Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author CaroleMortimer Completely infatuated with successful pro-tennis player Nick St. Clare, Rachel offersno resistance to his sinful seduction. But when their unbridled passion results in apregnancy, Nick insists that Rachel marry him—no heir of his will be without a father! Rachel knows their marriage is one of convenience, yet the incendiary heat between themstill burns bright! But with Nick off traveling the world, how can she convince herhusband that there's more to their marriage than just a baby? Originally published in 1982
When singer India Blue meets superstar actor Massimo Verdi, their se*ual attraction is immediate and almost overwhelming. But India is plagued by a dark secret, and when her life is threatened, the two would-be-lovers find their love inundated with jeopardy and distance. Complicating matters is India's close relationship with her friend, K-pop star Sun, who is in turmoil as well.After photographs of Massimo kissing his ex-girlfriend flood the internet,India flees to Seoul where she and the distressed Sun rekindle their se*ual relationship.With two men in her heart and another determined to kill her, India becomes mired in uncertainty and depression.When she and Massimo reconnect, she begins to see a way out of her gloom and falls in love with him??except her vengeful psychopath is never far behind.With more secrets getting revealed, India needs to decide who to love-and who to trust.
Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is the most admired of all American Catholic writers. His journals have recently been published to wide acclaim. The collection of Merton's letters in The Hidden Ground of Love were selected and edited by William H. Shannon.
Volume One: 1898–1922 presents some 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, by which time the poet had settled in England, married his first wife, and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988, many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included, filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliot's activities in London during and after the First World War. Volume Two: 1923–1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, publication of The Hollow Men, and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence in this volume testifies to Eliot's growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.
A woman with a secret. A Pinkerton hired to hunt her down. Can love triumph? After Amanda Sharp's beloved parents die in a carriage accident, Amanda starts a new life as a school proprietor in 1860's San Francisco. All she wants is love and respectability. But when she her half-brother threatens to expose her secret in a bid to steal her inheritance, will Amanda be left penniless and alone? Or will the Pinkerton detective hired to hunt her down hold the key to her future happiness? Freewheeling Jonny Winstead isn't looking for love in San Francisco, and he's certainly not interested in the woman, and thief, he's been hired to track down. But as Jonny grows closer to Amanda, he finds himself questioning the tale her half-brother told him. Amanda has reason to hide her identity, but the rest of it isn't shaking out. Soon, Jonny will have to choose between the life he's chosen and the woman he is falling for. Will Johnny sacrifice his freewheeling ways for the love of a good woman? Even one society says is wholly unsuitable? Find out in A Hidden Love, a sweet, interracial romance novel of betrayal, blackmail and new beginnings in the Old West. This is Book 1 of the Winstead Brothers series, a series of stand-alone romances of the Old West. If you love clean, historical romance with the message of who you are matters more than how society views you, start reading A Hidden Love now. A Hidden Love is a Historical Western Romance of 60,000 words.
“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.
