Download or read book Her Cinderella Season written by Deb Marlowe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Regency romance by a USA Today bestseller, a beauty charms everyone at the ball—except an aloof aristocrat, the man she wants the most. She’s been taught that pleasure is sinful . . . Now Miss Lily Beecham is determined to find out for herself! A chance meeting with a viscountess, and Lily is invited to the ball. Freed from dowdy gowns and worthy reading, Lily charms Society. Except for the cold, aloof—and wildly handsome—Mr. Jack Alden. Lily soon learns that Jack’s cold demeanor is belied by the warmth of his kiss. But at the end of the Season, she must return to bleak normality. Unless wicked Mr. Alden can save her from a future of good behavior. . . . Praise for Her Cinderella Season “A lively, entertaining Regency tale about two people who despite their initial meeting, change either’s lives. . . . Secondary characters almost fade into the background as Jack and Lily grow closer. There’s ample romance and plenty of adventure and surprises. Don’t miss this well written, enjoyable book!” —Romance Reviews Today “Deb Marlowe is a good storyteller and her characters always leave me happy to have spent time with them . . . a sweet taste of Regency love.” —Rakehell “Marlowe writes a sensual, emotional and poignant love story.” —RT Book Reviews

Download or read book An Improper Aristocrat written by Deb Marlowe and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aristocrat and the Community written by Nicholas J. Pappas and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aristocrat" and "The Community" are dialogues that take place among friends through the course of a night. "Aristocrat" is concerned with what it means to want to rule, with the comparison of aristocracy to democracy, and with duty. The friends begin by touching upon excellence, aristocracy's traditional claim to rule. They soon come to question whether there are in fact but two true claims to rule - force, or a system of belief. In addition they ponder their commitment to "the cause," a potentially transpolitical cause. "Aristocrat" attempts to answer several "whats" - what is "the cause," what does it involve, and what does it mean to serve. "The Community" attempts to demonstrate a "how" - how to create the new city, a new city determined to set itself apart from the outside world. Discussions of the degree to which quality can be controlled from above, and debates over the degree of control versus freedom that would make the city an ideal place to live, are interwoven with a concern for viability - represented by the Bank, whose interests it seems must always be taken into account. Is the creation of an ideal community an effort that is doomed to be utopian?

Download or read book A Reckless Magick An Improper Adventure 3 written by Stephanie Burgis and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With only days to go before her sister Angeline's long-delayed wedding to Frederick Carlyle, the impetuous Kat Stephenson has resigned herself to good behaviour. But Kat's initiation into the magical Order of the Guardians is fast approaching, and trouble seems to follow her everywhere. Kat must contend with the wretched Mrs. Carlyle's attempts to humiliate her sister, the arrival of the mysterious Marquise de Valmont, who bears a suspicious resemblance to Kat's late mother, and Frederick's bewitching cousin Jane, who has Charles Stephenson tripping over his feet. But when a menacing boy with powerful magic starts hunting Kat, a dastardly villain tries to kill Angeline, and the Guardians face a magical robbery that could spell the end of their Order, propriety becomes the least of Kat's concerns. Can Kat save her sister's life, the Order of the Guardians, and England itself before it's too late?

Download or read book Tall Dark and Disreputable written by Deb Marlowe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portia Tofton has always yearned for brooding Mateo Cardea. His dark good looks filled her girlish dreams--dreams that were cruelly shattered when Mateo rejected her hand in marriage. Now Portia's home has been gambled away, and Mateo is the only man she can turn to. This time, however, she has in her possession something he wants--and she finds herself striking a deal with the devil himself! Danger is all around--but Portia has no choice but to trust this man who once betrayed her...."--Publisher.

Download or read book Her Dark and Dangerous Lord written by Anne Herries and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Stefan de Montfort is a true rebel—with the scars to prove it. Deemed a mercenary and exiled from England, he now lives by his own rules. When he plucks Englishwoman Anne Melford from the sea and takes her to his chateau in Normandy, the innocent yet spirited beauty awakens in Stefan a disturbing, forbidden desire. A lady such as Anne could never marry a scoundrel like him—but this dark and dangerous lord is determined to break one last rule and claim her as his bride!

