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| six degrees of scandal: Six Degrees of Scandal Caroline Linden, 2016-03-29 Olivia Townsend is in trouble and out of options. Pursued by a dangerous man in search of a lost treasure she doesn’t possess, she’s got only two things in her favor: her late husband’s diary, which she was never meant to see… and the man who was her first—and only—love. Losing him broke her heart, though she’s been careful to hide it for the last ten years. But when he comes to her aid and vows to stand by her, no matter what, she can’t help but hope things will be different for them this time. James Weston has blamed himself for letting Olivia down when she needed him years ago, and now he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe—and to win her trust again. He’s confident he can outwit the villain chasing Olivia. But being so near her again threatens to expose every secret in his heart … even those that he swore would stay hidden forever. |
| six degrees of scandal: Secret Six Gail Simone, Brad Walker, Jimmy Palmiotti, 2007-04 The mysterious team of misfits comes straight from the pages of DC's smash hit Villains Untied-- walking the line between good and evil and taking on the dirtiest, craziest tasks in the DC universe. |
| six degrees of scandal: HR: Six Degrees of Scandal Caroline Linden, 2017-12-11 Olivia Townsend sedang dalam masalah dan tidak punya pilihan. Dikejar-kejar orang jahat yang putus asa ingin merebut benda berharga yang tidak dimilikinya, hanya ada dua hal yang bisa membantu: buku harian mendiang suaminya dan pria pertama-dan-satu-satunya yang dia cintai. Walau telah membuatnya patah hati, ketika pria itu datang padanya dan berjanji untuk membantu, Olivia hanya berharap segala sesuatunya akan berbeda kali ini. James Weston menyesalkan dirinya yang telah mengecewakan Olivia bertahun-tahun yang lalu dan berjanji tidak akan mengulangi semua kesalahan itu. Di tengah upaya memperdaya penjahat yang memburu Olivia, kedekatannya kembali dengan wanita itu justru mengancam akan menelanjangi setiap rahasia yang terkunci rapat, yang selamanya ingin dia simpan di dalam hatinya . |
| six degrees of scandal: A Study in Scandal Caroline Linden, After a youthful infatuation went terribly wrong, Lady Samantha Lennox gave up all thought of suitors and happily-ever-after. But when she angers her strict and demanding father, the Earl of Stratford, he retaliates by arranging a marriage for her to a man she could never admire, much less love. In a panic, Samantha flees to London, only to find herself lost, alone, and nearly kidnapped--until an unlikely hero saves her.George Churchill-Gray is an artist, not a knight in shining armor, but he doesn't hesitate to rescue Samantha from disaster and offer her temporary sanctuary. He wouldn't mind if she repaid him by modeling for his latest painting. He's enchanted by her face... her smile... all of her, really. But with every study he sketches, he falls a little more in love with her, and Samantha begins to suspect her scandalous actions might lead to the sort of love she never thought to find...A novella in the Scandals series by Caroline Linden. |
| six degrees of scandal: It Takes a Scandal Caroline Linden, 2014-04-29 The second book in a deliciously sexy new series from USA Today bestselling and RITA award winning author Caroline Linden, in which an utterly shocking book – Fifty Shades of Grey for the Regency era-- has all of London talking and gives more than one young miss a mind for scandal. Sometimes It Takes a Scandal . . . Abigail Weston has everything: beauty, wit, and one of the largest dowries in England. Her parents hope she'll wed an earl. Abigail hopes for a man who wants her desperately and passionately. But the money seems to blind every man she meets—except one. Sebastian Vane has nothing. He came home from war with a shattered leg to find his father mad and his inheritance gone. He's not a fit suitor for anyone, let alone an heiress. But Abigail lights up his world like a comet, bright and beautiful and able to see him instead of his ruined reputation. And it might end happily ever after . . . To Reveal Your Heart's Desire . . . Until Benedict Lennox begins courting Abigail. Ben is everything Sebastian isn't—wealthy, charming, heir to an earl. Sebastian won't give up the only girl he's ever loved without a fight, but Abigail must choose between the penniless gentleman who moves her heart, and the suitor who is everything her parents want. |
| six degrees of scandal: Like None Other Caroline Linden, 2011-04-13 Lady Emma Bowen loves her snug little house in London. Captain Phineas Quentin hates his—except that it's near hers. Because he feels ever so much more than neighborly toward the pretty widow next door… A short story. |
