In 1989, People magazine named him the most beautiful male model in the world, Michael Flinn.https://malemodelindex.com/michael-flinn.htmlFlinn was the face of Hugo Boss for eleven years. Does he finish number one or number two on maleiconic.com? Find out who is on the Mt. Rushmore of Male Models.The 100 names include 22 of the 25 listed in L'Uomo Vogue's top 25 male models ever are profiles on maleinconic.comHere are some o...

It Was Never A Gamble is a true-life story of an early 1900's gambler and hustler. It chronicles the life of Jimmy James. Born in 1900 and leaving home at the age of 14, he made a living by taking advantage of other's greed. He learned early that to get ahead he might have to bend a few rules. But, in a time when the rules were few and the enforcement was often left to one's own conscious, there could be big rewards for the person with the intestinal fortitude to bend the rules. F...

The recession has struck, and all John Gregor wants is steady work. At every job he finds, he encounters inept management, arbitrary rules and treacherous bureaucrats. However, when he is invited into a class-action lawsuit against a former employer, he begins to become curious about how much power he really has according to the law...When a man is trying to earn his keep and his livelihood is threatened, he begins to hate. When a man who hates learns his rights and figures out how...

One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldnt even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism while also covering the zenith and twilight of the British empire. Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the indivi...

If you’ve published an e-book, or are planning to do so, you’ll need this essential guide. It provides expert advice on every step of the process, from production through to all-important promotion. To ensure your e-book reaches its intended audience, at the very least you have to: • design the cover and format it a certain way • know your options in terms of publishing platforms and choose the right one for your book • price and promote it appropriately

From a New York Times–bestselling author, a jilted groom hopes for second chance at love in book two of a series featuring a "memorable family tree" ( USA Today).A man's word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own.Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come ...

Digging Her Own GraveLandscaper Nina Quinn makes her living from surprise garden makeovers. It's not her fault that someone duped her into digging up the wrong yard. And she certainly can't be blamed when her handiwork turns the unsuspecting real owner apoplectic and he drops dead from a heart attack . . . can she? Nina's got enough trouble already, with her divorce from faithless hubby Kevin nearing completion and her unruly stepson up to his teenage neck in possibly illegal misch...

Alison Bergeron has her doubts about hosting a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, seeing as it'll include all of her new husband's ex-in-laws. Still, she's a good sport, and everyone has a great time, especially the girls, who receive $10,000 from their estranged uncle, Chick.The girls' father, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, and Christine, his ex, think the gift is too much. When Crawford swings by Chick's apartment to return it, he finds Chick dead, with roughly $250,000 st...

A pictorial tribute to the filthy, distasteful, gross, and painful moments of parenthood, and the children who make it all possible.Kids: they are the light of your life—and the enemy of all things fragile, intact, and clean. But why cry over spilt milk . . . or paint . . . or the entire contents of a full-size swimming pool? A testament to the messiness of childhood (and parenting), and a memorial to the household items that perished along the way, here are never-...

**“[A] collection of gems . . . All There Is made me verklempt a ridiculous amount of times.” —Boston Globe“Heart-poundingly good . . . There's just one word for the book: lovely.” —The Huffington PostA celebration of love from StoryCorps**In All There Is, StoryCorps founder David Isay shares stories from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many remarkable journeys that relationships can take.In ...

Reorient your selling approachMr. Shmooze is the parable of a man who reveals the secret shared by all superstar salespeople. Selling, in its most exquisite form, is not about “taking,” nor is it about “persuading.” Selling, believe it or not, is about “giving.”Mr. Shmooze gives for a living. He starts by listening and he quickly comes to understand what people really need. His customers love him because he gives more than he takes. They trust him because he is pass...

When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she's been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business, helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman's bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman's tale of midlife reinvention and une...