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Rehearsing for Romance

Author : Carolyn Keene

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 95 pages

File Size : 33,85 MB

Release : 2015-12-29

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1481459783

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The stage is set for disaster -- and Nancy's in the spotlight! Bess has landed a small part in a promising new Chicago play, and she's seeing stars for the hot young featured actor, Jordan McCabe. Nancy, however, sees only trouble. The play is a mystery, the theme is murder, and it soon becomes apparent that Nancy and Bess may both have starring roles in a deadly real-life drama. A mysterious fire backstage, a prop gun loaded with real bullets, and an anonymous threat on Bess's life put Nancy on notice that danger is waiting in the wings. Nancy's investigation turns up a whole cast of suspects...one of whom is determined to turn the final act into a major tragedy!



The Romance Rehearsal

Author : Annie Dyer

Publisher : Annie Dyer

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 23,17 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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If the first time was a rehearsal, is this the real thing? Directing a play in London’s West End was an ambition met, only it meant I’d see the boy who was my first everything for the first time since that summer. Anthony was no boy anymore. He was all man. Charismatic, talented, famous and devastatingly handsome, and now staring in my production. My leading man - on stage, at least. He wanted to be my leading man off stage too. But we’re not kids anymore, and my heart doesn’t think this is a rehearsal. Like all good love stories, the course isn’t going to run smooth, not when he’s carrying a secret that could destroy everything, including my heart – and his. Was that summer romance a rehearsal for heart break, or a rehearsal for the real thing? The Romance Rehearsal is a second chance romance, set in London's Theatreland, and contains a smoking hot actor and director who knows exactly what she wants. Part of The English Gent Romances, and a spin-off from the Callaghan Green series, it can be read as a complete standalone.



Love & Eroticism

Author : Mike Featherstone

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 441 pages

File Size : 12,47 MB

Release : 1999-03-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 184860940X

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This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized - issues which have become central to the emergence of `queer′ as a new form of gender politics and more general questions of sexual citizenship. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, this book contains a wide-ranging and accessible set of contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism. Love & Eroticism is simultaneously published as volume 15, issue 3-4 of Theory, Culture & Society.



My Last Romance and Other Passions

Author : Kathleen Valentine

Publisher : Kathleen Valentine

Page : 135 pages

File Size : 19,99 MB

Release : 2006-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0978594053

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Within this volume are eight stories with a common theme---the wonder of finding love---that sweep the reader into sensuous worlds where ordinary people discover, or rediscover foolish love, forbidden love, married love---even murderous love.



Astaire by Numbers

Author : Todd Decker

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 457 pages

File Size : 20,41 MB

Release : 2022-11-11

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ISBN : 0197643582

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Astaire by Numbers looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era--all six hours, thirty-four minutes, and fifty seconds. Using a quantitative digital humanities approach, as well as previously untapped production records, author Todd Decker takes the reader onto the set and into the rehearsal halls and editing rooms where Astaire created his seemingly perfect film dances. Watching closely in this way reveals how Astaire used the technically sophisticated resources of the Hollywood film making machine to craft a singular career in mass entertainment as a straight white man who danced. Decker dissects Astaire's work at the level of the shot, the cut, and the dance step to reveal the aesthetic and practical choices that yielded Astaire's dancing figure on screen. He offers new insights into how Astaire secured his masculinity and his heterosexuality, along with a new understanding of Astaire's whiteness, which emerges in both the sheer extent of his work and the larger implications of his famous "full figure" framing of his dancing body. Astaire by Numbers rethinks this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality, ultimately offering a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture.



