Author: Desiree Holt
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1839433604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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FROM BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR DESIREE HOLT From the A Little Bit Cupid collection Her hot pants certainly heated up Valentine's Day. They met by accident in a bar on the night of Valentine's Day. She had walked out on a cheating boyfriend. He was at loose ends and feeling fidgety. One drink opened the door to a night of erotic adventure. No holds barred. No restrictions. Except...no names. She was Val, he was Ace. For a year they each regretted the inability to contact each other. Then, next Valentine's Day, they reconnected in the most unexpected place...
Author: Penelope Douglas
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593642007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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Dreams might be a heart’s desire, but nightmares are its obsession in the first novel of a dark romance series from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Erika Fane’s boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than he is with her. But she saw him. She heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, Erika bit her nails, unable to look away. Now, she’s in college, but she hasn’t stopped watching him. He’s bad and the things she’s seen aren’t content to stay in her head anymore. Because he's finally noticed her. But Michael Crist knows the hold he has on Rika, how much she fears him. She looks down when he enters the room and stills when he’s close. He knows she thinks only of him. When Michael’s brother leaves for the military, leaving Rika alone and unprotected, he knows the opportunity is too good to be true. Three years ago she put Michael’s friends in prison, and now they’re free. Every last one of her nightmares is about to come true.
Author: Drk Black Notebooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781707592517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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This journal is perfect for writing thoughts and memories in, makes a great gift idea for significant other. Order Today!!
Author: Desiree Holt
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1839434937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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FOUR VALENTINE'S DAY THEMED NOVELLAS FROM AWARD-WINNING AND BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHORS A Little Bit Cupid: A Totally Bound Publishing Box Set Hot Pants and Valentines by Desiree Holt Her hot pants certainly heated up Valentine's Day. This Ain't No Love Story by Aliyah Burke His reputation precedes him. Will she allow them a shot? Lovestruck by January Bain What if Cupid's arrow is real? For One Night Only For one night only. However, commitment has a habit of sneaking up on you. Then you have a choice, is it one night only or something more? Cupid is aiming his arrows and we're all aquiver! Whether it's a second chance at love or a whirlwind small-town romance, these stories are all about falling in love on Valentine's Day.
Author: Erica Pass
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439588093
Category : Romance fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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SpongeBob tries to help Squidward fall in love by setting him up on a date with Karla, who delivers Krusty Krab's buns.
Author: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443803715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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If, in fact, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her [step]mother forty whacks,” why (from a representational standpoint) did her stepmother deserve it? If older gay men in Internet chat rooms regularly provide much-needed acceptance and advice to younger gay males during the coming-out process, how is it that they continually reinforce racist ideologies and powerless subjectivities while doing so? What sorts of media images are commonly presented of individuals and groups that are regarded as being deviant in society, and whose interests do they ultimately serve? The answers to these important questions and many others are provided in the pages of Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations, which explores provocative representations of deviance in various media forms—including books, films, musical offerings, news accounts, television programs, and Internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for the lived realities of individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles. The eye-opening chapters of this book enable readers to more fully realize the regularity with which media representations continuously contribute, in powerful ways, to the formation and perpetuation of influential social constructions of deviance and otherness as they pertain to delinquents, criminals, and individuals of all ages, classes, genders, races, sexual orientations, and health/(dis)ability statuses. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is a thought-provoking anthology that offers fresh insight and new approaches to critically analyzing social constructions of deviancy across a variety of media forms. While scholars have long examined the relationship between media and deviancy, this collection of essays features a range of theoretical perspectives through which to investigate deviancy and its various interpretations in original ways. In the process, it deepens our understanding of how deviancy has been constructed across time and in differing social/cultural milieus. The essays in this anthology reflect the diverse disciplines of their contributing scholars. At the same time, the anthology does not waver from its clear focus on deviancy, lending it substantial coherence and readability. The book is expertly structured and edited. Each of the essays draws inspiration from a refreshing variety of sources and fields of study. The anthology is accordingly divided into six distinct yet related sections that mark its coherence and readability. Simultaneously, the essays within each section are quite different from one another, allowing the reader to make thought-provoking connections between representations of deviancy both within sections and among them. Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an important text. Considering the growth of new media forms, its investigation of both old and new media in relation to social constructions of deviancy represents a timely and topical contribution to the field of media and cultural studies. Given its breadth and scope, the anthology represents a highly significant scholarly contribution that will greatly benefit scholars, students, and interested individuals of all levels. It offers eye-opening insights to anyone with an interest in cultural studies, disease and disability studies, film and television studies, LGBT studies, criminal justice, sociology, and related fields." Brief Reviewer Bio: Metasebia Woldemariam, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Plymouth State University who specializes in media representations of deviancy and otherness. "Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations is an erudite collection offering critical and cultural analysis of media representations within various media forms, including journalism, film, documentary, television, fiction, music, and the Internet. The book is divided into six sections that highlight the categories of deviance and otherness the contributors emphasize: (1) Age; (2) Crime and Criminals; (3) Disease and Disability; (4) Gender, Race, and Class; (5) Sexual Orientation; and (6) “Other” Forms of Deviance, which include masochism, carnival “spectaculars,” and cultures of violence. While some chapters feature links to topics common to media studies, such as the Motion Picture