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The Spook Who Sat by the Door


Free Download Sam Greenlee, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door "
English | ISBN: 0814349579 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 294 KB + 770 KB
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy.

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The Man Who Loved His Wife (Femmes Fatales)


Free Download The Man Who Loved His Wife (Femmes Fatales) by Vera Caspary
English | March 18, 2014 | ISBN: 1558618465 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.3 MB
When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, nineteen years his junior, he can’t imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder…

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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age


Free Download The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age by Ralph Watson McElvenny, Marc Wortman
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1541768523 | 592 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
"A compelling new biography… [The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived] spins the Watsons into near-Shakespearean figures, as if ‘Succession’ were set in the era of ‘Mad Men’."​ ―The New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice

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The Golden Fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles


Free Download The Golden Fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles By Colum, Padraic; Pogány, Willy
2010 | 351 Pages | ISBN: 0375867090 | EPUB | 5 MB
Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, and Theseus and the Minotaur.

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The 5 W’s Who An Omnium-Gatherum of Popes & Playwrights, Dogs & Dukes, Actors & Advocates, Ogres & Others


Free Download Erin McHugh, "The 5 W’s: Who? An Omnium-Gatherum of Popes & Playwrights, Dogs & Dukes, Actors & Advocates, Ogres & Others Who’ve Made Their Mark in Our World"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1402725698 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 3.0 mb
From the genealogy of the Bach family to a complete listing of team mascots, here are some of the most surprising and quirky facts about people ever. Find out who topped the music charts most, which U.S. president liked to swim nude, and who the world’s greatest philosophers are.

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Savages and Civilization Who Will Survive


Free Download Jack Weatherford, "Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0449909573 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 2.9 mb
A "provocative [and] vivid" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) look at the primitive cultures that have given many gifts to the modern world, and how their very existence is now threatened

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Roots of Stone The Story of Those Who Came Before


Free Download Hugh G. Allison, "Roots of Stone: The Story of Those Who Came Before"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1845961293, 1840188332 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.7 mb
This fascinating sweep over 2,000 years of Scotland’s past mingles with a true family story stretching back over these same two millennia. It is an exploration of Scottish identity through the story of the author’s ancestors-tales drawn from royal bloodlines and from crofting hearths, tales of high drama and quiet, everyday satisfactions. Kenneth MacAlpin, Macbeth, Robert the Bruce, and the Wicked Earls of Orkney all have a place. Poets, pipers, and poachers play their part, as do dukes and drovers, their stories unfolding within evocatively limned landscapes and ancient places of power. Above all, Roots of Stone is the story of "all the ones who came before-those who can still be felt in the blood when deep emotion is stirred."

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