Virgin's Sweet Rebellion


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Caught: Olivia Harrington...with a Chatsfield! On the verge of her big break, nothing can disrupt the premiere of Olivia Harrington's new film. So when the press run the story that reclusive Ben Chatsfield is her latest love interest, Olivia has to go along with the lie! Ben should call 'CUT!' on this charade, but it would be a PR coup for the Chatsfields. Olivia's sophisticated act might fool the media but Ben knows she's hiding an even bigger secret... His leading lady is completely untouched! Something Ben plans to rectify before the credits roll on their fake relationship...




Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance


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Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued interest in what Janice Radway has called "the purity of his maleness." Popular romance novels, perhaps more than any other genre, explore sexuality and gender, creating an ideal space in which to consider and explore theoretical models that think seriously about gender. The romance novel has long been criticized and celebrated by feminist critics. How can these novels maintain, according to some, feminist ideals, while also upholding what Raewyn Connell has long theorized as "hegemonic masculinity"? This volume is an original and important contribution examining the previously underexamined nexus of masculinity and popular romance studies. It will be of key interest to undergraduates and postgraduates in Masculinities, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Literary Studies, and highly relevant to courses in Masculinity Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Queer Studies and Sexuality Studies.




The Virgin Suicides


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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.




Rebel


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"Ms. Brooks delivers romance and page-turning events that entertain and amaze."—Long and Short Erotic Romance Reviews He's Had a Galaxy of Women A refugee of the annihilated planet Zetith, Onca has no family and no surname—only the fortune accrued by selling his prime services in a high-class brothel. When he comes to the rescue of a homeless Zetithian woman, passion flares, but he dares not touch someone who seems so young and innocent... But None Has Touched His Heart Kimcasha has lived by her wits on the streets since the age of ten. When her friends start to go missing, Kim uses herself as bait to find them, but her plans goes awry when Onca intervenes. As they are led into a dangerous underworld, Onca offers to join her crusade to liberate her friends, and Kim cannot refuse... Praise for Wildcat: "Out-of-this-world sexy...the ultimate reading experience."—Long and Short Reviews "Cheryl Brooks has taken the Cat Star Chronicles to a new level."—Night Owl Reviews "Scorching hot...keeps you turning pages."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars




Silver's Rebel


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He makes the rules and she breaks them. Gabriel Silver, a CEO billionaire and seasoned private investigator, lives by a strict set of rules—until Samantha Connors disrupts his orderly world. Sam, a rebellious spirit who mirrors his tragically lost wife, storms into his life, challenging his control and stirring a tumultuous past he's been trying to outrun. Caught in a dangerous crossfire between a client and the mafia, Sam becomes a target, compelling Gabriel to whisk her away to safety, far from the threats looming over her. Sam, seeking an escape from the mundane, finds her match in Gabriel on a night filled with raw, unbridled passion. His commanding presence and experienced allure make him an irresistible temptation, turning what should have been a fleeting encounter into something more profound. Despite her defiant nature, Sam finds herself under Gabriel's protection, her life in the hands of a man she can't seem to resist. Join Sam and Gabe on their romantic, suspenseful adventure as the dynamic duo give into temptation and face secrets from their past in this age-gap billionaire bodyguard romanctic suspense book. Note: Silver’s Rebel is the second novel in the Silver Brothers Securities Family Saga and features hot billionaire brothers, damaged heroes, spicy secrets, brazen heroines, edge-of-your-seat romance, and a happy ending for the couple. Intended for a mature audience. Intended for a mature audience. Originally published as Dazzled by Silver in 2013 (no longer available), the novel was re-written. The character relationship dynamics and their storylines are new.




Uprising


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A single gunshot had shattered a sinister silence and eight bayonet-bludgeoned militiamen lay dead on Lexington Green in the early dawn of April 19, 1775. So begins William E. Johnson’s fifth in a series of six historical novels about British subjects discovering they had become Americans. It is another mug of colonial intrigue brimming with sex, scandal, spies, and soldiers. More than ten thousand colonists lay siege to nearly four thousand British soldiers in Boston. Meanwhile, John Hancock and Sam Adams join the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia where they connive and conspire against the blatant tyranny of the British Crown. When spies and assassins invade Philadelphia, American history stands at a defining moment. Once again, the heart of this saga lies in the bosom of the common man — candlemakers, cobblers, sailors, soldiers, silversmiths, tailors, trollops, bartenders, ropemakers, doctors, and drunks. Every tyrannical declaration made in London had a disastrous impact on every American colonist. This is their story...and ours. Travel back in time as you settle back near the hearth in the Snug Harbor Tavern taproom with a mug of hot buttered rum or dark ale. You now witness the bloody beginning of the American Revolution in Lexington in the first page of UPRISING.




Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series


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Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England


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Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.




Rebel Daughters


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This study analyzes the ironic nature of the social treatment of women during the French Revolution. While the allegorical figure of womanhood came to symbolize the virtues of the new French Republic, the book describes how women in France were continually repressed and down-trodden.




The Rebellion Record


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