Production Code, what is powerful about the collection is how varied the interpretive standpoints of the contributors are. An example of one such unique interpretive perspective comes from Linda K. Fuller, whose chapter examines the sexual-political aspects of African AIDS-related films based on her work in West Africa “with a sexologist collating and critiquing appropriate media for Life Skills.” This interpretive variety inspires novel examination of media representations through the originality of varied genres of analysis: the collection offers analysis of classic as well as popular literature, popular as well as veiled news media, award-winning as well as obscure television series, and outlaw country music as well as rap music. Because “media” is so broadly interpreted within the collection, readers are encouraged to view mass media as a crucial cultural landscape for meaning making. Each contributor offers a timely perspective about past or contemporary society through the analysis of unique media genres and artifacts, or even through analysis of representations in multiple media forms. For example, Annette Holba examines multiple forms of the media representations of a less emphasized person in the Lizzie Borden case, Borden’s stepmother. Editor Kylo-Patrick R. Hart’s own contribution examines multiple media representations of the visible physical signs of AIDS before focusing on their representation in two particularly noteworthy film melodramas. Rather than focusing on stereotypical categories of deviance and otherness, the contributors focus on less commonly acknowledged representations or challenge commonly acknowledged understandings of media. This is evident through Christopher J. Pérez’s ethnographic observation of instant messages from Gay.com participants, which dispels the notion that such online communities allow for positive expressions of gay identity. Through its broad interpretation of media, the collection offers an ample array of less commonly acknowledged media genres, as evident in Margaret Weigel’s class analysis of the electric-bulb advertising sign “spectaculars” in Manhattan from 1892 to 1917; Wendy Korwin’s visual analysis of a set of four image plates used within prescriptive literature; and Amanda Klein’s cinematic comparison of portrayed deviance in the 1950s juvenile delinquency teenpic and the 1990s ghetto action film. Incorporated also are unique perspectives on traditional news media representations, as in Thomas Grochowski’s interpretation of celebrity defendant perspectives of O.J. Simpson. Occasionally, common themes thread particular chapters together, allowing opportunities to understand how critics view the same or similar media differently. For example, David Sealy and Georges-Claude Guilbert as well as Valentin Locoge offer analysis of the HBO television series OZ. Additionally, contemporary moral dilemmas and societal issues are covered as they appear in various media representations, as when Barbara Barnett’s discussion of journalistic representations of maternal infanticide and perfection appear alongside Robert Goff’s analysis of the textured view of abortion provided by the film Vera Drake. Hart’s collection is important to expanding the scholarly understanding of media representations because it provokes thinking about what makes media mean so much to humans in particular social, cultural, historical, and even technological contexts. The issue of the detrimental effects of “shared notions of deviance and social otherness” is evident in chapters that highlight original perspectives useful for either scholarly analysis or challenging, graduate-level classroom discussions. Also, because the collection includes literary analysis, it could serve well those with interest in literary criticism." ELESHA RUMINSKI, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with experience teaching mass communication, film studies, and visual communication.
Author: E.E. Knight
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440639167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio. And what Valentine finds within will shake his sanity to its very core.
Author: Amelia Wilde
Publisher: Amelia Wilde
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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He’s looking for peace and quiet—and she’s a bullhorn in a breakfast café. All single dad Ryder wants is peace, quiet, and pancakes. Valentine is serving up the exact opposite at the Short Stack Café. She’s a disaster waiting to happen—a gorgeous, irresistible disaster. Ryder can’t risk his newfound stability on a whirlwind like Valentine. He definitely can’t risk his heart. But one taste of her has him willing to pick up the tab, no matter the price.
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847377351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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From the bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick One unforgettable woman. One heart and dream as big as New York City. Makers of custom wedding shoes since 1903, the Angelini Shoe Company is one of the last family businesses in Greenwich Village. Now on the brink of financial ruin, thirty-three year old Valentine Roncalli, the talented apprentice, and her grandmother Teodora, the master artisan, are trying to bring the family’s old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling a romantic relationship with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family and a design competition for a prestigious department store, Valentine accompanies her grandmother to Italy in the hope of finding inspiration. Sweeping from the streets of Manhattan to picturesque Tuscany and the Isle of Capri, she discovers her artistic voice and so much more, turning her life around in ways she never expected. ‘Charming, charismatic and addictive… an absolute treat’ Company ‘A funny, heart-warming tale of a woman looking for love, family harmony and the perfect shoe’ Heat ‘Load up on cappuccino and biscotti before getting lost in the super froth of Adriana Trigiani's romance-soaked novel, Very Valentine’ Marie Claire ‘This hymn to Italian New York is a treat’ Elle ‘Sex and the City meets Moonstruck... sly, sensual and dripping in style’ People ‘Like tucking into a plate of homemade manicotti: irresistible and delicious’ BookPage
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847379966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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From the bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick With her plans gone awry, can Valentine find a new way to make her dreams come true? Snow falls over Tuscany at the beautiful wedding of Valentine’s grandmother to her longtime love. But despite Valentine and Gianluca’s passion for one another, their own long-distance relationship seems impossible. And Valentine’s dreams are dashed as Gram announces Valentine’s brother, Alfred, as her partner at Angelini Shoes. As Valentine turns away from romance and devotes herself to her work, a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes her to Buenos Aires. Unearthing a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal, Valentine is determined to hold her family together. Longing to create a family of her own, Valentine is torn between two loves: one that has nurtured her and a new one that promises to sustain her. ‘Rattles along at an astonishing pace, throwing up hidden mistresses, family secrets and the possibility of tantalising romance’ Irish Independent ‘Valentine is one of Adriana Trigiani’s most winsome characters (yes, she even rivals the Big Stone Gap gang)... an unexpectedly poignant examination of the power and pull of family, faith and love’ BookPage ‘Trigiani spoke to women’s hearts with Big Stone Gap, and her Valentine series continues to do so… essential reading for fans of humorous, touching family fiction’ Library Journal ‘[A] charming valentine to love, forgiveness and family’ Publishers Weekly
