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  • Beauty and the Feast by J.R. Barrett

    By J.R. Barrett

    Eva Raines is an easy nation woman who is all approximately foodstuff. She's approximately to embark on a brand new experience within the Napa Valley as a private chef. filthy rich entrepreneur Gabriel has no concept the sound of a woman's voice and the style of her decadent meals carry such seductive powers. He does not stand an opportunity.

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  • Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner (Texas Hill Country by Lisa Wingate

    By Lisa Wingate

    Giant Lizard Bottoms-where getting hitched is a neighborhood industry-is now not anyplace Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who is sworn off romance, ever anticipated to discover herself. She's the following posing as a horse psychology scholar to aid get better dinosaur tracks stolen from a neighborhood visitor ranch. After just a day on the ranch, issues commence spiraling uncontrolled. Her horse-therapy horse hates her, she's been followed through a major stray puppy with a foul recognition, and there is this neighborhood rancher who has her all moonstruck. After years of digging round some time past, Lindsey's pondering if it is eventually time to work out what the current has to provide.

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  • In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism by Margaretta Jolly

    By Margaretta Jolly

    Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's experiences organization booklet Prize

    Do you're thinking that i will be a feminist mom? Did I make you and your kisses up in my brain? Will you subscribe to our army protest on the gate? Will you feed the children whilst i am in criminal? can you forgive me for breaking off this correspondence since you are a man?

    During the women's circulation of the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, feminists within the usa and Britain reinvented a twin of the girl letter author. Symbolically tearing up the affection letter to an absent guy, they wrote passionate letters to each other, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and procedure. those texts converse of the hot curiosity girls started to think in a single one other and the recent demands—and disappointments—these relationships may create.

    Margaretta Jolly offers the 1st cultural examine of those letters, charting the evolution of feminist political attention from the peak of the women's stream to modern-day email networks. Jolly uncovers the passionate, contradictory feelings of either politics and letter writing and units out the speculation in the back of them as a delicate but continual perfect of care ethics, women's love, and epistolary paintings. She follows numerous compelling feminist relationships sustained via writing and confronts the combined messages of the "open letter," which complex political family members among girls (such as Audre Lorde's "Open Letter to Mary Daly," which referred to as out white feminists for his or her implicit racism).

    Jolly recovers the unsung literature of lesbianism and feminist romance, examines the ambivalent emotions inside of mother-daughter correspondences, and considers letter-writing campaigns in the course of the peace circulation. She concludes with a dialogue of the moral limitation surrounding care as opposed to autonomy and the which means in the back of the burning or saving of letters. Letters that chart love tales, letters stowed away in attics, letters burnt on the finish of romances, bittersweet letters written yet by no means sent... this attention-grabbing glimpse into women's intimate records illuminates one among feminism's critical concerns—that all relationships are political—and uniquely recasts a social stream in very emotional terms.

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  • Bought For The Greek's Bed (Greek Tycoons) (Harlequin by Julia James

    By Julia James

    Vicky Peters knew her marriage was once for comfort purely! Theo Theakis sought after a society bride, and Vicky wanted monetary aid for her charitable enterprise. but if their marriage ended, Theo stored the money, believing his bride to be a dishonest gold digger! Vicky is decided to get her funds it truly is rightfully hers! So Theo comes to a decision her presence in his mattress can be funds good spent....

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  • Contemporary Religious Ideas: Bibliographic Essays by G. Edward Lundin, Anne H. Lundin

    By G. Edward Lundin, Anne H. Lundin

    Twelve specialists tackle modern spiritual matters and literature during this attention-grabbing workforce of bibliographic essays that minimize throughout religion and denominational obstacles. the result's an enlightening review of geared up faith and spirituality at the present time. issues comprise the African American Church, ecology and non secular accountability, spirituality and getting older, fiction for the devoted, feminism and theology, Judaism, Islam, Latin American liberation theology, constructing a church library, and global religions. Designed for assortment improvement librarians, pastors, rabbis, and spiritual examine team leaders, this assortment deals an creation to every topic lined and lists assets for extra examine.

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  • The Playboy's Passionate Pursuit (Silhouette Desire) by Emilie Rose

    By Emilie Rose

    Attractive, filthy rich daredevil Toby Haynes had wager his ally he may seduce starry- eyed Amelia Lambert into his mattress. whilst she left him after a unmarried evening of ardour, Toby swore he could win her again then he often is the one to stroll away! assembly once more in Monaco had thrown Amelia again into Toby's hands. And the video game of cat and mouse used to be on. What Toby did not count on have been Amelia's personal pleasing principles of temptation....

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