Download or read book The Spanish Love Deception written by Elena Armas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work. Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister's wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year. That would certainly be tomorrow's headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call. Four weeks wasn't a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic-from NYC and all the way to Spain-for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along with my charade. But that didn't mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6'4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me, Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. See? Outrageous. Aggravating. Blood boiling. And much to my total despair, also right. Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister's wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie? Like my abuela would say, que dios nos pille confesados.The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating.

Download or read book Love in Spain written by Martha Perry Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The News from Spain written by Joan Wickersham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the Year The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.

Download or read book Only in Spain written by Nellie Bennett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don't' you...run away with the gypsies? Ten-hour shifts in a high-end department store and catering to snooty customers...Nellie Bennett's life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. But maybe all she needs to do is infuse a little passion into her routine—through flamenco dance lessons, for instance. What Nellie doesn't realize is that flamenco is not just a dance—it's a way of life that seems much more enticing than her depressing retail gig. So she packs her suede dance shoes and leaves everything she knows behind, flying halfway around the world to seek the authentic experience in Seville, where the dark-eyed gypsy boys and mouth-watering tapas are enough to make Nellie want to stay in Spain forever. And why shouldn't she? Only in Spain is a foot-stomping, full-on firecracker of a memoir—crackling with energy, food, dance, gypsies, and love—that will capture your heart with the first "Olé!" "A vivid, entertaining memoir...Bennett had me itching to pack my bag and join her."—Ann Vanderhoof, author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes and The Spice Necklace

Download or read book Love and the Spanish written by Nina Epton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kinky Gazpacho written by Lori L. Tharps and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's experiences living in Spain as a young black woman, where she learns about the country's racial prejudices against blacks and falls in love with a Spaniard.

Download or read book Live Love Spain written by Isabelle Crosbie and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open yourself to a superbly visual account of historical Spanish cities and festivals such as the Dia de la Cruces in Granada and from Cordoba, la Fiesta de los Patios. Walk the sandy streets of El Rocio, enter ancient and modern cathedrals and explore Alcazars; feel cool coastal breezes and then the white heat of the Pueblos Blancos. Travel through open countryside and the wide expanse of Spain to share a journey. From a first hand perspective of living every moment under the sun during a five week sojourn through Espana, may you too, experience from your discoveries amidst these pages, a love for the zest of life that is Espana.

Download or read book Love Customs in Eighteenth century Spain written by Carmen Martín Gaite and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was customary for the wife of a nobleman in eighteenth-century Spain to be courted fervently and seemingly forever, by a man who was not her husband. This liaison, accepted and even encouraged by the husband, was presumably platonic, though that may not always have been the case. It was carried on according to a complex, if ambiguous, code of companionship and whispered conversation. With the help of a lively blend of archival documents and literary sources, Carmen Martín Gaite admits us to the intricacies of the code and unravels its significance for the women who enjoyed the attention of a cortejo, or escort. Why was the cortejo tolerated, by society and by the woman's aristocratic family, even though it infringed traditional religious precepts? What did woman and her friend talk about at such length? Was their flirtation intellectual, reflecting the effects of Enlightenment rationalism on Spanish culture? Letters, memoirs, and travel journals as well as dramatic works of the period offer invaluable clues to the nature of these relationships, in which the woman was almost ritually adored and placed on a pedestal. The conversation, we learn, was generally frivolous, focusing on possessions and luxuries in a way that clearly signals economic change and the dawn of a material age. At the same time, the cortejo did represent a taste of symbolic liberation for women whose social lives were rigidly constrained. Clarifying details from a great variety of historical sources are presented with the urgency and fluidity of a novel in this excellent English translation -- Book jacket.

Download or read book From Spain with Love written by Roberta Cardew and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this virtual trip to Spain, you'll learn how to make exquisitely easy quilts with all the warmth of the Mediterranean culture. Master the art of using color with the color lessons in each project. These patterns are scrap-friendly too, so delve into your stash!

Download or read book Love Religion and Politics in Fifteenth Century Spain written by Ian MacPherson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Macpherson and Angus MacKay have collaborated on many occasions, and the sixteen articles brought together in this volume provide insights into the complex relationships between real life and imaginative writing in this turbulent period of Spanish history.

Download or read book Madness Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain written by Marta Manrique Gomez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Spanish writers of the 19th and 20th century define and represent madness, a basic and controversial aspect of world culture, and how do the different conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, politics, and other literary themes in Spanish society? This multi-author book analyzes the theme of madness in formative masterpieces of Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th century through the use of relevant critical and theoretical approaches. In this context, authors studied in this book include Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Caterina Albert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel de Unamuno, and Juan Goytisolo, among others.

Download or read book Courtship Customs in Postwar Spain written by Carmen Martín Gaite and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She calls attention to the hypocrisy of the system, to the image versus the reality, and to how certain watchwords like "rationing" and "restriction" went beyond their economic applications to touch on personal behavior and attitudes." "Themes she touches on in the nine chapters (and epilogue) include proper dress and behavior for women; a young woman's limited future; the influence of the Falange (Fascist) party on society and on individual behaviour; the "rebel" girl; family life; sex; cinema and the Spaniard; and courtship and the stages of relationship."

