Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575956
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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A beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning author Nancy Werlin Inspired by the classic folk ballad “Scarborough Fair,” this is a wonderfully riveting novel of suspense, romance, and fantasy. Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family curse that requires her to complete three seemingly impossible tasks or risk falling into madness and passing the curse on to the next generation. Unlike her ancestors, though, Lucy has family, friends, and other modern resources to help her out. But will it be enough to conquer this age-old evil?
Author: Patrick Bet-David
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997622300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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What does Doing the Impossible really mean? This book is for those who have a desire to achieve greatness and are ready to take the steps to turn that desire into a reality. At one point or another in this book, you will experience several different reactions - excitement, curiosity, joy, laughter, or even tears - but the ultimate goal is to encourage and challenge you to make a decision to do the impossible. That may have a totally different meaning to you than it did to Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, or any of the other role models we will look at; but whatever Doing the Impossible means to you, the goal of this book is to help you realize that you have the capacity to do what the critics think is impossible. - Patrick Bet-David, Introduction to Doing the Impossible. Doing the Impossible is a roadmap for those who want to do something big with their lives. The book goes over 25 steps that the reader should take to re-create themselves, identify their cause, and make history. Patrick Bet-David shares his own impossible crusade and gives key principles for anyone looking to do the same.
Author: George Peper
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614286531
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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In this most recent addition to Assouline’s highly covetable and lauded Ultimate Collection, George Peper, former editor in chief of Golf magazine and 2016 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award winner for Journalism, takes readers on an incomparable golf journey as he travels the world detailing the 100 most significant, historically noteworthy, and architecturally paramount courses. Describing intricate holes that have confounded the game’s best, revisiting tournaments that have made and broken champions, and elucidating the unique and truly special characteristics of each course makes Peper the perfect golf partner as he walks readers through the clubhouses, fairways, and bunkers. From greens as old and hallowed as St Andrews to courses celebrating their first anniversary such as Nova Scotia’s Cabot Cliffs, from the island mountain course of China’s Shanqin Bay to the Hamptons’ Maidstone Club, Golf: The Impossible Collection is an unequivocal sensory treat for the golf fanatic, or the perfect feast to feed the wanderlust simmering in all of us.
Author: Joyce Smith
Publisher: FaithWords
ISBN: 1478976942
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The Impossible reveals prayer's immediate and powerful impact through the true account of a family whose son died and was miraculously resurrected. Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary-the death and resurrection of their son. When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on her son. She mustered all her faith and strength into one force and cried out to God in a loud voice to save him. Miraculously, her son's heart immediately started beating again. In the coming days, John would defy every expert, every case history, and every scientific prediction. Sixteen days after falling through the ice and being clinically dead for an hour, he walked out of the hospital under his own power, completely healed. The Impossible is about a profound truth: prayer really does work. God uses it to remind us that He is always with us, and when we combine it with unshakable faith, nothing is impossible.
Author: Paul Steinhardt
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 147672993X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter—one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal.” The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture—that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful—and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is “packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence...This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made” (Nature).
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307566528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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When a high-powered gallery owner collides with a wildly offbeat artist, it’s the perfect recipe for disaster. But in her 63rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel proves that when two hopelessly mismatched people share a love for art, a passion for each other, and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible…or is it? Everything Sasha does is within the boundaries of tradition. Liam is sockless in December. Sasha is widowed, a woman who knows she was lucky enough to be married to the most wonderful man in the world and thankful for every moment they had. Liam is half in and half out of a marriage that only a “wacky” artist could manage, and that his own impossibly impulsive behavior has helped tear apart. But while Sasha has been methodically building her father’s Parisian art gallery into an intercontinental success story, Liam has been growing into one of the most original and striking young painters of his time. So while the two are utterly unalike–and a nine-year age difference stares them squarely in the face–the miracle of art brings them crashing together. Now the question is, can Sasha guard her reputation while juggling a secret, somewhat scandalous relationship? And how can Liam, who lives for the moment, put up with a woman who insists on having things her own way, in her own style, and at her own time? For Sasha, it’s a matter of keeping Liam hidden from her grown children and well-heeled clientele as she commutes between New York and Paris and two thriving galleries. For Liam, it’s about creating chaos out of order, bringing out the wild streak that Sasha barely knows she has, of choosing pizza over foie gras, and making love when others are busy making money. That is, until a family tragedy suddenly alters Liam’s life–and forces a choice and a sacrifice that neither one of them could have expected. But from the snow falling on the Tuileries to the joy of eating ice cream by candlelight, the artist and the art dealer have tasted perfection. And giving up now might just be the most impossible thing of all. With unerring insight into the hearts of men and women– and into the soul of the artist –Danielle Steel takes us into a world of glamour and genius, priceless art and dazzling creativity. From the luxurious galleries of Europe to the endless beaches of the Hamptons, ImPossible weaves an extraordinary tale of love and compromise, of taking chances and counting blessings. With brilliant color and breathtaking emotion, Danielle Steel has written her most compelling novel to date.