Download or read book An Improper Aristocrat Mills Boon Historical written by Deb Marlowe and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapscallion! Rake! Wanderer! Adventurer! All accusations that the Earl of Treyford acknowledges with pride. The scandalous son of a disgraced mother, he has no time for the pretty niceties of the ton, nor the simpering debutantes who populate its ballrooms. He has returned to England to aid an "aging" spinster facing an undefined danger.

Download or read book In the Presence of the Past written by R.T. Bienvenu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad canvas covered by the articles in the present volume celebrates the diversity and richness of the writings of Frank Manuel during a scholarly career that spans over five decades. The subjects of the articles - ranging from science to utopia, from theology to political thought - mirror many of the themes Manuel has written about with erudition, flair and uncommon perception. It is only fitting that in paying tribute to such a defiant intellect each author brings to his treatment a distinct perspective and texture, the result of his own original forays into the history of ideas. Yet underlying all the essays is the conviction that the study of the intersection of individuals and ideas still yields a rich harvest. Presented to Frank on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, In the Presence o/the Past honors a teacher, a friend and, above all, a scholar. R. T. Bienvenu and M. Feingold (eds). ln the presence of the past. vii. MARTIN PERETZ Frank Manuel: An Appreciation It was finally because of Frank Edward Manuel that I decided (however belatedly) to forgo a proper academic career. Since I had not left so much as a leafscar on the tree of the scholarly culture this is not a fact which anyone else would have reason to notice. It is also not, I am happy to add, something for which Manuel will be especially remembered.

Download or read book Unbuttoning Miss Hardwick written by Deb Marlowe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting the guise of a buttoned-up spinster is nothing new for Chloe Hardwick. But under the watchful eye of her unnervingly handsome employer, the Marquess of Marland, for the first time Chloe yearns to be unbuttoned Yet he sees her only as his assistant, the efficient Hardwick--not as Chloe the woman. Determined to escape Braedon's cold detachment, Chloe leaves. And when he pursues her to London, determined to entice her back, Braedon is utterly unprepared for what he finds there--the real Chloe Hardwick....

Download or read book Viking Warrior Unwilling Wife written by Michelle Styles and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the war drums echoing in her ears, and the sharp northern light glinting off the sharpened swords, Sela stood with trepidation on the shoreline. The dragon ships full of warriors had come, ready for battle and glory. But it wasn't the threat of conquest that shook Sela to the core. It was the way her heart responded to the proud face and chiseled body of Vikar Hrutson, jaarl, leader of the invading force—and Sela's ex-husband!

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama written by Carolyn Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an introduction to melodrama's early formal features such as tableaux and music, and trace the development of the genre in the nineteenth century through the texts and performances of its various sub-genres, the theatres within which the plays were performed, and the audiences who watched them. The historical contexts of melodrama are considered through essays on topics including contemporary politics, class, gender, race, and empire. And the extensive influences of melodrama are demonstrated through a wide-ranging assessment of its ongoing and sometimes unexpected expressions - in psychoanalysis, in other art forms (the novel, film, television, musical theatre), and in popular culture generally - from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Intimate Commerce written by Victoria Wohl and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thus present, Wohl asserts, is not only an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy) but also the possibility of resistance to them and the imagination of alternatives.

Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diamonds of Welbourne Manor written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justine and the Noble Viscount by Diane Gaston Guardian to the unconventional and newly orphaned Fitzmannings is not a role that brooding Gerald Brenner relishes. But Justine, the illegitimate daughter who strives to hide her shame, calls powerfully to something deep within him…. Annalise and the Scandalous Rake by Deb Marlowe House party guest Ned Milford can see the inner passion and beauty that Annalise Fitzmanning hides. But how close should they become when his reason for being at Welbourne Manor would prompt a society scandal, not a society marriage! Charlotte and the Wicked Lord by Amanda McCabe Charlotte may be the youngest Fitzmanning girl, but she knows her own mind—and she wants Lord Andrew Bassington! Drew requires an eminently proper bride, something free-spirited Charlotte has never been. So how can she make him see the beautiful woman she has become…?

Download or read book Vienna s Dreams of Europe written by Katherine Arens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.

Download or read book Pudd nhead Wilson written by Mark Twain and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery.