Download or read book The Jilted Bridegroom written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author CaroleMortimer Nurse Sarah Williams is fleeing to the south of France to try and heal her brokenheart. But when a half-naked, gorgeous Griff Morgan crosses her path, suddenly her tripgets a lot more interesting! The infamous investigative journalist wears his cynicism towards the female population almost as well as he wears his towel! His bride-to-be was ano-show at their very public wedding, and Griff wants to lick his wounds alone. But hecan't get beautiful Sarah out of his mind… Originally published in 1992

Download or read book How the World Makes Love written by Franz Wisner and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother hits the road again to learn about love and finally finds it closer to home When you've been jilted at the altar and forced to take your pre-paid honeymoon with your brother, it's fair to say you could learn a thing or two about love. And that's what Franz Wisner sets out to do—traveling the globe with a mission: to discover the planet's most important love lessons and see if they can rescue him from the ruins of his own love life. Even after months on the road, he's still not sure he's found the secret. But a disastrous date with a Los Angeles actress and single mom keeps popping into Franz's head. While researching ideal love, could he have missed a bigger truth: that something unplanned and implausible could actually make him happy? Uproarious, tender, and studded with eye-opening insights on love, How the World Makes Love is the story of one average man's search for happiness—a search that turns into an improbable love story in the author's own backyard.

Download or read book The Jilted Bridegroom written by Carole Mortimer and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer. Nurse Sarah Williams is fleeing to the south of France to try and heal her brokenheart. But when a half-naked, gorgeous Griff Morgan crosses her path, suddenly her trip gets a lot more interesting! The infamous investigative journalist wears his cynicism towards the female population almost as well as he wears his towel! His bride-to-be was a no-show at their very public wedding, and Griff wants to lick his wounds alone. But he can’t get beautiful Sarah out of his mind... Originally published in 1992. Mills & Boon Modern – Seduction, glamour and sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.

Download or read book Bridegroom Wore Plaid written by Grace Burrowes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2012 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes keeps winning reader awards for her gorgeously imagined books. If you're already a fan, you'll devour her new characters and if you haven't yet discovered the richly drawn worlds of Grace Burrowes, you're in for a treat.... "Memorable heroes. Intelligent, sensual love stories. This author knows what romance readers adore."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars His Family or His Heart — One of Them Will Be Betrayed... Ian MacGregor is wooing a woman who's wrong for him in every way. As the new Earl of Balfour, though, he must marry an English heiress to repair the family fortunes. But in his intended's penniless chaperone, Augusta, Ian is finding everything he's ever wanted in a wife. "Historical details enrich Burrowes's intimate and erotic story, but the real stars are her vibrant characters and her masterful ear for dialogue. Burrowes is superb at creating connections that feel honest and real."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Download or read book Epic Singers and Oral Tradition written by Albert Bates Lord and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists.

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Download or read book Bess of Hardwick Empire Builder written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."—Sunday Times [London] From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history. In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded. Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn.

Download or read book Cervantes s Novel of Modern Times written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. David Quint discovers a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes. Quint shows how repeated motifs and verbal details link the episodes, often in surprising and heretofore unnoticed ways. Don Quijote emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. In Part One of the novel, this change is measured in a shift in the nature of erotic desire, and we find Don Quijote torn between his love for Dulcinea and his hopes to wed for wealth and social advancement. In Part Two, Don Quijote himself changes from anarchic madman to a gentler, wiser hero--a member of a middle class in the making. Throughout, Cervantes meditates on the literary form that he is inventing as a response to modernity, questioning the novel's relationship to other genres and the place of heroism and imagination within stories of everyday life. A new and coherent guide through the maze-like structure of Don Quijote, this book invites readers to appreciate the perennial modernity of Cervantes's masterpiece---a novel that confronts times not so distant from our own.

Download or read book Villains Victims and Violets written by Resa Haile and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern writers have reconsidered every subject under the sun through the lens of Sherlock Holmes. The overlooked subject is agency: the opportunities available to these women for independence and control. What we find all too often are the silences around them. And yet, these clients--villains, victims, and Violets--are pivotal in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps more enigmatic than Holmes’ methods is what Watson sees: the woman in the shadows. Whether lady or lady’s maid, if she does speak, it’s often not recorded in her words. That was life for half the population of Victorian England. A woman’s role was written before she was born; it merely required her to don the starched white apron of a maid, or the rough, stained skirts of a "char"--who did the dirtiest of household jobs—or the fine silk gowns of a lady. Enter Villains, Victims, and Violets to spy and report on these women in their darkest, most vulnerable moments. How does Irene Adler—pursued by a powerful king, and by Sherlock Holmes--outwit them both? Can Lady Hilda conceal the secret that only Holmes unravels? When Violet Hunter takes the last job offered before she loses everything, can Holmes free her and her doppelganger? To understand Holmes’ world is to gaze unsparingly into the lives of its women: the villains and what drives them astray; the victims Holmes races to rescue; and the Violets, who make up the strongest characters from Holmes’ unforgettable cases. The authors pull back the curtain on their private spaces, revealing their "proper" place in a man’s world at the dusk of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. Foreword by Nisi Shawl, noted Sherlockian and the James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning and Nebula-nominated author of the brilliant steampunk, feminist, Afrofuturist novel Everfair.

