![]() ![]() But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. And so Hannah-against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. ![]() Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. ![]() But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. ![]() Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. ![]()
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The characters in this book just fit, nothing was forced and their relationship with each other did not disappoint me at all. Hammer’s Fall is the first book in Laurie Roma’s series The Breakers’ Bad Boys, and it was a fantastic read with an amazing storyline and a fantastic plot right from page one. ![]() ![]() As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States. And he is determined to tell his own story. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. ![]() In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. He was Cahill from the Ekatrina branch in The 39 Clues. He gets mentioned twice in 'Lazy Sunday'. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. Vidal also speculates that his duel with Burr was caused by Hamilton accusing Burr of an incestuous relationship with his daughter, though he stops short of endorsing Hamiltons death. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. ![]() He ended up as Jeffersons Vice-President and, four years later, while still in. ![]() Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. Aaron Burr very nearly became Americas third president in 1800, when he narrowly lost to Thomas Jefferson. No writing in margins or on covers, no tears or folded pages. ![]() ![]() He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, BroZone, with his four brothers: Floyd (Golden Globe nominated electropop sensation Troye Sivan), John Dory (Eric André Sing 2), Spruce (Grammy winner Daveed Diggs Hamilton) and Clay (Grammy winner Kid Cudi Don’t Look Up). SYNOPSIS: After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple (#broppy)! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. CAST: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Camila Cabello, Eric Andre, Amy SchumerĭISTRIBUTOR: United International Pictures ![]() ![]() Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. ![]() She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. ![]() ![]() The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller-With a New Afterword Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened ![]() ![]() ![]() Given the extreme difficulties with interpolations in some of these plays - especially the Phoenician Women and Iphigenia at Aulis - they have sensibly decided to translate the entire extant texts while making clear all their difficulties in abundant endnotes. ![]() Their text is based on Diggle’s OCT, but they tend to include in their text lines and passages which he condemns. provide a general introduction, a chronological table, note on the text and translator’s note, substantial interpretative notes on each of the plays, bibliography and glossary of mythological and geographical names. It easily measures up to the high standards set by its predecessors. ![]() This volume, comprising Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis and Rhesus is the fourth and last in the series of collaborations by John Davie (D.) and Richard Rutherford (R.), which replace the old Penguin translations by Philip Vellacott. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (.) Daneben bietet das Buch eine Reihe überzeugender Episoden (.) In solchen - leider zu seltenen - Passagen kann die geschmeidige, mit trockenem Humor geschriebene Prosa Dazais beeindrucken." - Wolfgang Schneider, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Die Qualen sollen nicht bestritten werden das Pathos macht sie aber nicht glaubhafter.(*: review of Donald Keene's earlier translation, No Longer Human) Previously translated by Donald Keene, as No Longer Human (1958)ī+ : grim but effective wallow in self-loathing. ![]() Translated and with an Afterword by Mark Gibeau.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you write a clear and detailed biography about a man who live centuries ago? ![]() Writing a biography of someone who lived in the 1400s with such clarity and detail has to be a very difficult, an almost impossible job, but Walter Isaacson, biographer of Steve Job, Albert Einstein, does an amazing job of writing about life and times of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an outlier, in many ways: illegitimate, vegetarian, flamboyant in dress, erratic in his work habits, astute self-promotor, self taught, no formal education, left-handed, gay, easily distracted, hardly finished his works, if he did finish them, he hardly published nor delivered his works. ![]() After listing interests from military engineering to science to designing sets for plays, he included almost as an afterthought, “I can also paint.” When he was about 30 years old, he applied for a job with the ruler of Milan. He saw his scientific exploits as something that nourished his art.Īccording to him, without his thirst for science, his art would not be prominent.ĭespite his remarkable artistic talent, Leonardo barely thought of himself as a painter. Leonardo viewed science as his foundation and the rest followed. But not a genius in the sense that he was a Master Artist, which he was, but in the sense that he was an engineer far more than an artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ministering to the young of the world in their most pliable age, is critical to their formation, and committed to “education of the heart” as it is phrased in the maxim that grounds the Fransalian educational apostolate – “Education of the heart is the heart of education” – of Fransalian as well as of all other Salesian traditions, like the one founded by Don Bosco.įrancis was brought up in a religion of love, his ‘very good and dear mother’s religion’. Most of them are either missionaries in the real frontier missions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Francis de Sales falls on August 21, 2019, the source and spring of the Salesian tradition, brought to the fore, the myriad branches that comprise the formidable Salesian tradition. The 452nd Anniversary of the birth of St. ![]() Francis de Sales is celebrated on 24th January. ![]() ![]() ![]() Granuaile faces a great challenge: to exorcise a sorcerer’s spirit that is possessing her father in India. For Atticus, the jury’s still out on whether the wily old coot will be an asset in the epic battle with Norse god Loki-or merely a pain in the arse.īut Atticus isn’t the only one with daddy issues. Between busting Atticus’s chops and trying to fathom a cell phone, Owen must also learn English. What’s more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid long ago frozen in time, a father figure of sorts who now goes by the modern equivalent of his old Irish name: Owen Kennedy.Ītticus takes pleasure in the role reversal, as the student is now the teacher. Now he’s got company.Ītticus’s apprentice Granuaile is at last a full Druid herself. ![]() For nearly two thousand years, only one Druid has walked the Earth-Atticus O’Sullivan, the Iron Druid, whose sharp wit and sharp sword have kept him alive as he’s been pursued by a pantheon of hostile deities. ![]() |