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Triple bill of romantic dramas based on the novels by Nicholas
Sparks. In 'Dear John' (2010), while Special Forces Army Sergeant
John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on leave, he meets beautiful
college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) and the two fall
in love. When the time comes for Savannah to return to college, she
promises to write to John during his 12-month enlistment overseas.
However, their budding love affair is put to the test when John
decides to re-enlist in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. 'Safe Haven'
(2013), follows the fortunes of a guarded young woman who
unexpectedly finds love in a North Carolina town. Katie Feldman
(Julianne Hough) stands out on arrival in Southport. Beautiful but
highly reserved, she makes it clear that she expects to have little
involvement in the social life of the town and its inhabitants.
However, an unforeseen chain of events brings Katie close to Alex
(Josh Duhamel), a widower who runs a store while also attempting to
bring up his young children. As she inexorably falls in love with
Alex and the children Katie begins to let down her guard, but doing
so threatens to raise the dark secret she has been protecting. Will
she find a way to reconcile the trauma of her past with the
possibility of a brighter future? 'The Best of Me' (2014), charts
the relationship between Dawson Cole (Luke Bracey/James Marsden)
and Amanda Collier (Liana Liberato/Michelle Monaghan), two people
from opposite sides of town, who fall deeply in love as teenagers.
However, Amanda's parents don't approve of Dawson and their
relationship is short-lived due to a number of unfortunate events
outside of their control. 20 years later, the pair are reunited at
a mutual friend's funeral and it doesn't take long for their
romance to rekindle. But although it seems the universe is
conspiring to bring them back together after all this time, it
seems there are still other forces at work which are determined to
keep them apart...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book is about champions in women's athletics at Baylor
University-the champions who competed, the champions who coached,
the champions who provided the advocacy and leadership for the
women's athletic program, and the champions who have brought
Baylor's women's athletic program to the national prominence it
enjoys in 2012. It's also about the champions in women's
intercollegiate athletics whose struggles to attain national
recognition and implement national championships for women endured
from the 1930s through the 1970s. These champions fought hard to
retain the early values of sport for women and provided strong
leadership through the AIAW until the day they lost their battle
with the NCAA for control of women's intercollegiate athletics.
When did women's athletic opportunities begin at Baylor University?
Who were the Baylor Bearettes? Who were the early leaders in
women's athletics at Baylor, the coaches, the players? Through the
lenses of those who were there (including the author), those who
played, those who advocated for women's equity, and those who made
it happen, these questions are answered in this book. For the first
time the story is told of the Baylor women's sports program and its
rise to national prominence.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
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NASA Formal Methods - 4th International Symposium, NFM 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA, April 3-5, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012)
Alwyn Goodloe, Suzette Person
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2012, held in
Norfolk, VA, USA, in April 2012. The 36 revised regular papers
presented together with 10 short papers, 3 invited talks were
carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The topics are
organized in topical sections on theorem proving, symbolic
execution, model-based engineering, real-time and stochastic
systems, model checking, abstraction and abstraction refinement,
compositional verification techniques, static and dynamic analysis
techniques, fault protection, cyber security, specification
formalisms, requirements analysis and applications of formal
techniques.
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The Age of Adaline (Blu-ray disc)
Blake Lively, Mark Ghanime, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker, Michiel Huisman, …
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Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman star in this fantasy drama
directed by Lee Toland Krieger. Unable to age after being struck by
lightning during a car accident, Adaline (Lively) has lived a
solitary life to protect her secret. But when a chance meeting with
Ellis Jones (Huisman) leaves Adaline pining for the life she used
to have. Can she finally let her guard down and have another shot
at love? The supporting cast includes Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker
and Ellen Burstyn.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryW029407Half-title: A
letter from Robert G. Harper, of South Carolina, to one of his
constituents.Philadelphia: Published by William Cobbett, August,
1798. 22, 2] p.; 8
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