The Pregnancy Test (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) (9 Months Later, Book 48)

The Pregnancy Test (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) (9 Months Later, Book 48) PDF Author: Susan Gable
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472026101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Tick. Tock. Fifteen-year-old Brook Thompson is scared to death. The test confirmed it. She's pregnant. Those two little lines have changed her life. But what really has her freaked out is how to tell her dad.

The Pregnancy Test (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) (9 Months Later, Book 48)

The Pregnancy Test (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) (9 Months Later, Book 48) PDF Author: Susan Gable
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472026101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Tick. Tock. Fifteen-year-old Brook Thompson is scared to death. The test confirmed it. She's pregnant. Those two little lines have changed her life. But what really has her freaked out is how to tell her dad.

The Family Way (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance)

The Family Way (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) PDF Author: Rebecca Winters
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472062906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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9 MONTHS LATER A pregnant woman without a husband A family without a father And a mysterious stranger who wants to be both...

Global Infatuation

Global Infatuation PDF Author: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Publisher: Uppsala University
ISBN: 9185178284
Category : Literature publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Reading the Romance

Reading the Romance PDF Author: Janice A. Radway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.

A More Obedient Wife

A More Obedient Wife PDF Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615135161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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"A More Obedient Wife blends fact and fiction to tell the story of two women--married to Supreme Court Justices James Iredell and James Wilson--who find themselves swept up in the events of the federal government's turbulent first decade"--P. [4] of cover.

Then Comes Marriage

Then Comes Marriage PDF Author: Christie Ridgway
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061758140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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First Comes Love

First Comes Love PDF Author: Christie Ridgway
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061743658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Still Alice

Still Alice PDF Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849833710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley

A Memory of Love

A Memory of Love PDF Author: Bertrice Small
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 0307557863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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A tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man–and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires. . . . Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best. Against her wishes, she is married off to an English lord, Edward de Beaumont, who is stunned to discover that his lovely gilt-haired bride is a fiery wildcat with a mind of her own. Slowly, he wins her trust and her heart, and she accompanies him on the Crusades to North Africa. But when Edward falls ill, Rhonwyn boldly leads his troops, only to become a captive of the sensual Emir of Cinnebar, a man who will teach her the ways of erotic love–passions that will be put to the test when she returns to England to battle once more . . . this time for the man who rules her heart.

Yankee Wife

Yankee Wife PDF Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416512020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller’s classic follows a Civil War nurse as she embarks on a marriage with a heard-headed man she doesn’t know. Lydia McQuire’s courage had never wavered during the bloodiest days of the Civil War. A year later, the pretty former Union Army nurse is alone, three thousand miles from home, gamely scraping out an honest living. But now, as she said yes to marrying a stranger, her knees gave way with fear. Mr. Devon Quade had seemed polite and handsome when she answered his ad for a wife. Only after Lydia set sail for his family’s settlement in Washington did she learn the truth: her bridegroom wasn’t the sweet Devon Quade, but his older brother Brigham, a widower with shoulders a yard wide, hands as strong as steel, and an arrogant belief that he was lord and master of his lumber empire, the town, and the woman he married. Lydia’s dislike of him is both ardent and instantaneous...yet she also wants him to kiss her until he takes her breath away. And when Brigham wraps her in his strong embrace, he awakens in her a white-hot passion, and a firm resolve: before she shares his bed, tough, hard-headed Brigham Quade has to surrender himself, heart and soul, to love.