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All About Mom: From Mark Twain to Maya Angelou--Insights, Thoughts, And Life Lessons on Motherhood

Adams Media, 2006

Nothing else in life compares to the one-of-a-kind bond mothers have with their children. Filled with more than 400 heartfelt reflections from such luminaries as Sylvia Plath, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Tyler, and Amy Tan, All About Mom is a ...
  
  











  



  
Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic (Kindle Single)

Byliner Inc., 2012

When the Titanic started sinking, who would make it off alive? The two cousins who had been so eager to see their first iceberg? The maid who desperately tried to escape with the baby in her care? The young newlyweds who?d booked passage despite warnings not to? One hundred years after that disastrous and emblematic voyage, Elizabeth Kaye ...
  
  











  



  
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Henry Holt and Co., 2011

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history?how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of ...
  
  











  



  
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only ...
  
  











  



  
The Warrior Trainer (The Stones of Destiny Series), 2011

Overview Scotia knew her duty: protect the Stone of Destiny at all costs. It was the key to Scotland's salvation, the reason she'd become the best warrior in the world--as had the generations of women who'd guarded the Stone before her. Yet those women had never been distracted by a man like Ian MacKinnon. He'd journeyed to her castle to learn ...
  
  











  



  
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Random House, 2010

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane?s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So ...
  
  











  



  
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro

Knopf, 2012

Book Four of Robert A. Caro?s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as ?one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.  A masterpiece.?   The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and ...
  
  











  



  
The Art of War

Adams Media, 2009

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
  
  











  



  
Felice's Worlds : From the Holocaust to the Halls of Modern Art

booksBnimble, 2012

FIRST SHE ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST AND THE POVERTY OF THE SHTETL. AFTER THAT, SHE MOVED IN MANY WORLDS. AND IN EVERY ONE SHE MADE HER MARK. "Henry Massie never blinks as he creates an astonishing chronicle of a life in diaspora. Only a son could capture this passionate spirit, who escaped both Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy." --Patty Friedmann, ...
  
  











  



  
The Woman's Bible

Public Domain Books, 2006

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
  
  











  



  
The Presidents Club

Simon & Schuster, 2012

The inside story of the world's most exclusive fraternity; how presidents from Hoover through Obama worked with--and sometimes, against--each other when they were in and out of power.
  
  











  



  
The Life of Abraham Lincoln

Public Domain Books, 2004

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
  
  











  



  
Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance (The After Cilmeri Series)

The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group, 2011

A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike ...  A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg's life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales ...   Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances ...
  
  











  



  
Hetaera--Suspense in Ancient Athens (Agathon's Daughter)

Adytum, 2011

Hetaera--suspense in ancient Athens, is Book One of the Agathon's Daughter Trilogy. Born a bastard and a slave, Hestia has a gift: the power to read people's hearts. And yet, the secrets of her own heart remain a mystery. Hestia's keen intellect makes her a match for any man. But even a literate slave has little control over destiny. Sold to a ...
  
  











  



  
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad

Crown, 2012

The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc ., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times ...
  
  











  



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