The Engagement Plot
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The Engagement Plot
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Author : Krista Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-04-17
The Engagement Plot written by Krista Phillips and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-17 with Fiction categories.
"With the message that it is never too late to turn back to God, this faith-filled romance is absolutely impossible to put down. Phillips's entertaining, heartwarming, and compelling love story will satisfy admirers of Francine Rivers and Susan Anne Mason.― Library Journal Starred Review Six months ago, William stole Hanna's heart and shattered it in front of millions of people on a reality TV dating show. And now the big-wig CEO is back on Hanna's home turf in Minnesota and wants her to forgive him? Fat chance of that. But life is swirling around faster than snow in a blizzard, and despite her objections, teaming up with William seems like the only option to rescue her reputation. William has never regretted anything more than the day he gave that ill-fated interview for the reality show, The Price of Love. But while he can't change the past, he's determined to fix the future. He just needs to convince Hanna to forgive him-and pretend to be engaged with him. Simple, right? When the media erupts with even worse accusations, teaming up and pretending to be engaged seems to be the only way to salvage their reputations. Despite the media frenzy that swirls around them, an attraction neither of them can fight off begins to surface. Could this love run deeper than a scandal, or will old wounds tear them apart once and for all?
The Engagement
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Author : Sasha Issenberg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-06-01
The Engagement written by Sasha Issenberg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Political Science categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium "Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York Times On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.
The Engagement
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Author : Chloe Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-26
The Engagement written by Chloe Hooper and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Fiction categories.
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Child’s Book of True Crime, “a brilliant, seductive, and unnerving first novel of sexual betrayal” (O, The Oprah Magazine), comes a dazzling, intense, and erotic second novel set in an isolated mansion in the country. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the handsome, well-mannered heir of an Australian pastoral dynasty, at his country seat some hours from Melbourne. Liese is English. She’s come to Australia to work at her uncle’s real-estate business and pay off her debts. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies—and her financial problems. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks. Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander and realizes that a different game has begun. Chloe Hooper’s riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?
The Engagement
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Author : Gwen Davis
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2019-03-14
The Engagement written by Gwen Davis and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Fiction categories.
When Maggie begins life on her own, in her own perfect apartment, with her own job, and her very own boyfriend, she learns the hard way that the life one imagines one has is not necessarily the life one is living. Share with Maggie and her very sensible friend Kath the peace that comes from a bit of common sense and trusting in God’s plan. Open your heart to all the new people who come into their lives. Join Maggie, Liam, Mike, Cecilia, Matty, Emily, and even the Franklins as they search for love and happiness, sometimes for the wrong reasons and with the wrong people. Laugh and cry with them as they experience all the joy, sadness, and ordinary events that happen in their lives. And perhaps learn along with them that some things are better when they’re not quite so perfect!
The Engagement Project
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Author : Brenda Harlen
language : en
Publisher: Silhouette
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Engagement Project written by Brenda Harlen and has been published by Silhouette this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Megan Roarke had a secret crush on Gage Richmond—but what woman didn't? The gorgeous heir apparent to his family's pharmaceutical company was also a legendary playboy. So why had her boss selected his plain-Jane employee to be his temporary fiancée? It was only supposed to last six months—so Gage could win a coveted promotion. But once his sweet, shy employee accepted his offer—on the condition he accompany her to her high school reunion—everything changed. Falling for Megan was the easy part. Now if Gage could just convince her that they were ready for the next step—that fateful walk down the aisle…
The Engagement
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Author : Engagement
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Engagement written by Engagement and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with categories.
Thecla S Devotion
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Author : JD McLarty
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Thecla S Devotion written by JD McLarty and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Religion categories.
"Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation."
Computational Modeling Of Narrative
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Author : Inderjeet Mani
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Computational Modeling Of Narrative written by Inderjeet Mani and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with Computers categories.
The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recent years, the demands of interactive entertainment and interest in the creation of engaging narratives with life-like characters have provided a fresh impetus to this field. This book provides an overview of the principal problems, approaches, and challenges faced today in modeling the narrative structure of stories. The book introduces classical narratological concepts from literary theory and their mapping to computational approaches. It demonstrates how research in AI and NLP has modeled character goals, causality, and time using formalisms from planning, case-based reasoning, and temporal reasoning, and discusses fundamental limitations in such approaches. It proposes new representations for embedded narratives and fictional entities, for assessing the pace of a narrative, and offers an empirical theory of audience response. These notions are incorporated into an annotation scheme called NarrativeML. The book identifies key issues that need to be addressed, including annotation methods for long literary narratives, the representation of modality and habituality, and characterizing the goals of narrators. It also suggests a future characterized by advanced text mining of narrative structure from large-scale corpora and the development of a variety of useful authoring aids. This is the first book to provide a systematic foundation that integrates together narratology, AI, and computational linguistics. It can serve as a narratology primer for computer scientists and an elucidation of computational narratology for literary theorists. It is written in a highly accessible manner and is intended for use by a broad scientific audience that includes linguists (computational and formal semanticists), AI researchers, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, game developers, and narrative theorists. Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Narratological Background / Characters as Intentional Agents / Time / Plot / Summary and Future Directions
Cirp Novel Topics In Production Engineering Volume 1
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Author : Tullio Tolio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-02-01
Cirp Novel Topics In Production Engineering Volume 1 written by Tullio Tolio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This is the first volume in the CIRP Novel Topics in Production Engineering (CNTPE), a collection of essays addressing novel research areas in production engineering, published regularly in book volumes. Each essay provides a systematization and explanation of a technology, an approach, a process, etc., and covers a novel research area once it has been published in the scientific literature for few years. The essays provide focused and structured knowledge of a defined and limited subject in terms of detailed implementation, a systematic description of theoretical hypotheses and results, constructive and design characteristics for a product/process or experiment, and exemplary applications to real cases. These constitute the background knowledge for scientists/professionals to approach a novel scientific and technological area - addressing background concepts, relevant tools and methodologies, language, and theory.
The Engagement Game
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Author : Joi-Marie McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Center Street
Release Date : 2017-03-21
The Engagement Game written by Joi-Marie McKenzie and has been published by Center Street this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a supportive family, great friends, and an apartment in Manhattan. What she doesn't have is a husband. Ambitious, confident, and successful, Joi-Marie believes she has it all figured out. At 28 years old, she has an enviable job as a producer, covering entertainment in New York City. Her close-knit family is loving and encouraging, and her boyfriend, Adam, is as close to perfect as you can get -- except for the fact that he won't propose. Like most women, Joi-Marie has a checklist of what the perfect life looks like. She has the career, the friends, the apartment, and the lifestyle she has always wanted. But, when the husband she wants doesn't fall into place, she decides to play the game-theengagement game-in order to get Adam to drop down on one knee. After receiving a laundry list of advice on how to secure a proposal -- even researching how to cook "engagement chicken" -- Joi-Marie realizes that, in the process of trying to attain her perfect life, she has slowly become a person she doesn't recognize. With this discovery, she must make a decision: pretend to be someone she's not in order to have the life she envisioned. . .or have the courage to be herself and find her happily ever after in a way she never expected.