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All is fair in love and war, right? JESS HAUGEN has a big secret. And no, it’s not just her X-rated website for curvy and obese women, nor her dysfunctional family growing up. It’s that she envies her best friend, Isabella Harper’s perfect life. On top of that, she’s been secretly crushing on Isabella’s ex-boyfriend, KEATS McALLISTER since primary school. When Jess becomes Isabella’s maid of honour, it’s her chance to finally spend some time to get to know the reluctant best man, Keats. But he has other plans for the wedding—to break up the happy couple and get Isabella back. And he wants Jess’ help. After all, the frenemy of his frenemy seems like the perfect ally. Now it’s up to Jess to save her frenemy’s wedding by keeping an eye on Keats. It’s a tough job but then again, she’s had her eye on him for years.
You’re only a success at a high school reunion if you achieve something no one thought you could. For chubby, straight-A student ISABELLA HARPER, that means a boyfriend and a killer body. Rejected and laughed at in high school by her ultimate crush for being a member of ‘The Fat Chicks’ Club’, the new and improved Isabella has recently returned to Brisbane, Australia after working in London for five years. She’s determined to attend her ten-year class reunion now that she’s a successful lawyer, fifteen kilos lighter, and engaged to a super-hot British investment banker. After all, the best revenge is living well. But within a few weeks of coming home, Isabella’s perfect life starts to crumble. With the reluctant help of her childhood friend, Byron McAllister, she sets her sights on a new date for the reunion—his brother, Keats. Will she have her perfect life back in time for the reunion? Or will living in the past cost her happiness in the future?
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. The son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power. Narrowly escaping personal disaster—the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron—he picks his w...
Described by Padraig Pearse as the “greatest of the Fenians”, John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1...
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Bette, Jay, and their friends--other smart, talented, angry, punk musicians, artists, and high-school misfits--tangle with the Wolf House as they join with and sometimes fight against the toughest vampire hunters in town.
Critical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understand critical theory today, we must first understand its origins, its development, and its consequences. To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse by Carl R. Trueman is an accessible introduction to the history and development of critical theory. From Hegel and Marx, to Korsch and Lukács, to the Frankfurt School, to Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse—Trueman focuses on the key figures of critical theory, positioning them within their historical context and tracing the development of critical theory through its various movements, evolutions, nuances, and consequences.