Passion Wears Pearls


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After the darkness of a dungeon in India, artist Josiah Hastings found that years of imprisonment left his eyesight weak and failing. So when the fiery beauty of Miss Eleanor Beckett appears in his vision amidst the bleak grays of a London winter, he knows he's found his muse and one last chance at a masterpiece...




Pearl


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The singer Janis Joplin's childhood in a backwater Texas town, where her classmates punished her for her individuality, fuelled the compulsion to shock which became her hallmark. This account of the forces that drove her through a short, impulsive life, to her death from a drug overdose at the age of 27, encompasses her binges, her egotism, her insecurities, and her affairs with figures such as Jim Morrison, Kris Kristofferson and Jimi Hendrix, and many lesbian lovers.




Innocent Passions


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Innocent? Or…not? After spending the first twenty-one years of her life tucked away in the country, studious Rowena Riverstone can’t wait to experience London for the first time. She especially looks forward to meeting many of the forward-thinking gentlemen whose opinions she has followed in the papers for years. But it is the mysterious and dashing Noel Paxton who stirs her senses, even as she mistrusts his motives in befriending her, a bespectacled bluestocking spinster. In his quest to expose a dangerous spy and traitor, Noel has taken on the persona of the legendary Saint of Seven Dials. When he meets Miss Riverstone, he is first distracted, then fascinated, for she is clearly more than she appears on the surface—but what? Merely a highly educated—and opinionated—innocent, or the very traitor he seeks? Finding out promises to be both dangerous and delicious. But will his heart be at even greater risk than his life?




Insane Passions


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In France in 1933, two sisters, presumed to be lovers, murdered the women who employed them as maids. Known as “the Papin affair,” the incident inspired not only Jean Genet's 1947 The Maids but also an essay by Jacques Lacan that presents the sisters' crime as fueled by a narcissistic, homosexual drive that culminated in the assault. In this new investigation of the roots of the twentieth-century myth of the lesbian-as-madwoman, Christine Coffman argues that the female psychotic was the privileged object of Lacan’s effort to derive a revolutionary theory of subjectivity from the study of mental illness. Examining Lacan's early writings, French surrealism, Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood, and H.D.’s homoerotic fiction in light of feminist and queer theory, Insane Passions argues that the psychotic woman that fascinates modernist writers returns with a murderous vengeance in a number of late twentieth-century films—including Basic Instinct, Sister My Sister, Single White Female, and Murderous Maids. Marking the limit of social acceptability, the “psychotic lesbian” repeatedly appears as the screen onto which the violence and madness of twentieth-century life are projected.




Perfection in Pearls


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Perfection In Pearls contains all three Pearls stories in the Passion For Pearls Series, which can be read in any order! Pearls of Passion Shy librarian Sabrina has had her heart set on Robert, her hunky, reserved colleague, for months. This Valentine's Day, she's taking matters into her own hands. . . and anywhere else she can manage. But once she's had her way with him, will she end up with the love match she craves even more than his luscious body? A short, spicy-hot contemporary romance, Pearls of Passion is 6,000 words. Pearls of Wisdom A long-simmering love. A proper proposal. One incredible night. Billy Wingate has never been with a woman. He's never held a gun. In fact, he's never been outside his home state of Indiana. But it's 1942. The world is at war, and Billy's life is about to change forever. On the eve of departing for the war, Billy finally gathers the courage to ask his dream girl, sexy town librarian April Collins, to be his bride. But when his proposal turns into a steamy night of passion, the lovers are determined to make every moment count. They both know his first time may be his last. . . Pearls of Wisdom is a spicy-hot historical romance novella with coming-of-age and New Adult themes. Pearls of Pleasure Firefighter David Coffey and his childhood sweetheart, Gwen, had the perfect marriage-until a deadly blaze almost cost them everything they cherished and left their small town in mourning. Three years later, David is recovered from his injuries, but Gwen is falling apart. Debilitating panic attacks strike whenever they make love, driving her away from David and threatening the heart of their relationship. As David and Gwen struggle toward a solution, one question burns in their minds-will their sensual plan save their once fiery passion, or will the flames of Gwen's fear devour their sex life and incinerate the bonds of their marriage? Pearls of Pleasure is 45,000 words, with a spicy-hot heat rating.




Passions


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These are wonderful [Yiddish] stories with vivid characterizations, lush imagery, and plots rich with emotion and imagination. My favorite is Passions: a meditation on how man becomes obsessed with something--to the extent of transforming one's life--anything can become a passion. --David Oberlander at Amazon.com.




Passions


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Pursuing the Pearl


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The marriage relationship is meant to be a portrait of Christ's love for the church. So what goes so wrong? Popular author and speaker Dannah Gresh explores how to develop and maintain a passionate, God-honoring marriage in Pursuing the Pearl. The secret, she says, is purity. Dannah teaches readers how to get the 'junk' out of their marriage that is impeding a pure heart that vigorously pursues Christ. Come along with Dannah as she reveals Satan's 'fake pearls' and introduces you to the pursuit of purity, the Pearl of Great Price.




Pearl of China


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It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.