| six degrees of scandal: First Comes Scandal Julia Quinn, 2020-04-21 There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In the fourth of the Bridgerton prequel series, following The Other Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn She was given two choices... Georgiana Bridgerton isn’t against the idea of marriage. She’d just thought she’d have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she’s abducted for her dowry, Georgie is given two options: live out her life as a spinster or marry the rogue who has ruined her life. Enter Option #3 As the fourth son of an earl, Nicholas Rokesby is prepared to chart his own course. He has a life in Edinburgh, where he’s close to completing his medical studies, and he has no time—or interest—to find a wife. But when he discovers that Georgie Bridgerton—his literal girl-next-door—is facing ruin, he knows what he must do. A Marriage of Convenience It might not have been the most romantic of proposals, but Nicholas never thought she’d say no. Georgie doesn’t want to be anyone’s sacrifice, and besides, they could never think of each other as anything more than childhood friends... or could they? But as they embark upon their unorthodox courtship they discover a new twist to the age-old rhyme. First comes scandal, then comes marriage. But after that comes love... |
| six degrees of scandal: Love in the Time of Scandal Caroline Linden, 2015-05-26 USA Today bestselling author Caroline Linden's third novel in her Scandalous series brings together a feisty heiress, a notorious rake, and a shocking book that could bring one woman the utmost despair— or the greatest pleasure. Penelope Weston does not like Benedict Lennox, Lord Atherton. He may be the suave and charming heir to an earl, as well as the most handsome man on earth, but she can't forget how he abandoned a friend in need— nor how he once courted her sister, Abigail. He's the last man she would ever marry. If only she didn't feel so attracted to the arrogant scoundrel . . . Once upon a time, Benedict thought he and Penelope got along rather well. Though he needs a wealthy bride to escape his cruel father's control, spirited Penelope just doesn't suit his plans for a model marriage—until a good deed goes awry, and scandalous rumors link his name to Penelope's. She might not be the quiet, sensible wife he thought he wanted, but she is beautiful . . . beguiling . . . and far more passionate than he ever imagined. Can a marriage begun in scandal become a love match, too? |
| six degrees of scandal: Ready Set Rogue Manda Collins, 2017-01-03 Bluestocking Ivy Wareham and rakish Marquess Quill Beauchamp discover love, murder, and family secrets living in the walls of Beauchamp House in the first book in the Studies in Scandal series. |
| six degrees of scandal: About a Kiss Caroline Linden, 2020-10-05 There’s something magical about a kiss… When he accepts a job as Maximilian St. James’s valet, Kit Lawrence doesn’t expect it to last. But then he meets Jennie Hickson, maid to the new Mrs. St. James, and suddenly he’s hoping to be near her for the rest of his life… A special bonus story to ABOUT A ROGUE in the Desperately Seeking Duke series. |
| six degrees of scandal: Cheated Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham, 2015-03-15 In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Marion Jones, Lawrence Taylor, Rashad McCants, and many others; winner of forty national championships in six different sports; and a partner in one of the best rivalries in sports, UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-famous colossus of college athletics. In the wake of the Wainstein report, however, the fallout from this scandal--and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics--has made the school ground zero in the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates. Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades these internal systems have allowed woefully underprepared basketball and football players to take fake courses and earn devalued degrees from one of the nation's top universities while faculty and administrators looked the other way. In unbiased and carefully sourced detail, Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC's athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the student-athletes in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, is promised them in the first place: a college education. |
| six degrees of scandal: The Secret of My Seduction Caroline Linden, Rule #1: Be discreet. No one suspects Bathsheba Crawford of being the anonymous author of a wickedly scandalous series of naughty novels. But she is. Rule Number 2: Do not fall in love. When she approaches her publisher, rakish Liam MacGregor, with an indecent proposal, he's shocked. But he accepts. Rules were made to be broken… The requirements for their affair are simple: complete secrecy and no romantic attachment. But the more they see each other…the more pleasure they find in each other's arms… the harder it becomes to remember the rules… The final chapter in the Scandals series! |
| six degrees of scandal: Deadly Little Scandals Jennifer Lynn Barnes, 2019-11-04 No one is quite who they seem to be in the twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League— by way of Skull and Bones. Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up . . . until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discovery near the family's summer home—and uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making. ** Check out Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s bestselling The Naturals and Inheritance Games series!! |
