Since the age of thirteen, Tommy Mendoza has taken boxing lessons at his father's boxing club, the Windy City Gym. Now eighteen-years-old and fresh out of high school, Tommy lands his dream job as a bouncer at the Phoenix, a posh nightclub in downtown Chicago. Tommy meets a unique assortment of people, including fellow bouncer Joe Castillo, the beautiful Iris Martinez, and his future roommate, Benita Valadez. He has his share of adventures and disturbances at the club and in his love life. When his father asks him to fill in for an injured fighter, Tommy jumps at the chance to get back in the boxing ring. But it is a near-tragic car accident that propels his life in a new direction. Following his brush with death, Tommy asks Iris to marry him. When their marriage ends in divorce after only a year, Tommy-heartbroken and searching for a fresh start-travels to Texas to work a construction job. He meets and falls in love with Jessica Gamez and the two marry six months later. Their life is full of difficulties, but a surprise gift enables them to find their happily ever after.

Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, a fiance, a life she deserved. Then Rosemary Hershey took her career, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving--killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal Sisterhood agree: Rosemary has to be punished.

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For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.

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"In Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even, Regina Barreca takes us on a romp through the landscape of contemporary culture as she explores the dynamics of revenge, illustrating how revenge is meted out for everything from a ruined relationship to a ruined tablecloth. With her trademark humor and intelligence, Barreca reminds us that we are sold revenge everyday in steady doses from advertising slogans like Clairol's Gorgeous Hair Is the Best Revenge to the stories of retribution that become box office hits such as Thelma & Louise, The Fugitive, and Fatal Attraction." "We deny it and we're ashamed of it, but revenge is - and always has been - one of the strongest unspoken emotions of the human experience and a motivating force in almost everyone's life. Barreca manages to find universal truths in the complexities of revenge as she entertains and charms us."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Debt, desire, and a dangerous deal with mafia devils. Mafia Boss I never thought I'd find myself indebted to the cruelest mafia don in Manhattan, but Cristian Ricci changes everything one fateful night when he proposes a way for my dues to be cleared. His offer: leave my fiance and marry him instead. Mafia Toy It all began with an offer too tempting to resist: one million dollars in exchange for a year of secrets, passion, and danger. The only problem? Jealous best friends, FBI break-ins, and falling in love were never part of the deal. Mafia Betrayal I should’ve known better than to trust an Italian mobster. When my father offers me an opportunity to oversee a shipment of illegal drugs, I’m forced to partner with Alessandro Russo, my worst enemy. The man who vows to watch me fall from my standing in the Capitelli Family. A monster who only wishes to see me on my knees for him.