Download or read book Ballet 101 written by Robert Greskovic and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a look at the world of dance; an analysis of ballet movement, music, and history; a close-up look at popular ballets; and a host of performance tips.

Download or read book Charlemagne written by Johannes Fried and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood -- The Frankish empire and the wider world -- The warring king -- Power structures -- The ruler -- The royal court -- Reviving the title of emperor -- Imperator Augustus -- Epilogue: myths and sainthood

Download or read book An Introduction to the Pink Collection written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Pink Collection from Barbara Cartland this is a new collection of pure romance books from the biggest selling romantic author of all time.

Download or read book Quadrille written by Beth Andrews and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regency was an era of rogues, rakes, and rebellious women. Falling in love was as common—and as challenging—as dancing a quadrille. In these short stories, four young ladies navigate the intricate steps that lead them to the altar and to the men of their dreams: · A Noble Deception:In a bucolic English countryside, a handsome, dashing nobleman meets and falls for the lovely young daughter of a clergyman. When he makes her the belle of the local ball, a proposal seems inevitable. But does she feel the same? Story originally published in Chapter Onemagazine. · The Ungrateful Governess:Phillip Hayden is betrothed to Julia Gollard—whom he doesn’t care for—when he falls in love with the family’s governess. In an act of fate, he meets a young man whose own heartache may provide the solution to Phillip’s dilemma. Can he conceive a plan to get what they both want?Storyoriginally published in Romantic Interludesmagazine. · The Skylark:Adina, a beautiful, self-possessed orphan, raised by her uncle in the English countryside, goes to London for the season. Her relative, a countess, introduces her to the crème of eligible bachelors. Refusing to suffer fools, Adina embarrasses her suitors with her wit and begins to consider that her destiny might not lie with well-heeled dukes or handsome rakes. Is her heart in London, or has she carelessly left it at home? · The Christmas Bride:Lord Telford, a wealthy bachelor, has a surprise visitor and learns his young niece is in dire straits. To save her, and claim her as his ward, he must find a bride. Will he sacrifice his freedom for the safety of a small child? Will he be able to find a bride in time? Story originally published in A Regency Samplerfrom Regency Press.

Download or read book An Introduction to The Barbara Cartland Pink Collection written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Pink Collection from Barbara Cartland this is a new collection of pure romance books from the biggest selling Romantic author of all time. If you enjoy Downton Abbey you will love Barbara Cartland. Book One of Two The Cross Of Love When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendshi.

Download or read book Love in the Highlands written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty. Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, a disagreeable man who had turned his back on the world following betrayal by the woman he had loved. Surprisingly, he agreed to help by pretending to be engaged to Lavina, and, with her father, they left to visit her relatives in Scotland.In the highlands Lavina began to find herself attracted to the Marquis. Beneath his harsh manners he had a heart - a heart that perhaps she could win. But nearby was the Queen's country home, Balmoral, and when Her Majesty arrived with Prince Stanislaus, they knew that there was still a battle to be fought. Now Lavina learned the shattering secret that was the real reason the Marquis had agreed to help her. And that secret was to threaten to take from her the man she loved. How she discovered the truth in a way that nearly cost him his life, is told in this romantic novel, the 658th by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Download or read book Bricklayer Bill written by Patrick L. Kennedy and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weeks after the United States officially entered World War I, Irish American "Bricklayer Bill" Kennedy won the Boston Marathon wearing his stars-and-stripes bandana, rallying the crowd of patriotic spectators. Kennedy became an American hero and, with outrageous stories of his riding the rails and sleeping on pool tables, a racing legend whose name has since appeared in almost every book written on the Boston Marathon. When journalist Patrick Kennedy and historian Lawrence Kennedy unearthed their uncle's unpublished memoir, they discovered a colorful character who lived a tumultuous life, beyond his multiple marathons. The bricklayer survived typhoid fever, a five-story fall, auto and train accidents, World War action, Depression-era bankruptcy, decades of back-breaking work, and his own tendency to tipple. In many ways, Bill typified the colorful, newly emerging culture and working-class ethic of competitive long-distance running before it became a professionalized sport. Bricklayer Bill takes us back to another time, when bricklayers, plumbers, and printers could take the stage as star athletes.

Download or read book Highland Sisters written by Anne Douglas and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can they put the past behind them? Lorne Malcolm’s wedding to her handsome suitor Daniel MacNeil is a joyful day much looked forward to by both families. But by the time Lorne’s older sister, Rosa, returns from a trip to the flower shop on the morning of the wedding, Lorne has disappeared. When news arrives that Lorne has run off to Ireland with a wealthy landowner’s son, Rory Thain, their families are shocked. None more so than Daniel. Jilted on his own wedding day, a devastated Daniel turns to Rosa for comfort. Despite her initial misgivings, Rosa's feelings for Daniel grow, and the pair’s friendship blossoms into something more. The two are soon married, but is Rosa truly the sister Daniel loves? A tender family saga set in Scotland, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Annie Murray.