An Officer and a Fortune

An Officer and a Fortune

Author: Nina Crespo

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1488075557

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His homecoming was temporary. Until he met the woman who changed everything. Captain Collin Waldon is on leave from the military, tending to his ailing father in his final days. Knowing his stay in Rambling Rose will be short, Collin is not looking for romantic entanglements—especially not with Nicole Fortune, the beautiful, free-spirited executive chef of Roja Restaurant in the struggling Hotel Fortune. Yet these two unlikely lovers seem perfect for each other, until Collin’s reassignment threatens their newfound bliss… From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. The Fortunes of Texas: The Hotel Fortune Book 1: Her Texas New Year’s Wish by Michelle Major Book 2: Their Second-Time Valentine by Helen Lacey Book 3: An Unexpected Father by Marie Ferrarella Book 4: Runaway Groom by Lynne Marshall Book 5: An Officer and a Fortune by Nina Crespo Book 6: Cowboy in Disguise by Allison Leigh


Tomorrow's Capitalist

Tomorrow's Capitalist

Author: Alan Murray

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1541789105

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The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022 In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress. The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have made their mark and are driving change. These aren’t the superficial cosmetic fixes that generated so much cynicism in the past, but a revolution in the way corporations are imagined and run. Tomorrow’s Capitalist reveals how corporate CEOs—the ultimate pragmatists—realized that they could lose their “operating license” unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate, diversity and inclusion, and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing the bold new principles of stakeholder capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century it is not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run. Alan Murray vividly captures the zeitgeist of the real and compelling dynamic that is transforming much of the corporate world.


The Fortune of War (Vol. Book 6) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Fortune of War (Vol. Book 6) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-12-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0393088499

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"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.


Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune

Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune

Author: Rory Muir

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0300244312

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A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons--men of good family but small fortune ​In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society. This is the first scholarly yet accessible exploration of the lifestyle and prospects of these younger sons.


Soldiers of Fortune

Soldiers of Fortune

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-06-02

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1770482458

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A romance of America's nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic imperium. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. The appendices, which bring together primary materials by writers and politicians such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, Jose Martí, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority.


Fortune's Favored Child

Fortune's Favored Child

Author: Raouf Mama

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0810129736

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Raouf Mama is widely beloved by children and adults alike for his books and especially for his African and multicultural storytelling, which incorporates poetry, song, music, and dance. In Fortune’s Favored Child, the master storyteller tells his own story, beginning in the West African country of Benin. Through a harrowing experience with sickness, an encounter with a clairvoyant traditional healer, and astonishing twists of fortune, the protagonist struggles to uncover his real identity, to get an education, and to make his own way in the world. His journey takes him to the shores of the United States to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan and begin a new chapter in his life. .


Decennial

Decennial

Author: Max Fortune

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781955358040

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Decennial is about a group of white police officers who get convicted of using excessive force during the black lives matter protests of 2020 and instead of being sent to prison they are enrolled in a state-of-the-art program where they enter a virtual world in which they become black citizens and have to survive being black in America.