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Book Synopsis A Fall from Grace by : Jennie Goutet
Download or read book A Fall from Grace written by Jennie Goutet and published by Jennie Goutet. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She needs a champion. He needs one less person to worry about. Selena Lockhart comes with neither dowry nor connections, and she knows better than to expect Society to give her a welcome—especially after her father gambled away his fortune, precipitating the family’s sudden fall from grace and Selena’s betrothed to break off their engagement. It therefore comes as no surprise that her new neighbor, Sir Lucius, treats her with disdain. Why should he look beyond appearances when her own promises so little? Sir Lucius Clavering is not married, but he may as well be, considering he is expected to escort his widowed mother to watering holes, round out the numbers at his married sister’s dinners, and come to the aid of his scapegrace younger siblings. It doesn’t help that single women and matchmaking mamas jostle each other to claim his face, fortune, and title so that he’s left without a moment’s peace. When Selena shows up at Lucius’s doorstep looking for help, he is sure it’s another ploy aimed at cutting up his prized bachelor existence. Although his prejudice does not last long, Lucius fears his first reaction might have ruined his chances with her. How can he save her from Society’s teeth when she continues to hold him at arm’s length?
Book Synopsis Chronicle of a Fall from Grace by : SáNdor Lsg MáRai
Download or read book Chronicle of a Fall from Grace written by SáNdor Lsg MáRai and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching midlife, the Captain prepares to spend an evening with an unusual guest. The evening is a journey of memories and conversations revolving around life, religion, rebellion, God, philosophy and the Mobius strip that is love and lust. The Captain and his guest simultaneously examine and defend their existence. Throughout the evening, crucial questions haunting humanity from the beginning of time surface. Their confessions are at once emotional, erotic, sinful, blasphemous and, ultimately, poignant. As the Captain befriends the Devil, he understands the very meaning of his life is inextricably tied to the bond between them. The most important decision of the Captain's life awaits him tonight.
Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Danielle Steel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sydney's husband dies, she is dealt a devastating blow. He never wrote her into his will, so she is forced to leave the beautiful home they shared and is left with nothing
Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Fenton Bailey and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most reviled figures in recent history, megamillionaire financier Michael Milken created a $200 billion bond market before a jail sentence cashed in his chips for 10 years. But was Milken a media scapegoat, exploited and crucified by people more ruthless and savvy at the publicity game than he? Former Drexel Burnham employee Fenton Bailey provides a side of the spectacular Milken story that has rarely been heard. Photographs.
Book Synopsis Fall from Grace by : Richard North Patterson
Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Richard North Patterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious, violent death of a prominent New England patriarch exposes a nest of dark family secrets in New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson’s twentieth compelling novel. From #1 bestselling author Richard North Patterson comes a spellbinding psychological puzzle filled with unexpected legal twists, potentially criminal turns, and one family’s shocking fall from grace. After ten years away from home, Adam Blaine returns to Martha’s Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben, a famous and charismatic writer who was fond of sailboats, good wine—and women other than his wife. When Adam learns that Ben disinherited his family in favor of his mistress, he begins to wonder if his father’s death—caused by an inexplicable fall from a cliff—might have been suicide or murder. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam unearths some shattering revelations about the mistress’s past. But even more disturbing are the family secrets that can’t stay buried any longer—secrets that make Adam question everything he thought he knew about every player in this fateful game. Even himself...
Book Synopsis Chronicle of a Fall from Grace by : Sandor lsg Marai
Download or read book Chronicle of a Fall from Grace written by Sandor lsg Marai and published by Sandor Lsg Marai. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATE: Chronicle of a Fall from Grace now includes an alternate ending. Readers can opt for a more empowering conclusion or a darker one. As the reader, you can choose the ending that will have the most impact in your life or read them both. Enjoy! Approaching midlife, the Captain prepares to spend an evening with an unusual guest. The evening is a journey of memories and conversations revolving around life, religion, rebellion, God, philosophy and the Mobius strip that is love and lust. The Captain and his guest simultaneously examine and defend their existence. Throughout the evening, crucial questions haunting humanity from the beginning of time surface. Their confessions are at once emotional, erotic, sinful, blasphemous and, ultimately, poignant. As the Captain befriends the Devil, he understands the very meaning of his life is inextricably tied to the bond between them.
