Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426884605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
When a sheikh rescues a spoiled socialite in the desert, the sun and sand won’t be all that’s heating up in this fiery romance by a USA Today bestseller. Sheikh Zafiq Al-Rashid is furious when his week of solitude is interrupted by Bella Balfour, lost in the desert! While his fierce honor demands he rescue her, the willful heiress is a little less grateful than he’d expected. Zafiq is tempted to leave the spoiled socialite wandering the wilderness . . . but where would be the challenge in that? He’s powerful enough to tame the rebellious beauty. However, when they depart from the seclusion of the oasis, will Zafiq leave the memory of the fiery passion behind or announce to his kingdom that he is taking a queen?
Bella and the Merciless Sheikh
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426884605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
When a sheikh rescues a spoiled socialite in the desert, the sun and sand won’t be all that’s heating up in this fiery romance by a USA Today bestseller. Sheikh Zafiq Al-Rashid is furious when his week of solitude is interrupted by Bella Balfour, lost in the desert! While his fierce honor demands he rescue her, the willful heiress is a little less grateful than he’d expected. Zafiq is tempted to leave the spoiled socialite wandering the wilderness . . . but where would be the challenge in that? He’s powerful enough to tame the rebellious beauty. However, when they depart from the seclusion of the oasis, will Zafiq leave the memory of the fiery passion behind or announce to his kingdom that he is taking a queen?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426884605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
When a sheikh rescues a spoiled socialite in the desert, the sun and sand won’t be all that’s heating up in this fiery romance by a USA Today bestseller. Sheikh Zafiq Al-Rashid is furious when his week of solitude is interrupted by Bella Balfour, lost in the desert! While his fierce honor demands he rescue her, the willful heiress is a little less grateful than he’d expected. Zafiq is tempted to leave the spoiled socialite wandering the wilderness . . . but where would be the challenge in that? He’s powerful enough to tame the rebellious beauty. However, when they depart from the seclusion of the oasis, will Zafiq leave the memory of the fiery passion behind or announce to his kingdom that he is taking a queen?
An Imperialist Love Story
Author: Amira Jarmakani
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479810657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479810657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Pregnancy of Revenge (Mills & Boon Modern)
Author: Jacqueline Baird
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472031091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A money-grabbing beauty, that's all she was–and Jake D'Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was simple: he'd take revenge in his bed!
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472031091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A money-grabbing beauty, that's all she was–and Jake D'Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was simple: he'd take revenge in his bed!
Arab American Women
Author: Michael W. Suleiman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815655134
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815655134
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.
SOLD TO THE ENEMY
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596268037
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Selene lives on a remote Greek island with her abusive father, dreaming of the day that she can be free. At the age of seventeen, she falls in love for the first time with her father’s business rival, the young and wealthy Stefan. He earnestly listens to her dreams and tells her they should meet again in five years. Hanging on to those words, she makes a secret plan to escape the island. But on that fateful day, the innocent Selene learns that Stefan might just be more dangerous than she imagined.
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596268037
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Selene lives on a remote Greek island with her abusive father, dreaming of the day that she can be free. At the age of seventeen, she falls in love for the first time with her father’s business rival, the young and wealthy Stefan. He earnestly listens to her dreams and tells her they should meet again in five years. Hanging on to those words, she makes a secret plan to escape the island. But on that fateful day, the innocent Selene learns that Stefan might just be more dangerous than she imagined.
Doukakis's Apprentice
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459255674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
With her family business in crisis, Polly Prince does her best to keep calm and carry on. But hard work alone can't save her London company from a takeover by the infamously ruthless Damon Doukakis…or her traitorous body from the lethal sensuality of her boss! As his new apprentice, Polly accompanies Damon to Paris to negotiate the most challenging business deal of her life! Worse still, Polly must at all costs resist Damon in the most dangerously romantic city in the world.…
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459255674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
With her family business in crisis, Polly Prince does her best to keep calm and carry on. But hard work alone can't save her London company from a takeover by the infamously ruthless Damon Doukakis…or her traitorous body from the lethal sensuality of her boss! As his new apprentice, Polly accompanies Damon to Paris to negotiate the most challenging business deal of her life! Worse still, Polly must at all costs resist Damon in the most dangerously romantic city in the world.…
Mia and the Powerful Greek
Author: Michelle Reid
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426864345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
While scrubbing floors, Mia dreams of a better life. Then she discovers she's a Balfour—the illegitimate daughter of one of the world's richest dynasties! Thrust headfirst into her new family's spectacularly glamorous lifestyle, she's scared…. But then comes an opportunity to learn about high society, through the chance to work for Greek tycoon Nikos Theakis, who struggled his way up, himself, from the slums of Athens to Millionaire's Row. Nikos has got where he is by always having taken what he wanted…. Until Mia's sweetness and integrity stop him in his tracks…
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426864345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
While scrubbing floors, Mia dreams of a better life. Then she discovers she's a Balfour—the illegitimate daughter of one of the world's richest dynasties! Thrust headfirst into her new family's spectacularly glamorous lifestyle, she's scared…. But then comes an opportunity to learn about high society, through the chance to work for Greek tycoon Nikos Theakis, who struggled his way up, himself, from the slums of Athens to Millionaire's Row. Nikos has got where he is by always having taken what he wanted…. Until Mia's sweetness and integrity stop him in his tracks…
Once a Ferrara Wife...
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037313049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Laurel Ferrara wouldn't know a happy ending if she fell over it--of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it wasn't as simple as just walking away. From the moment she is summoned back to Sicily, the shivers of unease set in.... The command comes from legendary billionaire Cristiano Ferrara, the husband she can't forget--but it might as well have come from the devil himself. The outrageously gorgeous Cristiano's power is a potent reminder of this Sicilian dynasty's unbreakable rule: once a Ferrara wife, always a Ferrara wife....
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037313049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Laurel Ferrara wouldn't know a happy ending if she fell over it--of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it wasn't as simple as just walking away. From the moment she is summoned back to Sicily, the shivers of unease set in.... The command comes from legendary billionaire Cristiano Ferrara, the husband she can't forget--but it might as well have come from the devil himself. The outrageously gorgeous Cristiano's power is a potent reminder of this Sicilian dynasty's unbreakable rule: once a Ferrara wife, always a Ferrara wife....
Emily and the Notorious Prince
Author: India Grey
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426869789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A playboy prince schemes to make an impoverished heiress his in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. She fled from her fairy-tale lifestyle when she’d discovered it was built on lies. Now naïve Emily Balfour is struggling to make ends meet. Prince Luis Cordoba instantly recognizes the Balfour heiress—the only woman who didn’t fall at his feet! Penniless Emily can’t refuse the offer of a roof over her head—even knowing she’ll be sharing the playboy’s bed! Whisked away to his royal kingdom, inexperienced Emily is no match for Luis’s potent sexuality. But her heart is warning her not to become just another notch on his regal bedpost!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426869789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A playboy prince schemes to make an impoverished heiress his in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. She fled from her fairy-tale lifestyle when she’d discovered it was built on lies. Now naïve Emily Balfour is struggling to make ends meet. Prince Luis Cordoba instantly recognizes the Balfour heiress—the only woman who didn’t fall at his feet! Penniless Emily can’t refuse the offer of a roof over her head—even knowing she’ll be sharing the playboy’s bed! Whisked away to his royal kingdom, inexperienced Emily is no match for Luis’s potent sexuality. But her heart is warning her not to become just another notch on his regal bedpost!