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There is a saying: “Blood Is Thicker Than Water.” But at what point will this proverb become a lie? With the family business in sharp decline due to poor leadership from her mother and brother, Dr. Anastasia Machado, M.D., and her husband, Dr. Julio Machado, D.V.M., the moment has arrived for both to join forces to keep the family business from failing. But for them to do so will forever disprove the axiom. Splintering a family in the process. For Julio and Anastasia, taking that fateful step would ensue a drama will result in a husband and wife team igniting a bitter family feud. One that will pit a mother and her son against this physician and veterinarian. Yes, it is well known how power corrupts. Money even more so. However, pit a household where both money and power are at stake? The outcome creates a clan that will be forever be truly known by its signature name: The Unholy Family.
"Each story contains an overview of the baseball figure, including career-ending details, and many entries contain background information describing the historical significance of the individual and his or her place within the baseball community."--BOOK JACKET.
The House of Machado, led by Dr. Anastasia Machado, M.D., and her husband, Dr. Julio Machado, D.V.M., emerge victorious from the aftermath of a bitter family feud resulting with their taking over the family’s multinational corporation, Sharanski Enterprises. But they only succeed by merging with another multinational corporation, Sabah Incorporated, led by Princess Sheba Al-Sabah. These two fabulously wealthy households quickly unify with the marriage of Joseph “Joey” Machado to Countess Magdalene Al-Sabah. Upon their marriage, Joey and Magdalene discover they are players tasked to live out the lifelong ambition of their Al-Sabah family elders: win horseracing’s Triple Crown. At the same time, the matriarch of the Rearchek clan—Anastasia’s mother—remarries. Upon taking her marriage vows, she instantly becomes embroiled in a quest to fulfill her new husband’s lifelong ambition: see to it that one of their grandchildren becomes the first Italian-Catholic President of the United States. For these two clans, the quest to accomplish those ambitions via manipulation of their offspring will result in a saga that, for both families, cumulates as, The Run For the Roses.
This carefully curated collection of essays opens the vibrant field of Brazilian slavery and abolition studies to English-language readers.
This is the first team history of the New York Mets—or any other team—to be told through a lighthearted analysis of uniform numbers. Ordinary club histories proceed year by year to give the big picture. Mets by the Numbers uses jersey numbers to tell the little stories—the ones the fans love—of the team and its players. This newly revised edition is a catalog of the more than 700 Mets who have played since 1962, but it is far from just a list of No. 18s and 41s. Mets by the Numbers celebrates the team’s greatest players, critiques numbers that have failed to attract talent, and singles out particularly productive numbers, and numbers that had really big nights. With coverage of sup...
In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. The need to protect and enhance this fragile heritage via intelligent responses to threats from nature and the environment has become evident.Historically, vernacular heritage research focussed on philosophical aspe
Three full-length sports history and trivia books from Black Mesa Publishing and authors Joel Katte and Tucker Elliot: Green Bay Packers IQ, Milwaukee Brewers IQ and Major League Baseball IQ. More than 750 challenging questions, the most up-to-date trivia and the greatest stories in franchise history … Black Mesa’s IQ series will elicit a cheer from sports fans everywhere who claim allegiance to Cheesehead or Brew Crew fandom.