Book Synopsis Philippa Holds Court by : Jennie Goutet
Download or read book Philippa Holds Court written by Jennie Goutet and published by Jennie Goutet. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s capable of many things—including driving him mad. At the start of their London Season, Philippa Clavering discovers her friend Susan is being pursued by the wrong gentleman and decides to turn Susan’s head to a worthier suitor. Not one to shrink from what she views as her duty and gift, Philippa sets plans in motion to bring about the happy ending her friend deserves. What she does not expect is to have Susan’s older brother watching—and criticizing—her every move. After a respectable number of years on the town, Jack Blythefield is at last contemplating the idea of settling down. What he seeks is a compliant wife to provide him an heir or two and make his home comfortable while he spends his evenings at the club where a man can get some peace. What he does not need is a termagant who sets his life on end with madcap schemes which invariably involve his unwilling assistance. However, when the reputation of Jack’s family is threatened, Philippa is the one he turns to. And as her most determined suitor grows assured of his conquest, Jack must decide if a comfortable and docile wife is truly what he seeks, or if he should throw down the gauntlet of his heart before Philippa closes court.
Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Tim Hornbaker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by Ty Cobb as “the finest natural hitter in the history of the game,” “Shoeless Joe” Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average—which is still ranked third all-time—the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. That is until the “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core. While many have sympathized with Jackson’s ban from baseball (even though he hit .375 during the 1919 World Series), not much is truly known about this quiet slugger. Whether he participated in the throwing of the World Series or not, he is still considered one of the game’s best, and many have fought for his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. From the author of Turning the Black Sox White (on Charles Comiskey) and War on the Basepaths (on Ty Cobb), Shoeless Joe tells the story of the incredible life of Joseph Jefferson Jackson. From a mill boy to a baseball icon, author Tim Hornbaker breaks down the rise and fall of “Shoeless Joe,” giving an inside look during baseball’s Deadball Era, including Jackson’s personal point of view of the “Black Sox” scandal, which has never been covered before. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book The Body Papers written by Grace Talusan and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing “Grace Talusan writes eloquently about the most unsayable things: the deep gravitational pull of family, the complexity of navigating identity as an immigrant, and the ways we move forward even as we carry our traumas with us. Equal parts compassion and confession, The Body Papers is a stunning work by a powerful new writer who—like the best memoirists—transcends the personal to speak on a universal level.” —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse: her grandfather’s nightly visits to her room leave her hurt and terrified, and she learns to build a protective wall of silence that maps onto the larger silence practiced by her Catholic Filipino family. Talusan learns as a teenager that her family’s legal status in the country has always hung by a thread—for a time, they were “illegal.” Family, she’s told, must be put first. The abuse and trauma Talusan suffers as a child affects all her relationships, her mental health, and her relationship with her own body. Later, she learns that her family history is threaded with violence and abuse. And she discovers another devastating family thread: cancer. In her thirties, Talusan must decide whether to undergo preventive surgeries to remove her breasts and ovaries. Despite all this, she finds love, and success as a teacher. On a fellowship, Talusan and her husband return to the Philippines, where she revisits her family’s ancestral home and tries to reclaim a lost piece of herself. Not every family legacy is destructive. From her parents, Talusan has learned to tell stories in order to continue. The generosity of spirit and literary acuity of this debut memoir are a testament to her determination and resilience. In excavating such abuse and trauma, and supplementing her story with government documents, medical records, and family photos, Talusan gives voice to unspeakable experience, and shines a light of hope into the darkness.