| six degrees of scandal: Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes, 2015-11-10 The creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal details the one-year experiment with saying yes that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits. |
| six degrees of scandal: The Debutante Kathleen Tessaro, 2010-10-05 A brilliant, unforgettable novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Can the secrets of one woman's past change another woman's future? Cate Albion is a gifted young artist at a crossroads in her life. Looking to escape New York for the summer, she takes a job in her aunt's London auction house and is soon sent on assignment to the English countryside to value the contents of Endsleigh House, the once gracious but now crumbling estate of a former Jazz Age socialite. There, hidden in the back of a dusty bookshelf, Cate discovers an old shoebox, and inside, a peculiar assortment of objects, including an exquisite pair of 1930s dancing shoes; a faded photograph of a handsome young sailor, and a rare Tiffany pearl and emerald bracelet. Intrigued, Cate sets out to learn more about the box and its contents, and becomes immersed in the mystery of its owner, Diana “Baby” Blythe, the younger of the infamous, glamorous Blythe sisters. Bright, beautiful, and reckless, Baby was the most famous debutante of her generation . . . until she suddenly disappeared entirely from view. As a shocking tale of love and betrayal begins to unravel, Cate finds herself being drawn deeper into Baby's tragic life story—one that will force Cate to confront some dark truths about her own choices. |
| six degrees of scandal: What a Gentleman Wants C. Linden, 2016 When his wayward twin brother tricks him into marrying a vicar's widow, Marcus Reece, Duke of Exeter, finds his life forever changed by this spirited beauty as they are both swept into a world of deception, betrayal, and passion. |
| six degrees of scandal: Educated Tara Westover, 2018-02-20 #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, Good Morning America, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Economist, Financial Times, Newsday, New York Post, theSkimm, Refinery29, Bloomberg, Self, Real Simple, Town & Country, Bustle, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, LibraryReads, Book Riot, Pamela Paul, KQED, New York Public Library |
| six degrees of scandal: Will You Be My Wi-Fi? Caroline Linden, Natalie Corcoran has to get away after a major family fight—and she makes it all the way to a cottage in England. All she wants is peace and quiet while she writes a cookbook, but the wedding party at the luxury hotel next door is driving her crazy…especially the sexy lawyer who wants her Wi-Fi password. Archer Quinn doesn’t have time to attend a wedding, but the groom is his most important client and he has no choice. He’s swamped with work, and the hotel Internet is out. Fortunately a nearby cottage has Wi-Fi—and a very attractive tenant. Archer will do anything to convince Natalie to take a chance on him: first with her password, then with her friendship, and then with more. But he only has a week to persuade her they'll be scrumptious together... |
| six degrees of scandal: A Rake's Guide to Seduction Caroline Linden, 2008-06-01 The one woman a notorious rake truly desires is also his greatest challenge in the USA Today bestselling author’s “expertly fashioned Regency romance” (Booklist). Anthony Hamilton cannot help it. The way he looks, the way he lives, his past—it all conspires to make him a man women desire. His name fills gossip circles in a seemingly endless, lurid drama. But he’s never forgotten the only woman he’s ever truly wanted…and yet could never have. Celia Reece knew Anthony well before his scandalous reputation. The young man she remembers spoke kindly, made her laugh, and quickened her pulse with his devilish good looks. But Celia’s mother had designs for her life that didn’t include Anthony. Now that Celia is widowed, Anthony refuses to let any obstacle stand in his way. He intends to win Celia’s heart with the same skills that made him London’s most irresistible rake . . . |
| six degrees of scandal: Written in My Heart Caroline Linden, For three years Jane Barton has written a letter every week to Sgt. Ethan Campbell, her dearest childhood friend…and the man she’s secretly loved for ages. For three years, Ethan has relied on Jane’s letters to keep him sane through the war. But now the war is over, and he’s desperate to discover if the girl he left behind is really the woman he can’t live without… A short story. |
| six degrees of scandal: All's Fair in Love and Scandal Caroline Linden, 2015-04-21 Nothing wagered… Douglas Bennet can't resist a good wager, especially not one that involves a beautiful woman. When a friend proposes an audacious plan to expose the most notorious woman in England, Douglas agrees at once. After all, it would be quite a coup to discover the true identity of Lady Constance, author of the infamous erotic serial scandalizing the ton, 50 Ways to Sin. Nothing won… Madeline Wilde is used to being pursued. For years she's cultivated a reputation for being unattainable and mysterious, and for good reason: her livelihood depends on discretion. When Douglas turns his legendary charm on her, she dismisses him as just another rake. But he surprises her—instead of merely trying to seduce her, he becomes her friend…her confidant…and her lover. But can it really lead to happily-ever-after…or are they about to become the biggest scandal London has ever seen? |
