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Their made-for-the-media match... ... is about to turn real!
Author : Sophie Pembroke
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008903670
Their made-for-the-media match... ... is about to turn real!
Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765329107
From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Author : Amanda Cinelli
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008920486
From personal assistant...to stand-in bride! With his first bride stolen at the altar, Greek CEO Xander needs a replacement, fast! Only his secretary Pandora – the woman he holds responsible for ruining his wedding day – will do... But her touch sparks unforeseen desire...
Author : Jane Porter
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408974029
She’s everything this desert king shouldn’t want...
Author : Emily Croy Barker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101585579
An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
Author : Ted Striphas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231148151
Here, the author assesses our modern book culture by focusing on five key elements including the explosion of retail bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, and the formation of the Oprah Book Club.
Author : Paul Verhaeghe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429915926
The first essay, "The Impossible Couple", is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman. In the second essay, "Fleeing Fathers", the author demonstrates that today the Freudian Oedipus complex has disappeared, with a resulting shattering of classic gender roles. Post-modern morals are strange compared to previous morality, because they convey an obligation to enjoy. Things become even stranger when one finds that the expected enjoyment fails to come and, instead of that, we are faced with boredom, anxiety, and anger. The author reconsiders the opposition between Eros and Thanatos as an opposition between two forms of sexual pleasure. The fact that this opposition is ever present in heterosexual love demonstrates that gender differentiation goes beyond temporal cultural forms. Accessibly written and provocatively argued, Love in a Time of Loneliness is a polemic whose very informality belies its serious intent. In these three fascinating essays, The author leaves the ordinary paths of thinking and sets out to discover what drives us in sex and love.
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Coal miners
ISBN :
"King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner"--OCLC.
Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061835579
“The book casts a curiously sweet spell.” – Entertainment Weekly Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria must choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of true love.
Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1847651402
Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.