Someone to Love (Love in the Regency Book 2)

Someone to Love (Love in the Regency Book 2)
Author: Kasey Michaels
Publisher: Kasey Michaels
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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From New York Times bestselling romance author Kasey Michaels comes the second in her LOVE IN THE REGENCY series. Abigail Backworth Maldon is no fan of marriage, having buried her late husband after his embarrassing demise (he toppled headfirst out of a bedroom window in an attempt to avoid an angry husband). But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t see its advantages — just not for her. The part she likes best is the idea of marrying off her niece to a suitable husband. To Abigail, “suitable” means the man comes with a pleasant disposition, a title if possible, and most definitely with a fortune he’d naturally share with his bride’s family. Because, as chance would have it, the family is dead broke. Enter Kipp Rutland, he of the recently broken heart (see WAITING FOR YOU), beholden to marry before his thirtieth birthday (he promised his mother, as mothers do worry… and nag). One look at Abby’s niece tells him he has discovered the perfect wife — quiet, conventional, probably not too bright. Marry her, bed her, and nine months later hand his ecstatic mother the grandchild she desires. After all, the last thing he’s looking for is love. Nothing can be simpler than Abby’s plan and Kipp’s plan — except that nothing is ever that simple. Especially when the matchmaker and the matrimonial target she has sicced her niece on begin to realize opposite motives just might attract. **For a limited time, get two free books from Kasey > bit.ly/kaseymichaels (just copy and paste into your browser)**

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
Author: Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040085415
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This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.

American Quaker Romances

American Quaker Romances
Author: Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 849134909X
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Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.

Love's Awakening (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #2)

Love's Awakening (The Ballantyne Legacy Book #2)
Author: Laura Frantz
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441244530
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Ellie Ballantyne, youngest child of Silas and Eden, has left finishing school. But back at her family home in Pittsburgh, Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip and her siblings don't seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their abolitionist leanings. As Ellie becomes increasingly tangled with the Turlocks, she finds herself falling in love with an impossible future--and Jack Turlock, a young man striving to free himself from his family's violent legacy. How can she betray her family and side with the enemy? And will Jack ever allow her into his world? Masterful storyteller Laura Frantz continues to unfold the stirring saga of the Ballantyne family in this majestic tale of love, loyalty, and the makings of a legacy. With rich descriptions of the people who settled and civilized a wild landscape, Frantz weaves a tapestry of characters and places that stick with the reader long after they turn the last page.

Love and Money

Love and Money
Author: Michael Tratner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000339815
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When people speak about love and money, they usually are referring to a conflict: love distorted by the desire for money. Such statements imply that love has a distinct form before economics interferes, but this book aims to show that such a view simplifies what is going on, because people have always been deeply shaped by everything in the social order, including economics. So when people say that money is distorting love, what they are really saying is that the current relationship of love and economics is different from an earlier relationship. This book seeks then to demonstrate the intertwining of the discourses of love and money over a long history by focusing on moments when parallel conceptions appear in economic theories and love stories. The two discourses intersect because both seek to define qualities and behaviors of human beings which are most valuable and hence most desirable. Similar descriptions of valuable behaviors appear at roughly the same time in economic theories of how to acquire wealth and literary stories of how to find ideal lovers. By tracking mutual expressions of desire, value, and acquisition in economics and love stories, this book argues for the ubiquity of the intertwining of these discourses, while exploring shifts in conceptions of value. It focuses on four eras when economic and romantic conceptions of what is most desirable were actively changing in English discourses: the early modern 17th century, the Victorian 19th, the modernist 20th, and the postmodern present.

Where Two Hearts Meet (Prince Edward Island Dreams Book #2)

Where Two Hearts Meet (Prince Edward Island Dreams Book #2)
Author: Liz Johnson
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493405179
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Evocative Contemporary Romance Set in a Charming Inn on Beautiful Prince Edward Island In her kitchen at the Red Door Inn, executive chef Caden Holt is calm, collected, and competent. But when her boss asks her to show off their beautiful island to impress a visiting travel writer and save the inn, Caden is forced to face a world much bigger than her kitchen--and a man who makes her wish she was beautiful. Journalist Adam Jacobs is on a forced sabbatical on Prince Edward Island. He's also on assignment to uncover a story. Instead he's falling in love with the island's red shores and Caden's sweets. When Caden discovers Adam isn't who she thought he was, she realizes that the article he's writing could do more than ruin the inn's chances for survival--it might also break her heart. Readers will discover hope for the hurting, joy for the broken, and romance for the lonely at the enchanting Red Door Inn.

