6/29/2023 0 Comments The promise by danielle steele![]() ![]() In 2002, she was decorated by the French government as an Officer of the Order des Arts et des Letters for her contributions to world culture. She also writes children's books including the Max and Martha series. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. A number of her novels have made major bestseller lists and have also been adapted into TV movies or miniseries. the Promise (1978) Steel, Danielle Steel, Danielle Read online 68 Published: 2010 Season of Passion Steel, Danielle Steel, Danielle SUMMARY:Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of Americas biggest pro-football stars. Her other books include The House on Hope Street, The Wedding, Irresistible Forces, Granny Dan, Bittersweet, Mirror Image, The Klone and I, The Long Road Home, The Ghost, Special Delivery, The Ranch, His Bright Light, Southern Lights, Blue, Country, The Apartment, Property of a Noble Woman, The Mistress, Dangerous Games, Against All Odds, The Duchess, Fairytale, Fall From Grace, The Cast, The Good Fight, and Turning Point. ![]() Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1972. She studied literature, design, and fashion design - first at Parsons School of Design and later at New York University. Danielle Steel was born in New York City on August 14, 1947. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The events from the opening passage to this post occurred in the late 1800s. Having subsequent trouble recruiting Costa Rican laborers, Keith eventually brought in blacks from the Caribbean islands (mainly Jamaica), Chinese, and even Italians, to complete the project.”The ?.?.?. Some of them had been down before in the filibustering days of William Walker.Of that bunch about twentyfive came out alive.The rest left their whiskyscalded carcases to rot in the swamps.On another load he shipped down fifteen hundred they all died to prove that only Jamaica Negroes could live in Limon.Minor Keith didn’t die.”This quote from Wikipedia: “As many as four thousand people, including Keith's three brothers, died during the construction of the first 25 miles of track. He offered a dollar a day and grub and hired seven hundred men. “Limon was one of the worst pestholes on the Caribbean, even the Indians died there of malaria, yellow jack, dysentery.Keith went back up to New Orleans on the steamer ?. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Danielle steel sisters summary![]() ![]() But as the four women settle in, they are forced to confront the direction of their respective lives. and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide. A bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives come together to share one New York brownstone, to support each other, and to pick up the pieces while one of them struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. ![]() One Fourth of July weekend, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina, thirty-four, is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie, at twenty-six, is an American in Florence, living for her art. Her sister Tammy, twenty-nine, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV. Twenty-one-year-old Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel. ![]() Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel’s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy-and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The dirt by neil strauss![]() ![]() As much as there are rip-roaring stories about eating escargots with Quaalude chasers and setting themselves on fire, there are stories that reveal deep-seated misogyny that is frankly breath-taking. The problem with The Dirt – the book – is that it has aged about as well as Nikki Sixx/Tommy Lee/Vince Neil (Mick Mars looks much the same). The Dirt is a book from a bygone era and this in an adaptation that shouldn’t have happened ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wanderland by jini reddy![]() ![]() This year’s prize has been extended to include a second category for Writing on Global Conservation, and the two shortlists reflect the breadth and range of contemporary nature writing both in the UK and around the world. Now in its seventh year, the UK Nature Writing Prize is awarded annually to the book which most successfully inspires readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world. ![]() Against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and with our natural landscapes under increasing threat from the climate crisis, nature and conservation writing has flourished. Named after nature writer Alfred Wainwright, this year’s prize feels more timely than ever as our need to reconnect with nature has never been stronger. The shortlists for the Wainwright Prize 2020 are announced today, Thursday 30th July. ![]() ![]() ![]() All of Henríquez’s characters are chasing something to the United States-and few of them ever really find it. Others in the apartment building departed their home countries in search of fortune and fame. Rafael and Celia Toro left Panamá with their small children, Enrique and Mayor, to escape the horrors of war. As Henríquez’s characters reckon with realizing that they are-and perhaps always will be-the “unknown” Americans, they struggle to accept that the reality of American opportunity is different from the myth of being recognized and embraced-the reality of the American dream is struggle, uncertainty, and unknowability.Īrturo and Alma Rivera come from México in an attempt to heal their brain-injured daughter, Maribel. However, as Henríquez’s characters-almost all immigrants from South and Central America, who occupy the same bustling apartment complex-make their new lives in the United States, they each find that the myth of the American dream does not offer quite what they thought it would. The pursuit of the American dream offers, in theory, the chance not just to be safe and sheltered in the United States, but also to be seen, known, and accepted. ![]() ![]() ![]() The American Dream-the idea that in America everyone, regardless of race, creed, or class, can enjoy prosperity, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness-is a driving force in the lives of the characters in Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Frank quitely we3![]() ![]() It would be unfortunate, then, if they found their way to freedom. ![]() Anticipating the military mindset, Morrison has the armour incorporating immense firepower. The justification for the experiments is that these animals are a military project, financed to create killers able to access otherwise inaccessible areas. It’s visceral, brutal and shocking, as intended. Among other perceived advantages, this abhorrence enables them to communicate verbally in basic terms. We don’t need the science explicitly explained to be appalled at our opening sight of a dog, a cat and a rabbit encased in armour, electrodes and wiring protruding from their heads and jacked directly into their brains. What we have here is the horror of animal experimentation ramped up to extremes. This, though, is Morrison, so it’s no saccharine confection no matter how sympathetically Frank Quitely presents us with doe-eyed animals. Yet We3 is explicitly calculated to be his cinematic tearjerker. For all the excellent material Grant Morrison has written over the years, he could never have previously been considered to possess a streak of sentimentality applying to anything other than the comics he loved growing up. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments China rich girlfriend series![]() ![]() Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. ![]() But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. ![]() On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. "Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Nick bilton books![]() Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took drastic steps to protect himself-including ordering a hit on a former employee. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone-not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers-could buy and sell contraband detection-free. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything-drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons-free of the government’s watchful eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spending needs to align with realistic growth forecasts, and growth from existing customers driven by customer retention, cross-sell, and upsell takes on greater significance. However, the 100 companies we analyzed had a median last 12 months (LTM) free cash flow of just 10 percent of revenue. ![]() In fact, of 100 public SaaS companies in the United States with revenues above $100 million that we analyzed in May 2021, the median revenue growth rate was just 22 percent.Īs businesses near the top of their initial S-curve, revenue growth tends to slow and free cash flow becomes more important. Despite the sector’s image as a bastion of hypergrowth, only a small share of SaaS companies sustains growth rates above 30 to 40 percent. That’s especially true for software as a service (SaaS). ![]() The purest test of a management team and its operational discipline is arguably how well it can maintain strong shareholder returns as the business matures. ![]() |