Download or read book A TAINTED BEAUTY written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily’s house has been sold by her stepmother and she has to move out right away. The buyer is a gorgeous man named Ciro. But she’s certain his charming mask is hiding a coldhearted businessman. Unexpectedly, he visits her right before she must move out and invites her to dinner. Then he offers to pay her brother’s college tuition and asks her to marry him! She’s been shying away from men ever since she made love to and was promptly dumped by her ex-fianc?, yet she begins to think that Ciro is a man she can trust… Until she learns after the wedding that what Ciro was dreaming about was a “pure” bride.

Download or read book A TAINTED BEAUTY written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily’s house has been sold by her stepmother and she has to move out right away. The buyer is a gorgeous man named Ciro. But she’s certain his charming mask is hiding a coldhearted businessman. Unexpectedly, he visits her right before she must move out and invites her to dinner. Then he offers to pay her brother’s college tuition and asks her to marry him! She’s been shying away from men ever since she made love to and was promptly dumped by her ex-fianc?, yet she begins to think that Ciro is a man she can trust… Until she learns after the wedding that what Ciro was dreaming about was a “pure” bride.

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Download or read book Under Rose Tainted Skies written by Louise Gornall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl must grapple with her agoraphobia as romance blossoms with her new neighbor in this YA novel—“a poignant work, infused with humor” (School Library Journal). Seventeen-year-old Norah Dean hasn’t left the house in years. Her agoraphobia and OCD are so intense that when groceries are left on the porch, she can’t even step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He’s sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can’t leave the house, but can she let someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl. One who can lie on the front lawn and look up at the stars. One who isn’t so screwed up. Readers themselves will fall in love with Norah in this deeply engaging portrait of a teen struggling to find the strength to face her demons.

Download or read book Tainted Angel written by Anne Cleeland and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deadly Game of Deception Notorious and beautiful, Vidia Swanson works as an "angel," trying to coax incriminating secrets from powerful men who may or may not be traitors of the Crown. Her latest target is suspected of stealing gold from Wellington's troops, but matters take an alarming turn when Vidia realizes that her spymaster thinks she is the one who is tainted—a double agent working for Napoleon. Backed into a corner, she can only hope to stay one step ahead of the hangman in a race to stop the next war before it destroys her—and destroys England. Tainted Angel offers up a compelling game of cat and mouse in which no one can be trusted and anyone can be tainted. "Espionage and passion—Regency style—burning up the pages from chapter one."—New York Times bestselling author Raine Miller "A world of spies and traitors where no one is quite what they seem and the truth is only true for a moment...a thrilling take that will keep you guessing until the very last page."—Victoria Thompson, author of Murder in Chelsea

Download or read book A Great and Terrible Beauty written by Libba Bray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Diviners series comes the first installment of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy – a dark and eerie supernatural period drama. It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in British India to Spence Academy, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception at Spence is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man who has been sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls – and their foray into the spiritual world – lead to?

Download or read book The Tainted written by Cauvery Madhavan and published by Hoperoad. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base on the true story of the Irish Connaught Rangers in India and a story of the Anglo Indian community.

Download or read book Ugly Beauty written by Ruth Brandon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L’Oréal. Brandon’s gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches back from the darkest days of World War II, to the emergence of the modern fashion and makeup industries, with magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan and game-changing product lines such as Avon and Mary Kay. Ugly Beauty resonates as well with its implications for modern culture, as we enter an era when haute couture and cosmetology exert an ever more powerful influence upon society at large.

Download or read book Of Beast and Beauty written by Stacey Jay and published by Ember. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Beauty became the Beast? Discover a new angle on the classic fairytale in this fantasy retelling that's perfect for anyone who can't get enough of Beauty and the Beast. In the city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra is raised to be a human sacrifice. Her death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert, a mutant beast named Gem fights to save his people, known as the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that, together, they can return balance to their worlds. When Gem is captured for trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, he becomes a prisoner of the city. Isra enlists his help, and soon begins to care for him—and to question everything she has been brought up to believe. . . . “Engrossing tale . . . [an] intense love story.” —Kirkus Reviews “The bones of the classic Beauty and the Beast story are all here, imaginatively fleshed out with tropes from science fiction, fantasy, and even political drama.” —The Bulletin, Recommended “Jay’s characters are well-realized . . . [the] setup is intriguing and her writing assured.” —Publishers Weekly “Revelations and plot twists keep the action flowing and romance growing. . . . A satisfying read for fans of romantic fantasy.” —School Library Journal