Author: Alexander Sergeant
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438484607
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actually entails. What makes something a fantasy film, and what unique pleasures does the genre offer? In Encountering the Impossible, Alexander Sergeant solves the riddle of the fantasy film by theorizing the underlying experience of imagination alluded to in scholarly discussions of the genre. Drawing principally on the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, Sergeant considers the way in which fantasy cinema rejects Hollywood's typically naturalistic mode of address to generate an alternative experience that Sergeant refers to as the fantastic, a way of approaching cinema that embraces the illusory nature of the medium as part of the pleasure of the experience. Analyzing such canonical Hollywood fantasy films as The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Mary Poppins, Conan the Barbarian, and The Lord of the Rings movies, Sergeant theorizes how fantasy cinema provides a unique film experience throughout its ubiquitous presence in the history of Hollywood film production.
Author: Renee George
Publisher: Barkside of the Moon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Sometimes you can’t go home, and that would’ve been just fine by me. I’m Hazel Kinsey, a special agent for the FBI, and I’m also a witch. Seventeen years earlier, I packed up my belongings and my squirrel familiar Tizzy, and I left my paranormal hometown of Paradise Falls for good. Or so I thought. When my best friend from high school, Lily Mason, calls and asks me to investigate her brother’s murder, I can’t say no. She was there for me during the worst time of my life, and it’s my turn to return the favor, no matter the personal cost. Going home is harder than I imagined. My grumpy, hot high school crush, a bear shifter named Ford Baylor, has become a grumpy, hot police officer who’s not happy to see me. Unfortunately, I can’t stop thinking about him. All these years away, I imagined him married to his bear shifter sweetheart and living the white-picket-fence dream. But Ford is single, and he looks ready to strangle me. Apparently, I’m his mate. Who knew? On top of that, there’s a sinister force at work in Paradise Falls, and I have to solve the mysterious murders happening around town if I want to prevent my best friend from becoming the next victim.
Author: Clare James
Publisher: CJ Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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A #1 bestseller from Clare James about the fine line between love and hate. Tristan Green hates Aria Prince. And Aria loathes Tristan. But even after spending years apart, on opposite ends of the country, they pick up exactly where they left off when they return to their hometown. And between the bickering and childhood antics, it’s not long before the heat between them reaches a boiling point. Yet rather than wait to combust, or come to terms with what’s really hiding beneath all of the hate, the two agree to a temporary truce…if only to relieve some of their sexual tension. Two hours, once a week, no strings attached. Yes, each day they give themselves to those who need them. Every day—except for a few stolen hours on Wednesday. That’s when they take what they need from each other. But what sounds like the perfect arrangement, turns into so much more. The question is, are they ready for it? Impossible Truce is an emotional and intoxicating stand-alone romance from Clare James that will keep you turning the pages late into the night! This romance can be read as a stand-alone or as part of the bestselling Impossible Love Series: Impossible Love (One-Night-Stand Goes Wrong) Impossible Roommates (Friends-to-Lovers Romance) Impossible Face-Off (Standalone Bait and Switch, Hockey Romance) Impossible Truce (Standalone Enemies-to-Lovers, Second-Chance Romance) Impossible to Tame (Standalone Forbidden, Enemies-to-Lovers Romance) Impossible Second-Chance (Noah and Tabby’s Story, Part 2) __ Topics: enemies-to-lovers romance, new adult, college romance, forbidden romance, Clare James, alpha hero, bad boy, romcom, contemporary romance, romance series, suspense, steamy romance, beach reads, college, forbidden love, romantic comedy, romantic suspense, hot romance, hot, book boyfriend, girl next door, fake boyfriend, forbidden, standalone, standalone romance, pageturner, happy ever after, enemies-to-lovers, enemies, bad boy romance, alpha, hot sexy read, bestseller, bestselling series, hate to love.
Author: Julia Sykes
Publisher: Julia Sykes
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Three standalone romantic suspense novels in the USA Today Bestselling Impossible Series—Savior, Rogue, and Knight Savior With my life falling apart around me, I know I don't deserve a man like Clayton Vaughn. The impossibly sexy FBI agent promises he'll protect me from the violent Latin Kings, but good things like Clayton don't happen to damaged girls like me. Despite my reluctance, he insists on keeping me close. He grants me the sweet release I can only find in submission, and I am quickly becoming addicted to him. Can I learn to trust in his love and protection? Or will my life be claimed by the dangers that surround me? Rogue I can't afford to make mistakes. When you work for the FBI, mistakes can cost lives. Busting club Decadence for drug trafficking is my chance to prove myself. I'm not going to allow any arrogant, Dominant man to throw me off my game. Not even the notorious club owner, Derek Carter. He's the criminal I'm investigating, and I have to keep him close in order to uncover his secrets. But keeping him close to my body while guarding my heart is proving more difficult than I ever imagined. He might be my biggest mistake yet. Knight Abducted. Drugged. Broken. I am plaything, a possession. If I did ever have a name, I don't remember it now. Slaves don't have names. But then, my new Master rescued me and took me into his care. He protects me from the sadistic madman who is determined to steal me back from him. Master's touch keeps me sane. His control keeps me grounded in reality. I am utterly devoted to my savior, but his brand of rescue might leave me more broken than ever. Do I have a hope of finding freedom when he refuses to release my heart? Or is this new form of captivity exactly what I need to survive?
