The Greek, the innocent…and her request for one electrifying encounter! Discover this sexy awakening romance by Lucy King. The one thing they both agree on? Their attraction! Artist Willow Jacobs’s latest high-society portrait is set to make her career. Until the subject’s son, Leonidas Stanhope, demands it never sees the light of day! He’s everything she isn’t: uptight, reserved and richer than sense. But that won’t stop her from standing her ground. Yet, their negotiations can’t halt her red-hot reaction to the Greek, especially when she sees the same heat reflected in Leo’s fierce gaze! This could be innocent Willow’s chance to experience the pleasure she believed impossible… Her next move? Asking for a night between his billion-dollar sheets! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Heirs to a Greek Empire books: Book 1: Virgin's Night with the Greek
In the desert country of Jemeya, Princess Marina had a strict upbringing bound by old laws. “But, can I really continue living my life in which I'm married off to someone my father chose for me?” She leaps out of the country and graduats from an American university where she falls in love with Sheikh Bahir. But, the price to freely love who she wants is more than she bargained for. As he coldly tells her, "Love and family are a hindrance to me," she leaves without saying a word. I'll keep holding on to that secret I can never speak of.
What if she's telling the truth? Greek tycoon Sebastian Kouros thinks he knows all about Rachel Long: she's a scheming money–grabber! Rachel has come to Sebastian's island to claim her inheritance and although the bitterness between them is ripe, neither is expecting the searing sexual chemistry they share Sebastian takes Rachel to his bed, but it appears she's not the virgin she claims to be, so perhaps now is the time to take her as his mistress and discard her when he sees fit. But what if Rachel is telling the truth and she is an innocent and a virgin?
The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
