Download or read book An Italian Affair written by Laura Fraser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, and discovers not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. “Sweet, smart. We are smitten from the start.” —O: The Oprah Magazine When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious immersion into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and into each other. And with each experience, Laura brings home not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. Written with an observant eye, an open mind, and a delightful sense of humor, An Italian Affair has the irresistible honesty of a story told from and about the heart.

Download or read book The Thorn and the Blossom written by Theodora Goss and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One enchanting romance. Two lovers keeping secrets. And a uniquely crafted book that binds their stories forever. When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . . The Thorn and the Blossom is a remarkable literary artifact: You can open the book in either direction to decide whether you’ll first read Brendan’s, or Evelyn’s account of the mysterious love affair. Choose a side, read it like a regular novel—and when you get to the end, you’ll find yourself at a whole new beginning.

Download or read book The Authenticity Principle written by Ritu Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society that pushes conformity, how can you be courageously authentic despite fear of judgment? Award-winning leadership and diversity expert Ritu Bhasin gives you the tools to make this happen. This is more than a call to "be yourself"-it's a rally to disrupt the status quo, bring your differences to the light, and help others do the same.

Download or read book The Last Affair written by Eddie Crooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of personal tragedy a widow and widower find mutual support which grows into a twilight love affair. The accepted social norms following such events brings the couple into personal conflicts with friends and families. A crisis takes place when the son accuses his mother of having a shabby affair that dishonors the memory of his father. The crisis is finally resolved with a coming together of all three under tragic circumstances.

Download or read book Grotesque written by Justin Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.

Download or read book Captivation written by Philippe Damiba and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Stuart is a charmer to whom Juliet fell in Love and follow him during the fantastic exploration of the extraordinary realm of tribes intricate worlds vast in its conception filled with multi faceted human characters and species as well as mythological landscapes . Brad Lister is a magician known for his debauchery and he is a the husband of Juliet who after several years of marriage was left alone by her wife. The story began when Juliet already left her husband and tried to live another life. Infidelities, abuse, exploitation and neglect was mainly the reason of her departure and the cause of rupture. Her husband returned to the past to remember his relation with Juliet and tried to explain the reason of her departure... why their relationship has started to crumple.

Download or read book Island Affair written by Priscilla Oliveras and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is Us” meets “The Wedding Date”…Latinx style! When social media influencer Sara Vance is stranded sans her flaky boyfriend just before a Key West family vacation, a meet-cute with Cuban-American firefighter Luis Navarro in the parking lot of the airport is the answer to her prayers. With Luis as her fake fiancée for the week, Sara can maintain her “perfect” image IRL. But what happens when the fake starts feeling so real? Gorgeously repackaged in mass-market, Island Affair from USA Today bestselling author Priscilla Oliveras is the ultimate beach read! Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro—a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play the part of her smitten fiancé . . . Luis’s big Cuban familia has been in Key West for generations, and his quiet strength feeds off the island’s laidback style. Though guarded after a deep betrayal, he’ll always help someone in need—especially a spunky beauty with a surprising knowledge of Spanish curse words. Soon, he and Sara have memorized their “how we met” story and are immersed in family dinners, bike tours, private snorkeling trips . . . sharing secrets, and slow, melting kisses. But when it’s time for Sara to return home, will their fake relationship fade like the stunning sunset . . . or blossom into something beautiful?

Download or read book Carnivale and the American Grotesque written by Peg Aloi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HBO's Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television. Despite an ambitious and unusual storyline, remarkable production design and stellar cast, the show was cancelled after only two seasons. No other television series has been so steeped in history, spirituality and occultism, and years later it retains a cult-like following. This collection of fresh essays explores the series through a diverse array of topics, from visual aesthetics to tarot symbolism to sexuality to the portrayal of deformity.

