Pleasurable Bargains

Pleasurable Bargains
Author: Kate Pearce
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781419956607
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Eden's pleasure: Enticed by a former lover to enter a house of pleasure, a widow is confronted with another unwanted marriage and believes her former lover does not want her because she is barren. Antonia's bargain: A known rake discovers that a popular society man is really a disguised woman hoping to postpone her marriage to keep her family wealth.

This Is Pleasure

This Is Pleasure
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524749141
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Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Hard Bargains

Hard Bargains
Author: Linda R. Hirshman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195134206
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Men and women have always bargained for sex. In this controversial new book, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first comprehensive look at the politics of heterosexual sex in the West, from Hammurabi's Code to Monica Lewinsky. Starting with an essential summary of the roots of Western sex in the ancient near East and early modern Europe, the book quickly focuses on the history of the sexual regulation in America, which it describes in unprecedented detail. Hard Bargains also offers surprisingly workable proposals for a new sexual order--rape laws replaced by laws of sexual autonomy, adultery subjected to breach of contract action, prostitution considered an unfair labor practice. Hard Bargains takes a forthright and level-headed look at all aspects of one of the biggest controversies in contemporary American society--heterosexual sex--and delivers a radically new perspective on the sexual lives of women and men.

What Are You Living For?

What Are You Living For?
Author: Pat Williams
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441226133
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After speaking on teaching and influencing young people at a student gathering in Texas, Pat Williams received an email from a high school coach who had heard his talk. Coach McCall's email stated that every kid who's growing up is dying to live his life. But as people get older, instead of dying to live, they start living to die. His closing thought is What are you dying for? Unable to escape this question, Pat invites readers to ask themselves, When my days on earth are over, will I discover that I have wasted my life on meaningless things that have no lasting and eternal value? Most people are living for four things: fortune, status, power, or pleasure. But there are four far more meaningful and satisfying reasons for living--and for dying. These give purpose and value to our lives, so that we can know our lives have eternal significance. If you died tomorrow, what would people say? Starting with Jesus's statement that whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for the gospel will save it, Pat gives a powerful, practical, and encouraging plan for how to live a life that truly matters and to leave a legacy that never dies.

Cheap

Cheap
Author: Ellen Ruppel Shell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101135476
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A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our land­scapes, escalates personal debt, lowers our standard of living, and even skews of our concept of time. Spotlighting the peculiar forces that drove Americans away from quality, durability, and craftsmanship and towards quantity, quantity, and more quantity, Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the rise of the bargain through our current big-box profusion to expose the astronomically high cost of cheap.

Beaton's Bargain

Beaton's Bargain
Author: Mrs. Alexander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1886
Genre:
ISBN:
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The Marriage Bargain

The Marriage Bargain
Author: Jennifer Probst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476725357
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In order to serve their own selfish needs, struggling bookstore owner Alexa and billionaire Nicholas decide to be in a loveless marriage for only a year, but things get complicated when love grows between them.

The House of Pleasure

The House of Pleasure
Author: Jess Michaels
Publisher: The Passionate Pen
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1947770179
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A new scandal sheet from USA Today Bestseller Jess Michaels!!! Miss Hannah Blankenship's awful father has finally done what he's threatened to do for years: arrange a marriage for her. And she's certain she knows the man he's chosen, a disgusting viscount even older than he is! She only knows one way to end this horrible engagement and that is to get rid of the innocence that has been the bartering point. So she goes to a hell, looking for trouble. Duncan Cavendish is at the hell trying to drink his own trouble away. As the second son of an earl, he has very little control over his future. His brother has demanded he settle down in order to inherit and now Duncan is stuck. But the alluring stranger who takes him to her bed helps him forget...and makes him want. But when Hannah realized it is Duncan, himself, who is her intended, she is shocked. The two decide to marry so that Duncan may get his money and Hannah her freedom. But their searing attraction may lead to feelings neither prepared for. And leave them both wondering if their mutual insistence to stay at arm's length is truly the best course of action. Novella Length

His Final Bargain

His Final Bargain
Author: Melanie Milburne
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373131534
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A beautiful love affair and a burning betrayal… Eliza Lincoln is stunned to find Leo Valente at her door; four years ago his passionate embrace was a brief taste of freedom from her suffocating engagement. Until Leo discovered her secret… Yet he hasn't come to rekindle their affair. He has a proposition he knows Eliza can't refuse: she's the only person who can help his small, motherless daughter. Torn, Eliza can't ignore a vulnerable child, but the last time she was near Leo her desire nearly consumed her. Is she willing to take that risk again now that the stakes are even higher?

A Lord's Bargain

A Lord's Bargain
Author: Tracey Devlyn
Publisher: TDC Creations
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940677130
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In this fifth and final installment of Tracey Devlyn's Nexus Spymasters series, readers will cheer for this forbidden love and opposites attract story between a ballroom spy and a temporary governess who find common ground while taming, er, caring for his surprise daughter. Welcome to Nexus Spymasters, a Regency historical romance series by USA Today Bestselling author Tracey Devlyn. From ballrooms to boudoirs, these daring lord and lady spies will stop at nothing to win the war against Napoleon and fight for the one thing forbidden to them. . . love. A ballroom spy's bleak existence sparks to life after hiring a mysterious governess whose secrets stir his curiosity and whose courage awakens his desire. Marcus Keene, Lord Shevington, leads a life of idleness and indulgence—or so he would have everyone believe. The illusion he has carefully crafted to protect his country no longer holds the same appeal it once did. His life takes a dramatic turn when a scared and angry five-year-old girl—his daughter—appears on his doorstep. After a long search, he finds the perfect governess in Miss Crawford. One look at Shev and the mysterious young woman refuses the position, igniting his insatiable curiosity. Anne Crawford has sworn to never work in a bachelor household again, but circumstances force her to accept the handsome marquess’s offer of employment. As she navigates her young charge’s turbulent emotions, Anne struggles to conceal her own and risks exposing a decades’ old secret to the nobleman’s whose every question feels like a forbidden caress. What Anne does not understand is that mysteries are like catnip to Shev. Irresistible. Much like the governess herself. When a powerful French noblewoman arrives to take his daughter away, Shev is faced with the prospect of an empty home once again and his heart’s desire slipping from his grasp. First published in 2015 as Shev. This remastered edition published in 2022. Nexus Spymasters in series order: A Lady's Revenge A Lady's Temptation A Lady's Secret A Lord's Redemption A Lord's Bargain