The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.

"A Date with Destiny; A Sex-Trafficking Story of Survival is the 1st book in the trilogy written by Eleana M Lukes, BES, MS. This book is a TRUE story about sex trafficking right here in the United States. Author Eleana M Lukes is in the process of editing the second book in the trilogy which highlights her true story of resiliency and survival while being trapped in a life of sex-trafficking in the state of Minnesota. The second book is titled "Don?t Call Me Destiny, That Is Not My Name," and will be available July 11th 2020. The second book is a great follow-up to the first book. The final book in the trilogy is "Just Call Me Blessed" which ties together her transition from victim, to survivor, to thriver. Eleana was trafficked by then called and still may be, one of the biggest prostitution rings in United States History. The Notorious Evans Family out of Minneapolis, Minnesota"--amazon.com.

Find your purpose for living through loving. Finding the love you need will only happen when you discover your true purpose for living. Bishop Joseph Walker's Date with Destiny will help you help you fit your plans into the deeper and richer plan God has for you. Only then will you be able to get your relationships right. Bishop Walker gives you the tools you need to fit the pieces of the relationship puzzle together. He shows how to embrace the concept that God means for all of us to have satisfying relationships. "This book sheds light on the power of purpose in relationships for couples. Why does God bring us together? Is there a purpose bigger than us? To these questions, I would argue, YES! When two people understand their purpose in life, it becomes a qualifier for healthy relationships. God merges their individual purposes so that they compliment, not compete with each other." from the book

Based on Bishop Joseph Walker's powerful book: Date with Destiny: Find the Love You Need Bishop Walker contends that finding the love you need only happens when you discover your true purpose for living. Date with Destiny: 40 Devotions to Help You Find the Love You Need takes you through heartfelt, biblically inspired devotions that encourage and equip you for loving God's way.

Was it fate...or a labor of love? Find out as Grace Preston comes face-to-face once again with teenage crush Cameron Jakowski in author Helen Lacey's fourth book for Harlequin Special Edition, Date with Destiny... Financier Grace Preston did fourteen-hour days in New York City. She didn't do small towns in Australia. Not since she'd fled almost twenty years ago. But when a personal trauma sent her home-with a secret she couldn't reveal-the last person she needed was her first love. Local cop Cameron Jakowski had loved Grace for most of his life. But he wanted marriage and family and she didn't. He was small town, while she was big city-and lived half a world away. But for now she was right here-a walking, talking temptation. One he managed to avoid...until he made one mistake. He kissed her. And reawakened the passion that could change their lives...forever.

Date with Destiny opens your world and the world of Destiny Hodgkin. A young successful business owner who finds that everything is not always what it seems. Inviting trust and love into her life, she now wants to abandon it all. How is the question? Tired and frustrated, she seeks the help of a friend. A friend that she could confide in. A friend that she thought was safe. Why not turn to her father, he has money, he could take all her cares away. Havent you ever wanted to just abandon all things and just hide? Get away from work and lifes responsibilities. That's what Destiny wants but can't seem to do., yet something happens that spins her life out of control. Did she get what she wants? Take a walk with Destiny and see where it leads her. What seems like never ending twists and turns takes her on a journey she could have never imagined. Maybe you'll think twice about your destiny.