Drawing on her deep knowledge and love of French art, she includes reproductions of some of her favorite paintings and sculptures through the centuries. She considers the widespread French collaboration with the Germans during WWII-and finds echoes in how the French have treated immigrant Algerians and now the substantial ghettoized Muslim minority, as well as the country's persistent anti-Semitism. from Latvia, and toward her seductive adopted country. In this extended meditation, she gracefully weaves together her eclectic feelings of love and fury toward her father, a Jew who immigrated to the U.S. ) left New York for Paris with her husband, a painter, in 2000. Spurred, in part, by her father's unrealized dreams, art historian Lipton ( Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
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Except maybe a feisty brunette he's starting to fall for. He's going to the NFL next year and nothing is going to stop that dream from coming to fruition. Jake Connelly is Harvard's team captain and Briar is one of their biggest rivals. Brenna and Jake were everything!!īrenna Jensen is the coach of Briar U's hockey team's daughter. As much as I loved The Chase, I loved The Risk even more. She's one of my favorite NA/sports romance authors out there because she writes books like this. That’s the one risk I’m not willing to take.Įlle Kennedy has done it again. But while it’s getting harder and harder to resist Jake’s oozing sex appeal and cocky grin, I refuse to fall for him. My father would kill me, my friends will revolt, and my post-college career is on the line. Nothing good can come from sneaking around with Jake Connelly. Which means this bad girl is in big trouble. But fate is cruel-I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me. Harvard’s star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. As the daughter of Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team.Īnd that’s who Jake Connelly is. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. They’re only partly right-I don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think. THE RISK takes you back to the world of hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes.Įveryone says I’m a bad girl. “After reading Gandhi books, many people have decided to follow the path of truth and non-violence and are striving to sustain morality by practising peaceful conflict resolution. 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Raised in Florence's famous Ospedale degli Innocenti, her probing questions and insubordinate behavior made her an unwelcome presence, and at the age of fifteen, she was given an awful choice: become a nun, or be married off to a man she didn't love. In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man. He describes his stunning transformation from a naive, middle-class teenager from southern California to a hardened killer during his tour in Vietnam. invasion of Cambodia, one of the most impressive demonstrations by the Cobra in the war. Randy Zahn arrived in Vietnam shortly before the 1970 U.S. It dramatically changed the nature of the war in Vietnam by offering the Army, for the first time, its own powerful and highly accurate weapons platform for close-air-support missions. 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Often this truth comes in the form of an explanation for a natural phenomenon or a moral lesson to be learned. The majority of Greek myths have both a story to tell and a universal truth to reveal. Ovid’s poem contains over 250 tales, all of which are linked by the concept of metamorphosis-the changing of shape or form. Greek and Roman writers often incorporated myth into their work as its legendary status was associated with sophistication and a learned mind. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem heavily inspired by the stories of Greek mythology. Metamorphoses – Pentheus and Acoetes Fresco depicting Pentheus and the Bacchants, from Pompeii, 1st century CE, via National Archaeological Museum of Naples If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. However you will be responsible for the cost of returning the goods to us. 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