Download or read book The Secret to Seduction written by Julie Anne Long and published by Forever. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proper vicar's daughter finds pleasure with a scandalous ladies' man in this irresistible Regency romance of wit, wiles, and seductive secrets. Sabrina Fairleigh arrives at an exclusive country soiree with marriage in mind. How shocking -- and intriguing -- to discover her host is an infamous ladies' man known for his indecent (and, ah, inspiring) poetry! They call him The Libertine, and his poetry is just as scandalous -- and irresistible -- as he is. But after one duel too many forces Rhys Gillray, Earl of Rawden, from lively London to his country estate, he's in desperate need of a cure for boredom. The proper but beautiful vicar's daughter seems like the perfect test of his sensual skills. With wit and wiliness, Rhys strips away Sabrina's defenses. But as he teaches her pleasure, the emotional stakes of their sensual duel go beyond anything Rhys has ever known. For deep in his past lies the missing clue to the crime that destroyed Sabrina's family. And all The Libertine's seductive secrets may not be enough to save their future and their hearts.

Download or read book Seduced by the Powerful Boss written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author PennyJordan, originally published as Special Treatment in 1988 Susannah is proud of her successful career as a magazine writer. But the new boss—dynamic Hazard Maine—is convinced she's cheating her way to the top. The last thing Susannah needs is this burning longing for her devilishly charming, andterribly arrogant boss. She'll do anything to distract herself from the attraction shefeels—even allow him to believe the worst! But now that she's got Hazard's attention, this powerful tycoon isn't going to letSusannah out of his sight—not until they act on the undeniable chemistry betweenthem!

Download or read book Seduction In Mind written by Susan Johnson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He could offer her only one thing — a week of intimate pleasure.... Samuel Lennox and Miss Alexandra Ionides cordially invite you to a most provocative game of seduction It shall last for seven days, during which Lennox, Viscount Ranelagh, will wield his celebrated prowess with the London ladies in an attempt to add Miss Alex’s name to his list of conquests. The infamous list is long, though the duration of each liaison has been brief — and as the viscount will assure anyone, that is precisely how he likes it. The lady, for her part, an accomplished artist and benefactress of various charities, has no wish to be a mere plaything. Although a week of intimate pleasure with a man of Ranelagh’s legendary skills would be memorable... As for the other players — irate parents, designing debutantes, a scheming ex-mistress, even a love-struck young man with ideals — all seem intent on meddling. But the viscount is single-minded when it comes to seduction, and Miss Alex is in his sights. Come see who wins in this amorous game!

Download or read book MASTER OF SEDUCTION written by Sarah Holland and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We became involved the minute our eyes met…" Sparks flew between Emma and Patrick the first time they met—but Emma didn't understand why. After all, she was a confirmed cynic who didn't believe in love, and even if she did, a notorious womanizer like Patrick was the last man she'd choose! But Patrick was a master of seduction, and pretty soon Emma was wondering how long she'd be able to resist his passionate kisses….

Download or read book School of Music Programs written by University of Michigan. School of Music and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boosey Hawkes Opera Anthology Baritone Bass written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone. CONTENTS FOR BARITONE: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Batter my heart * A FLOWERING TREE: Storyteller's Aria * NIXON IN CHINA: News has a kind of mystery * Mister Premier * Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: What a yielding nature she has * CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: You have already heard one sermon tonight * MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: If in the years to come * A WATER BIRD TALK: The Lecturer (Theme) * Leonard Bernstein: MASS: A Simple Song * Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) * Tickling a trout * Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk * BILLY BUDD: Billy Budd, king of the birds! * Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!) * GLORIANA: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM O Helen, goddess * THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light) * Carlisle Floyd: OF MICE AND MEN: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) * WILLIE STARK: We all come out of the earth * John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus Gamesters united in friendship * Sergei Rachmaninoff: ALEKO: Aleko's Cavatina * FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Lanceotto's Aria * Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: When I got married * Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Nimmst einen Fiaker * Sie gibt mir keinen Blick * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen * Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Come, master * I burn! I freeze! CONTENTS FOR BASS-BARITONE AND BASS: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Teller's Aria * Dominick Argento: THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY: Simon's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There's a Law * Benjamin Britten: BILLY BUDD: Claggart's Aria * GLORIANA: Raleigh's Song * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Bottom's Dream * Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: I've known I loved you * SUSANNAH: Hear me, O Lord * I'm a lonely man, Susannah

Download or read book Claiming Her Dignity written by L. Juliana M. Claassens and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be human means to resist dehumanization. In the darkest periods of human history, men and women have risen up and in many different voices said this one thing: Do not treat me like this. Treat me like the human being that I am. "Claiming Her Dignity "explores a number of stories from the Old Testament in which women in a variety of creative ways resist the violence of war, rape, heterarchy, and poverty. Amid the life-denying circumstances that seek to attack, violate, and destroy the bodies and psyches of women, men, and children, the women featured in this book absolutely refuse to succumb to the explicit, and at times subtle but no less harmful, manifestations of violence that they face."

Download or read book Howard Barker s Theatre of Seduction written by Charles Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the British playwright, Howard Barker which arose from Lamb's idea that current performance theories and production techniques do not work with Barker's plays. Lamb sets Barker's work against those ideas expounded by Edward Bond and the world of deconstruction and postmodern thought. Nine of Barker's drawings are also reproduced.

