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![]() ![]() The more he was admired, the more cynical he became. Our Villiers didn't have the best of profiles, but he seemed to have the sex appeal and fire to attract the Georgian ladies like months to a flame. In Desperate Duchesses, Villiers was portrayed an arrogant Duke with a dismissive and cynical outlook for the ton I couldn't help but admire. He was a man of contradictions who seemed to care much for his outward appearance a true rake who didn't think twice about having illegitimate children with his mistresses, and an egotistical chess player who thought he was the best and didn't have a problem saying so. He is one of the most interesting characters of this series and one I fell in love with from the first. This is the story that we have all been waiting for - we finally find out what happens to Leopold Dautry, the Duke of Villiers. A Duke of Her Own is the last installment in Eloisa James' Desperate Duchesses historical romance series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matthew and Maria Looney are a brother and sister who live on the Moon, part of an alien civilization of people who, as it turns out, are a lot like us Earthlings. Beatty served in the United States Army, achieving the rank of corporal, and is buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery.Īrguably, Beatty's most popular works are the Matthew and Maria Looney books, a science fiction series for children. ![]() He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines. (Decem– July 31, 2002) was a twentieth-century American author of children's literature. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. 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Investigate for the French government and various other clients and generally be Trained by Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, and his companion, the Persian, to From the well-spring of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, we have a similar beginning,Ī group of female operatives of different nationalities who are assembled and ![]() ![]() ![]() Janet and Stewart Farrar have authored eight books on witchcraft and have traveled globally giving workshops and seminars. This is an important work by the Farrars providing an indepth exploration of the Goddess in her many aspects at a time when Western culture is awakening to the influence of Feminine Divinity, both individually and collectively. ![]() Part III gives an alphabetical listing of more than 1000 goddesses including a brief history and the main correspondences of each. Part II covers ritual invocations of the Goddess in 13 guises: from Ishtar to Isis, from Hecate to Aphrodite, from Epona to Ma’at. Part I covers the myriad faces of the Goddess revealed, including: Her presence throughout history Her Earth and Moon symbolism Her Madonna and Magdalene disguises Her revelation within the psyche Her relationship with women Her influence today and much more. This book is of great practical value in discovering and celebrating the transforming energy of the Feminine Principle of Divinity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because even though I saw Manning first, that didn’t matter. That no matter how much you achieve, none of it matters if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. But I’d learn that life isn’t always fair. ![]() Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, through his struggle to keep me innocent, and through infinitely-starry nights-I would wait. I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. Yet we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn’t be broken.no matter how hard we tried. I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents’ house. Get Something in the Way FREE when you sign up for a 30-day trial with Audible (an Amazon company) ➜ Something in the Way is now available as an audiobook! Start the series called a "once in a lifetime" love and "a thousand stars." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In their struggle, the film piles bodies as high as a Rambo death count. With the war nearing its end and the specter of war crimes looming large, Bruno sees the gold as his ticket out of future punishment. That information, however, isn’t enough to deter the German company’s savage commander Bruno ( Aksel Hennie). Similar to Rambo, he also carries an unlikely resume: Korpi is a former special forces soldier so prolific in his murdering of Russians during the Winter War (he purportedly has killed 300 of them to avenge the murder of his wife and daughter) that they consider him an unbeatable ghost. The man of few words character that Tommila portrays is certainly cut from the same cloth as Clint Eastwood's The Man with No Name. It would be easy to watch writer/director Jalmari Helander’s viciously bloody flick for its exploitation cinema, spaghetti Western, and 1980s action roots, which owes its riches to Sergio Leone’s films and “Rambo: First Blood,” respectively. Despite his best efforts, the soldiers discover his loot, setting off a fight for the mined prize. The Nazis are hauling a kind of “treasure” (though these captives are not treated as such), a cadre of Finnish women. ![]() Determination is exactly what Korpi will need when, on his way home with his fortune of nuggets hanging on his horse’s saddlebag, he comes across a band of sullen Nazis. The word “sisu” is nearly untranslatable, but its closest meaning suggests an unbreakable determination, one that seems to even stave off death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.īorn on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995. Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. Naoki Urasawa’s career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets. 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Oates, however, has other plans, as he finds in Maggs a character from whom to draw much needed inspiration for a forthcoming novel which he desperately needs to produce. He eventually cuts a deal with the young and broke up-and-coming novelist Tobias Oates (a thinly disguised Charles Dickens) that he hopes will lead him to Phipps. Maggs becomes involved as a servant in the household of Phipps's neighbour, Percy Buckle, as he attempts to wait out Phipps or find him in the streets of London. The story centres around Jack Maggs (the equivalent of Magwitch) and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps (the equivalent of Pip), who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household. Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Australian novelist Peter Carey. ![]() |