![]() ![]() It includes explicit content and profanity. King of Wrath is a steamy arranged-marriage billionaire romance. ![]() Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. There’s only one problem: Now that he has her.he can't bring himself to let her go. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. ![]() Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry-until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. She's the wife he never wanted.and the weakness he never saw coming.ĭante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Gomez family that live in Mexico was awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest hairy family.įour family members have around 98% of their bodies covered in hair and were awarded the record on February 1, 2000. Some people are hairier than others, but there is one family that tops them all. A family in Mexico has 98% of their bodies covered in hair. Here are 21 weird and wonderful world records that you didn’t know existed. Guinness World Records was the first and only of its kind to measure and document incredible and dare devilish acts of humankind. It was first published in 1955, following a dispute over the fastest game bird for shooting. Guinness World Records is the globally recognized official awarding body of any world record attempt. World record attempts are associated with extreme, weird and wonderful acts of both humans and the natural world. ![]() ![]() ![]() What he discovers is a cramped thirty-foot flat-bottomed boat, the Dulcibella. After some dithering, he decides to go.Ĭarruthers has done some sailing previously and arrives expecting a pleasure cruise on a crewed yacht and so has naturally brought along proper yachting clothes. He is unsure where to go for his own holiday when he unexpectedly receives a letter from a former university acquaintance, Davies, who invites him to go sailing around the Baltic. ![]() He’s been stuck all summer in London whilst his friends have gone off to the country on their holidays and is feeling somewhat left out. It opens during the first week of September, presumably a year or two before 1903, with Carruthers working for the Foreign Office. "Germany's a thundering great nation.I wonder if we shall ever fight her."Įrskine Childers’s novel was first published in 1903 and was set against the Anglo-German Great Naval Race, it has been widely regarded as the first modern spy story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tan won top honours with his off-beat book Rules of Summer. The latter two had Honour Books, King Pig and Silver Buttons, respectively. The Picture Book of the Year category highlights yet more well-known names: Shaun Tan, Nick Bland and Bob Graham. The dialogue with all its rough edges and vivid descriptions of the setting – from grand old houses, to putrid drainpipes running out to boggy riverbanks – creates a believable world full of risk and drama. It’s an action-packed, atmospheric read with feisty characters – especially 10-year-old Birdie, a bogle hunter’s apprentice whose beautiful singing voice lures the monsters from their hiding places so the bogler can kill them. A Very Unusual Pursuit is the first in the City of Orphans, a series set in the dark, monster-inhabited corners of Victorian London. The Younger Readers category was taken out by a more familiar name, Catherine Jinks, now a four-time CBCA award winner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since its inception, the company has steadily grown its portfolio - consistently delivering exceptional experiences to its partners and clients.Features of OLAX MF980U Super 4G LTE Advanced Mobile WiFi Router Hotspot Cat4 SuperFast 150Mbps speed for Multi-Terminal and mobile Connections. (OLAX Company at the time of incorporation) was formed in 2005 by Alexey Chicheneuve and started business with a purchase of several apartments in Mid-levels district, an area of good address on Hong Kong Island. Скорость передачи данных – до 150 Мбит/сек.CSC Physical Therapy is a 5-star rated Physical Therapist on Bark, serving Lehi and surrounding areas.Compra online de manera segura con Compra Protegida © Bateria Pila Olax 4g 4g Lte Hotspot Wifi Portatil RouterJan 22, 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Widows and Children First!” premiered that fall. By the time his second installment, “Fugue in a Nursey”, followed in the winter of 1979, it was part of a stated trilogy. The “trilogy” began as a single one-act play, “The International Stud”, written by and starring a 23-year old Harvey Fierstein in the basement of the East Village’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1978. ![]() I later had the chance to see an excellent production at Washington, D.C.’s Studio Theatre in 2013, starring a then-unknown Brandon Uranowitz, and kept wondering when the play would come back to New York. ![]() My young, gay eyes were transfixed, and there was no turning back. I had seen the Hollywood glitzed “The Birdcage” and “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar”, but the game changer was the 1988 film adaptation of Harvey Fierstein’s