Download or read book The Fall of Lucifer written by Wendy Alec and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning… Three brothers – Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer. Royalty. Archangels. United in devotion to their father and all his works. But when Lucifer learns of their father’s latest creation – a new race, fashioned from crude matter and yet made in his image – he is consumed with resentment. Why have he and his angelic kind been overlooked? After a bitter confrontation, Lucifer is cast out, doomed to an eternity of exile and punishment. Unrepentant, he vows he won’t suffer alone. Mankind has made a powerful enemy – one determined to lure it into darkness and torment any way he can… “There could be no bigger canvas for film-making.” – Mark Ordesky (Executive Producer – Lord of the Rings); “Alec not only re-frames pre-history; she also imaginatively illustrates how the realm of spirit impacts the contemporary material world.” Ileen Maisel (Executive Producer for the Golden Compass) “This is the best work of fiction I have read since the last installment of Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein series” Jim McDonald – 1340Mag – Online Entertainment Magazine.
Book Synopsis Free Fall from Grace by : James C. Bottomley
Download or read book Free Fall from Grace written by James C. Bottomley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Bottomley, Esquire was an established lawyer and member of society. He was educated at Stanford University and Hastings Law School. He had a beautiful family, wonderful children, and a sterling background in every respect. No one thought him capable of murder. Not even he believed he had shot Marietta Cordero Birbilis. They told him he did it, but he initially remembered nothing. Why would he kill a woman he was in love with? But kill her he had, and to this day he's in prison with everyone still scratching their heads, even Jim Bottomley.A chronicle of prison life as well as a study in personalities, FALL FROM GRACE showcases one man's struggle with an imperfect legal system and a far less than imperfect penal system. But the overriding question is still unsolved in his own mind: why did he pull the trigger? What about Marietta, and more importantly, himself, caused him to buy a gun and use it to commit a bloody murder without, he says, any forethought whatsoever?
Book Synopsis Loss of Innocence by : Davi Patterson
Download or read book Loss of Innocence written by Davi Patterson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard - life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted Dane tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory, and her picture-perfect family far from pretty. A sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set during the most consequential summer of recent American history.
Download or read book Family Reunion written by Grace C. Ocasio and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Family reunions are special occasions, a time of connections, reflections, of meeting new members, remembering those no longer with us, more than a little gossip (a good reason not to miss one if you don't want to be the one talked about!) and (mostly) good-natured kidding, occasional recriminations and grievances aired or confined to knowing side glances, and perhaps most importantly, the chance to pass on and keep alive the history and lore of the family from one generation to the next. Grace C. Ocasio's FAMILY REUNION is all of these things, and in reading this book we are privileged guests at just such an event, invited to hear the stories of her relatives across multiple generations. Because this is an account of an African-American family, it is necessarily in part a chronicle of racism and injustice and thus a contribution to the poetry of documentary witness. There are moments of tragedy (a child permanently brain damaged by being dropped by a nurse at birth) and indignity (a woman denied a PhD by Harvard because of her race), but also triumphs (one man becomes a celebrated physician, and many in the family graduate from college and go on to successful professional careers--including the author). These poems speak candidly of the experience of being Black in America. But that is not all that they do. What they reveal most of all is how this one family's story manages to be both uniquely their own and simultaneously universal, because we can all recognize ourselves and our own messy histories in these pages, whatever our race or origin. We've all encountered that uncle, that grandmother in our own families; we've heard the lectures (or given them ourselves) on hair and clothing, behavior and expectations, the suitability of suitors, all the friction at generational boundaries. Now, more than ever, we need to be reminded that we are all one family--however dysfunctional. To say that Ocasio does this with grace may be a pun, but it is also the truth. The book ends with a brief prose account of a family reunion that is hilariously chaotic, leaving the author with "hysteria welling in my throat." Well, that's family for you! But what a treat it is to get to know this one.
Book Synopsis Ally to Adversary by : Rick Francona
Download or read book Ally to Adversary written by Rick Francona and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the point man for the highly sensitive support the United States gave Iraq in 1987-88 during its war with Iran, Francona walked the streets of Baghdad, toured military facilities, and established close relations with high-ranking Iraqis. Through these activities he gained a unique and valuable perspective on Iraq's military capabilities and doctrine, including its use of ballistic missiles and chemical weapons. Later, as Gen.
