![]() ![]() But they soon realize they have very different plans for their marriage-Julian wants Emily to remain a society wife, while Emily discovers an interest in the theater. With a marriage of convenience, Emily will use her society connections to promote the theater to a more respectable clientele and Julian will take her out from under the shadows of her father's unsavory associates. When their lives intersect at a house party, Lord Julian hatches a plan to benefit them both. Meanwhile, Lord Julian Belfry, the second son of a marquess, has scandalized society as an actor and owner of a theater-the kind of establishment where men take their mistresses, but not their wives. However, due to her father's large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father's favorite gambling house. Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. The "sweet, sexy, and utterly fun" (Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation) Regency Vows series continues with a witty, charming, and joyful novel following a seasoned debutante and a rakish theater owner as they navigate a complicated marriage of convenience. "Sure to delight Bridgerton fans." - USA TODAY ![]() Finish a Book from Manhattan to Dodge City.Finish a Book from Pittsburg to Goodland.Finish a Book from Leavenworth to Burlington. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Hamilton chernow review![]() ![]() ![]() After the war, he was a key figure in the ratification of the US constitution and a prolific writer in its defence, and later he served as the first treasury secretary of the United States during Washington’s presidency. Hamilton’s illustrious career included a position as an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the American War of Independence, prior to gaining military glory at the battle of Yorktown in 1781. And yet, the more I read about him, I realised that his personal story was far and away the most dramatic and in fact, rather unbelievable story of any of the founders.” But that pretty much exhausted what most people knew. In a podcast interview for History Extra, Chernow explains: “When I started doing the book, most Americans – including I think Lin-Manuel Miranda – knew two things about Alexander Hamilton: he is on the $10 bill in the United States and he had died in a duel with the vice president at the time, Aaron Burr. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The city of djinns![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the one hand Dalrymple records astutely and kindly (if sometimes a little patronisingly) his dealings with simpler sorts of Delhi-wallahs. Instead the book hangs upon two more organic strands. Well-digested outside influences were apparent in In Xanadu - notably that of Robert Byron, the guru of English literary travellers - and one notes from the acknowledgements that City of Djinns was read and commented on by at least 21 people before its author committed it to publication. For all his easy prose, Dalrymple is not a very spontaneous writer. The kind of book he has chosen to write this time, the form in which he has written it, even the style itself - all, one feels, have been carefully chosen to avoid the notorious pitfalls of the Second Book. It must have been a cruel challenge to write a sequel to such a virtuoso performance, and it is a pleasure to be able to cock a snook at that damned bird, and report that Dalrymple has pulled it off again. Flapping morosely around this volume, a schadenfreudean albatross, is the reputation of In Xanadu, William Dalrymple's entrancing and wildly successful first book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to MI14, the secret government branch in charge of the "Special Pigeon Service," the birds carried messages that offered a glimpse of life under the Germans in rural France, Holland, and Belgium. The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II.īetween 19, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a spy operation code-named Columba. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julia Morgan School for Girls may also be known as or be related to JULIA MORGAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, Julia Morgan School For Girls and Julia Morgan School for Girls. A chronicle of daily life at girls' schools over the past two hundred years, DeBare's book also illuminates the strong convictions of parents. ![]() The data presented on this page does not represent the view of Julia Morgan School for Girls and its employees or that of Zippia. 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The data on this page is also based on data sources collected from public and open data sources on the Internet and other locations, as well as proprietary data we licensed from other companies. The employee data is based on information from people who have self-reported their past or current employments at Julia Morgan School for Girls. Zippia gives an in-depth look into the details of Julia Morgan School for Girls, including salaries, political affiliations, employee data, and more, in order to inform job seekers about Julia Morgan School for Girls. