Reunion Two-Part SeriesEx-Best Friend - Book OneReunited - Book Twonote to the reader.Ex Best Friend, Reunion, Book One, was originally published as Ex Best Friend: A Novella. Lonnie Fletcher and Seth Anthony have been best friends since birth. They are like brothers to each other. Lonnie and Seth did everything together until their junior year in high school when they'd drifted into different directions, but they remained close with each other. When Lonnie came out to Seth later in their junior year in high school, he thought Seth was okay with it, but after a violent turned of events between them later on, Seth ended their friendship, leaving Lonnie devastated and heartbroken. Fourteen years later, after ending an abusive relationship, Lonnie moves back to his hometown, only to discover that Seth has moved back too. During a heated confrontation between them, Seth reveals a secret that shocks and angers Lonnie. Lonnie thinks nothing could be even more shocking of what Seth has revealed to him, until an incident that happened between them at Lonnie's apartment and another secret that is revealed later on that leaves Lonnie astonished.Warning: It contains some violence.
In this memoir full of humor and heart, comedian, writer, and producer Cristela Alonzo tells personal stories of growing up as a first-generation Mexican American in Texas and following her dreams to pursue a career in comedy" -- From book jacket flap.
From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of his Republican cousin President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR devoted himself to politics as a Democrat and a true man of the people. Eventually setting his sights on the presidency, he was elected to office in 1932 by a nation that was mired in the Great Depression and desperate for revival. As the distinguished historian Alonzo Hamby argues in this authoritative biography, FDR's record as president was more mixed than we are often led to believe. The New Deal provided much-needed assistance to millions of Americans, but failed to restore prosperity, and while FDR became an outstanding commander-in-chief during World War II, his plans for the postwar world were seriously flawed. No less perceptive is Hamby's account of FDR's private life, which explores the dynamics of his marriage and his romance with his wife's secretary, Lucy Mercer. Hamby documents FDR's final months in intimate detail, claiming that his perseverance, despite his serious illness, not only shaped his presidency, but must be counted as one of the twentieth century's great feats of endurance. Hamby reveals a man whose personality--egocentric, undisciplined in his personal appetites, at times a callous user of aides and associates, yet philanthropic and caring for his nation's underdogs-shaped his immense legacy. Man of Destiny is a measured account of the life, both personal and public, of the most important American leader of the twentieth century.
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