Download or read book Malibu Desires written by Kathleen Adele Cunningham and published by K.A. Cunningham. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kandi Jones, a young woman from Pennsylvania embarks on an exciting journey to Malibu, California. She seeks to fulfill a life long dream since childhood vacationing there with her parents. Kandi has high expectations for her future there in a new postion at a prestigious Hotel. There are many wonderful and unexpected encounters that culminate after she arrives. Kandi is faced with memories of the past that keep surfacing that challenges her emotions. Will she find a magical new future or will it turn out to be a whirlwind of a misadventure? Malibu Desires: Recipes for romance serves up adventure and tugs at the heart longing for opportunities to surprise and delight making this a heartwarming and enchanting read.

Download or read book Malibu Desires written by Kathleen Adele Cunningham and published by K.A. Cunningham. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kandi Jones, a young woman from Pennsylvania embarks on an exciting journey to Malibu, California. She seeks to fulfill a life long dream since childhood vacationing there with her parents. Kandi has high expectations for her future there in a new postion at a prestigious Hotel. There are many wonderful and unexpected encounters that culminate after she arrives. Kandi is faced with memories of the past that keep surfacing that challenges her emotions. Will she find a magical new future or will it turn out to be a whirlwind of a misadventure? Malibu Desires: Recipes for romance serves up adventure and tugs at the heart longing for opportunities to surprise and delight making this a heartwarming and enchanting read.

Download or read book Deadly Desire written by Robert Colby and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love...or murder -- all it takes is two... "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne... Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." -- Peter Enfantino "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." -- Ed Gorman

Download or read book Malibu Rising written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Parade, Teen Vogue, Self, She Reads • “Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad.”—People Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever. Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface. Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.

Download or read book Harlequin Desire February 2021 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Joanne Rock and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: The Heir Dynasties: Mesa Falls By USA TODAY bestselling Joanne Rock To learn the truth about the orphaned boy she’s raising, Nicole Cruz takes a job at Mesa Falls ranch. Co-owner Desmond Pierce has his own suspicions, and vows to provide for them. But he never expected the complication of a red-hot attraction to Nicole… Seducing His Secret Wife Redhawk Reunion By USA TODAY bestselling author Robin Covington A steamy tryst leads to a quickie Vegas wedding for notorious CEO playboy Justin Ling and his best friend’s sister, Sarina Redhawk. Then, to please investors and their disapproving families, they continue a fake relationship. Are their feelings becoming all too real? Twice the Temptation Red Dirt Royalty By Silver James After a hurricane traps storm chaser Brittany Owens with tempting Cooper Tate, tension turns to passion. But Cooper turns out to be her boss! As their paths keep crossing, can she keep her promise to remain professional, especially when she learns she’s pregnant—with twins? For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s February 2021 Box Set 1 of 2.

Download or read book Landscapes of Desire written by William Alexander McClung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

Download or read book Harlequin Desire September 2014 Bundle 1 of 2 written by Sara Orwig and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! Look for Harlequin® Desire’s September 2014 Bundle 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! A TEXAN IN HER BED (Lone Star Legends) By USA TODAY bestselling author Sara Orwig When Texas billionaire Wyatt Milan learns that stunning TV personality Destiny Jones intends to stir up a century-long family feud, his plan to stop her leads to a seduction that threatens his guarded heart. REUNITED WITH THE LASSITER BRIDE (Dynasties: The Lassiters) By USA TODAY bestselling author Barbara Dunlop Angelica Lassiter thought she’d lost Evan forever after her grandfather’s will wrecked their engagement. But when their best friends’ wedding forces them to walk down the aisle—as best man and maid of honor—sparks fly! NOT THE BOSS'S BABY (The Beaumont Heirs) By Sarah M. Anderson Chadwick Beaumont is tired of doing what everyone wants him to do. It's time he did what he wanted. And he wants his secretary, Serena Chase—pregnant or not!

