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Who Wants to be a Billionaire? is the story of James Packer's desperate battle to win his father's love and respect. It is also a tale of billion-dollar bets gone disastrously wrong. But above all it is a portrait of a troubled relationship between a dominant father and dutiful son. In this powerful sequel to his bestselling The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer, Paul Barry shows how James's father kept his grip on the empire even as he lay close to death. And he reveals what drives his heir. As a child James was derided by Kerry as too soft, too close to his mother, or simply 'a loser'. Since then he has struggled to make his father proud - in the only way the Packers know - by making money. Ha...
In this fine short-story collection, 29 Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges of adolescence from the unique perspectives of teens in the Philippines or in the U.S. Organized into five sections--Family, Angst, Friendship, Love, and Home--all the stories are about growing up and what the introduction calls "growing into Filipino-ness, growing with Filipinos, and growing in or growing away from the Philippines."... The stories are delightful (Booklist)
In this third book in a series to help ESL learners, I concentrate on the type of homonyms that are multiple-meaning words like "bat." There are thousands of them, but I chose the most interesting ones. I included the pronunciation in what I hope is an easy way to understand. This book is for people who already know some English and want to improve, as well as for people who just love the English language.
Seattle student nurse Jackie Forrest knows she doesn�t have much experience with the opposite sex. So she�s not sure how to respond when the sophisticated new man in her life claims he just wants to be friends. Against her better judgment she soon finds herself falling for her new friend, a man she knows is way out of her league. Sam Maxwell, a former nightclub owner, has plenty of experience, especially with women. The last thing he wants is another one. He�s so busy reinventing himself after taking over the family business he doesn�t realize he�s lonely until he meets Jackie. She�s not his type, but in the grounded young nurse he discovers admirable courage and stability that bring him to terms with the ghosts of his past. What can inexperienced, hardworking Jackie offer Sam to make him turn his back on the glamour and excitement of his old lifestyle and learn to love again?
I never imagined I’d be a graceful bride. I stained my wedding dress the second I tried it on. Connor even accidentally saw it in my camera roll. And worst yet? Our parents would rather attend our wedding via Zoom than spend an entire evening rubbing elbows with their arch nemesis. Three years into our HEA and things just keep getting better, except for this one little nagging area of our life. I want our marriage to form a truce between the Dalys and Cabanas, but with us living so far away from Bayshore, all we’ve been able to accomplish is a resentful stalemate. But now that Connor and I are back in Bayshore for our extended wedding-and-beyond home-cation, our to-do list includes not j...
" Roxy Jacenko has been Sydney's publicity queen ever since she started Sweaty Betty PR at the age of 24, and her ambition, grit and drive have made her rich and famous. Working 24/7, Roxy micromanages and shares every moment of her Bentley-driving, Cartier-sporting, Birkin bag-toting life-and those of her children, Pixie and Hunter-on Instagram. Everything was going according to plan until her husband, Oliver Curtis, was charged with insider trading. Suddenly her perfect world and image were in crisis, along with her health following a breast cancer revelation. Blonde Ambition goes behind the insta-filters and rumour mills to uncover the real Roxy. It's the unspun story of Sydney's most controversial PR identity. "
"I didnt know I was living creatively until Marthas book. The different experiences we have taken without any guidance makes the topic and the content of this book so wonderful. One place to discover it all! Dianne Christopher
In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations, critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz, revealing what qualities make a person, an object, a setting, or an experience glamorous. What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desire—the feeling of “if only”? If only I could wear those clothes, belong to that group, drive that car, live in that house, be (or be with) that person? Postrel identifies the three essential elements in all forms of glamour and explains how they work to create a distinctive sensation of projection and yearning. The Power of Glamour is the very first book to explain what glamour really is—not just style or a...
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