masterpiece, landmark play, the intimate “Torch Song Trilogy”. As a closeted-tween, happening upon that marathon coupled the excitement of finding King Tut’s Tomb with the revelation of peering through the looking glass to discover a world in which people like me existed. That was before the network made the jump to low-rent reality programming and still harbored an outsider focus on performing arts, drama, and independent film. One summer in the late 1990s, I stumbled across a late-night marathon of gay movies on Bravo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandman" song out of your head* Our beloved Sandman is Eron and one of the humans he is assigned to seduce to sleep is Julia-a girl who is considered an outcast by her schoolmates and suppresses her emotions by jokes and sarcasm. Instead of vampires and werewolves, Cyn Balog creates a world around those who bring sleep to humans-also known as the Sandman! * waits for you to get the "Mr. The premise of this book is certainly unique and made me excited to get started as soon as I got home from PAYA. Upon reading the description of this book and hearing excellent things about it, I decided to shell out the money and dabble in a little bit of paranormal romance. I like those things in moderation but I get a little bored when everything seems like I'm rereading Twilight over and over again. Reading YA is a new thing for me this year and I've been turning my nose up to most paranormal books because I thought they would all be overdone with vampires and werewolves. ![]() I will come right out and confess that I am not well-read when it comes to the paranormal romance genre. Why I read it: I heard good things about it! How I Got It: I bought it at PAYA and got it signed! ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. How far will she go to bury the Hello Kitty stereotype forever? Fiona's journey of self-discovery is biting and clever as she embraces her true nature and creates her own version of the American Dream, eliminating-without fear or remorse-anyone who stands in her way. But Fiona's father throws her new life into disarray when he dupes her into an overnight trip that results in a hasty engagement to Don Koo, the spoiled son of a wealthy chef.ĭetermined to thwart her parents' plans to marry her off into Asian suburbia, Fiona seeks her freedom at any price. ![]() Sean introduces her to a dark world of excitement, danger, cunning, and cruelty, pushing her to the limits of her own morality. In the process, she makes a surprising discovery that reunites her with a long-lost friend, Sean Killroy. ![]() To escape the burden of carrying her family's honor, Fiona decides to take her own virginity. ![]() Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an American girl. On the outside, twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kitty-an educated, well-mannered Asian American woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() If envy is the problem, the answer is Christ’s sufficiency for your life. To effectively defeat his lies, we need a good working knowledge of God’s Word so that we can fight deception with truth, whatever the situation might be.įor instance, if you struggle with fear and anxiety, cling to verses that affirm God’s trustworthiness and care. However, we can’t simply wave our Bible in the air, hoping to scare the devil away. And Jesus showed us how: Every time Satan threw a temptation at Him, He answered it with an appropriate Scripture (Matt. Therefore, he seeks to twist our thoughts in order to gain a foothold and wreak havoc in all areas.Īny thought that is contrary to God’s Word needs to be taken “captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). ![]() His goal is to influence our thoughts because how we think determines our attitudes, emotions, desires, and actions. As the Father of Lies, he knows that deception is an effective tactic. The battlefield is our mind, not our circumstances. If he can get a church to believe erroneous doctrines, unbiblical philosophies, and false assumptions about God, he can lead it away from the truth and into error.Īnd the Enemy uses this same tactic on individual Christians as well. Charles Stanley (September-11-2019) Daily Devotion: The Battle of the Mind.ĭo you understand how Satan works to bring down believers? Although we may think of his attacks as external, the real battleground is in the realm of ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bradbury had an enjoyable childhood where he spent much of his time with family, going to the local library, and reading. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. Ray Bradbury Fiction Novel Adult Plot Summary Dandelion Wine (1957) is a coming-of-age novel by Ray Bradbury, best known as one of the fathers of speculative fiction. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. ![]() Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. The Green Town book series by Ray Bradbury includes books Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Farewell Summer, and several more. ![]() ![]() Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. ![]() |