The Rehearsal

Author : Eleanor Catton

Publisher : McClelland & Stewart

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 26,97 MB

Release : 2010-04-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0771019629

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The sensational first novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries. Set in the aftermath of a sex scandal at an all-girls’ high school, Eleanor Catton’s internationally acclaimed award-winning debut is a provocative and darkly funny novel about the elusiveness of truth, the slipperiness of identity, and the emotional compromises we make to belong. When news spreads of a high school teacher’s relationship with one of his students, the teenage girls at Abbey Grange are jolted into a new awareness of their own potency and power. Although no one knows the whole truth, the girls have their own ideas about what happened. As they obsessively examine the details of the affair with the curiosity and jealousy native to any adolescent girl, they confide in their saxophone teacher, an enigmatic woman who is only too happy to play both confidante and stage manager to her students. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a play, the boundaries between fact and fantasy soon break down as dramas both real and imagined begin to unfold. Sharply observed, brilliantly crafted, and infused with a deliciously subversive wit, The Rehearsal is at once a vibrant portrait of teenage longing and adult regret, and a shrewd exposé of how we are all performers in life, from one of the most bold and exciting voices in contemporary fiction.



The Greatest Historical Romance Novels

Author : Samuel Richardson

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 9980 pages

File Size : 32,85 MB

Release : 2022-05-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you the collection of original regency romance novels - tales of love, lust and pleasure. In the time when the constraining customs and public scrutiny prevailed, there were still rebellious female writers who wrote about the true nature of woman's passion. _x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer)_x000D_ The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer)_x000D_ Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)_x000D_ Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)_x000D_ Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)_x000D_ Evelina (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Cecilia (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ The Wanderer (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Emma (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Persuasion (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant)_x000D_ Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant)_x000D_ Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)_x000D_ Pamela (Samuel Richardson)_x000D_ Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ Shamela (Henry Fielding)



Regency Romance Novels - Book Set

Author : Stendhal

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 17537 pages

File Size : 39,45 MB

Release : 2023-11-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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This collection of regency romance novels consists of the most loved books of all time, including Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer and many more such stories, which paved the way for modern romance books, TV series and movies: Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) These Old Shades (Georgette Heyer) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Cecilia (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) The Wanderer (Fanny Burney) Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft) Paul and Virginia (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) First Love (Mrs. Loudon) Dilemmas of Pride (Mrs. Loudon) The Yellow Poppy (D. K. Broster) Mr. Rowl (D. K. Broster) The Battle of the Strong (Gilbert Parker) Malcolm (George MacDonald) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) First Love (Ivan Turgenev) A Dash for a Throne (Arthur W. Marchmont) The Wild Irish Girl (Lady Sydney Morgan) Sophia (Stanley John Weyman) Belinda (Maria Edgeworth) Patronage (Maria Edgeworth) Love in Excess (Eliza Haywood) Fantomina (Eliza Haywood) The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood) The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood) Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Mary Hays) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant) Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Pamela (Samuel Richardson) Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood) Shamela (Henry Fielding) Olinda's Adventures (Catharine Trotter Cockburn) The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)



The Greatest Regency Romance Novels

Author : Jane Austen

Publisher : e-artnow

Page : 9989 pages

File Size : 28,82 MB

Release : 2021-02-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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e-artnow presents to you the collection of original regency romance novels - tales of love, lust and pleasure. In the time when the constraining customs and public scrutiny prevailed, there were still rebellious female writers who wrote about the true nature of woman's passion. _x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer)_x000D_ The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer)_x000D_ Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)_x000D_ Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)_x000D_ Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)_x000D_ Evelina (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Cecilia (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ The Wanderer (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Emma (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Persuasion (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant)_x000D_ Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant)_x000D_ Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)_x000D_ Pamela (Samuel Richardson)_x000D_ Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood)_x000D_ Shamela (Henry Fielding)



Historical Romance Novels - Premium Collection

Author : Charlotte Brontë

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 15142 pages

File Size : 40,35 MB

Release : 2023-11-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of historical romance novels, the immortal tales of love, lust, pleasure and betrayal. Content: The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Fantomina (Eliza Haywood) The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood) The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood) Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer) The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer) Belinda (Maria Edgeworth) Patronage (Maria Edgeworth) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Cecilia (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) The Wanderer (Fanny Burney) Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant) Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Pamela (Samuel Richardson) Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood) Shamela (Henry Fielding)