Author : Joan Conquest
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734022851
Reproduction of the original: Desert Love by Joan Conquest
Author : Joan Conquest
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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Author : Jane Rule
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480429406
“A landmark work of lesbian fiction” and the basis for the acclaimed film Desert Hearts (The New York Times). Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her husband of sixteen years. A voluntary exile in a brave new world, she meets a woman who will change her life. Fifteen years younger, Ann Childs works as a change apron in a casino. Evelyn is instantly drawn to the fiercely independent Ann, and their friendship soon evolves into a romantic relationship. An English professor who had always led a conventional life, Evelyn suddenly finds all her beliefs about love, morality, and identity called into question. Peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters, this is a novel that dares to ask whether love between two women can last.
Author : Flora Warren Seymour
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Cathy Williams
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369707338
She could never forget him—because her child is the sheikh’s heir! USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams thrills with this royal reunion romance! His nation needed a king… Her revelation makes her his queen Everything changed the minute Crown Prince Abbas was suddenly forced to assume the role of ruler. When chance reunites him with the woman he had to leave behind, he learns two things: she’s still utterly enchanting and he’s a father! Georgie’s reeling from the shock of discovering that Abe’s royalty when he insists they marry. The passion that brought them together is undeniable but so is the pain of his swift exit from her world. Abe wants her as his queen…but does he truly want her as his wife? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816510818
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Author : Tracie Peterson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493437275
Can she reconcile who she's become with who she's meant to be? Accustomed to an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in her parents' small silver-mining desert town, leaving her handsome beau, Diego Morales, behind in California. Adding insult to injury, she must bear the company of Aaron Bailey, the disapproving Santa Fe Railroad businessman her father has sent to escort her home, who clearly finds her spoiled. But she is surprised to see how much the town of Silver Veil has grown and how fragile her father's health has become. Then a surprise visitor shows up with news that entirely upends the comfortable life she's been leading. Faced with all these changes, Isabella struggles to sort through her future and who she wants to be. But trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope she stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything.
Author : Keki N. Daruwalla
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143417320
The iconic title story of this collection narrates how Najab defies his father, the international border between India and Pakistan and the hostile salt desert of the Rann of Kutch for Fatimah. In ‘When Gandhi Came to Gorakhpur’ Shadilal, a small-time lawyer, dithers over giving up his profession and joining the freedom struggle until his mind is made up for him. And when Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni stints on a few silver coins for the poet Abul Qasim, he is visited by terrible nightmares in ‘Of Abul Qasim’. Love across the Salt Desert, which brings together a selection of Keki Daruwalla’s best-received short fiction, presents thematic variety and stunning breadth of vision. His prose is witty, precise and shot through with a unique poetic sensibility. These stories establish Daruwalla, one of India’s best-known poets, as a daring and gifted practitioner of short fiction. Son, have you brought anything? he asked, an edge of iron deliberately introduced into his voice. Yes, replied Najab, as he ushered Fatimah in. The rain stormed down and swept away three years of drought.
Author : F. R. Chateaubriand
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1605202975
At the moment when I was sealing my vows with a gentle kiss, to which Atala at this time made but a feeble resistance, a rapid stream of lightning, followed by a tremendous clap of thunder, filled all the forest with sulphur and light, and shivered a tree at our feet. We fled, trembling with fright. But oh, wonderful! in the calm which succeeded this shock, we head the sound of a bell!We both stood speechless and listened to this noise, so extraordinary in such a wilderness... from AtalaNow considered the father of French literary Romanticism, Fran ois-Ren Chateaubriand was still unknown as an author when he published Atala in 1801, but the sensation it caused skyrocketed him to fame.The story of doomed Indian lovers in 17th-century America, where Catholicism was taking hold and beginning to impassion natives, it is a celebration of nature and innocence, romance and religious feeling.Hard to find in print, this classic of the fiction of early America is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper appreciation of 19th-century literature.French writer, diplomat, and politician FRAN OIS-REN, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND (1768 1848) is also the author of Ren (1802) and Les Martyrs (1809), among other works. A passionate epicure, he lent his name to the cut of beef tenderloin now known as Chateaubriand.
Author : Liz Macintyre
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0750979356
When Liz Macintyre's mother died she found a collection of 300 letters from her father Alex, spanning his service in Italy and Egypt in the Second World War. His career began in 1940 sailing down the west coast of Africa, then up to Egypt, and the next few years were spent chasing Rommel and the Afrika Corps all over North Africa. By 1943 he was in mainland Italy, where he spent the rest of the war. Beautifully written, Alex's letters offer an intimate account of war from a regular ' desert rat' and cover such daily matters as football, insects and sandstorms alongside accounts of survival in the Italian mountains, escape during the retreat at Tobruk, and leave in Cairo and Palestine. Nan wrote as many letters to Alex as he wrote to her, but he had a ritual of burning the letters as he went so that he would not have to carry them with him and sadly none have survived. However, Alex's letters often answer her questions point by point so the reader can easily envisage Nan's feelings as well as following Alex's personal account of war.