Book Synopsis Hunter Fall from Grace by : Chuck Wendig
Download or read book Hunter Fall from Grace written by Chuck Wendig and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronicle of a Fall from Grace by : Sndor Lsg Mrai
Download or read book Chronicle of a Fall from Grace written by Sndor Lsg Mrai and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching midlife, the Captain prepares to spend an evening with an unusual guest. The evening is a journey of memories and conversations revolving around life, religion, rebellion, God, philosophy and the Mbius strip that is love and lust. The Captain and his guest simultaneously examine and defend their existence. Throughout the evening, crucial questions haunting humanity from the beginning of time surface. Their confessions are at once emotional, erotic, sinful, blasphemous and, ultimately, poignant. As the Captain befriends the Devil, he understands the very meaning of his life is inextricably tied to the bond between them. The most important decision of the Captain's life awaits him tonight.
Book Synopsis Chronicle of a Fall from Grace by : Luis Samuel Gonzalez
Download or read book Chronicle of a Fall from Grace written by Luis Samuel Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching midlife, the Captain prepares to spend an evening with an unusual guest. The evening is a journey of memories and conversations revolving around life, religion, rebellion, God, philosophy and the Mobius strip that is love and lust. The Captain and his guest simultaneously examine and defend their existence. Throughout the evening, crucial questions haunting humanity from the beginning of time surface. Their confessions are at once emotional, erotic, sinful, blasphemous and, ultimately, poignant. As the Captain befriends the Devil, he understands the very meaning of his life is inextricably tied to the bond between them. Author's Comment: The reaction to Chronicle of a Fall from Grace has been interesting over time. After reading its promotional blurb and coming across words like blasphemous, lust, erotic, devil and sinful, the brave take the plunge and read. When reading, remember that this is an idea driven book in which the plot at times defers to the importance of the concepts addressed. The storyline is subservient to the ideas. I'll leave it at "it's written differently;" so please don't judge it as you would an English essay or mainstream pop literature. Those with ultra conservative religious sensitivity and the "not-so-open-minded" should avoid it. If you get offended on behalf of God, then I recommend you move on to another book. This may be a first: a writer urging some to not buy or read his book. You know, I'm being nice and practical. Those who hate it because it offends them religiously tend to rate the book badly because of the offense and not on its literary merit or find a way to mask their sentiment in the review. This said, I'm the first to admit that literature is a matter of taste and whether a book is a good read changes from person to person. After the reading, then comes the hate it or love it reaction. For those who hate it, it usually manifests as a sense of guilt and outrage. Why? I don't know. Maybe because they loved it and they shouldn't? Because they saw themselves in its mirrors and this freaks them out? It's hard to say. After reading its promotional blurb and coming across words like blasphemous, lust, erotic, devil and sinful, you think potential readers would get the point. As an author who would like people to read and judge the writing on its merits, and not based on whether it offends their moral and religious sensitivities or counters their personal and religious beliefs, this worries me a bit; but I would not have written Chronicle of a Fall from Grace any other way. The book considers certain ideas passionately -to exhaustion at times. Many times during the writing process, I was left drained and burdened by my own reaction to the narrative. The writing enveloped me in a way that few other writing projects have. So, to some extent, I can understand the hate it or love it reactions. I believe this is the very attribute that makes the book worth reading -even if in the end, you're offended and rabidly angry for yourself, God, angels and the saints. Chronicle of a Fall from Grace was written to empower humanity, to praise and worship the human spirit and potential. The plot is not meant to be easy or pleasing, rather to some extent entertaining and educational. If you are capable of feeling the message and live it as your eyes scroll through pages and words that at one time drained and burdened me, well, you will find in the blasphemies, lust, love, psychology and passions the vital inspiration to want more, seek more, and the aspiration to become one of the gods yourself -with the understanding that with this comes a price to pay. Just ask the Greek epic heroes... Luis Samuel Gonzalez"