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Andrew wyeth artist![]() ![]() ![]() In 1977, when the art historian Robert Rosenblum was asked to name the most overrated and underrated American artists, he nominated Andrew Wyeth for both categories. ![]() Over the course of his life and into his death, his reputation has weathered a whiplash of ups and downs and polarized opinion. It’s an opinion I still hold, though I’m aware that many others don’t share it. But they were also imbued with a powerful range of emotions: loneliness, the burdens of the past, the fragility of physical things, the struggle against a harsh climate and barren soil.Īfter this first encounter, I became a true believer in Wyeth’s work. Yes, his drawings, watercolors and paintings seemed to capture the ramshackle character of New England with perfect accuracy. While giants like Picasso painted a world of artistic contrivance, Wyeth seemed to directly confront real life with an immediacy that I hadn’t encountered before. I vividly recall my first encounter with Andrew Wyeth’s art when I was 14 years old, in the dingy galleries of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin![]() ![]() Omelas has no kings, soldiers, priests, or slaves. ![]() ![]() The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their technology and resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured. In Omelas, the summer solstice is celebrated with a glorious festival and a race featuring young people on horseback. The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city of unbelievable happiness and delight. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" / ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s/ is a 1973 work of short philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments This book is gay book![]() ![]() ![]() As a person who grew into an adult before this book, this book could have saved me UTIs and bad sexual experiences, and it needs to be more inclusive. Along with pregnancy, how consent works, and more. These are serious things girls should be taught about. There's literally nearly or nothing about vagina problems, PCOS, etc that's the reason another star vanished. We don't cover vaginism, hymens, bleeding, etc near enough if at all. Females are definitely not this book's focus. There's not enough talk about the female side of STDS and bad sex. I can see people taking the trans part of this book out and weaponizing it. They need to understand transitioning and such is not a mere want or desire, it's a serious situation. A book, mind you, that young children are reading. I cannot abide by this ignorance in a book like this. ![]() There's no want, they are born like that! So the trans area sort of washes it into "wanting" not they are born trans and trapped in the wrong body. "Some boys want to be a girl", no, some girls are born in boy bodies. It covered trans fairly well, but also roughly. I want equality in my media, and that means the book should cover both penises and vaginas. But the females are MTFs were not represented well in this at all. As a male, I was very represented by this book. I rated it low because it's male-oriented and has little guidance for females. I didn't rate this book low because it's bad. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Assembly feral souls trilogy![]() ![]() And if I break, the darkness inside me will finally be free. But should they ever discover just who they've let into their home, just what I really am.their hatred could be the one thing that finally breaks me. They may think they want to know me, they may think the secrets they guard behind hard eyes and closed expressions comes close to the ones I keep. And when they offer me a place to stay while I heal, I can't say no.īut the secrets I carry are deadly, and my past is a twisted, evil nightmare better left forgotten. Wild and untamed, their feral natures call to me, their warrior hearts make mine come alive. When a desperate escape leads to another brush with death, I'm forced to place my trust in the hands of four formidable strangers. For 18 years they've done their best to break me, to tear me open and unleash the terrifying monster that lives within. For 18 years I've suffered at the hands of the Hunters. ![]() ![]() Eventually, Charlie finds a ticket of his own. From greedy and gluttonous Augustus Gloop and spoiled Veruca Salt to gum-obsessed Violet Beauregarde and television-obsessed Mike Teavee. Charlie longs for chocolate to satisfy his hunger and to find a Golden Ticket himself, but his chances are slim (his father has recently lost his job, leaving the family all but destitute) and word on the discovery of the tickets keeps appearing in various articles read by the Bucket family. Soon after, an article in the newspaper reveals that Willy Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets in five Wonka Bars all over the world. His Grandpa Joe often tells him stories about Wonka and his mysterious chocolate factory, how it had been shuttered for years, and how it inexplicably re-opened and resumed candy production without any evidence of employees. ![]() ![]() ![]() Charlie is fascinated by the universally-celebrated chocolate factory located in his hometown owned by famous chocolatier Willy Wonka. Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and four grandparents in a dilapidated, tiny house. ![]() |