But when bad luck strikes, suddenly she is backed into a corner. She refuses to be tempted by Mike's offer, despite her big dreams of expanding the store. Spencer has no interest in outside investors meddling in her family business her grandfather never saw the need for them, and neither does she. Yet the firm's beautiful and savvy CEO turns down the offer before they even meet. And Brooke's feels like the perfect opportunity. With his marriage at a breaking point and his children grown up, investing is where he thrives-where he can build something greater. Mike Weston is known for making enormous profits by transforming small businesses into bigger, more successful ones. And with the ever-evolving landscape of the fashion industry comes new challenges for Spencer and the legacy she's inherited. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also now a divorced single mother of twin boys. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Danielle Steel comes a powerful novel about a woman running her family's luxury department store and the wealthy investor who threatens to take it over.
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Sunday Afternoon, November 12th, 2017 at AJU 2:30 – 3:45 pm Pre-speaker JGSLA Meeting Open Discussion of – Brick wall problems – Names of towns, shtetls and areas of member research – Other research questions 4:00 – 5:00 pm Speaker – A.J. Jacobs, author of four New York Times bestsellers It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family TreeĪ new book by A.J. Location American Jewish University, Burton Sperber Jewish Community Library Now in their thirties, the brothers struggle to make a new life, one that will lead them out of poverty. Topdog/Underdog tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, who, abandoned by first one parent and then the other, have had to depend upon each other for survival since they were teenagers. Regardless, Parks's fascination with history, especially personal history, and the ways in which illusion can reveal identity makes for riveting drama. Though the Foundling Father and Link hold the same job, any similarities between these two protagonists end there. Like Link in Topdog/Underdog, the Foundling Father applies whiteface, models several different types of fake beards, and sits in a chair awaiting visitors who pay to assassinate " Abraham Lincoln" with a cap gun. The idea that became Topdog/Underdog can be found in one of Parks's earlier plays, The America Play (1995), which features a gravedigger named the Foundling Father whose obsession with Abraham Lincoln leads him to find work in a sideshow. Like the title suggests, Topdog/Underdog (published in 2001) is a play about competition, reversals, and mirror images that reflect the true self. |