Download or read book With Love from Spain Melanie Martin written by Carol Weston and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of the popular Melanie Martin books finds Melanie in Spain—and caught up in her first romance! Dear Diary, All of us are excited about this vacation, but Mom might be too excited. Mel is back and off to Spain, the land of bullfights, flamenco, and Picasso. But this is no ordinary vacation—the Martins are visiting Mom’s old boyfriend. Mel’s worried that Mom might still have feelings for Antonio . . . until she meets Antonio’s son, Miguel, who’s almost exactly Mel’s age—and cute! So instead of spying on Mom for Dad, she ends up getting pretty distracted herself. . . .

Download or read book Love in Spanish written by Karina Halle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion to the highly emotional, scandalous and USA Today Bestselling love story - Love, in English - is finally here! LOVE, IN SPANISH is a sequel about 60K words, told from Mateo Casalles' POV. This is not a "rehash" of LIE and is instead a whole new story about Mateo and Vera on their quest to a happily-ever-after."She sat beside me on the bus and she changed my whole life."Successful, wealthy and absurdly handsome Spanish ex-football player Mateo Casalles seemed like he had it all. A high-society wife, an adorable little girl, and flashy apartments in Madrid and Barcelona only sweetened the deal. But there was more to Mateo than met the eye a life of uncertainty and regret that colored his black and white world.That was until Vera Miles came into his life like a shooting star. Tattooed, wild and young, Vera seemed like Mateo's polar opposite at first. But you can't choose who you fall in love with and the two lost souls did everything they could to be together, all while suffering the grave consequences.Now with Mateo divorced and living in Madrid with Vera, there is a whole new set of challenges and setbacks facing the couple and rocking the foundation of their star-crossed relationship.Unfortunately for them, the brighter the star, the faster they burn.

Download or read book The Spanish House written by Cherry Radford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '5 stars An absolutely delightful and captivating read!' – Lucy Coleman, bestselling author of Summer in Andalucia 'A delightful, romantic and moving adventure. I enjoyed every moment... A delicious slice of golden escapism.' – Louise Douglas, bestselling author of The House by the Sea One bizarre to-do list to earn her inheritance. One Spanish summer. One huge family secret. Juliana makes a modest living as an 'ethnic' TV/film extra – even though the only connections with her Spanish heritage are her cacti, Spanish classes, and some confused memories of a Spanish mother she hasn't seen since she was seven. When her beloved Uncle Arturo offers her the chance to discover her roots while housesitting his coastal home in a quiet corner of Andalusia, Juliana can't believe her luck. Especially when he reveals that the house will be hers if she fulfils ten life-enhancing 'Conditions' within 90 days. Redecoration of the house and a visit to the old film studio where her mother used to sew costumes seem ridiculously simple tasks for such a wonderful reward. But little does Juliana realise that there are family secrets and inherited rivalries awaiting her in sunny Spain, and the condition that she has to 'get on with the neighbours' – who include a ruggedly handsome but moody artist – may be harder than she thinks. The perfect escapist read for fans of Rosanna Ley, Jo Thomas and Sue Moorcroft. Readers love The Spanish House! 'I could not put this down... fantastic writing, fantastic plot development and I just loved the main character.' Reader review 'Gorgeous romantic escapism that you won't want to miss!' Holly Martin, bestselling author of Sunlight Over Crystal Sands 'WoW! This book was simply a joy to read!' Reader review 'Loved this enjoyable book!' Reader review 'Funny, cute and intriguing.' Reader review 'Beautiful... One cannot resist wishing to visit Spain after reading this splendid book... heartwarming.' Reader review 'Wonderful book, that I would recommend to anyone.' Reader review 'Light and heart warming read set in a beautiful location.' Reader review 'A beautifully written story. The description of Spain made the reader feel like they were there with Juliana.' Reader review 'A great summer read!' Reader review 'This is a great book! Well written, complex storyline with various moving parts... Would so recommend this amazing read!' Reader review 'Absolutely loved this sweet romance.' Reader review 'Just right for a summer read... although it would be delightful to spend time in Spain in the middle of the winter!' Reader review 'Such a gorgeous read!!!! Gorgeous!! The character build up is fantastic and I couldn't put it down.' Reader review

Download or read book Marriage for One written by Ella Maise and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only way to secure her dream is to marry a handsome stranger . . . When Rose and Jack meet, she has just lost her uncle, and with him her dream of owning a coffee shop. Rose wanted nothing more than to open a café in her uncle’s building. But her uncle’s will is clear – the building goes to Rose’s husband. Not to her. Then, his lawyer, Jack, offers an unusual solution… she can marry him. She’ll get the café and he’ll get the building. For some reason, Rose agrees. It might be a marriage of convenience but it’s anything but simple. Despite it being his idea, Jack is unbearably surly... But then he does something that shows Rose he might just have a softer side. Maybe love can start with a contract… but will Rose still feel that way when she learns the full terms of their deal?

Download or read book Ghosts of Spain written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent odyssey through Spain's dark history journeys into the heart of the Spanish Civil War to examine the causes and consequences of a painful recent past, as well as its repercussions in terms of the discovery of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads and the lives of modern-day Spaniards. Reprint.