Author: Gail Barrett
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373277679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
"You're stuck with me, princess." With her country on the brink of unrest, loyal Princess Paloma Vergara escapes the security of the palace walls to protect her family. To eliminate the threat of blackmail against her brother, the heir to the Vergara legacy, she must enlist the help of an ex-con with a very special set of skills. Dante Quevedo has his own dark agenda: avenge his sister's death. Teaming up with the royal beauty makes revenge all the easier to claim. Until they stumble upon a terrorist plot that leaves them with no one but each other to trust...
High-Stakes Affair
Author: Gail Barrett
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373277679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
"You're stuck with me, princess." With her country on the brink of unrest, loyal Princess Paloma Vergara escapes the security of the palace walls to protect her family. To eliminate the threat of blackmail against her brother, the heir to the Vergara legacy, she must enlist the help of an ex-con with a very special set of skills. Dante Quevedo has his own dark agenda: avenge his sister's death. Teaming up with the royal beauty makes revenge all the easier to claim. Until they stumble upon a terrorist plot that leaves them with no one but each other to trust...
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373277679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
"You're stuck with me, princess." With her country on the brink of unrest, loyal Princess Paloma Vergara escapes the security of the palace walls to protect her family. To eliminate the threat of blackmail against her brother, the heir to the Vergara legacy, she must enlist the help of an ex-con with a very special set of skills. Dante Quevedo has his own dark agenda: avenge his sister's death. Teaming up with the royal beauty makes revenge all the easier to claim. Until they stumble upon a terrorist plot that leaves them with no one but each other to trust...
High-Stakes Schooling
Author: Christopher Bjork
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630941X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, Christopher Bjork sheds light on the best path forward for US schools. He asks a variety of questions related to testing and reform, and each draws direct parallels to issues that the schools currently face.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630941X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, Christopher Bjork sheds light on the best path forward for US schools. He asks a variety of questions related to testing and reform, and each draws direct parallels to issues that the schools currently face.
High Stakes
Author: Timothy Jon Curry
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209637
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Unlike so many other cities around the country, Columbus citizens gave a firm "no" to the proposal that public money be used to build an arena to attract an expansion professional hockey team and a soccer stadium to keep a professional franchise. Yet, both structures are now a permanent part of Columbuss landscape. High Stakes is the inside story of how a coalition of the city's movers and shakers successfully did an end-run around the electorate to build these sports complexes. As it turned out, everybody appears to have won: taxpayers were relieved of any funding obligation, the coalition got the new facilities, and the new arena jumpstarted downtown redevelopment. Now, the Columbus case is being touted as the model of how to use professional sports to improve a city's downtown with minimal taxpayer expense. [Publisher web site].
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209637
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Unlike so many other cities around the country, Columbus citizens gave a firm "no" to the proposal that public money be used to build an arena to attract an expansion professional hockey team and a soccer stadium to keep a professional franchise. Yet, both structures are now a permanent part of Columbuss landscape. High Stakes is the inside story of how a coalition of the city's movers and shakers successfully did an end-run around the electorate to build these sports complexes. As it turned out, everybody appears to have won: taxpayers were relieved of any funding obligation, the coalition got the new facilities, and the new arena jumpstarted downtown redevelopment. Now, the Columbus case is being touted as the model of how to use professional sports to improve a city's downtown with minimal taxpayer expense. [Publisher web site].
The Verdun Affair
Author: Nick Dybek
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501191772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Across a continent still reeling from World War I, a “ravishingly beautiful” (Paula McClain) story about a love affair between two Americans and the lie that changes everything. France, 1921—Tom, a young American orphaned in World War I, is helping comfort the grieving families who travel through Verdun, seeking answers about their loved ones. But nothing in his past—not his rough Chicago childhood nor his experiences driving ambulances across French battlefields—can prepare Tom for the arrival of Sarah Hagen. From the moment he meets her, a disarmingly magnetic woman looking for news of her missing husband, he knows he will help her in any way he can—even if that means crossing an unforgivable line. As their affair takes them across a fractured Europe careening toward World War 2, Tom and Sarah learn how love can be both a cure for—and a distraction from—the realities of a world turned upside down. But they can only hide from the truth for so long. When news of an amnesiac soldier in Bologna reaches Tom in Paris, he sets off as a journalist to uncover the story, only to find Sarah at the soldier’s bedside, hopeful as ever. Both are surprised to encounter an Austrian journalist named Paul with his own interest in the amnesiac. As they confront the past, Tom’s actions come back to haunt him, and each is forced to make a choice that will change their lives forever. A deeply transporting novel about love and identity, truth and consequences, The Verdun Affair is a page-turning and vividly imagined “literary romance… [that] unravels a love triangle and its players’ secrets” (Los Angeles Times).
