Download or read book An Unusual Love Affair written by Ian Balchin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Balchin has faced many challenges in his life including having Multiple Sclerosis for fifteen years but to travel 600 kilometers through Thailand's virgin jungle on the neck of an elephant was his most audacious so far. Ian Balchin is reunited with Maebunta; a she elephant, her name meant 'Good eye' to undertake this life changing pilgrimage. Many who knew of Ian Balchin's planned adventure believed he had lost his mind but then they hadn't reckoned on his resolve and determination.An Unusual Love Affair is the story of their epic journey across some of Thailand's most inhospitable landscape and a memorable, touching account of Maebunta's early replacement by Maesanook (meaning 'Joy') and the gradual bonding between her and Ian.

Download or read book Unusual Love Story written by A. Amos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely, widowed, and desperately poor, seventy-three-year-old Miriam is used to living a life of isolation. But when she comes across a lost traveler one stormy night, she knows she must do the right thing, so she invites the stranger into her modest home for a bite of food until the weather passes. The man, Raja, is tall, handsome, and respectful-with a manner unlike anyone from the small village where Miriam lives. But even greater surprises await when the two arrive back at her residence and Raja reveals a seemingly impossible past-and claims he has known and loved Miriam almost her entire life. Set against the exotic backdrop of Central Asia in the 1940s, Unusual Love Story is a mythical tale featuring thought-provoking wisdom on love, spirituality, and what it truly means to be human. In a unique take on romantic storytelling, this sweeping novel introduces readers to a magical new world where immortal creatures can shift between man and beast-and compassion and kindness break the barriers that so often separate us as human beings.

Download or read book My Love Affair with Italy written by Debbie Mancuso and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a single woman's travels to Italy from the age of 17 through retirement. The book details all the types of accommodations such as the agriturismi, the apartments, farmhouses, vineyards, and riding centers she stayed and the romances and friends acquired along the way. Each chapter begins with the author's life at home and the reasons she returns each time.

Download or read book A Sale Is a Love Affair written by Jack Vincent and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top salespeople in any industry are loved by their customers. They build a deep, human connection with their customers that parallels finding love, falling in love and growing a trusting, romantic relationship. While researching A Sale Is A Love Affair, Jack discovered that the advice given by today's dating coaches and marriage counselors correlates directly with the best practices used by the leading marketing consultants and sales trainers. The mindset is actually a heart-set. It focuses on pulling customers through their purchasing cycle, not pushing them through your sales cycle. Jack uses stories and anecdotes that make eye-opening links between romantic relationships and complex sales. It's all about attracting early on and building trust at every step. Keep it simple in marketing. Go deeper in sales. Love more. Sell more.

Download or read book Nine and a Half Weeks written by Elizabeth McNeill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film. This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader’s breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman. Elizabeth McNeill was an executive for a large corporation when she began an affair with a man she met casually. From the beginning, their sexual excitement escalates through domination and humiliation. As the affair progresses, woman and man play out ever more dangerous and more elaborate sado-masochistic variations. By the end, she has relinquished all control over her body and mind. With a cool detachment that makes the experiences and sensations she describes all the more frightening in their intensity, Elizabeth McNeill beautifully unfolds her story and invites you to experience the mesmerizing, electrifying, and unforgettablly private world of Nine and a Half Weeks.

Download or read book Love Affairs written by Arunachalam Kumar and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of love stories, though fictional, draws its inspiration from real-life events and incidents. Falling in love is a complex affair, involving intergender relationships, sacrifices, and compromises. The turmoil, travails, tests, and trials lovers face and go through is described in this book in a compellingly readable way. The stories told here are either heartwarming or heartbreaking. Love is everything for those in love, whether in India, steeped in sociocultural taboos, or anywhere else in the world.

Download or read book Love Affairs with Houses written by Bunny Williams and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Her commentary on the origins, allure, and challenges of each home reads like liner notes to a favorite album . . . she is in a class all her own.” —Flower In this story-filled monograph, Bunny Williams presents new work through 15 houses she has decorated and loved. She tells the tale of each “affair,” tracing the style of the spaces, what drew her to the projects, and her approach to decor that evolves with the lives of her clients. She offers personal secrets for choosing classics—and for decorating with flexible pieces that can play more than one role in a design scheme. Along the way, she offers many amazingly chic, but always comfortable, residences whose interiors she has designed during the latest phase of her astounding career. As Bunny tells it, “The best pieces have the best stories,” and in this book, she shows readers a fresh collection of projects that demonstrate just that. “A must-have addition to any interior design enthusiast’s library.” —The Glam Pad

Download or read book An Extraordinary Union written by Alyssa Cole and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former slave finds danger, intrigue, and passion undercover as a spy in first of this Civil War–era romance series from an award-winning author. Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South—to spy for the Union Army. Malcolm McCall is a detective for Pinkerton’s Secret Service. Subterfuge is his calling, but he’s facing his deadliest mission yet—risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in Virginia. Two undercover agents who share a common cause—and an undeniable attraction—Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn the tide of the war in the Confederacy’s favor. Caught in a tightening web of wartime intrigue, and fighting a fiery and forbidden love, Malcolm and Elle must make their boldest move to preserve the Union at any cost—even if it means losing each other. . . An Entertainment Weekly TOP 10 ROMANCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A Bookpage TOP PICK A Kirkus BEST BOOKS OF 2017 A Vulture TOP 10 ROMANCE BOOKS OF 2017 A Publishers Weekly BEST BOOKS OF 2017 A Booklist TOP 10 ROMANCE FICTION 2017 “Richly detailed setting, heart-stopping plot, and unforgettable characters.” —Deanna Raybourn, New York Times–bestselling author “You should absolutely read this book, immediately, if you haven’t already. . . . This book is a marvelous, intelligent, respectful, breathtaking treat for your brain.” —Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Vampire written by Clark Hays and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Worlds collide when a broke cowboy and a glamorous big city reporter fall lipstick over boot heels in love. But she carries a 2,000-year old secret in her veins that will test their unusual romance. Saddle up for a hilarious, existential gallop through the dying west with an army of ancient bloodsuckers in hot pursuit" -- Back cover.

