“No Flowers Please” is a contemporary adult romance novel that guides an individual through overcoming the trauma of divorce. Bobby Nopper had the world in the palm of his hand...or so he thought. When his entire world crumbles around him, he must fight to regain his family, life, and love. Based on actual events, the book identifies five steps necessary in the healing process without murder!
“No Flowers Please” is a contemporary adult romance novel that guides an individual through overcoming the trauma of divorce. Bobby Nopper had the world in the palm of his hand...or so he thought. When his entire world crumbles around him, he must fight to regain his family, life, and love. Based on actual events, the book identifies five steps necessary in the healing process without murder!
The Janus Conflict…A talented public defender with the reputation of being a boyscout but with the martial skills of a trained fighter, Jake Palmeria is determined to fulfill his dreams of being happily married and having a family of his own. But when forced into a life of corruption to appease the demands of his wife, he becomes the target of a growing war who has a new up and coming member – Jake's twin brother Garrett. Jake becomes entwined in an internal struggle for power, a fight for his family's survival, and a struggle to survive a stranger determined to exact revenge on him.
A talented public defender with the reputation of being a boyscout but with the martial skills of a trained fighter, twenty-seven year-old Jake Palmeria is determined to meet his dreams of being happily married and having a family of his own. But when he resorts to a life of corruption to appease the demands of his wife to achieve his dream, he becomes the target from both sides of the growing war between the new Chinese Triad and the old Italian mob who has a new up and coming member – Jake's twin brother Garrett. After Garrett's death, Jake becomes entwined with an internal struggle for power within the Triad, a fight for his family's survival of a bloody street war, a determination to find his brother's killer, and a struggle to survive a stranger determined to exact revenge on him.
Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger ́s policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carter ́s balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Ober ́s book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . It ́s all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike today ́s walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ́80s. I don ́t know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".
The Derivatives Sourcebook is a citation study and classification system that organizes the many strands of the derivatives literature and assigns each citation to a category. Over 1800 research articles are collected and organized into a simple web-based searchable database. We have also included the 1997 Nobel lectures of Robert Merton and Myron Scholes as a backdrop to this literature.
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