Download or read book THE SHEIK AND THE VIXEN written by Elizabeth Mayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved captive… THE SHEIK'S CAPTIVE All aircraft designer Haley Bennett wanted was to deliver the state-of-the-art jet she'd created to its new owner in the Middle East. But then war engulfed the desert kingdom, and suddenly this freewheeling modern woman was a prisoner—in a palace that was like something from the Arabian Nights…. PRISONER OF DESIRE Her captor was just about the most gorgeous hunk of man she'd ever laid eyes on. But his attitudes—especially when it came to women—were straight out of another world. And the most infuriating part was, Sheik Zayn Haji Haaris awakened within her a passion that rocked her world to its very foundations….
Download or read book Romance Fiction and American Culture written by William A. Gleason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres.
Download or read book Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.
Download or read book Edward Said written by Debjani Ganguly and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre. Exciting new scholarship highlights the ways in which humanities in the twenty-first century can engage with Said's legacy, which includes his imbrications of culture and imperialism, his cosmopolitan critique of the idea of 'clash of civilisations', and his belief that the intellectual needs to maintain 'intellectual performances' on many fronts. The individual chapters achieve a sense of balance between the two poles of Said's persona: the brilliant and intimidating literary and music critic who invested deeply in an inclusive and democratic vision of humanism and the outspoken public intellectual who kept alive the truth of Palestine and the dangers of a settler colonial ethos.
Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Catherine M. Roach and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
Download or read book The Punishment of a Vixen written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While staying at Lady Merrill's French Riviera villa, flame haired and beautiful American heiress Nevada van Arden passes her time by casually breaking the hearts of her many ardent suitors - particularly that of young David, Lord Merrill. When his uncle, intrepid explorer and diplomat Tyrone Strome, overhears her cruel humiliation of his lovelorn nephew, he resolves to teach this 'vixen' a lesson - and save David from his misery. Tyrone Strome abducts Nevada, spiriting her away in his luxury yacht to Morocco. There the reluctant voyager, swaddled in native clothing, is terrified by the perils of the Sahara and its nomadic tribesmen. But, as they flee from certain death or worse, they find sanctuary in a beautiful hidden valley, a second Garden of Eden, where to Nevada's surprise, love begins to blossom in the desert.
Download or read book The Sheik s Arranged Marriage written by Susan Mallery and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man-shy American Heidi McKinley winces when the king himself insists she marry--and make heirs with--his sinfully sexy royal son! For Prince Jamal was a legendary lover, an expert on erotic intrigue. Whatever would he see in serious-minded Heidi? Plenty! Up to his crown in gold-digging bubbleheads, Jamal is secretly enchanted with the sweet and studious virgin. So why was homespun Heidi donning silken disguises and posing as siren "Honey Martin" to seduce him? And how could Jamal hope to choose between a bold, brazen "mistress" and a bashful, blushing bride?
Download or read book The Sheik s Rediscovered Lover written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com). This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella is young and impressionable, and awed by Zayn who comes back into her life like a returning hero. After one night of passion, not only has her hero fallen, but so has she. Pregnant and terrified, Ella realizes that Zayn has disappeared for the second time in her life with no explanation and no clues as to where he’s gone. But she works hard and survives, raising her son on her own. When she sees Zayn again six years later, she is determined not to be blinded by his overwhelming presence again. She can’t trust him this time. Unfortunately, nor can she ignore the fiery passion that seems to flare up whenever Zayn comes close to her. She’s a fighter, though. And she won’t give in to that passion like she did the last time he swooped into her life. She is stronger, she can push him away. Can’t she? Zayn can’t believe he’s finally found Ella again! An emergency took him away from her years ago and she disappeared. But this time, he won’t lose her! When he discovers that he also has a five year old son, Zayn is thrilled, eager to bring both of them back to his country. He doesn’t understand Ella’s resistance to him. Gone is the soft, vivacious woman he remembers holding in his arms. But this Ella is even more beautiful, more lush and sensuous. And he refuses to believe that what they felt for each other the last time can’t be revived. He won’t lose her a second time! He can’t!
Download or read book The Sheik s Pretend Finacee written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox. This book was released on 2025-05-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the enemy. The one man Angela should despise on principle alone. And yet… one forbidden, toe-curling kiss later, everything changed. Okay, there was a little conversation, a lot of laughter, and oh, right—a murder. With the sharp end of her comb. Now, thanks to a "romantic" video clip of them, minus the comb incident, Angela has a brand-new fake fiancé: none other than Sheik Tiro el Maistri of Ginisia, her country’s sworn enemy. To calm the media frenzy, they’ll pretend to be madly in love, engage in staged courtship, and eventually “break up” with as much drama as their nations require. Easy, right? Except… that kiss quickly escalated. Days (and nights) with Tiro turned steamy, with touches and glances that were definitely not part of the plan. When this is all over, they're supposed to go their separate ways. But what if Angela doesn’t want to end it? And what if Tiro is ready to make their engagement a lot less fake? Also, who exactly got murdered with Angela’s comb, and why does that mystery keep following her?
Download or read book Bill the Sheik written by Alice Muriel Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Return of Cord Navarro written by Vella Munn and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return Of Cord Navarro by Vella Munn released on Sep 24, 1996 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book Baby Makes Three written by Marion Smith Collins and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Makes Three by Marion Smith Collins released on Sep 24, 1996 is available now for purchase.
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Download or read book A Husband by Any Other Name written by Cheryl St.John and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Husband By Any Other Name by Cheryl St.John released on Oct 25, 1996 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book Second Father written by Sally Tyler Hayes and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Father by Sally Tyler Hayes released on Oct 25, 1996 is available now for purchase.
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