Author: Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim
ISBN: 9780373272129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Secret-Agent Sheik by Linda Winstead Jones released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
Secret-agent Sheikh
Author: Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim
ISBN: 9780373272129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Secret-Agent Sheik by Linda Winstead Jones released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim
ISBN: 9780373272129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Secret-Agent Sheik by Linda Winstead Jones released on Mar 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.
Secret-Agent Sheik
Author: Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1459203933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The future of his people rested on secondborn son Sheik Hassan Kamal's mission: infiltrate Rahman Oil and confirm that the company was a front for the terrorist group suspected of kidnapping the crown prince of Montebello. But his contacts had left out one important fact. The company CEO was a woman—the stunningly beautiful, seemingly innocent Elena Rahman. Courting Elena was the safest way to learn corporate secrets. But as passion between them raged, instant and hot, Hassan fought a losing battle against falling for the daughter of his country's deadly enemy....
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1459203933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The future of his people rested on secondborn son Sheik Hassan Kamal's mission: infiltrate Rahman Oil and confirm that the company was a front for the terrorist group suspected of kidnapping the crown prince of Montebello. But his contacts had left out one important fact. The company CEO was a woman—the stunningly beautiful, seemingly innocent Elena Rahman. Courting Elena was the safest way to learn corporate secrets. But as passion between them raged, instant and hot, Hassan fought a losing battle against falling for the daughter of his country's deadly enemy....
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.
Romance Fiction and American Culture
Author: William A. Gleason
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134806280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134806280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres.
The Sheik's Virgin Lover
Author: Elizabeth Lennox
Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com)
ISBN: 1940134145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Who knew a simple game of basketball could lead to so much? Emma Knightly had no idea that taking the game so seriously could put her in the path of Dharran Mihail Bin Wassan, Sheik of Sundab, who turned her life upside down...with the worst marriage proposals ever! Dharran knew that Emma was the woman he needed by his side, but each time he came close, she ran away. Through the capitals of Europe and The United States, Emma and Dharran dance around their feelings for each other. Until a crisis forces them together once again.
Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com)
ISBN: 1940134145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Who knew a simple game of basketball could lead to so much? Emma Knightly had no idea that taking the game so seriously could put her in the path of Dharran Mihail Bin Wassan, Sheik of Sundab, who turned her life upside down...with the worst marriage proposals ever! Dharran knew that Emma was the woman he needed by his side, but each time he came close, she ran away. Through the capitals of Europe and The United States, Emma and Dharran dance around their feelings for each other. Until a crisis forces them together once again.
Desert Passions
Author: Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Running Scared
Author: Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426873697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME HE'D KIDNAPPED HER But it just might be the last. Quinn Calhoun was a trained mercenary whose sinful body bore the scars to prove he would do whatever it took to accomplish his mission. But keeping his hands off of the spoiled princess he'd been hired to protect? That was one battle he wasn't prepared to fight. Olivia Larkin couldn't leave this war-torn jungle without the two little girls who were depending on her. And she wasn't about to let Quinn go back for them alone. Risking her life for two innocent children was nothing when Livvie had already lost her heart to her hardened protector.
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426873697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME HE'D KIDNAPPED HER But it just might be the last. Quinn Calhoun was a trained mercenary whose sinful body bore the scars to prove he would do whatever it took to accomplish his mission. But keeping his hands off of the spoiled princess he'd been hired to protect? That was one battle he wasn't prepared to fight. Olivia Larkin couldn't leave this war-torn jungle without the two little girls who were depending on her. And she wasn't about to let Quinn go back for them alone. Risking her life for two innocent children was nothing when Livvie had already lost her heart to her hardened protector.
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Undercover Activities of Components of the Department of Justice, to the U.S. Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Law Enforcement Undercover Activities of Components of the Department of Justice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Texas Manhunt
Author: Linda Conrad
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037327775X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"Rancher Travis Chance has a soft spot for lost souls. Stranded and broke in Chance, Texas, Summer Wheeler ignites in him a fierce desire to protect her. ... Summer comes to Chance looking for one of the men who devastated her life. Though she hates lying to him, Travis's job offer provides a means to her end. But she never counted on falling for the sexy rancher and his trouble little girl. Then "accidents" start happening at the family homestead. Has Summer brought danger to the two people who are teaching her to love again?"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037327775X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"Rancher Travis Chance has a soft spot for lost souls. Stranded and broke in Chance, Texas, Summer Wheeler ignites in him a fierce desire to protect her. ... Summer comes to Chance looking for one of the men who devastated her life. Though she hates lying to him, Travis's job offer provides a means to her end. But she never counted on falling for the sexy rancher and his trouble little girl. Then "accidents" start happening at the family homestead. Has Summer brought danger to the two people who are teaching her to love again?"--P. [4] of cover.
Clint's Wild Ride
Author: Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426882688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
THE STAKES HAD NEVER BEEN HIGHER Tracking a dangerous serial killer was all in a day's work for Special Agent Mary Paris. She had the blade, the gun, the years of training, to handle it. What she couldn't handle was Clint Sinclair. The sinfully sexy slow-talkin', bull-ridin' cowboy was responsible for helping her to undercover as a rodeo clown. There were just two small problems. One, the big-city agent didn't like bulls. And two, her new teacher was driving her to distraction. And if she couldn't start keeping her head on her job and her hands off of Clint, she'd wind up with more than just a broken heart.
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426882688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
THE STAKES HAD NEVER BEEN HIGHER Tracking a dangerous serial killer was all in a day's work for Special Agent Mary Paris. She had the blade, the gun, the years of training, to handle it. What she couldn't handle was Clint Sinclair. The sinfully sexy slow-talkin', bull-ridin' cowboy was responsible for helping her to undercover as a rodeo clown. There were just two small problems. One, the big-city agent didn't like bulls. And two, her new teacher was driving her to distraction. And if she couldn't start keeping her head on her job and her hands off of Clint, she'd wind up with more than just a broken heart.