![]() Revised edition: This edition of The Unwanted Wife includes editorial revisions. From the depths of her anxiety, Theresa must seek an empowering truth about the husband who calls her, with such cold affection, his cara, his beloved. Most damning is that Theresa senses, in Sandro’s treatment of her, the behind-the-scenes machinations of Jackson Noble, her cruel father. Or that Theresa overhears her husband on the phone with a mystery woman. Never mind that Sandro has yet to introduce Theresa to the large family that means so much to him. But before he’ll grant her request, Sandro demands something from Theresa: a son. Desperate to escape a relationship that has proven to be as stubbornly passionate as it is cold and hateful, Theresa summons up the courage to ask for a divorce. ![]() Eighteen months into their marriage, however, Sandro has turned to ice. No one had ever looked at her and seen perfection-until now.ĭelicate, titian-haired Theresa Noble has met her father’s associates in the past, but the gorgeous, Italian-born Sandro De Lucci leaves her speechless. ![]()
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![]() An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. ![]() Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. ![]() It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. ![]() ![]() Soon, they’re unable to deny their growing desire for each other. ![]() She doesn’t trust Marcus but can’t deny the handsome devil makes her wonder if she does indeed possess a heart, one he could very easily steal.Īs their hunt for the truth leads them into danger, Marcus finds Esme isn’t cold and calculating as he’d assumed but fire and brimstone, with courage and determination to match his own. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting to discover who’s behind the conspiracy that’s still afoot. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal-a woman known as the heartless harlot. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. ![]() In the thrilling third book in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath’s Once Upon a Dukedom series, the dashing son of a disgraced duke teams up with a sultry beauty to thwart an assassination plot against Queen Victoria. ![]() ![]() They enlarge the pictures at Chip's house and see the contents organized into two lists one titled Witnesses, and the other titled Survivors, which includes Jonah's and Chip's names. When Jonah tells her to memorize as much of the folder's contents as she could while he distracts Reardon, she does better by taking photographs of the folder's contents. During the meeting, Katherine sees a strange man put a file folder on Reardon's desk before disappearing, which leaves her disturbed for the remainder of the meeting. Jonah and Katherine join their parents in meeting Reardon, who is reluctant to share any meaningful details regarding Jonah's past. After the boys break into a safe at Chip's house, they find the name and contact info of FBI agent James Reardon. ![]() ![]() Katherine decides to help Jonah and his friend Chip Winston learn about their birth families after the two of them receive strange letters that are seemingly linked to their respective adoptions. ![]() ![]() ![]() During this decade, millions of people throughout the world used their education and the free press to organize populist movements that fought for human rights. The most important historical era to which Ishmael reacts is the radical movement of the 1960s. Since 2000, he’s been involved in a great number of rallies, conferences, and forums regarding issues of anarchism, environmentalism, and pacifism. Following the success of Ishmael, Quinn wrote two other philosophical novels about anthropology and the environment: The Story of B (1996), and My Ishmael (1997). Ishmael won Quinn the prestigious Turner Award, organized by the media billionaire Ted Turner. Quinn’s breakthrough came in 1991, when he wrote his best-known novel, the philosophical dialogue Ishmael. He didn’t write a novel of his own until 1988-this novel, Dreamer, was a work of science fiction, and while it earned fairly positive reviews, it didn’t sell well. Following his departure from Kentucky, Quinn moved to New York and worked in publishing for many years. ![]() Quinn fell out with his mentors at the abbey-a falling out that contributed to his abandonment of Catholicism altogether in the mid-1960s. Afterwards, he studied at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky, in the hopes of becoming a monk. ![]() He later studied at a variety of universities, including Saint Louis University, where he earned a B.A. Daniel Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was raised Catholic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A first-rate piece of storytelling, leaving us not only with a vivid portrait of a horse but a fascinating slice of American history as well.” - The New York Times Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:Ĭharles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. ![]() ![]() From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Altogether, Kahn's made three films, including 2004's self-aware Fast and the Furious-but-with-motorcycles riff Torque, and the 2011 teen-comedy-slasher genre mashup Detention, which, like Bodied, he funded himself. So all you have to do is know how to rattle the internet cage."īodied, which was the opening night pick of the Toronto International Film Festival's beloved Midnight Madness program, is Kahn's first film in six years, one he wrote with battle rapper Alex Larsen, aka Kid Twist. The only thing people care about these days is celebrity. ![]() You can make a good film, but if you throw it out into a vacuum, the air does not get in there. ![]() "To be honest, I did it on purpose," Kahn admitted over coffee in Toronto, referring to his campaign of strategic hive-poking and the resulting media coverage. Or maybe just like a director with a new movie to promote. But the 44-year-old Korean-American filmmaker didn't just goad Beyoncé stans into attack with taunts about their inability to do real damage and quips to the press destined to immediately be taken out of context, he greeted the influx of bee emojis and tweeted insults like Lieutenant Dan howling defiance at a hurricane. For the average person online, drawing the enraged attention of one of the internet's most devoted and formidable fandoms is something to be feared and avoided at all costs. Last week, Joseph Kahn summoned the wrath of the Beyhive down upon himself - and not just once but repeatedly. ![]() ![]() The provided credit card is charged when the applicant is drawn if the charge is not approved, the applicant will be removed and another applicant will be drawn from the same applicant pool. To be selected, you must have provided a valid credit card, future expiration date, and authorization to charge. residentsĪ drawing will be conducted within each applicant pool. residents outside of the NYC metro area, including Puerto Rico and other U.S. "NYC metro area" applicants: Residents in and within 60 miles of New York CityĢ. ![]() The entries available to non-guaranteed applicants will be filled through three drawings, one in each of the following applicant pools:ġ. ![]() The drawing for these entries will take place on Wednesday, March 1. Runners who do not have guaranteed entry to the race could apply to the non-guaranteed general entry drawing between February 8 and February 22. The non-guaranteed entry drawing helps preserve the diversity of the race. ![]() The 2023 TCS New York City Marathon brings together a diverse field of runners from the New York City area and beyond. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In my ear he says, “I’ve got a stomachache and it’s probably critical. The smell of Dr Pepper lip gloss fills the air. He creeps across the couch, down to my futon, and lays his head next to mine. I pretend to sleep, but even in the half-light, through squinted eyelids, I can see he’s got Mama’s old purple eye shadow on and a towel draped around his head like a glamorous headscarf. And right now my little brother, Birdie, is on the couch waiting for me to open my eyes. The back page is the section of the newspaper that has weird news about things like two-headed llamas or people who get themselves stuck in air-conditioning vents or pets that are accidentally sent through the mail and survive.īut today isn’t just Saturday. Today is Saturday, the day we usually eat Honey Bunny Buns for breakfast and read the back page of the newspaper with Uncle Carl while he drinks coffee and smokes on the porch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a loose tile is accidentally dislodged from the roof of Judah's house during a military parade and strikes the Roman governor, knocking him from his horse, Messala falsely accuses Judah of attempted assassination. The teen-aged boys come to realize that they have changed and hold very different views and aspirations. ![]() Readers meet the fictional character of Judah for the first time in book two, when his childhood friend Messala, also a fictional character, returns home as an ambitious commanding officer of the Roman legions. Book one opens with the story of the three biblical Magi, who arrive in Bethlehem to hear the news of Christ’s birth. The novel is divided into eight books, or parts, each with its own subchapters. He becomes a successful charioteer.The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness. Ben-Hur is a heroic story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused of an attempted assassination and enslaved by the Romans. ![]() |