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Author: Sallie Bingham
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781557830777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA member of the moneyed Bingham family recounts her family's rise to power over several decades and their subsequent downfall amidst family infighting and rumors of a family murder
Author: Regina Jeffers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-02-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 156975246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitty, romantic and insightful, Darcy’s Passions captures the original style and sardonic humor of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice while turning the entire story on its head. Written from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy, this novel tells his version of an improbable, even obsessive relationship with a most impossible woman—Elizabeth Bennet. This novel reveals Darcy’s passion and conviction but also his turmoil. Darcy knows that duty to family and estate demands he choose a woman of refined tastes. Yet, what his mind tells him to do and what his heart knows to be true tear him in opposite directions. He loves a woman he first denies for being unworthy, but it is he who is found wanting when Elizabeth Bennet refuses his proposal of marriage. Devastated, Darcy must search his soul and transform himself into the man she can love and respect.
Author: Dominic Ridler
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media
Published: 2002-08-23
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 1945648392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBDSM Romance. England, early 19thcentury. Elizabeth Bennet is an independent-minded young woman, determined not to be ruled by men. She enjoys her sexual passions with her maid Nell and a farmhand John. But when she’s introduced to Mr. Darcy, she’s finds herself smitten, despite his haughty nature and belief that men should be dominant in the bedroom. Although her attraction for Darcy grows, after learning of his taste for perverse sexual practices, she rejects his proposal of marriage. Meanwhile Elizabeth’syounger sister Lydia runs away with Wickham, a handsome but unscrupulous young soldier, who seduces her then prostitutes her. Although Wickham claims to have been wronged by Darcy, which further turns Elizabeth against him, it is Darcy who saves the reputation of the Bennet family by bribing Wickham to marry Lydia and take her abroad. With her attraction to Darcy now overwhelming, Elizabeth agrees to a trial meeting, during which the two have sex. Their lovemaking and later trysts confirm not only that Darcy is a skilful and considerate lover, but that he has the greatest respect for her, even after she consents to anal intercourse. When he proposes a second time, Elizabeth knows what she must do
Author: Barbara Brooks Wolfe
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979934179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1918 a legendary shootout in Arizona made headlines in newspapers across the nation. According to the press, German sympathizers had murdered a federal posse in the Galiuro Mountains in Graham County. Misinformation on the case reported in print would fill volumes, but four men died in that gun battle, and the bitter anger that followed reintroduced the death penalty to Arizona and divided the state for nearly a century. After ten years spent searching old files and unearthing previously unexplored information, author Barbara Brooks Wolfe presents a riveting account of this controversial case.
Author: Natasha Farrant
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0545942829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of Longbourn, Mr. Darcy's Diary, and Prom and Prejudice... Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet girls. She's stubborn, never listens, and can't seem to keep her mouth shut--not that she would want to anyway. She's bored with her country life and wishes her older sisters would pay her attention . . . for once! Luckily, the handsome Wickham arrives at Longbourn to sweep her off her feet. Lydia's not going to let him know THAT, of course, especially since he only seems to be interested in friendship. But when they both decide to summer in the fasionable seaside town of Brighton, their paths become entangled again. At the seaside, Lydia also finds exciting new ways of life and a pair of friends who offer her a future she never dreamed of. Lydia finally understands what she really wants. But can she get it? A fresh, funny, and spirited reimagining of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet brings the voice of the wildest Bennet sister alive and center stage like never before.
Author: Regina Jeffers
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1569757313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis inventive, action-packed novel tells of a tormented Darcy who, dispirited by his family's 200-year curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire, would rather live forever alone than inflict the horrors of a vampire life on a beautiful wife. Destiny has other plans.
Author: Sallie Bingham
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0374711860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles the notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist. Duke established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. When her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to discover her true identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham dissects the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy. “Illuminating . . . Bingham is a generous biographer in this exacting, measured work.” —Publishers Weekly “The most significant, dramatic, and compelling biography of Doris Duke. . . . that will delight and inspire all readers concerned about a more humane future.” —Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt (vols. I, II, III)
Author: Sallie Bingham
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781936747788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA family history centered around three generations of women spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age.
Author: Linda Berdoll
Publisher: Well, There It is Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780967481739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMs. Berdoll has also authored Fandango, a historical romance set during San Francisco's Gold Rush. Her research for her novels also birthed a humorous look at euphemisms, Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things. She is happily married to her high-school sweetheart and lives outside Austin, Texas.
Author: Adam Potkay
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780801437274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough widely perceived as inhabiting different, even opposed, literary worlds, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and David Hume (1711-1776) shared common ground as moralists. Adam Potkay traces their central concerns to Hellenistic philosophy, as conveyed by Cicero, and to earlier moderns such as Addison and Mandeville. Johnson's and Hume's large and diverse bodies of writings, Potkay says, are unified by several key questions: What is happiness? What is the role of virtue in the happy life? What is the proper relationship between passion and reflection in the happy or flourishing individual? In their writings, Johnson and Hume largely agree upon what flourishing means for both human beings and the communities they inhabit. They also tell a common story about the history that led up to the enlightened age of eighteenth-century Europe. On the divisive topic of religion, these two great men of letters wrote with a decorum that characterizes the Enlightenment in Britain as compared to its French counterpart. In The Passion for Happiness, Adam Potkay illuminates much that philosophers and historians do not ordinarily appreciate about Hume, and that literary scholars might not recognize about Johnson.