The Virgilian Tradition II

The Virgilian Tradition II
Author: Craig Kallendorf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000460908
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The Virgilian Tradition II brings together thirteen essays by historian Craig Kallendorf. The essays present a distinctive approach to the reception of the canonical classical author Virgil, that is focused around the early printed books through which that author was read and interpreted within early modern culture. Using the prefaces, dedicatory letters, and commentaries that accompanied the early modern editions of Virgil’s Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, and Appendix Virgiliana, they demonstrate how this paratextual material was used by early readers to develop a more nuanced interpretation of Virgil’s writings than twentieth-century scholars believed they were capable of. The approach developed throughout this volume shows how the emerging field of book history can enrich our understanding of the reception of Greek and Latin authors. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history, as well as those interested in book history and cultural history. (CS 1103).

Gay Romance, Romeo: Book 2 M/M Mafia Romance: "I'm No Gentleman" Series, Straight to Gay, Second Chance Romance

Gay Romance, Romeo: Book 2 M/M Mafia Romance:
Author: Sky McCoy
Publisher: Sky McCoy
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2024-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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For mature adults 18 and over. Dante “Romeo wasn’t cut out for this kind of life. When I first set eyes on him, his cute face and seductive young body, I knew he’d walked into the wrong club, therefore, I tried to warn him. My brother Nico hadn’t seen a young impressionable man he hadn’t wanted to take to his bed, and I knew Romeo would be the next casualty, but I did warn him. ‘You shouldn’t be in here. This is not the club you’re looking for, and do not accept an offer from Nico.’ However, he was a stubborn individual, but I liked that about him. In fact I liked everything about Romeo, however, therein lay the problem. I was straight and had always been, and in my line of business, I had to be the boss of the Bonetti family to enjoy the privileges of taking a man for a lover.” Book 2 straight to gay, age gap, second chances, and HFN. Book 3 has HEA. Uk books

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
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Total Pages: 130
Release: 1990-10-08
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Love in New York: Book 2 (Cabin Fever)

Love in New York: Book 2 (Cabin Fever)
Author: Elle Casey
Publisher: Elle Casey
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939455529
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NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers book 2 of 3 in the contemporary romance LOVE IN NEW YORK series. An artist’s retreat turns into a snowbound intervention. Jeremy Oliver’s on a one-man mission to forget, while Sarah Booker’s on a one-woman mission to remember. What happens when two opposing forces like theirs get snowed in together? Cabin Fever ... Fireworks, tears, ghosts, and maybe even love. LOVE IN NEW YORK SERIES READING ORDER Love in New York: Book 1 (Lost and Found) Love in New York: Book 2 (Cabin Fever) Love in New York: Book 3 (Mister Fixit) HERE’S WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT LOVE IN NEW YORK, BOOK 2: “Amazing!!! A perfect, unpredictable romance. Loved it start to finish. Can't wait to read the next book in this wonderful series.” ~ Rhonda Bartos, Goodreads reviewer “WOW! I can honestly say this was one of my favorite books! I couldn't put it down. It was one of those stay up WAY PAST your bedtime to keep reading to find out what happens next! I am tired but I am very satisfied with how this book progressed and ended.. I just wish it could have kept going on and on and on.... Elle Casey sure didn't disappoint as I knew she wouldn't!!!” ~ Amazon Reviewer “Another book that will keep you up all night, because you won't be able to put it down. I am totally loving this series from my favourite author. It's great to read books that aren't predictable. This is another great read, I highly recommend.” ~ Lisa Berardi, Amazon Reviewer “Awesome continuation of the series. I laughed, cried, and laughed some more. Can't wait to read the last installment in the series.” ~ Amazon Reviewer About this series: I’d never been to New York City before, but I knew I would love it and wanted to write a story that was set in the most exciting city in the world. So I hopped on a plane with my friend Susan and spent 5 whirlwind days there, soaking up the culture, seeing the sights and nailing down the scenes that would eventually end up in this series. Those of you familiar with New York City know what I’m talking about when I say you just can’t beat Russ and Daughters’ bagels, Central Park, Times Square, Brooklyn, and Yonnah Schimmels’ knishes.