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Marked by Sean Michael5/13/2023 ![]() After the death of a primary wage earner, nearly half (44%) of Americans say they would feel a financial burden within six months. ![]() They exist to provide stability after a tragedy, a disaster or an unimaginable loss.įorbes reports that nearly 70% of Americans with life insurance policies feel financially secure, while fewer than half of those without life insurance feel the same. People who hold life insurance plans understand how important they are. Today, those options are under direct threat from the very regulators who are supposed to stand with consumers to protect them from large, profitable companies who use their power to drive profits at the expense of consumers’ financial security.įor many families, life insurance is the one tool they can count on to provide financial security. Consumers who want reliable financial tools for themselves and their loved ones deserve as many affordable options as possible. ![]() Stagnant wages, rising health care costs, and lack of affordable housing put financial pressure on more Floridians every single day. Planning for the future is a lifelong endeavor - even under the best of circumstances. ![]()
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The great comic book heroes 19655/12/2023 ![]() American Comic Book Chronicles (TwoMorrows, published from 2012 to the present). Here are 13 of my favorite comics-history books, starting with the very best:ġ. To this day, the teacher still finds me an eager student. Well, as the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear and, at that time in my childhood (the early 1960s), books about the history of comics started appearing. ![]() When I was young (oh, so many years… sigh, decades… ago), I wanted to learn about comic book heroes of the past, those before my time. What did I do when I wasn’t reading comic books in my youth? I was reading about them! Given his talent for research, he’s an ideal choice to write this column - 13 FABULOUS BOOKS ON COMICS HISTORY. (Click here to buy it! It’s worth every penny.) ![]() Peter Bosch is one of our more recent contributors and I came to know him through his superb American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, published by TwoMorrows. The only thing better than comics is reading about them… ![]()
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The Devil Is a Marquess by Elisa Braden5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Reading romance novels came easily to Elisa Braden. ![]() ![]() And when he does, Charlotte begins to see him in a new light-not as the scandalous charmer she married, but as the husband she just might adore. When her father demands a startling price for his daughter's hand-one year of fidelity and sobriety-Chatham must change his libertine ways. Love grows in the most unexpected places. That shouldn't prove a problem, for he could not possibly want someone like her, and the feeling is mutual. provided she can resist his seductive charms. But she's a practical sort, and a year with the devil might buy her freedom. Charlotte wants her independence, not a husband, and certainly not a disreputable devil who renders her weak and wobbly with a single scorching glance. While she dreams of leaving England for a life of trade in America, her father schemes to trade her dowry for a title-and Marchioness of Rutherford will do nicely. Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin.Įnter Miss Charlotte Lancaster, unfashionably tall heiress to just such a fortune and a clumsy, redheaded disaster in her five London seasons. ![]() This devil's bargain will be sealed with sin.Ī walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. ![]()
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Last night in montreal emily mandel5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The videos have helped Paul, despite a lifelong drug problem, tap into his creative gifts. Paul, meanwhile, has set Vincent’s old videos to music. Finished with Jonathan and the affluent lifestyle and ignored by her best friend, Vincent takes a job as assistant cook on a container ship. When Jonathan’s Ponzi scheme collapses, he goes to prison, where his victims’ ghosts visit him. ![]() Vincent relocates to the East Coast and what Mandel calls the kingdom of money to play trophy wife for investor Jonathan Alkaitis. Paul leaves after writing on a window in acid marker a message even he doesn’t understand. ![]() Five years later, in the wilderness north of Vancouver, Vincent tends bar at a luxury hotel where Paul works as the night houseman. Vincent has just lost her mother and acquired her first video camera. In 1994, 18-year-old drug-using dropout Paul Smith visits his 13-year-old half-sister, Vincent, in Vancouver. Settings include British Columbia’s coastal wilderness, New York City’s fashionable neighborhoods and corporate headquarters, a container ship in international waters, and a South Carolina prison. Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt. ![]()
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The First World War by John Keegan5/12/2023 ![]() Is it from his father who served in the war? He is not clear on this issue. Where could he have gotten this experience? Nevertheless, he narrates the events and military strategies of the First World War in a manner that reflects a first-hand experience in the war. ![]() ![]() Indeed, he was born in 1934, which is much later after First World War. Hence, his book is not based on a first-hand experience on the first world events. In developing the above two themes, Keegan relied on secondary materials as evidenced in the footnotes of the book. Keegan is also committed to narrating different events that took place in the Second World War where he shows how the different pieces fit together. It is developed through narrations, analysis, and critical assessment of military conflicts in a fashion that is not anticipated of a person untrained in military operations. ![]() One of the major themes is the manner in which the war progressed out of the failure of diplomacy and communication resulting in the escalation of bilateral disputes into a global conflict. In The First World War, John Keegan explores various war-related themes. His major writings include Who Was Who in the World War II, Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, The Iraq War, and The First World War among others. ![]()
