The volume uses a wide range of scholarly and cultural perspectives to explore Crosby's unique and lasting achievements. It also includes tributes and reminiscences from Bing's widow

Download | Deviant by Harold Schechter

2011-12-22T18:54:00.000+07:00

The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs... From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation -- and redefined the meaning of the word "psycho." The

Download | Schneebraut. Thriller by: Ragnar Jonasson

2011-12-22T18:48:00.001+07:00

Winter in einem kleinen, abgelegenen Fischerdörfchen im Norden von Island, das nur durch einen Bergtunnel zu erreichen ist. Eine junge, halbnackte Frau liegt blutend und bewusstlos im Schnee. Ein alter Schriftsteller stürzt im Theater zu Tode. Ari, der neue Polizist am Ort, erkennt rasch, dass er erst die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit aufklären muss, um die Fälle der Gegenwart lösen zu können.

Download | The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies | William Murray

2011-12-22T18:45:00.000+07:00

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model of an Athenian trieres (trireme) by the Hellenic Navy during the

Download | A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder by J. R. Partington

2011-12-22T12:57:00.003+07:00

For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. The apparatus and materials used in World War I would have been familiar to our remote ancestors. In this classic work, first published in 1960, James Riddick Partington provides a

Download | Napoleon and his Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship | Isser Woloch

2011-12-22T12:55:00.001+07:00

This history explains how Napoleon forged a dictatorship and explores the dilemmas of collaboration, personal and political. The 18th Brumaire, November 9, 1799: with France in political and economic turmoil, a group of disaffected politicians enlisted the talented general Napoleon Bonaparte to lead a coup d'etat and establish "confidence from below, authority from above." This is the story of

Download | Wie ein Licht in der Nacht (Roman) by: Nicholas Sparks

2011-12-22T12:49:00.000+07:00

Niemand im Küstenort Southport weiß, wer die neue Einwohnerin Katie ist und woher sie kommt. Sie lebt komplett zurückgezogen und vermeidet jeden Kontakt mit anderen. Erst dem jungen Witwer Alex, der zwei kleine Kinder hat, gelingt es langsam und behutsam, ihr näherzukommen. Doch Katie hütet ein dunkles Geheimnis. Wird sie für die Liebe alles aufs Spiel setzen? Die kleine Gemeinde Southport

Download | Betrayals and Treason: Violations of Trust and Loyalty | Nachman Ben-yehuda

2011-12-22T12:36:00.001+07:00

Betrayal and Treason examines betrayals as violations of both trust and loyalty. It offers a typology based on membership in or out of collectives within the contexts of secrecy/non-secrecy. The book shows that betrayals include such categories as espionage, whistle-blowing, infidelity, political turncoating, conversions, collaboration with occupying forces, informers, mutinies, defections,

Free Download | 2012 - Die Prophezeiung. Roman | Steve Alten

2011-12-13T16:29:00.000+07:00

Kurzbeschreibung Die größte Prüfung der Menschheit steht bevor... Schwarze Löcher, die unseren Planeten vernichten könnten – durch neuartige wissenschaftliche Experimente könnte diese Schreckensvision Wirklichkeit werden. Ist dies die Katastrophe, die sich laut Prophezeiung der Maya im Jahre 2012 ereignen wird? Immanuel Gabriel, letzter Nachkomme der berühmten Forscherfamilie, ist der Einzige,

Free Download | Peter & Max: A Fables Novel | Bill Willingham

2011-12-10T20:55:00.001+07:00

A new stand-alone FABLES NOVEL from award-winning and wildly acclaimed author, Bill Willingham.This story stars Peter Piper and his incorrigible brother Max in a tale about jealousy, betrayal and revenge. Set in two distinct time periods, prepare to travel back to medieval times and learn the tragic back-story of the Piper family, a medieval-era family of traveling minstrels. Then, jump into

Free Download | Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II | Douglas W. Jacobson

2011-12-10T20:52:00.001+07:00

The 1939 German-Soviet conquest of Poland is well described in this realistic piece of historical fiction. Jan is a cavalryman, and his unit enjoys temporary success at the Battle of the Bzura. But then the extreme German asymmetry in speed and firepower reasserts itself. The Stuka dive bombers are vividly portrayed. They wreak destruction everywhere--and by no means only of military targets.

Free Download | Child of Fire: A Twenty Palaces Novel | Harry Connolly

2011-12-10T20:49:00.001+07:00

"Child of Fire" is an unconventional fantasy story about modern day magicians who are searching for those who abuse the use magic. The two heroes of the story, Ray and Annalise, are magicians of differing magical talent who are charged by the Twenty Palace Society to search out these offenders and take them out. Ray is in service to Annalise, who hates him and wishes to kill him for killing

Free Download | Even the Wicked: A Matthew Scudder Novel | Lawrence Block

2011-12-10T20:36:00.001+07:00

Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, executing those he fees deserve to die. He calls himself "The Will of the People"--an ingenious serial killer who announces his specific murderous

Free Download | Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel | Peter Robinson

2011-12-10T20:33:00.001+07:00

Acclaimed internationally bestselling author Peter Robinson delivers a fast-paced, nail-biting thriller in which Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in.

Free Download | Off Campus: An Upper Class Novel | Hobson Brown, Taylor Materne, Caroline Says

2011-12-10T20:29:00.001+07:00

Nikki is ready to head back to Wellington, but she has one more trip to make before she heads to school. She is off to California to see Seth and is hoping to smooth over the rough spots in their relationship. One thing leads to another and the kids decide to go for it. They are going to try a long-distance relationship, exclusively. Nikki's escapade in California also introduces her to the