A Tempestuous Temptation by Cathy Williams Aggie’s first introduction to billionaire Luiz is his outrageous accusation that she is a fortune hunter! But when Aggie finds herself snowbound with the arrogant Brazilian, she soon finds she’s not as immune to his lethal charms as she’d hoped...
A Tempestuous Temptation Aggie is infuriated that she is being accused as a fortune–hunter by billionaire Luiz Diaz...and now she is snowbound with the arrogant Brazilian! As they seek shelter from the snowstorm, Luiz does nothing to dismiss Aggie's initial opinion of him. Yes, he's unbearably arrogant...and as irresistible as he thinks he is! Despite his merciless reputation, it seems she's not as immune to his legendary lethal charm as she'd hoped... The Notorious Gabriel Diaz The last time Gabriel heard the word no was when Lucy Robins rejected his skilled advances – a moment that is still etched on his bruised ego! Now, Lucy desperately needs to help her family. Gabriel strikes a deal: Lucy's virginity! But he didn't expect that their night together would leave him hooked... The Truth Behind His Touch Caroline Rossi steps into Giancarlo de Vito's sleek offices feeling plain...and virtually invisible! Giancarlo's ruthless ambition got him where he is today, but he hasn't forgotten the past hardships – or his thirst for a revenge only Caroline can help him exact... Used to women doing anything to please him, Giancarlo is confounded by Caroline – she just won't play ball. To seek his vengeance Giancarlo will have to turn on the legendarily irresistible de Vito charm.
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Starbucked will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, Starbucked combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In Starbucked, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress activists and coffee zealots alike. Through a cast of characters that includes coffee-wild hippies, business sharks, slackers, Hollywood trendsetters and more, Starbucked explores how America transformed into a nation of coffee gourmets in only a few years, how Starbucks manipulates psyches and social habits to snare loyal customers, and why many of the things we think we know about the coffee commodity chain are false.
For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean. Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes’s works constitute a literary longue durée, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.