Download or read book Seduced into Darkness written by Carrie Ishee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduced into Darkness: Transcending My Psychiatrist’s Sexual Abuse is a vivid and captivating story of hope for survivors of abuse as well as a case study in a skilled manipulator’s tragic exploitation of his professional power. This poignant memoir chronicles the traumatic psychological abduction and sexual exploitation of depressed college student Carrie Tansey at the hands of her psychiatrist, Dr. Anthony Romano—thirty-one years her senior. For three years, their secret “affair” was carefully calculated and controlled by Romano, as Carrie’s mental and emotional health continued to deteriorate, bringing her closer and closer to the edge. Their dual-relationship finally came to light when Carrie’s suicide attempts landed her in a world-renowned psychiatric hospital. Gradually, she began to reclaim her power, reported Romano to the state licensing board, successfully sued him for malpractice, and testified before the state legislature to bring awareness to such abuses. As Carrie tells her tale, it is a journey paralleling that of the mythical archetype Persephone, the naive innocent who was abducted into darkness, reemerged and regenerated herself, then fearlessly returned to the prison she had fled, this time to help free others. Today, Carrie Ishee is a widely respected art therapist and life coach as well as a teacher specializing in the issues of ethics, self-care, and boundaries for mental health professionals.

Download or read book Great Operas written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni; to the splendour of Aïda, the heart-breaking La Traviata; the drama of Tosca. The range is very broad. There is Wagner's great love story Tristan und Isolde; there is Johann Strauss's light comedy Die Fledermaus. On the way you can be briefed about such favourites as Handel's Giulio Cesare, Bizet's Carmen, Gounod's Faust, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Britten's Peter Grimes. With plot summaries, composer biographies, observations on musical points of interest and background on the historical and cultural context of each opera, every one of these guides will enhance your appreciation and enjoyment and help you discuss the work and the performance with your fellow opera-goers. Steen shares his expert knowledge with a lightness of touch that makes each guide a pleasure to read. Witty, informative and beautifully presented, Great Operas is an indispensable reference guide for both seasoned opera-goers and those enjoying opera for the first time.

Download or read book An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Actress Mrs Susannah Maria Cibber written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Weight of Her Heart written by Julia Cole and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eloise held her brand new baby daughter to her breast and felt her heart break at the thought she would never see her grow up, never know her at all. When Eloise, a young American girl, meets handsome Dr Thomas Norton in the boiling Boston summer of 1890 she believes herself to be in love. But Eloise soon finds herself in a desperate situation that could see her alienated from her family and all of Boston society. With her maid and confidant, Rosie, she travels to Devon, England, where her life is changed forever. Forced to take a heartbreaking decision she returns to the USA where she tries to resume her previous life. But the trauma she has experienced threatens to deny her any future happiness until she finds love from an unexpected source. Will Eloise be able to grasp the opportunity to find closure for her broken heart?

Download or read book Gleanings from the Works of Sterne In Campe s Edition written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mozart s Marriage of Figaro written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the story of Figaro's success in preventing the Count of Almaviva's seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Mozart's opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, uses a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, and was premièred in Vienna in 1786. It was based on a famous play by the Frenchman Beaumarchais, a sequel to The Barber of Seville. Characters including Figaro, the Countess, Cherubino the page, Doctor Bartolo and Barberina the gardener's daughter sing a succession of famous arias – such as Se vuol ballare, Non più andrai, Dove sono, Porgi amor and Voi, che sapete, to mention but a few – in which Mozart's musical characterisation is legendary. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read books about opera. Each is an opera guide packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni and The Barber of Seville.

Download or read book The Garden Path written by Kitty Burns Florey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosie Mortimer, celebrity gardener with a successful TV show, has a pleasantly uneventful life with her undemanding beau. Her gay son and his partner live nearby. When her estranged daughter, Susannah, product of a fractured family, returns to Rosie’s Connecticut town with her husband, a former priest, to open a restaurant, the tense relationships among these three build to a near-tragedy. Rosie is forced to face the mistakes and failures that have plagued her—and Susannah, who has her own demons, learns to forgive.

Download or read book Operas in English written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.

Download or read book The Opera Manual written by Nicholas Ivor Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and you have a few questions. How many clarinets are in the orchestra? How many orchestra members appear onstage? How many different sets are there? How long does the opera typically run? What are the key arias? Are any special effects or ballet choreography required? Who owns the rights? Where was it premiered? What are the leading and supporting roles? The Opera Manual is the only single source for the answers to these and other important questions. It is the ultimate companion for opera lovers, professionals, scholars, and teachers, featuring comprehensive information about, and plot summaries for, more than 550 operas—including every opera that is likely to be performed today, from standard to rediscovered contemporary works. The book is invaluable, especially for opera professionals, who will find everything they need for choosing and staging operas. But it is also a treasure for listeners. Similar reference books commonly skip over scenes and supporting characters in their plot summaries, lacking even the most basic facts about staging, orchestral, and vocal requirements. The Opera Manual, based on the actual scores of the works discussed, is the only exhaustive, up-to-date opera companion—a “recipe book” that will enable its readers to explore those operas they know and discover new ones to sample and enjoy.