| six degrees of scandal: Exposure Robert Bilott, 2019-10-08 “For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the planet—and the conspiracy that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired Dark Waters, the major motion picture from Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes. 1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant, who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill, causing his cattle and the surrounding wildlife to die in hideous ways. Earl hasn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont—the area’s largest employer—they shut him down. Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us. |
| six degrees of scandal: A Summer of Hummingbirds Christopher Benfey, 2008-04-17 The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all. |
| six degrees of scandal: A Fashionable Affair Caroline Linden, 2017-06-05 Love is never out of fashion… Felicity Dawkins is determined to save her dress shop, Madame Follette's, from ruin. Times and styles have changed, but the upcoming coronation of King George IV is just the opportunity she needs to bring it back into vogue. Evan Hewes, Earl of Carmarthen, also has big plans for Follette's dress shop: he intends to tear it down to make way for the grand new boulevard he's building. All he has to do is persuade Felicity… She won't sell. He won't be denied. But the attraction that sparks between them every time they meet might upend all their plans… Originally published in Dressed to Kiss. |
| six degrees of scandal: Do You Want to Start a Scandal Tessa Dare, 2016-09-27 On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the butler did it. All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing. Unless she can discover the lovers’ true identity, she’ll be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville—the coldest, most arrogantly handsome gentleman she’s ever had the misfortune to embrace. When it comes to emotion, the man hasn’t got a clue. But as they set about finding the mystery lovers, Piers reveals a few secrets of his own. The oh-so-proper marquess can pick locks, land punches, tease with sly wit . . . and melt a woman’s knees with a single kiss. The only thing he guards more fiercely than Charlotte’s safety is the truth about his dark past. Their passion is intense. The danger is real. Soon Charlotte’s feeling torn. Will she risk all to prove her innocence? Or surrender it to a man who’s sworn to never love? |
| six degrees of scandal: A Time of Sifting Paul Peucker, 2015-06-19 At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church only dealt with this period in general terms. It is not surprising that the Sifting Time became both a taboo and an enigma in Moravian historiography. In A Time of Sifting, Paul Peucker provides the first book-length, in-depth look at the Sifting Time and argues that it did not consist of an extreme form of blood-and-wounds devotion, as is often assumed. Rather, the Sifting Time occurred when Moravians began to believe that the union with Christ could be experienced not only during marital intercourse but during extramarital sex as well. Peucker shows how these events were the logical consequence of Moravian teachings from previous years. As the nature of the crisis became evident, church leaders urged the members to revert to their earlier devotion of the blood and wounds of Christ. By returning to this earlier phase, the Moravians lost their dynamic character and became more conservative. It was at this moment that the radical-Pietist Moravians of the first half of the eighteenth century reinvented themselves as a noncontroversial evangelical denomination. |
| six degrees of scandal: Scandalous Liaisons Caroline Linden, A gentleman, a scoundrel, an earl, and a duke … Four charming heroes, four love stories, four novellas in one package. All novellas are previously published. A STUDY IN SCANDAL Lady Samantha Lennox is fleeing an arranged marriage when she finds herself lost, accosted, and almost drowned, only to be rescued by a handsome artist … who makes her start dreaming of happily-ever-after. A Scandalous novella.THE SECRET OF MY SEDUCTION A sensible spinster with a scandalous secret. A rakish businessman with a taste for risk—and pleasure. One very indecent proposal that won't remain secret or 'just business' for long. The final chapter in the Scandalous series. A FASHIONABLE AFFAIR Felicity Dawkins is determined to save her family's dressmaking shop. The Earl of Carmarthen is determined to tear it down. But the attraction that sparks between them might upend all their plans … Originally published in Dressed to Kiss. WHEN I MET MY DUCHESS Everyone expects the Duke of Wessex's wedding to be the society event of the Season. But when the duke meets his future bride's sister, he realizes he's about to marry the wrong woman … and his wedding is about to become the scandal of the year. Originally published in At the Duke's Wedding. |
