![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended for mature readers only.Īna Huang is a USA Today, international, and #1 Amazon bestselling author. It contains explicit sexual content, profanity, and mild violence. ![]() King of Wrath is a steamy billionaire/arranged marriage romance. Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. ![]() There’s only one problem: now that he has her.he can't bring himself to let her go. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. Until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry. She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming.ĭante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After an initial fight, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends. ![]() The first half of the story discusses Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop Gilgamesh from oppressing the people of Uruk. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep", in modern terms: "He who Sees the Unknown"). The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC). The Gilgamesh Epic is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Drake divorced her first husband because she felt that passion and love were gone from their relationship. We have to keep that in mind when looking for a partner, and steer clear of seductive slackers. But we haven't climbed the ladder as far as we should have. MC: So you're saying we should quit our careers?įORD: You should definitely keep your job. What gives?įORD: The juggling act required to be a successful woman, to be a good mom and to be a careerist, makes you want to say, "Screw it, I should've married money." MC: You're both accomplished working women, but you're telling us we should marry for money. ![]() ![]() "I can attest from almost marrying someone for love (who also happened to HAVE money), there’s no way to prevent or take the burn out of being left brokenhearted, " she added. She swears she is not bitter it's just that if she knew then what she know now, there's a lot of great and essential things she would get from that man she married. Elizabeth is a single mother, whose husband traded their marriage for a younger model - a chick 15-years younger than her. Smart Girls Marry Money was written by Daniela Drake and Elizabeth Ford. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peak Popularity: August peaked in popularity for boys in the early 1900s. ![]()
![]() In its modern form, which is so recklessly celebrated by both pundits and politicians from the left and right, populism has become a protest against institutions of all kinds - including both political parties - which assert traditions or standards uncomfortable for scalawag politicians such as Edwards and Duke. Harry Williams, in his superb biography of Long, noted that Winn Parish, the Long family’s home, “became the center of populist strength in the state and furnished most of the party’s leaders.” The Populist Party of the 1890s, to which Williams was referring, was a rural protest against the banks, the railroads and other economic power-centers which then controlled so many state legislatures, governors and senators. It was Long, the governor and senator who dominated the state for more than a decade before his assassination in 1935, who, more than anyone else, established the populist tradition in Louisiana politics - which both Edwards and Duke claim as their own. And so does the sour stench of populism, the anti- establishment movement that has gained fresh and undeserved prestige in the current climate of public disillusionment. ![]() Long hangs over everything - including Saturday’s gubernatorial election between former Gov. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A small book of runic observations, composed for the most part over the decade of the 1950s, sets out a manifesto for the precise, elliptical style, defined by its uses of suppression and subtraction, that made Bresson famous: a director who admired Debussy for playing the piano with the lid down, an apt enough metaphor for his own restraint. To read Bresson’s Notes alongside his interviews gives the same experience, of an author who needs no signature. ![]() In his Notes on the Cinematograph, Bresson quotes a sentence spoken by Racine to his son Louis: ‘I know your handwriting well enough, without your having to sign your name.’ Of the thirteen feature films Bresson directed over a career of forty years, it could also be said that they require no signature or, rather, that their signature is embedded in each film already-an economical and anti-theatrical style identifiable by its syntax of faces, hands, isolated objects and empty spaces, shot starkly with a 50mm lens and cut to a rhythmic soundtrack stripped of musical accompaniment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Torrance doesn’t initially seem like the guy to face them. It focuses on both The True Knot, a strange roving band of semi-immortals who look totally normal, but occasionally capture children who have “the Shining” as Danny Torrance did, and consume their essence, called “steam.” the shining It’s easy to believe he’ll be pretty happy with Flanagan, who previously directed the well-received Netflix adaptation of the author’s Gerald’s Game.ĭoctor Sleep was in many respects a very different book from its predecessor, but no less chilling. CANNOT WAIT Įveryone knows King hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. He’s been crapping on it for years. Thrilled and honored to spend some time at the Overlook. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she is 16-years-old Amy goes to work at her mother's office, working in the office part of a mill in Shirley Falls. ![]() The novel was adapted into a 2001 television movie of the same name as part of the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" line of films. The novel follows the close relationship between Isabelle and her teenage daughter Amy, and how their relationship becomes strained after Amy is groomed by her much older math teacher. Strout would also revisit the character of Isabelle in her 2019 short story cycle Olive, Again. The novel was first published in hardback on Decemthrough Random House and is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, a location that Strout would revisit in her 2013 novel The Burgess Boys. Amy and Isabelle, also stylized as Amy & Isabelle, is the 1998 debut novel by the American author Elizabeth Strout. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Sapphy doesn't just crave the wild world beneath the waves she also longs to see her father once more. Diving down into Ingo, she discovers an intoxicating world she never knew existed, where she must let go of the airy world above, and embrace the sea. Then, the following summer, Sapphy meets Faro – an enigmatic Mer boy. ![]() When he is lost at sea she can't help but think of the old myth. Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. ![]() He swam down into the sea to be with her, and was never seen again. Readers will be drawn into a watery world of mystery and magic by this haunting, sea-drenched series set on the coast of Cornwall… Once there was a man who fell in love with a mermaid. Award-winning author Helen Dunmore’s INGO saga, a beautiful mermaid series for readers of 9 and up, now available in an unmissable ebook collection containing all five novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been known to bet a couple of bucks on a horse race or two. 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.Īuthor Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race. 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. ![]() |