Download or read book Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance written by Scott Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionary study of Ezra Pound's poetics, Scott Hamilton exposes the extent of the modernist poet's debt to the French romantic and symbolist traditions. Whereas previous critics have focused on a single influence, Hamilton explores a broad spectrum of French poets, including Thophile Gautier, Tristan Corbire, Jules Laforgue, Remy de Gourmont, Henri de Rgnier, Jules Romains, Laurent Tailhade, Paul Verlaine, and Stphane Mallarm. This exploration of Pound's canon demonstrates his logic in borrowing from the French tradition as well as a paradoxical circularity to his poetic development. Hamilton begins by explaining how Pound read Gautier's poetry as an example of Parnassianism and of the "satirical realism" of Flaubert and the modern novelistic tradition. He reveals, however, a crucial blind spot in Pound's poetic vision that facilitated his return to precisely those romantic and proto-symbolist elements in Gautier that were celebrated by Baudelaire and Mallarm, and that Pound, as a modern poet, felt obliged to repress. Arguing that Pound's response to symbolism was not specifically modernist, Hamilton shows how his dual attraction to the lyric and prose traditions, to symbolism and realism, and to the visionary and the historical helps us better to understand our own post-modern sensibility. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Bloodstained Beauty written by Ella Fields and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of college and headed straight for my dream job, I didn't think things could get any better.Then I met my dream man. In an instant, my happy ever after had begun.The life I'd stumbled into was beautiful, and the man I loved was perfect. But perfection comes at a cost, and I'd slumbered through all the alarms. Then I met my nightmare. The man whose bright eyes held untamed darkness. The man who disarmed me with his peculiar behavior. The man whose cold, merciless hands shook me awake. In an instant, questions started to dismantle my happy ever after.But whoever said the truth would set you free was wrong.It wasn't going to repair the cracks in my naive heart. It wasn't going to caress my face with comforting hands and reassure me it was all just a dream.No, the truth shoved me down a rabbit hole, and I landed in the lair of a real-life monster.

Download or read book Selling Beauty written by Morag Martin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practices of beauty -- A market for beauty -- Advertising beauty -- Maligning beauty -- Domesticating beauty -- Selling natural artifice -- Selling the orient -- Selling masculinity.

Download or read book Ghost Letters written by Asa Ray Henson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two from the original seller, Unsettled and Unsaid. Take a look into a continuation of the story that is more focused and driven. This book follows from the beginning of U&U, allowing readers to take a look into real life thoughts. It is a story about growing and becoming somebody that understands her rights from wrongs, and every day life lessons. Between the ups and downs of a natural relationship, words create patterns to tell of appreciation for love and life.

Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Hannah Howell and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print after 14 years, this fiercely passionate tale by Howell is the story of a beautiful woman who finds herself betrothed to a knight with a face scarred in battle and a heart broken by love. Now in a specially priced edition.

Download or read book The Force of Beauty written by Holly Grout and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards of womanhood, The Force of Beauty goes beyond the narrative of beauty culture as a tool for sociopolitical subjugation to show how it also targeted women as important consumers in major markets and created new avenues by which they could express their identities and challenge or reinforce gender norms. As cosmetics companies and cultural media, from magazines to novels to cinema, urged women to aspire to commercial standards of female perfection, beauty evolved as a goal to be pursued rather than a biological inheritance. The products and techniques that enabled women to embody society's feminine ideal also taught them how to fashion their bodies into objects of desire and thus offered a subversive tool of self-expression. Holly Grout explores attempts by commercial beauty culture to reconcile a standard of respectability with female sexuality, as well as its efforts to position French women within the global phenomenon of changing views on modern womanhood. Grout draws on a wide range of primary sources-hygiene manuals, professional and legal debates about the right to fabricate and distribute "medicines," advertisements for beauty products, and contemporary fiction and works of art-to explore how French women navigated changing views on femininity. Her seamless integration of gender studies with business history, aesthetics, and the history of medicine results in a textured and complex study of the relationship between the politics of womanhood and the politics of beauty.

Download or read book The Search for Beauty in Islam written by Khaled Abou El Fadl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through a "conference of the books," an imagined conference of Muslim intellects from centuries past, Abou El Fadl examines the ugliness that has come to plague Muslim realities and attempts to reclaim what he maintains is a core moral value in Islam-the value of beauty. Does Islamic law allow, or even call for, the gruesome acts of ugliness that have become so commonly associated with Islam today? Has Islam become a religion devoid of beauty, compassion and love? Based on actual cases, this book tackles different issues and problems in each chapter through a post-9/11 lens, discussing such topics as marriage, divorce, parental rights, the position of women, the veil, sexual abuse, wife-beating, terrorism, bigotry, morality, law, and the role of tradition. Abou El Fadl argues that the rekindling of the forgotten value of beauty is essential for Muslims today to take back what has been lost to the fundamentalist forces that have denigrated their religion.

Download or read book Yvolved written by Yvy DeLuca and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yvy spent her life discovering what it meant to live authentically, and realised that her truth lay in her identity as an Indian transgender woman. After discovering who she was, Yvy ensured that nothing would impede her from evolving into the woman she always knew she was, despite her upbringing in a Muslim community and the many obstacles she faced, as her journey took her to places she never thought she’d venture to. As the continuing story from Tainted Beauty, Yvy takes you even deeper, reliving her experiences with relationships, culture, family and finding strength through adversity. Yvolved is a personal, intimate and unapologetic story of a woman who is not afraid to break the social construct of gender and affirm her queer identity.