| six degrees of scandal: The Price of Silence William D. Cohan, 2014-04-08 An authoritative account of the Duke lacrosse team rape case illuminates the ever-widening gap between America's rich and poor, and demonstrates how far the powerful will go to protect themselves. |
| six degrees of scandal: How the Scot Was Won Caroline Linden, 2021-07-06 To win a Scot’s heart… Agnes St. James has no wealth, no status, and no suitors. Thankfully, she’s happy with her family, her friends, and her beloved shop, the place to buy fine silks in Edinburgh. Felix Duncan has a thriving legal career, connections, and ambition. What he doesn’t have, despite his father’s prodding, is a wife. Fortunately, he’s content with that. Until their paths cross, and suddenly both realize they want more. Agnes is astonished—and thrilled—that such a charming, handsome fellow is flirting with her. Felix is astonished—and bowled over—that his friend’s younger sister has grown into such a clever beauty. It looks like Fate—until a scandalous indiscretion and a shocking inheritance threaten to spoil any chance of happily-ever-after… A novella in the Desperately Seeking Duke series, a companion to A SCOT TO THE HEART. |
| six degrees of scandal: The System Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian, 2014-08-26 A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as athlete-students give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter doesn't shine so brightly. Filled with mind-blowing details of major NCAA football scandals, with stops at Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Missouri, BYU, LSU, Texas A&M and many more, The System explores and exposes the complex, and perhaps broken, machine that churns behind the glamour of college football. With a New Afterword. |
| six degrees of scandal: Six of Swords Carole Nelson Douglas, 1985 |
| six degrees of scandal: Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, Yola Schmitz, 2018-03-15 Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices – creative acts in themselves – rather than as mere rip-offs of an original work of art. The proceedings bring together research from different scholarly fields. They focus on various mimetic practices such as pseudo-translations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different artistic and historic contexts. By opening up the scope of the aesthetic implications of fakes, this anthology aims to consolidate forging as an autonomous method of creation. |
| six degrees of scandal: Desperately Seeking Duke: The Ultimate Epilogue Caroline Linden, 2022-06-07 The final word in the Desperately Seeking Duke story, from the hills of Scotland and the potteries of Perusia and even the wilds of America to the corridors of Carlyle Castle, wherein all questions about the series are answered. About a Rogue About a Kiss A Scot to the Heart How the Scot Was Won All the Duke I Need The Ultimate Epilogue |
| six degrees of scandal: Seeing Like a State James C. Scott, 2020-03-17 One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a magisterial critique of top-down social planning by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.--New Yorker A tour de force.-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University |
| six degrees of scandal: The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith, 2013-04-30 Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in one of the best books of the year (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry -- known to her friends as the Cuckoo -- famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. |
| six degrees of scandal: At the Summer Wedding Caroline Linden, Maya Rodale, Katharine Ashe, Miranda Neville, 2022-08-15 Originally published as AT THE BILLIONAIRE'S WEDDING A destination wedding in the English countryside seems the ideal place for a tech entrepreneur and his romance-novelist bride to tie the knot. Until the Internet fails. And the oven breaks. And the paparazzi invade. And the police crash the bachelorette party. But passion never waits for perfection… Four unlikely couples, one increasingly wild wedding party, and a whole lot of happily-ever-after! |
| six degrees of scandal: The Night Ocean Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Robert Hayward Barlow, 2022-06-13 The Night Ocean is a fascinating anthology that navigates the depths of cosmic horror and the chilling mysteries of the sea, echoing the grandeur and terror characteristic of both Lovecraftian and maritime literature. The collection spans an array of literary forms, including short stories, letters, and speculative essays, each immersing readers into a world where reality blurs with the surreal and the unimaginable lurks beneath the waves. The narratives, characterized by their brooding atmospheres and intricate mythos, are unified by themes of isolation, existential dread, and the sublime indifference of the universe. Highlighted pieces delve into ancient myths reimagined for a modern audience, inviting readers to ponder what lies beyond the veil of known reality. Curated by the formidable minds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and