Download or read book Genesis written by Joseph Youngblood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lovers from different races in pre-history India meet in a time of danger and fall in love. They share a life of adventure but eventually die. Though separated by death, their spirits live again at various times throughout history, though never together. When they are finally reunited, it is a time of disaster for humankind. Humanity has advanced far enough to destroy itself, and it does. A nuclear accident triggers a global conflict between superpowers that destroys humanity along with almost all life on Earth. The lovers, reincarnated in the twenty-first century are selected to be placed into suspended animation and sent on a journey through space and time. Their task is to return to Earth in a distant future and reestablish life on the planet. They accomplish this with the help of a converted Space Schuttle, a Space Station and microcomputers implanted in their bodies to enhances their physical and mental abilities and prolong their lives. To succeed in their mission, they must find ways to overcome loneliness, hardship, and danger from radiation mutated decedents of humankind who are now the dominate species on Earth.

Download or read book To Blossom and Back written by Paul Hopkins and published by Paul Hopkins. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't just sex, that was for sure. Little did they know about the darkness and torment that would unveil itself as they traveled the path of selfishness and desire? The addiction took hold revealing that the attraction and desire was too strong to deny. No one or nothing could stand in their way as the connection and sex between them was to powerful, strong and too pertinent. The pull to each other was so strong and grew daily, which made them question and doubt and search until one day the line was crossed. They both jumped on the roller coaster of love as they were tossed and turned in an emotional whirlwind. The grip of addiction was too solid and too much, it was heavy handed and took no prisoners.

Download or read book THE BLOSSOM AND THE MUSKET written by Andrew Earl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in the upper North Island, New Zealand during the period of the Maori wars 1830’s to 1860’s the heroes belong to the small brave Militia that roamed these parts led by the main characters John Tripp and the head scout Tarata. Victoria Lynn sailed from England to assist with her uncle’s family at William Glenn Station becoming romantically involved with John Tripp. Interwoven amongst unbroken countryside and raging wars known as the ‘Battles of the North Island’, small gangs of looters, murderers and ship-jumpers appear along with natural disasters – volcano and earthquake – a young love weaves its way.

Download or read book Getty Research Journal No 11 written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators from around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Getty’s collections, initiatives, and research. This issue features essays on the culture of display in eighteenth-century Venetian palaces, the influence of prehistoric cave paintings on American abstract artists, the life and writings of Pauline Gibling Schindler, an unrealized project by Sam Francis and Walter Hopps for a contemporary art venue in 1960s Los Angeles, Harald Szeemann’s early plans for the documenta 5 exhibition, and the notebooks and manuscripts that led to Aldo Rossi’s Scientific Autobiography. Shorter texts include notices on Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s illustrations accompanying a tale in Martín de Murúa’s Historia general del Piru, copperplate prints depicting the Qing army’s invasion of Nepal in 1792, the Nazi-era business records of the Gustav Cramer gallery in The Hague, Netherlands, and a proposal for the integration of provenance research into all aspects of museum activities, including a call for cross-institutional databases and international collaborations.

Download or read book Beyond the Lines written by Joshua Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides to Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic, and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises—the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more. This book is the best available source on the pictorial riches of Frank Leslie's newspaper and the only study to situate these images fully within the social context of Gilded Age America. Beyond the Lines illuminates the role of illustration in nineteenth-century America and gives us a new look at how the social milieu shaped the practice of illustrated journalism and was in turn shaped by it.

Download or read book The Blossom Which We Are written by Nir Evron and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-bound cultural frameworks that we inhabit—as it manifests in the realm of the novel. Nir Evron juxtaposes seminal works from diverse national literatures to demonstrate that the trope of cultural extinction offers key insights into the emotional and ideological work performed by the realist novel. With an analysis that ranges from the works of Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence and Joseph Roth's Radetzky March and Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous, and finally to the current state of the humanities, this book seeks to recover literary criticism's humanistic mission, bringing the best that has been thought and said to bear on urgent contemporary concerns.

Download or read book The Affair written by Lee Child and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.

Download or read book Screening the East written by Nick Hodgin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally successful box-office hits, to lesser-known productions, many of which are discussed here for the first time. Providing an insight into the films’ historical and political context, it considers related issues such as stereotyping, racism, regional particularism and the Germans’ confrontation with the past.

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