Author: Pete Liebengood
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514489635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An overly ambitious Sacramento, California, TV news reporter agrees to an arrangement of trading sex with that citys police chief in exchange for scoops on major crime stories. For months on end, Kimberly Vuis first to report live from the scene of every major crime in the city, leaving everyone, including her colleagues, to speculate about the source of her news tips. Her rendezvous with Chief Nick Fanning tragically result in the murder of the chiefs wife. The chief is jailed as the murder suspect, but Kimberly believes he was set up and says so in a dramatic on-camera meltdown as she reports his booking at the county jail on live TV. The consequences of her seemingly outrageous claim results in a six-month suspension from her job, during which her own investigation exonerates the chief from the crime. During that process, however, she discovers the chief is a (turn-the-other-way-for-cash) conspirator in a human trafficking ring. Kimberlys subsequent misadventures come in waves as her life is placed in constant danger.
Rendez-Vu
Author: Pete Liebengood
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514489635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An overly ambitious Sacramento, California, TV news reporter agrees to an arrangement of trading sex with that citys police chief in exchange for scoops on major crime stories. For months on end, Kimberly Vuis first to report live from the scene of every major crime in the city, leaving everyone, including her colleagues, to speculate about the source of her news tips. Her rendezvous with Chief Nick Fanning tragically result in the murder of the chiefs wife. The chief is jailed as the murder suspect, but Kimberly believes he was set up and says so in a dramatic on-camera meltdown as she reports his booking at the county jail on live TV. The consequences of her seemingly outrageous claim results in a six-month suspension from her job, during which her own investigation exonerates the chief from the crime. During that process, however, she discovers the chief is a (turn-the-other-way-for-cash) conspirator in a human trafficking ring. Kimberlys subsequent misadventures come in waves as her life is placed in constant danger.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514489635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An overly ambitious Sacramento, California, TV news reporter agrees to an arrangement of trading sex with that citys police chief in exchange for scoops on major crime stories. For months on end, Kimberly Vuis first to report live from the scene of every major crime in the city, leaving everyone, including her colleagues, to speculate about the source of her news tips. Her rendezvous with Chief Nick Fanning tragically result in the murder of the chiefs wife. The chief is jailed as the murder suspect, but Kimberly believes he was set up and says so in a dramatic on-camera meltdown as she reports his booking at the county jail on live TV. The consequences of her seemingly outrageous claim results in a six-month suspension from her job, during which her own investigation exonerates the chief from the crime. During that process, however, she discovers the chief is a (turn-the-other-way-for-cash) conspirator in a human trafficking ring. Kimberlys subsequent misadventures come in waves as her life is placed in constant danger.
Rendez-Vous
Author: Wim Pauwels
Publisher: Beta-Plus
ISBN: 9782875500373
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rendez-Vous presents sojourns into the living and working spaces of celebrated artists and creatives.
Publisher: Beta-Plus
ISBN: 9782875500373
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rendez-Vous presents sojourns into the living and working spaces of celebrated artists and creatives.
Heechee Rendezvous
Author: Frederik Pohl
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Rendez-vous with Art
Author: Philippe de Montebello
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500772258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with an acclaimed critic Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper—all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago—this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking. De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography—"akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God"—but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the "worst possible places to look at art." But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500772258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with an acclaimed critic Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper—all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago—this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking. De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography—"akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God"—but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the "worst possible places to look at art." But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history.
Rendezvous with Death
Author: David Hanna
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621575446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621575446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Rendezvous with Destiny
Author: Michael Fullilove
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.
Rendezvous in Paris
Author: Christian Briend
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN: 2821601336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Featuring a broad selection of paintings, sculptures and photographs coming mainly from the Centre Pompidou collections, Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition catalogue “Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co.” focuses on this highly distinctive period in French art when young painters, sculptors and photographers flocked to early-20th-century Paris from all over the world to make a decisive contribution to the city’s art scene. Most notably from Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and even Japan, these formally inventive artists – Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Tsuguharu Foujita, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso among them – who would later become known as the “School of Paris”, rivalled the greatest French artists of the time.
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN: 2821601336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Featuring a broad selection of paintings, sculptures and photographs coming mainly from the Centre Pompidou collections, Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition catalogue “Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co.” focuses on this highly distinctive period in French art when young painters, sculptors and photographers flocked to early-20th-century Paris from all over the world to make a decisive contribution to the city’s art scene. Most notably from Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and even Japan, these formally inventive artists – Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Tsuguharu Foujita, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso among them – who would later become known as the “School of Paris”, rivalled the greatest French artists of the time.
The Rendezvous
Author: Justine Levy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684846322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Raised by parents who came of age in the sixties and went on to achieve worldwide fame, Louise has survived their celebrity, their turbulent marriage, and the divorce that left her in the care of her devoted father and on the periphery of her mother's chaotic life. Now eighteen, Louise waits for her long-absent mother in a cafe. Carefully balancing anticipation with the fear that her mother will once again disappoint her, she digs deep into a store of memories. Her recollections of childhood incidents bring her face to face with the reasons behind her mother's self-destructive behavior and clarify her own complicated feelings for a deeply flawed parent.Writing with wry humor and sometimes savage irony, Levy captures the essence of a love at once profoundly troubled and indestructible. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684846322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Raised by parents who came of age in the sixties and went on to achieve worldwide fame, Louise has survived their celebrity, their turbulent marriage, and the divorce that left her in the care of her devoted father and on the periphery of her mother's chaotic life. Now eighteen, Louise waits for her long-absent mother in a cafe. Carefully balancing anticipation with the fear that her mother will once again disappoint her, she digs deep into a store of memories. Her recollections of childhood incidents bring her face to face with the reasons behind her mother's self-destructive behavior and clarify her own complicated feelings for a deeply flawed parent.Writing with wry humor and sometimes savage irony, Levy captures the essence of a love at once profoundly troubled and indestructible. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Rendezvous with Oblivion
Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250293669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Tack and Richardson show you how to start with a batch of plain cupcakes, and turn them into fun creations such as robots, farm- or zoo-animals, and even a cookie village! --Adapted from back cover.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250293669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Tack and Richardson show you how to start with a batch of plain cupcakes, and turn them into fun creations such as robots, farm- or zoo-animals, and even a cookie village! --Adapted from back cover.
Rendezvous in Black
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613471500
Category : Fine books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cornell Woolrich was a master of noir and suspense.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613471500
Category : Fine books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cornell Woolrich was a master of noir and suspense.