Download or read book Cultivating the Mind of Love written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am continually amazed at how Thich Nhat Hanh is able to translate the Buddhist tradition into everyday life and make it relevant and helpful for so many people. Cultivating the Mind of Love just might be my favorite book of his....

Download or read book My Love Affair with America written by Norman Podhoretz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this touching and delightful memoir, Norman Podhoretz charts the ups and downs of his lifelong love affair with his native land, and warns that to turn against America, from the Right no less than from the Left, is to fall into the rankest ingratitude. While telling the story of how he himself grew up to be a fervent patriot, one of this country's leading conservative thinkers urges his fellow conservatives to rediscover and reclaim their faith in America. A superb storyteller, Podhoretz takes us from his childhood as a working-class kid in Brooklyn during the Great Depression -- the son of Jewish immigrants singing Catholic hymns in a public school staffed by Irish spinsters and duking it out on the streets with his black and Italian classmates -- to his later education, his shifting political alliances, and his arrival at a happy personal and intellectual resolution. My Love Affair with America shows us a gentler and funnier Podhoretz than readers have seen before. At the same time, it presents a picture of someone eager to proclaim, against all comers, that America represents one of the high points in the history of human civilizations. In this powerful, elegantly written, and poignant cautionary tale, Podhoretz pleads with his fellow conservatives not to fall, as some have lately done, into their own special brand of anti-Americanism, as he reminds them of the disastrous consequences that followed the assault by the New Left against the United States in decades gone by. Warm in feeling and brilliantly perceptive, My Love Affair with America points the way back to a thoroughly unabashed love of country -- the kind of patriotism that has rarely been encountered in recent years and that is as invigorating as it is inspiring.

Download or read book Bitten written by Andrew Furman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators. It wasn’t long before he began to notice that the real Florida right outside his office window was very different from the stereotypes portrayed in movies, television, and even state-promoted tourism advertisements. In Bitten, Furman shares his amazement at the beautiful and the bizarre of his adopted state. Over seventeen years, he and his family have shed their Yankee sensibilities and awakened to the terra incognita of their new home. As he learns to fish for snook—a wily fish that inhabits, among other areas, the concrete-lined canals that crisscross the state—and seeks out the state’s oldest live oak, a behemoth that pre-dates Columbus, Furman realizes that falling in love with Florida is a fun and sometimes humbling process of discovery. Each chapter highlights a fascinating aspect of his journey into the natural environment he once avoided, from snail kites to lizards and cassia to coontie. Sharing his attempts at night fishing, growing native plants, birding, and hiking the Everglades, Furman will inspire you to explore the real Florida. And, if you aren’t lucky enough to reside in the Sunshine State, he’ll at least convince you to unplug for an hour or two and enjoy the natural beauty of wherever it is you call home.

Download or read book Torrid Affair written by Callie Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm fucked. The life I have lived for the past ten years is built solely on lies and secrets. But I can't help myself. I'm in love with two different men. And one of them is my brother-in-law. He's my drug. My fire. My addiction. But he's married to my best friend. And I'm married to my husband. I'm not ashamed. I have no guilt. None. I'm not fucked. I'm a fucked up person. This is the story of how I ruined my life. And the life of the one I loved most.

Download or read book Love in Reverse Scarred for Life written by Garland Ladd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do love relationships fail? A more appropriate question is why do many succeed? Finding answers to both questions is analogous to defining infinity impossible because the unknowns are infinite and this author will not go there. However, two aspects of lasting love loom extremely important, namely, the origin of love that indefinable spark of attraction that unites people and the admirable quality of ingenuity that is required for relationships to survive. Love In Reverse and Scarred For Life are fictional attempts to highlight those aspects of lasting love.

Download or read book An Affair with Girl Woman and Soul written by Ravindra Venshi and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she walking towards the bathroom, she came across me. We came close to each other. Our eyes connected. She put her hand on my chest. I started shivering. My mind, body became out of my control. Till date we both touched several times but there was no spark like today. I hugged her tightly. She closed eyes and let her lips to kiss me. My sight focused on her lips. It was shivering. I slowly took my lips to hers. Slowly my lips was about to occupy hers..

Download or read book Door Wide Open written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.

Download or read book TLA Video DVD Guide 2004 written by David Bleiler and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 4477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TLA Film, Video and DVD Guide 2004 is the absolutely indispensable guide to worthwhile cinema. It includes over 10,000 entries on the best of film and video that a real film lover might actually want to see. Unlike some of the other mass market guides that tend to be clogged with unenlightening entries on even more unenlightening films, TLA focuses on independent, foreign as well as the best of Hollywood to bring the cineaste an opinionated guide that is both fun to read and easy to use. The guide includes: * Reviews of more than 10,000 entries * Four detailed indexes--by star, director, country of origin, and theme. * More than 300 photos throughout * A listing of all the major film awards of the past quarter century, as well as TLA Bests and recommended films *A comprehensive selection of cinema from over 50 countries. From one of the finest names in video retailing and a growing rental chain comes the latest edition of one of the most respected film, video, and DVD guides. The TLA Film, Video and DVD Guide is perfect for anyone with an eclectic taste in cinema.