Author : J. Probst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476780188
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Author : Jennifer Probst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471126064
The sizzling first installment in the New York Timesand USA Today bestselling Marriage to a Billionairetrilogy. To save her family home, impulsive bookshop owner Alexa McKenzie, casts a love spell, which conjures up an unexpected visitor - her best friend's older brother and the powerful man who once shattered her heart. Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn't believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father's corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister's childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he's offers Alexa an interesting proposal... A marriage in name only, the rules? Avoid entanglement. Keep things businesslike. Do notfall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules shouldn't be that hard to follow... Except Fate has a way of upsetting the best laid plans… "Jennifer Probst has proved to be one of the most exciting breakout novelists in the romance genre." - USA Today
Author : Sheryl Browne
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786818966
My husband has been keeping secrets for a long time. He thinks I don't know what he does outside of this house. But I know everything... Karla watches silently as Jason hurriedly packs his belongings into a suitcase. She knows that her stillness is unnerving him as she watches his every move from the doorway of their bedroom. Clothes are screwed up and packed into the case, along with a watch she bought him for his last birthday and his precious laptop. He takes everything from his bedside table. Everything except the framed wedding photo, which now stands alone. Karla strains to see the smiling faces in the photo. If only she knew then what she knows now. 'I've fallen in love with someone else, ' he'd said to her, just moments earlier. The brutality of those words hit Karla hard and she struggled to breathe as she took in each word in turn. You may think you know what Karla will do next. But you'll be wrong. Because Karla isn't who you think she is. Only she knows what's about to happen. And you will never see it coming. An absolutely gripping psychological thriller for readers who loved The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl and The Other Woman. With twists you'll never see coming, you will not be able to put this one down! What readers are saying about Sheryl Browne: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Oh my goodness I can finally breathe!! What an amazing, addictive and totally gripping read this was... you will not be able to put it down!!' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! What a rollercoaster of a ride that story was, bloody brilliant!... If you enjoyed The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl then this story is for you!' Between the Pages Book Club ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Stunning... Gripping, tense and suspenseful... a heart in mouth and pulse-racing realistic thriller... I loved it.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Phew... Goosebumps, shivers down my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end, that's how good this book is.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I'm speechless... It is just amazing.' Rachel's Random Reads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wow!! I was totally taken away with this book from page one.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An unputdownable read. I loved that I had no idea what the author had in store next for me.' By the Letter Book Reviews ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Clear some room in your diary, you will not want to put this down.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I read it in less than a day. I had to know what happened to who and when!!!... 10/10.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Absolutely amazing. Twisted, thrilling and chilling. This book is one you will pick up and not want to put down. A five plus star!' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What a great thriller... This one had so many twists and turns. You honestly don't know what will come next.' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Heart-stopping action with an ending that matched it beautifully.' Goodreads reviewer
Author : Laura E. Thomason
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611485274
Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.
Author : Jennifer Probst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471126137
Carina Conte has had a crush on her brother's best friend since she was a teenager. Having earned an MBA, she is now going to work for her brother Michael at his new venture, America's fastest growing bakery empire. But some things never change: treated as a child by her family, and continuously out-shone by her three gorgeous siblings, Carina still feels like the ugly duckling. Max, the new CEO knows that his friend's little sister is completely off limits, but lust wins out at a conference they attend together - only to be caught at it by her mother! The Italian Mama insists on the two of them marrying, leaving a miserable Max and a furious Carina. Her new husband is about to realise that hell hath no fury like a woman transformed…
Author : Papoo Outland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781542622288
How many times have you heard "Your marriage isn't working, because God isn't in it?" That's an understatement because even people who believe in God, fail in their marriages. Some believers think, that despite the reality of a failing situation, praying and fasting would change the outcome. However, one has to know when to quit otherwise, it becomes a Trap in Disguise. In his time of despair, Papoo went to the Bible for answers. Though answers were inspiring, they did not change the reality of his situations. Depending on what he read in the bible, how it was interpreted and applied to his life, made marriage an Experiment In Individuality To The Tune Of One's Tolerance. In this Tell-All Biblical Soap Opera, Papoo takes you on an emotional roller coaster through the Good, Bad and Ugly of his three marriages. His goal is to present real life marriage problems that you can, perhaps, learn from. And to examine biblical accounts of troubled marriages, with hopes of helping you survive the TRAP.
Author : Jennifer Probst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476744904
“Nonstop sexual tension crackles off the page” (Laura Kaye) in the sizzling final installment in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire saga by Jennifer Probst. Her sisters have found wedded bliss with their wealthy, wonderful dream men, but not Julietta Conte. She’s stayed on terra firma as top executive of the family’s corporation, La Dolce Famiglia bakery. Work is her passion, and her trendy Milan apartment her sanctuary...until Sawyer Wells, a masculine masterpiece in a suit, lures her out of hiding with an irresistible offer: an exclusive partnership with his international chain of boutique hotels. Julietta’s been burned before—and trusting her brother-in-law’s friend, whose powerful gaze alone has her rethinking the best use of a conference room, is the riskiest proposition. But with a once-in-a- career chance to take the bakery global, will she mix stone-cold business with red-hot seduction?
Author : Anne McAllister
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 9780373110995
The Marriage Trap by Anne McAllister released on Jun 24, 1988 is available now for purchase.
Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307510743
A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.
Author : Katherine Franke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1479815748
Compares today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time. Maintaining that the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous for newly emancipated people, Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves’ involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today’s marriage rights movements. While “be careful what you wish for” is a prominent theme, they also teach us how the rights-bearing subject is inevitably shaped by the very rights they bear, often in ways that reinforce racialized gender norms and stereotypes. Franke further illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women. Like same-sex couples today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure. Their experiences teach us the potential and the perils of being subject to legal regulation: rights—and specifically the right to marriage—can both burden and set you free.
