Will she be able to mend the past hurts between she and her daughter Bethany, or will they part ways once and for all? Set in rural Arizona, where the only things pricklier than the cactus are the wit and drama.Reviews: Suthern Hicks’ tale about two elderly friends has that kind of cozy, down-home feel that makes you want to grab a cold glass of lemonade, your favorite backyard chair and set a spell with Nellie and Iris behind their Arizona desert trailer. Nellie’s sister-in-law, Iris, has no home and must rely on the kindness of others, but she has burned all of her bridges. Nellie wants nothing more than to live out her days in a house trailer in the desert, but her daughter Margie wants to sell the land while the offers are still hot. Only two things stand in the way of two cantankerous women maintaining peace and independence in their twilight years-their daughters.
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One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama–the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers–that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseĪndrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Then, they transform into a luxurious doormat. Dagny and Dominique are proud independent women until they meet a man. In their whole lives as adults, they have seen in others only emptiness, lack of ability, service to the doctrine of death, and destruction of beauty. A woman, born into a rich family, but has decided to win her own battles. Some of the similarities between Dagny and Dominique are obvious. She did not have a choice but to write the same book again but in a more simple and idiotic way. People resulted to be too stupid to be manipulated by a genius. And then… the world did not understand her. This book is her personal message to humanity and her biggest triumph over it. She managed to entangle everything good in the black web of spiritual death and to leave readers to wander hopelessly in the labyrinth of delusion. She has created a supreme masterpiece of manipulation. Ayn Rand has just finished “Тhe Fountainhead”. She now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that organized the 10-day trip, its second to the space station. Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is their chaperone. John Shoffner, a Knoxville, Tennessee, businessman who started a car racing team, is paying his own way. Saudi Arabia's government is picking up the multimillion-dollar tab for its first female astronaut, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, and fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni. The 270-mile-high docking puts the space station population at 11, representing not only Saudi Arabia and the U.S., but the United Arab Emirates and Russia. The four guests will spend just over a week there, before returning to Earth in their capsule. SpaceX's chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom's first female astronaut. |