The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin

The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin PDF Author: Trish Morey
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596667179
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin

The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin PDF Author: Trish Morey
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596667179
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin

The Sheikh's Convenient Virgin PDF Author: Trish Morey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263202236
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The Sheikh Crowns His Virgin

The Sheikh Crowns His Virgin PDF Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148804452X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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From innocent in distress… To convenient princess To escape her overprotective family, sweet-natured Zoe Mardas heads to the desert kingdom of Maraban for an adventure. But she’s kidnapped on arrival! Zoe is saved by mysterious and devastatingly handsome Raj—the nation’s exiled prince. The attraction between them is instant—and fiery like the desert sun! Yet her rescue comes with a price: to save them both from a political scandal, Zoe must become Raj’s virgin bride… Turn the page and step into the sheikh’s desert kingdom…

The Sheik And The Virgin Secretary

The Sheik And The Virgin Secretary PDF Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 142680492X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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The wedding of my dreams was only days away...until I discovered my fianc? had a nasty habit of unfaithfulness. So to mend my wounded pride, I turned to the most eligible man I knew: my boss, Prince Rafiq of Lucia-Serrat! Although the dashingly handsome prince had enticed dozens of women, I had just one thing in my mind when I proposed becoming Rafiq's mistress: revenge on the man who'd humiliated me before. It was easier than I'd expected to go from Rafiq's chaste secretary to his lustful lover. What I didn't expect was to fall head over heels for a man who could give me anything I wanted, except his heart....

An Imperialist Love Story

An Imperialist Love Story PDF Author: Amira Jarmakani
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479815616
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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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.

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance PDF Author: Amy Burge
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Captive for the Sheikh's Pleasure

Captive for the Sheikh's Pleasure PDF Author: Carol Marinelli
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459293452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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His sinful desert seduction… Sheikh Ilyas al-Razim was born to be king. He won’t let anything stand in his way, especially not the waitress daring to think she can blackmail him! It’s his duty to protect his family’s honor—even if it means taking impossibly stunning Maggie Delaney as his hostage… Beneath the starlit skies of Zayrinia’s desert, defiant Maggie convinces Ilyas she is innocent of his accusations. No longer his prisoner, Maggie is free to return home…yet now she’s held captive by their smoldering raw desire! Dare she surrender to the pleasure this desert prince promises?

The Sheikh's Convenient Mistress

The Sheikh's Convenient Mistress PDF Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488037957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Arabian Mistress — Lynne Graham Re-discover this gripping Harlequin Presents by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham! Begging for Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir’s mercy was the last thing Faye wanted to do. She hadn’t seen Tariq for a year…since their wedding. But Faye’s brother was imprisoned in Tariq’s homeland, and only Tariq could grant his freedom. Faye expected her meeting with the man she’d married to be tough, but Tariq’s ultimatum took her breath away: become his mistress and her brother would be released! Originally published in 2001 The Desert Prince’s Mistress — Sharon Kendrick Re-discover this gripping Harlequin Presents by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick! Multimillionaire Darian Wildman made the decision instantly that he had to have Lara Black . . . both as the face advertising his mobile phone company . . . and as his mistress! Their mutual attraction was scorching hot, and they couldn’t keep their hands off each other. Desire took over - until Darian made an outrageous discovery that would change his whole life - and Lara’s . . . He was actually the illegitimate heir to a wealthy desert kingdom - and a desert prince! Originally published in 2004

Desert Passions

Desert Passions PDF Author: Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

One Dance with the Sheikh

One Dance with the Sheikh PDF Author: Tessa Radley
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459227263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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A spontaneous, passion-filled Vegas romp with a sheikh is out of the ordinary for sensible Laurel Kincaid. She's walked the straight-and-narrow her entire life and has wound up with more stress and conflict than she can handle. Indulging in a jaunt with irresistible Rakin Whitcomb Abdellah is a delicious escape. So delicious that she says "I do" to a short-term marriage of convenience so he can claim his inheritance. But being husband and wife behind closed doors is more tantalizing than either of them expected, and suddenly the rules of their temporary marriage feel very inconvenient….