Download or read book Waikiki Dreams written by Patrick Moser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in Waikīkī attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for all its charms, emerged from a white impulse to both remove and replace Indigenous peoples. Moser traces the rise of beach culture through the lives of trendsetters Tom Blake, John “Doc” Ball, Preston “Pete” Peterson, Mary Ann Hawkins, and Lorrin “Whitey” Harrison while also delving into California’s control over images of Native Hawaiians via movies, tourism, and the surfboard industry. Compelling and innovative, Waikīkī Dreams opens up the origins of a defining California subculture.

Download or read book Untamed written by Glennon Doyle and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire • Bloomberg • Parade • “Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love This is how you find yourself. There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves. For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is. Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

Download or read book Peripheral Desires written by Robert Deam Tobin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical establishment in German-speaking central Europe—and observes how consistently these writers, thinkers, and scientists associated the new nonnormative sexualities with places away from the German metropoles of Berlin and Vienna. In the writings of Aimée Duc and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Switzerland figured as a place for women in particular to escape the sexual confines of Germany. The sexual ethnologies of Ferdinand Karsch-Haack and the popular novels of Karl May linked nonnormative sexualities with the colonies and, in particular, with German Samoa. Same-sex desire was perhaps the most centrifugal sexuality of all, as so-called Greek love migrated to numerous places and peoples: a curious connection between homosexuality and Hungarian nationalism emerged in the writings of Adalbert Stifter and Karl Maria Kerbeny; Arnold Zweig built on a long and extremely well-developed gradation of associating homosexuality with Jewishness, projecting the entire question of same-sex desire onto the physical territory of Palestine; and Thomas Mann, of course, famously associated male-male desire with the fantastically liminal city of Venice, lying between land and sea, Europe and the Orient. As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.

Download or read book The Depth of Desire written by Jill Blair and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [BookStrand Contemporary Romance, HEA] Sarah Templeton suffered a heart-wrenching betrayal and loss, convincing her that love should always come second to her career and subsequent independence. Now, years later, Sarah travels to see her brother's best friend and surrogate brother, David Maddex, at his top-rated dive resort on the tropical island of Cozumel. She hopes her vacation in the land of the hot sun will not only deliver fantastic diving but also warm her cool heart for her traveling companion, the man she's been dating for several weeks. When overbooking necessitates Sarah share David's oceanfront suite, his new relaxed, beach-bum persona and tan, muscular body has her feeling less-than-sisterly sensations for her old friend. Propriety and fear have her initially fighting the sizzling fantasies plaguing her dreams and thoughts, but Sarah soon succumbs to the all-consuming desire erupting within her...forcing her to decide how much she's willing to risk for love. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

Download or read book The Consequences of Desire written by Dennis Hathaway and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding. In "Counting Mercedes-Benzes," Marshall is a directionless young man who believes he can escape his parents' Beverly Hills lifestyle by marrying for love. He fails to realize, however, that the woman he thinks he loves, his mother's Hispanic maid Geneveva, has little in common with the person he imagines her to be. The title story concerns a corporate lawyer who was a radical at Berkeley in the sixties. By chance he runs into his lover from that time and discovers how far the two have traveled in the intervening years. In "Lost in Rancho Mirage," Denton is a young man who might "have been picking up garbage or digging ditches if his grandfather hadn't left his (Denton's) father a piece of real estate that turned out to be directly in the path of a freeway." He must come to terms with the fact that he can never fully possess his beautiful girlfriend: "The imaginary sunlight bathing Jill, he realized, was a microcosm of a world in which she would always be the center; he would always be standing a little off, in a shadow, where he belonged." The need to overcome reality often becomes an obsession for these characters. In "Space and Light," an architect's realization that a former protege has surpassed him both financially and artistically prompts him to attempt something wholly original for the first time, a project that leads him down an inexorable path to madness, to a darkness from which there is literally no escape. In "The Girl Detective," Justine's disappointment over her first sexual experience is juxtaposed to her resentment at being born a girl. To her, being a girl means "always wanting to be something different, someone else, unable to accept the facts that some of her friends seemed to consider, amazingly, a stroke of the utmost fortune." In the aftermath of her surrender to passion on the grass of the municipal golf course, she indulges her childish fantasy of being a private eye—"not Nancy Drew but Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, even the virulent, violent Mike Hammer." Set mainly in California, these stories portray a world where dreams come into conflict with reality, where perception fills the space between truth and fiction, logic and emotion, fantasy and disaster.