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Dangerous angels francesca lia block5/12/2023 ![]() He leaves town for a clinical study in New York, resolving to repair whatever is broken in his brain, while she gets into her battered Camry and drives up the coast after him, determined to make up for what shes done. And then Althea makes the worst bad decision ever, and her relationship with Oliver is shattered. ![]() Oliver, for his part, simply wants life to go back to normal, but when he wakes up one morning with no memory of the past three weeks, he cant deny any longer that something is seriously wrong with him. Now, as their junior year of high school comes to a close, Althea has begun to want something more than just best-friendship. What if you live for the moment when life goes off the railsand then one day theres no one left to help you get it back on track?Īlthea Carter and Oliver McKinley have been best friends since they were six shes the fist-fighting instigator to his peacemaker, the artist whose vision balances his scientific bent. ![]()
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Ali a life5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He fought his way back, winning hearts, but at great cost. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel-a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters." - Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review "As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography. Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Recommend to fans of Julie Klassen, Victoria Holt, and the Brontës. “Politano has a gift for combining historical romance with gothic elements and uses both diary entries and lines from some of the classics to propel the story forward. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares.Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London's East End when. Only one man stands between her and the danger that lurks within-and only if he decides to keep her biggest secret hidden. Raina's dreams are all about to come true. As she wrestles with her true identity, the ruin, decay, and secrets she finds at the heart of the old mansion tear at her confidence and threaten to reveal her for who she really is. Though Raina has traded squalor for silk and satin, something about the abbey is deeply unsettling. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares. ![]() ![]() Things she could only dream of might be coming true. Rothburne Abbey has a unique position for her, one that will take her away from her hardscrabble life and give her a chance to be a lady. Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London’s east end when a handsome stranger appears in a dank alley and offers her a glittering smile and a chance for adventure. ![]()
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Pining Over You by J.N. Welsh5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The passions between them have always blazed hot, but the question is, will they be brave enough to take a chance on love or will their dreams lead them on separate paths all over again?Ĭontent warnings: View Spoiler » accident with broken leg (on-page, MC’s father falls from tree) « Hide Spoiler ![]() Swept up in a blizzard of their old memories, the old flames start roaring immediately. After years of putting his ambitions first, seeing Sasha again reminds him that he’s neglected his heart. ![]() There was a time when he owned Sasha’s heart, and then he broke it. Rodney lives his life without regrets, but being back in town, he’s face-to-face with his only one-Sasha Merry. Rodney Chestnut is finally back home in Charlotte, Vermont after years of living the adventurous life he has always dreamed of. So when her most valuable employee gets hurt right before Christmas, she will do whatever it takes to prove to her father that she is up to the job, even if it means accepting help from the man who broke her heart. Sasha won’t let anything stand in the way of her plans. ![]() Running the family farm has always been her dream, and this year it’s her time to shine. Vermont nights might get a little cold, but Sasha Merry has her work to keep her warm. ![]()
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Jack is a superb sleuth and an entertaining explainer of the variety of ways one can torment or kill somebody (a jar of nutmeg can be terrifyingly deadly, it turns out), and Hobbs ensures he’s in a heap of trouble fast: Marcus is watching closely, and Jack is also in the cross hairs of an FBI agent and a rival criminal, the Wolf, who's guarded by Aryan Brotherhood thugs. ![]() The clock’s ticking: The bundle is a “federal payload” containing a packet of indelible ink set to explode in 48 hours. But his botch of a big-money bank heist in Kuala Lumpur five years ago means he owes a favor to one of those honchos, Marcus, who’s looking for a bag of cash that disappeared with a gunman when a casino robbery went sour. He’s a free agent with a full armory of skills that help him kill a man, cross borders, take on entirely new personalities and be smugly unimpressed with criminal overlords. ![]() Jack Delton, the hero of this novel-and, presumably, more to come-is a “ghostman," an expert at disappearing and helping others disappear. ![]() An ice-in-his-veins fixer trawls Atlantic City for a missing bundle of cash in this watertight debut thriller. ![]() |