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In Restoration England, during the reign of Charles II, Alicia, a young tavern maid with a mysterious background, is asked to pose as Lady Charlotte Bellamy, heiress to the Bellerose estate, and to marry Lord Geoffrey Seavers
Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316129732
In Restoration England, during the reign of Charles II, Alicia, a young tavern maid with a mysterious background, is asked to pose as Lady Charlotte Bellamy, heiress to the Bellerose estate, and to marry Lord Geoffrey Seavers
Author : Michelle Reid
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426872526
Carlo Carlucci won't take no for an answer.The passionate Italian pursues tour guideFrancesca Bernard, who stirs him with her beautyand innocence more than any other woman.But Francesca is also an heiress, and alreadyengaged to a man whom Carlo believes is agold digger. There's only one way he canprotect Francesca—and satisfy his desire—andthat's to claim her for himself, as his wife!
Author : Strawn Dan Strawn
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1426915438
Heroes, a man and his dog, the American landscape, remembered passion, conflict - a dying father and a prodigal son, pioneer journals, reflections of a young boy's Eden, a hooker on a corner in West Oakland, love in all its myriad forms-these are just a few of the stories revealed within the covers of Body of Work, Dan Strawn's personal collection of six decades of Twentieth Century Americana. Strawn tells his stories through the mediums of poems, family history, serious and humorous nonfiction, and short fiction. Take your pick: civil rights, family history, everyday life, or bits of irony served up on a plate of no-holds-barred satire by a self-professed American contradiction: both cynic and patriot. Open the book and read. You will be entertained and informed; you may even come away with a changed perspective about yourself or your world.
Author : Dan Strawn
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1426935374
Heroes, a man and his dog, the American landscape, remembered passion, conflict a dying father and a prodigal son, pioneer journals, reflections of a young boys Eden, a hooker on a corner in West Oakland, love in all its myriad formsthese are just a few of the stories revealed within the covers of Body of Work, Dan Strawns personal collection of six decades of Twentieth Century Americana. Strawn tells his stories through the mediums of poems, family history, serious and humorous nonfiction, and short fiction. Take your pick: civil rights, family history, everyday life, or bits of irony served up on a plate of no-holds-barred satire by a self-professed American contradiction: both cynic and patriot. Open the book and read. You will be entertained and informed; you may even come away with a changed perspective about yourself or your world.
Author : Patricia Waddell
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821769942
Claire Aldrich arrives in San Francisco to stay with her brother and start a new life. But her brother vanishes, and Claire is desperate to find a job that requires a genteel upbringing and no skills. Wealthy banker Garrett Monroe proposes something scandalous--a pretend engagement. But when sparks fly, will their business arrangement lead to the real thing?
Author : Sara Craven
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1867231077
For handsome Italian count Alessio Ramontella, seducing women comes as naturally as breathing. Alessio lives his life based on two criteria: first that success and satisfaction are guaranteed, and second that all his dealings are discreet and conducted between mutually consenting parties. Then he meets innocent English beauty Laura Mason. She’s sweet, tempting...and off-limits. Alessio must decide: should he ruthlessly pursue Laura until she gives in?
Author : Sarah Salih
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916227
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.
Author : C. Harol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1403983658
Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307401936
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.
Author : Donald Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442659297
Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent government officials is increasingly problematic, and that the public service cannot function if it is expected to be both independent of, and subordinate to, elected officials. While the public service attempts to define its own political sphere, the House of Commons is also in flux: the prime minister and his close advisors wield ever more power, and cabinet no longer occupies the policy ground to which it is entitled. Ministers, who have traditionally been able to develop their own roles, have increasingly lost their autonomy. Federal departmental structures are crumbling, giving way to a new model that eschews boundaries in favour of sharing policy and program space with outsiders. The implications of this functional shift are profound, having a deep impact on how public policies are struck, how government operates, and, ultimately, the capacity for accountability.