Download or read book The Boundaries of Desire written by Eric Berkowitz and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fast–moving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity. Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the "sexual revolution" and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance – on the left and right –– more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catch–all solutions.

Download or read book In The Desert Of Desire written by William L. Fox and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this context, Fox examines how Las Vegas’s culture of spectacle has obscured the boundaries between high art and entertainment extravaganza, nature and fantasy, for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. His purview ranges from casino art galleries—including Steve Wynn’s private collection and a branch of the famed Guggenheim Museum—to the underfunded Las Vegas Art Museum; from spectacular casino animal collections like those of magicians Siegfried and Roy and Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef exhibit to the city’s lack of support for a viable public zoo; from the environmental and psychological impact of lavish water displays in the arid desert to the artistic ambiguities intrinsic to Las Vegas’s floating world of showgirls, lapdancers, and ballet divas. That Las Vegas represents one of the world’s most opulent displays of private material wealth in all its forms, while providing miserly funding for local public amenities like museums and zoos, is no accident, Fox maintains. Nor is it unintentional that the city’s most important collections of art and exotic fauna are presented in the context of casino entertainment, part of the feast of sensation and excitement that seduces millions of visitors each year. Instead, this phenomenon shows how our insatiable modern appetite for extravagance and spectacle has diminished the power of unembellished nature and the arts to teach and inspire us, and demonstrates the way our society privileges private benefit over public good. Given that Las Vegas has been a harbinger of national cultural trends, Fox’s commentary offers prescient insight into the increasing commercialization of nature and culture across America.

Download or read book Harlequin Desire July 2021 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Adriana Herrera and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: One Week to Claim It All Sambrano Studios By Adriana Herrera The illegitimate daughter of a telenovela mogul, Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña is shocked to learn she’s the successor to his empire, much to the chagrin of her father’s protégé, Rodrigo Almanzar. Tension soon turns to passion, but will a common enemy ruin everything? A Nine-Month Temptation Brooklyn Nights By USA TODAY bestselling author Joanne Rock Sable Cordero’s dream job as a celebrity stylist is upended after she spends one sexy night with fashion CEO, Roman Zayn. When he learns Sable is pregnant, he promises to take care of his child, nothing more. But neither anticipated the attraction still between them… Corner Office Secrets Men of Maddox Hill By New York Times bestselling author Shannon McKenna Chief finance officer Vann Acosta is not one to mix business with pleasure—until he meets stunning cybersecurity expert Sophie Valente. Their chemistry is undeniable, but when she uncovers the truth, will company secrets change everything? For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s July 2021 Box set 1 of 2.

Download or read book Harlequin Desire August 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Cat Schield and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2606 LONE STAR SECRETS Texas Cattleman’s Club: The Impostor by Cat Schield Fashion mogul Megan was at her husband’s funeral when the man she thought she’d married walked into the ceremony. As an impostor’s scheme to impersonate his billionaire best friend unravels, will she have a second chance with her real husband? #2607 A SNOWBOUND SCANDAL Dallas Billionaires Club by Jessica Lemmon Wealthy Texas politician Chase Ferguson ended things with his ex to protect her. Yet now she’s crashed his isolated vacation house in a snowstorm. And when a stormbound seduction has real-world repercussions, he must make a stand for what—and who—he truly believes in. 2609 CRAVING HIS BEST FRIEND’S EX The Wild Caruthers Bachelors by Katherine Garbera The one woman he wants is the one he can’t have: his best friend’s girlfriend. But when a newly single Chrissy goes to Ethan for comfort, things burn out of control. Until a test of loyalty threatens to end their forbidden romance before it begins… Look for Harlequin® Desire’s August 2018 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

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