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![]() ![]() Here are some qualities of a good trustee. ![]() You have to ensure you make the best choice for yourself and your family. ![]() The trustee is an important position since that person is responsible for managing the assets in the trust and distributing the assets if that’s directed in the trust. Then the key decision that needs to be made for a trust is choosing who will be the successor trustee.Īs the grantor of the trust, you need to think through the decision of who you choose to be the trustee(s) now (if you decide not to take that position) and successor trustee(s) in the future. It’s common for the person who created the trust (grantor) to become the trustee (manager) of a revocable trust. Many of our clients decide to take advantage of the benefits a trust offers. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (he actually pours himself into the prose). The plot synopsis for the novel reads as follows Billy Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.īilly Summers was originally intended to be a ten-episode limited series, but instead will hit the big screen with Ed Zwick ( Blood Diamond) and Marshall Herskovitz (who co-wrote The Last Samurai with Zwick) writing the screenplay. ![]() In an exclusive today, Deadline have revealed that Stephen King's 2021 crime thriller novel Billy Summers has been acquired by Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. This was an unforgettable look at two families’ experience – based on true events.įrom the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage. I have to say that I read all the time about WWII, but usually from the viewpoint of the victors. ![]() Set in Prussia in WWII it follows two families as they deal with war and loss. Sofía Segovia has a beautiful way of writing and the first half of this story captures the characters thoughts and personalities so we really feel like we know them. ![]() The good people at Over the River PR sent me a copy of this lengthy and engaging WWII novel, by the author of The Murmur of Bees. ![]() ![]() ![]() His career as an illustrator began in 1914, when his illustration for a poem about the invasion of Belgium was published in Harper's Weekly. Following high school, he studied art for three years under illustrator Howard Giles (an advocate of dynamic symmetry as conceived by Jay Hambidge) at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now Parsons School of Design), marrying fellow artist and illustrator Marie Abrams in 1922. Once you've met Amos the mouse, you'll always remember Benjamin Franklin a little differently than the history books do.īorn in New York City, Lawson spent his early life in Montclair, New Jersey. Once you've met Amos and read his account, you'll never think of Ben Franklin-or American history-quite the same way.Įxplore this historical time period even further in this new edition of award-winning author Robert Lawson's classic tale, with additional bonus material, including a map of Ben Franklin's travels!ĭid you ever wonder where inventors get their ideas? Benjamin Franklin was one of the most famous inventors in American history, and according to this amusing book, he got most of his ideas-the good ones at any rate-from a mouse! Funny, interesting and wise, Ben and Me is a classic American story that has been read by generations of young people. ![]() Ever wonder where inventors get their ideas? As it turns out, the great inventor Benjamin Franklin got his best ideas from a mouse named Amos! Funny, interesting and wise, this classic tale has been a favorite for generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intimate and alluring with exclusive photography throughout, and illustrations by the author, My Name's Yours, What's Alaska? is the ultimate backstage pass. Finally coming clean on her home planet (earth), this dishy, visual memoir tells the stories that shaped Alaska into an All Star: from prom king to the House of Haunt, to the very public breakup that almost destroyed her. ![]() This is the story of one of the galaxy's greatest queens, Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, as she transforms from wearing dresses made of trash bags because she has to, to wearing dresses made of trash bags because she wants to. Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag superstar in this intimate photographic memoir that will appeal to diehard Alaska admirers and broader drag fans alike.īefore RuPaul's Drag Race became a worldwide phenomenon, Drag was mostly an underground art form, performed by the daring and the quick-witted, with maximum energy and a minimal budget. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. ![]() After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. ![]() Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history-or religion. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if you had everything in the world you wanted.except the man you never knew you needed? ![]() Each book in the series will feature a different couple and can be read out of order. Or maybe…it was a little bit like love.Ī LITTLE BIT LIKE LOVE is a brand new standalone MM romance in USA Today Bestselling Author Brooke Blaine's South Haven series. Many have tried and failed to get past the barrier he’s carefully constructed, but it’s the shy, studious boy he once coaxed out of his shell who still haunts him. To the world, he’s brash and confident, an in-demand artist who spends his days designing one-of-a-kind pieces and his nights as king of the downtown scene. Lucas Sullivan is South Haven’s ultimate playboy, a reputation he’s honed since the only boy he ever loved left without a trace. With growing pressure from his father to settle down and take over the family business, Jackson knows he’s on borrowed time, and sets out to find the free-spirited daredevil he once knew.īut Lucas isn’t the same man he was eight years ago. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. One he’s been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy-and that secret’s name is Lucas. ![]() Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. What if you had everything in the world you wanted…except the man you’d left behind? ![]() ![]() ![]() She has won several business as well as literary awards, and writes in genres as diverse as romance, women’s fiction, crime suspense, and paranormal. Banks, Leslie Banks, and Leslie Esdaile Banks. She was very familiar with the business world and that helped with her success.Ī native of Philadelphia, Banks is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania Wharton undergraduate program, and alumnae of Temple University’s Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking program. ![]() She was also helpful to me on the business side. She was a featured speaker on the HBO Special on Vampire Literature and Legends as a prelude to the True Blood cable series premiere.įormer Daily News columnist and author Solomon Jones said that Leslie “was a mentor, always willing to help. She was 51.īanks has penned over 40 novels and 12 novellas in a wide range of genres and is the recipient of the 2009 Romantic Times Booklover’s Convention Career Achievement Award for Paranormal Fiction and the 2008 Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award, as well as the 2008 Best 50 Women in Business Award for the State of Pennsylvania. Banks, lost her battle with adrenal cancer and died last Tuesday morning, August 2. New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Leslie Esdaile Banks, also known as L.A. ![]() ![]() Pinto could also have provided more context. Even the son gets short shrift as the schoolboy, presto changeo, becomes a journalist. The latter is the perfect foil to Em: The straight man, stiff upper lip, solid as a rock but dull Em has sucked up all the oxygen. ![]() Their conversations are the heart of the novel. ![]() He has his reasons his greatest fear is that he’ll inherit her madness. Rather than mother and son, they are two equals sparring, the son interrogating her with a prosecutor’s sharpness. “A rough, rude, roistering woman,” says her son. When Em is in a manic phase, her conversation is wild, raunchy, funny and malicious as she free-associates. The second one was especially rough on the kids they discovered her in the bathroom, swimming in blood. How did it all begin? She was fine giving birth to his big sister, Susan, but after the boy, postpartum depression ballooned into manic-depressive disorder, with a streak of paranoia. (The childhood names have stuck.) Em is in the hospital every few months. The unnamed narrator, in his late teens, is visiting his mother, Em his father, unaccountably, is the Big Hoom. ![]() But what if she’s mad? That’s the reality facing a teenage son in this mordant debut about a troubled Indian family. ![]() |