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501191772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Across a continent still reeling from World War I, a “ravishingly beautiful” (Paula McClain) story about a love affair between two Americans and the lie that changes everything. France, 1921—Tom, a young American orphaned in World War I, is helping comfort the grieving families who travel through Verdun, seeking answers about their loved ones. But nothing in his past—not his rough Chicago childhood nor his experiences driving ambulances across French battlefields—can prepare Tom for the arrival of Sarah Hagen. From the moment he meets her, a disarmingly magnetic woman looking for news of her missing husband, he knows he will help her in any way he can—even if that means crossing an unforgivable line. As their affair takes them across a fractured Europe careening toward World War 2, Tom and Sarah learn how love can be both a cure for—and a distraction from—the realities of a world turned upside down. But they can only hide from the truth for so long. When news of an amnesiac soldier in Bologna reaches Tom in Paris, he sets off as a journalist to uncover the story, only to find Sarah at the soldier’s bedside, hopeful as ever. Both are surprised to encounter an Austrian journalist named Paul with his own interest in the amnesiac. As they confront the past, Tom’s actions come back to haunt him, and each is forced to make a choice that will change their lives forever. A deeply transporting novel about love and identity, truth and consequences, The Verdun Affair is a page-turning and vividly imagined “literary romance… [that] unravels a love triangle and its players’ secrets” (Los Angeles Times).
The Modigliani Scandal
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize—for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind the elegance and glamour of the art world, anything goes—theft, forgery, betrayal, and maybe even murder. . . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize—for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind the elegance and glamour of the art world, anything goes—theft, forgery, betrayal, and maybe even murder. . . .
Federal Government's Relationship with American Indians
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Special Committee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Affair
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440339359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440339359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
High Stakes
Author: Marilynn Harper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Tucked away in picturesque upper Ozarks, Evan finds himself between a rock and a hard place during his annual family vacation. The moment his eyes locked with Brooke's, a life long friend of his mother's, there was no denying the intoxicating heat growing between them. With his hormones raging and her being newly widowed, keeping away from their desires becomes a delicate balance between what is appropriate and what is far beyond their self-restraint.If you've been looking for an erotic quick read that will leave you melting in your seat, High Stakes will absolutely take you there. We've all fantasized about being with someone older, so do yourself a favor and dive into this captivating tale that will leave you begging for more. Not only will it make your loins clench, but it will absolutely require you to seek out some much needed alone time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Tucked away in picturesque upper Ozarks, Evan finds himself between a rock and a hard place during his annual family vacation. The moment his eyes locked with Brooke's, a life long friend of his mother's, there was no denying the intoxicating heat growing between them. With his hormones raging and her being newly widowed, keeping away from their desires becomes a delicate balance between what is appropriate and what is far beyond their self-restraint.If you've been looking for an erotic quick read that will leave you melting in your seat, High Stakes will absolutely take you there. We've all fantasized about being with someone older, so do yourself a favor and dive into this captivating tale that will leave you begging for more. Not only will it make your loins clench, but it will absolutely require you to seek out some much needed alone time.
Red Ink
Author: David Wessel
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0770436145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Presents a narrative analysis of the federal budget that reveals how funds were actually spent in 2011, evaluating the roles of such contributors as Jacob Lew, Douglas Elmendorf, and Pete Peterson.
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0770436145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Presents a narrative analysis of the federal budget that reveals how funds were actually spent in 2011, evaluating the roles of such contributors as Jacob Lew, Douglas Elmendorf, and Pete Peterson.
Federal Government's Relationship with American Indians: February 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Special Committee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description