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Winning Olivia's Heart

Author : Mary Davis

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 187 pages

File Size : 30,62 MB

Release : 2015-06-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460383257

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TROY MORRISON IS THE BIGGEST CATCH IN TOWN Olivia Bradshaw has loved Troy since childhood. And now is her chance with the handsome banker. But when every other woman on San Juan Island is also charmed by his easy manner and good looks, Olivia worries he'll be just like her philandering father. No matter how often Troy professes his love for her alone. When Olivia's family falls on hard times, Troy will do anything to help. Even wed for the sake of their good name. But he knows Liv balks at being forced into marriage. Though Troy's never wanted anything more than to have Olivia by his side, must he set her free to finally capture her heart?



Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : Start Classics

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,76 MB

Release : 2024-03-26

Category : Drama

ISBN :

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Mistaken Identity--Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked. While coming ashore they are separated and she assumes he has drowned. Upon reaching shore Viola decides to disguise herself as a young man. Mistaken identity and romance ensue.'Tis beauty truly blent whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.



Sonnets

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 11,15 MB

Release : 2014-12-16

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1443441554

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Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.



Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Author : Olivia Laing

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 311 pages

File Size : 29,56 MB

Release : 2021-05-04

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0393608786

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"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.



Heart's Desire

Author : Laura Pedersen

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 15,28 MB

Release : 2007-12-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307415465

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Card sharp and former wild child Hallie Palmer is in college now–and Bernard Stockton, her legal guardian, has suddenly appeared during final exams. He’s hysterical about his recent breakup with his longtime boyfriend, Gil, and wants to enlist Hallie in a scheme to win Gil back. So Hallie returns to Cosgrove County, Ohio, for the summer, to her job as live-in yard person for Bernard and his delightfully oddball mother, Olivia. Also present are Ottavio, Olivia’s hot-tempered Italian lover, who’s desperate for a wedding; Rocky, a chimpanzee who’s one Singapore Sling away from an AA meeting for primates; and Hallie’s own ever-expanding family, which she fled as soon as she could slide down the drainpipe. Around town, folks assume that since Hallie isn’t in jail, she clearly has no problems of her own and can therefore tackle theirs. But Hallie has plenty of troubles–a looming tuition bill, gambling temptations, and an ex-boyfriend who’s back in town for the summer to upset any potential if highly unlikely (a girl can dream!) romantic flings. Yet as Hallie and company navigate life’s unexpected paths of games lost and love found, the real truth begins to emerge: With friends, family, and a place to call home, your heart’s desire is always within reach.



Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 31,42 MB

Release : 2013-07-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1107276845

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Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.



The Opportunist

Author : Tarryn Fisher

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 41,79 MB

Release : 2024-11-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0369761995

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The first book in Tarryn Fisher's fan-favorite Love Me with Lies trilogy, The Opportunist is the twisty, unconventional second-chance love story you didn't see coming! When Olivia Kaspen spots her ex-boyfriend in a Miami record shop, she ignores good sense and approaches him. It’s been three years since their breakup, but when Caleb reveals he’s suffering from amnesia after a recent car accident, first she feels regret—and then opportunity. If he doesn't remember her, then he also doesn’t remember her manipulation, her deceit, or the horrible way she broke his heart. Seeing a chance to reunite with Caleb, she keeps their past, and the details around the implosion of their relationship, a secret. Wrestling to keep her true identity and their sordid history under wraps, Olivia’s greatest obstacle is Caleb’s wicked new girlfriend, Leah, who's equally determined to possess the man who no longer remembers her. But soon Olivia must face the consequences of her lies, and in the process discover that sometimes love falls short of redemption.



Olivia

Author : Virginia C. Andrews

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 387 pages

File Size : 40,34 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0671007602

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The lives of two sisters, sensible and reliable Olivia and flighty and beautiful Belinda, are changed forever by "the tragic night that their father would forbid them to speak of ever again."--Jacket



You May Already Be a Winner

Author : Ann Dee Ellis

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 22,18 MB

Release : 2017-07-11

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1101993871

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For fans of Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish and Katherine Applegate’s Crenshaw comes the humorous and heart aching story of one girl’s struggle to keep hope alive for her and her younger sister in Sunny Pines Trailer Park. Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park. But first she has to: · Fix the swamp cooler and make dinner and put Berkeley to bed because her mom is too busy to do all that · Write another letter to her dad even though he hasn’t written back yet · Teach Berk the important stuff, like how to make chalk drawings, because they can’t afford day care and Olivia has to stay home from school to watch her · Petition her oddball neighbors for a circus spectacular, because there needs to be something to look forward to at dumb-bum Sunny Pines · Become a super-secret spy to impress her new friend Bart · Enter a minimum of fourteen sweepstakes a day. Who knows? She may already be a winner! Olivia has thought of everything . . . except herself. Who will take care of her when she needs it? Luckily, somewhere deep down between her small intestine and stomach is a tiny voice reminding her that sometimes people can surprise you—and sometimes your family is right next door.