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Author: Robert Westall
Publisher: Mammoth
Published: 1995-10-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780749717551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliant student Robbie develops a close and dangerous relationship with Emma Harris, a teacher nearly twice his age. As the situation reaches a crisis, they must decide what they really want - which, for Emma, means the future of her career.
Author: Ken Auletta
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1504018605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighting, and power struggles that brought about Peterson’s departure and the eventual sale of one of Wall Street’s oldest and most prestigious firms. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s stock exchange, where hotshot young traders made and lost millions in a single afternoon, the story of Lehman’s fall is a suspenseful battle of wills between bankers, traders, and executives motivated by greed, envy, and ego. Auletta, who conducted hundreds of hours of interviews and was granted access to private company records, has crafted a thorough, enduring, and engaging account of pivotal events that continued to influence this storied financial institution until its ultimate demise in 2008.
Author: Bret Funk
Publisher: Tyrannosaurus Press
Published: 2014-08-24
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boundary. The greatest feat of magic in the history of Madryn. An impenetrable barrier raised to imprison the Darklord Lorthas. Nearly a millennium has passed since the Boundary's creation, and its power is fading. The four races struggle amongst themselves, their once-proud alliance now distant memory. Old enemies have resurfaced, and new ones lurk in the shadows, eager to use the chaos to their advantage. The truth is known only by Jeran, an orphan raised in the shadow of the Boundary, and his companion Dahr, an outcast hiding from his past. Haunted by the knowledge of the Darklord's weakening prison and pursued by Tylor Durange, exiled Prince of Ra Tachan, the boys race across Madryn to deliver news of the Boundary's fall to the King of Alrendria. Yet their greatest threat may come, not from the Darklord, but from the secrets they try so hard to hide from each other.
Author: James Crawford
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1250118301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die. In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen. The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2001-03-20
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0060653205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.
Author: Bruce D Allen
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0768490111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGazing Into Glory reveals the Lord's intent for spiritual manifestations to become your normal Christian experience. This book rests on solid biblical support and is built on modern-day, real-life supernatural experiences. You too will discover the true essence of the glory of God. There has been a growing hunger and passion in the hearts of God's people-- birthed by the Holy Spirit-- to more fully walk in the spirit and access in a more specific way all that the Word indicates is yours. You are encouraged to use Gazing Into Glory as a roadmap as you journey into the lifestyle and mindset that God destined for you to enjoy. By expounding upon the power and benefits of the Glory of God, the scriptural manifestations of God's glory become more than parables-- they embrace you. Walking in the supernatural is not promised only to a select mystical few. The experience belongs to all believers who choose to pursue the promises of God for themsleves--it belongs to you.
Author: Susan Knauff
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2003-02
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1591604184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sean Deveney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1510730648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city. In news accounts of the event, there was a small aside, as this one in the New York Times: "Notable in his absence was the pitcher Dwight Gooden, who Mets officials later said had overslept." No, the Mets' twenty-one-year-old phenom had not slept too late. He had not slept at all, in fact. For Gooden, his postgame champagne celebration kicked off a cocaine binge that took him to a club in Long Island and wound up with him, wired, watching his teammates roll through the streets as he sat with strangers in a public housing project. Such were the 1980s in New York City, a gilded era buttressed by fast money from a real estate boom and the explosion of Wall Street wealth. The Mets and Giants, bolstered by lightning-rod personalities like Gooden and Lawrence Taylor, brought the city sporting glory while its celebrity wealthy added a tabloid-friendly touch of intrigue and national envy. Iconoclastic real estate developer Donald Trump gained national celebrity for his deal-making skill and the flaunting of his outsize ego. Even mayor Ed Koch had gained coast-to-coast fame and mention as a potential future president. Beneath the opulence was a tenuous foundation, one that collapsed spectacularly over the last half of the decade. Away from the cameras focused on the city's nouvelle riches, New York was beset by crisis after crisis--homelessness, AIDS, crack cocaine, organized crime. The swell of outrage over the unwillingness of the city elite to address those problems took years to finally reach a tipping point. Through interviews and detailed research, Greed and Glory gives the narrative of New York during these times, tracing the arc of its sports heroes and celebrities of that era, from their memorable highs to their ultimate lows.
Author: Robert Kammen
Publisher: Leatherneck Publishing
Published: 2006-05
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 0977903907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1524732028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: • A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. • A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. • A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can’t be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.