his close literary confidant Robert Hayward Barlow, The Night Ocean brings together a compelling blend of early 20th-century speculative fiction. Lovecraft, often hailed as the architect of contemporary horror, alongside Barlow—whose keen interest in anthropology and folklore enriches the collection—craft narratives that are as insightful as they are unsettling. Drawing from the cultural and literary zeitgeist of their time, these authors weave narratives that echo with the philosophical concerns of modernity, making this collection a testament to their literary legacies and influence on speculative fiction. The Night Ocean offers readers an unparalleled journey through a mosaic of hauntings and wonder, masterfully bringing together multiple perspectives and approaches within a single volume. The anthology invites both seasoned enthusiasts and new explorers of the genre to immerse themselves in its pages, appreciating its educational value and the complex dialogues it initiates. By engaging with the works within, readers encounter a synthesis of terror and beauty, guided by voices that continue to resonate within the ever-expanding universe of speculative fiction, making it a must-read for those looking to deepen their understanding of horror's rich, multifaceted landscape. |
| six degrees of scandal: The Real Watergate Scandal Geoff Shepard, 2015-08-03 *Inspiration for the Major Off-Broadway Show, Trial on the Potomac.* “It’s the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973—with implications at once historic and relevant today.” —JAMES ROSEN, national bestselling author and legendary journalist THESE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS WERE DETERMINED TO GET NIXONAT ALL COSTS. “The system worked’—Carl Bernstein’s famous assessment of Watergate—turns out to be completely wrong. Powerful new evidence reveals that in the prosecution of the most consequential scandal in American history, virtually nothing in the justice system worked as it should. The roles of heroes and villains in Watergate were assigned before Marine One carried Richard Nixon into exile on August 9, 1974. But Geoff Shepard’s patient and persistent research has uncovered shocking violations of ethical and legal standards by the good guys”—including Judge John Sirica, Archibald Cox, and Leon Jaworski. The Watergate prosecutors’ own files reveal their collusion with the federal judges who tried their cases and heard their appeals—professional misconduct so extensive that the pretense of a fair trial is now impossible to maintain. Shepard documents that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was an avenging army drawn from the ranks of Nixon’s most ardent partisan foes. They had the good fortune to work with judges who shared their animus or who quickly developed a taste for the media adulation showered on those who lent their power to the anti-Nixon cause. In the end, Nixon’s fall was the result of the “smoking gun” tape recording in which he appeared to order a cover-up of the Watergate burglary. Yet in a stunning revision of the historical record, Shepard shows that that conversation, which he himself was the first to transcribe, was taken out of context and completely misunderstood—an interpretation with which Nixon’s nemesis John Dean concurs. Crimes were committed, and an attempt was made to cover them up. But by trampling on the defendants’ right to due process, the Watergate prosecutors and judges denied the American people the assurance that justice was done and destroyed the historical reputation of an exceptionally accomplished president and administration. This book will challenge everything you think you know about the Watergate scandal. |
| six degrees of scandal: Terra Nostra Carlos Fuentes, 2013-05-14 Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of art. Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say. |
| six degrees of scandal: A Kiss for Christmas Caroline Linden, Seven stories of first kisses, newly wedded bliss, and love long-awaited, in the holiday season of joy. Bel Astre que j’adore: A lonely French courtesan discovers the English spy who saved her harbors deeper feelings, under the mistletoe. My True Love Gave to Me: Innkeeper Adam Milbank and his new bride Sarah are snowed in alone for their first Christmas together. Adeste Fideles: Widowed Lady Fitzhugh dislikes the retired Army officer, Major Arthur Winston next door, until his dog makes friends with hers—and he serenades her with carols. What a Woman Needs for Christmas: A surprise arrival brightens a new wife’s Christmas Eve. A holiday epilogue to What a Woman Needs. A Scot of Her Own: Rosalind, Dowager Duchess of Exeter, has given up on finding romance with Lord Warfield, but he has not. A holiday epilogue to A Rake's Guide to Seduction. Grace’s Christmas Hero: Every year Grace Finch falls a little more in love with her handsome friend Oliver Ford, but will he ever feel the same for her? A Kiss for Christmas: Thomas Weston is dumbstruck at the sight of Miss Clara Hampton. Unfortunately she’s nearly engaged to another man…unless Thomas can win her heart. Some stories previously published. |
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