Desire In His Eyes

Author : Kaitlin O'Riley
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420117882

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Desire In His Eyes by Kaitlin O'Riley Pdf

A debutante ditches the dull social scene to stow away on the ship of a sexy sea captain in this Victorian romance from the author of The Irish Heiress. She longed for adventure… For many, the London season is a whirlwind of sparkling ballrooms, fashionable gowns, and stolen glances. For Juliette Hamilton, the second of five sisters, it is nothing but scandal. Unable to contain her wild streak, Juliette is desperate for an escape from the watchful eyes of society. And then the perfect opportunity presents itself, in the form of dashing sea captain Harrison Fleming. But he could give her so much more… When Harrison finds Juliette stowed away on his ship, he'd like nothing more than to return the infuriating, intoxicating woman to her family and get back to the business of amassing his fortune. But it's too late to change course, so he gives her the next best punishment: the job of his personal servant! Now, Juliette's at his beck and call, day and night. And both begin to realize that that in such very close quarters, her penance may be much more of a pleasure… Praise for the Novels of Kaitlin O'Riley “O'Riley's believable, charismatic characters and fast-paced plotline set this novel well apart from the usual romance fare.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on When His Kiss Is Wicked “A talented author…O'Riley's plot twists add…freshness to the genre.”—Romantic Times on Secrets of a Duchess

Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850926

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For His Eyes Only by Lisa Funnell Pdf

The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women. Since Casino Royale (2006) and its sequels Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall constitute a reboot of the franchise, it is time to question whether there is a place for women in the new world of James Bond and what role they will play in the future of series. This volume answers these questions by examining the role that women have historically played in the franchise, which greatly contributed to the international success of the films. This academic study constitutes the first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series. It covers all twenty-three Eon productions as well as the spoof Casino Royale (1967), considering a range of factors that have shaped the depiction of women in the franchise, including female characterization in Ian Fleming's novels; the vision of producer Albert R. Broccoli and other creative personnel; the influence of feminism; and broader trends in British and American film and television. The volume provides a timely look at women in the Bond franchise and offers new scholarly perspectives on the subject.

Author : Mandy Len Catron
Publisher : Nero
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781743820094

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How to Fall in Love with Anyone by Mandy Len Catron Pdf

In 2014, 33-year- old Mandy Len Catron went on a date with an acquaintance. They decided to try an experiment: inspired by a study designed to create romantic feelings, Mandy and Mark spent the evening asking each other 36 increasingly intimate questions, wondering if it would lead to them falling in love. In How to Fall in Love with Anyone, this experiment is Catron’s starting point for investigating what it means to love someone and to be loved, and how we present our love to the world. What makes love last? Can love ever work the way it seems to in films, books and social media? Is there a “right” way to fall in love? In these candid, charming and wise essays, Catron blends memoir with cultural and social commentary on the psychology, biology, history and literature of love. How to Fall in Love with Anyone is a deeply personal, yet universal investigation into the one thing we all want—or think we want—more than anything. Includes “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”, one of the most popular essays to appear in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column “In our age of total romantic confusion, Mandy Len Catron is a voice of good sense, warm humor, and consoling wisdom. Through the lens of her own relationships, she teaches us—with a deft, convincing intelligence—some of the vital moves in the art of love.” —Alain de Botton, internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Course of Love MANDY LEN CATRON lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She writes about love and love stories at The Love Story Project, and teaches English and creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913674

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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Pdf

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Carl S. Hughes
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823257270

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Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire by Carl S. Hughes Pdf

Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose—ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite, insatiable eros. He depicts the essential purpose of Kierkegaard’s writing as to elicit ever-greater spiritual desire, not to provide the satisfactions of doctrine or knowledge. Hughes’s argument revolves around close readings of provocative, disparate, and (in many cases) little-known Kierkegaardian texts. The thread connecting all of these texts is that they each conjure up some sort of performative “stage setting,” which they invite readers to enter. By analyzing the theological function of these texts, the book sheds new light on the role of the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s authorship, his surprising affinity for liturgy and sacrament, and his overarching effort to conjoin eros for God with this-worldly love.

Author : Vishal R. Shelke
Publisher : Book Bazooka
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789386895189

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The Desire by Vishal R. Shelke Pdf

'A desire is a piece of love but it's beautiful than actually being in love' Mahin Roy, an aspiring artist, had a desire, desire to make a flawless portrait of her with an aid of those obscure feelings he'd indulged in that murmuring rain. Nandini Sikdar, an aspiring khattak dancer, had an ideology, ideology that if you feel someone as pure as you then thoughtlessly grasp in the person in your life. WHILE their lives took them where, not their destinies, but their individual desires had pre devised.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307278449

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Author : Dr David Greven
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409469926

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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature by Dr David Greven Pdf

Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : Savdek Management Proprietary Limited
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780992278908

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Desire's Prize by Stephanie Laurens Pdf

1347. Calais has finally fallen and Alaun de Montisfryth, first Earl of Montisfryn, powerful Marcher lord and companion of Edward III, is dispatched back to England with orders to secure the Welsh border. Halfway home, pride tempts Montisfryn to attend a tournament held by his family's old foes at Versallet Castle. Eloise de Versallet, the widowed Lady de Cannar, rules her father's castle with a tongue sharper than any sword. She has no great opinion of men in general and of knights in particular. Montisfryn and Eloise meet and sparks fly. He is intrigued. She is irritated. He is under royal edict to wed. An experienced lady, well-born, still young, and exceedingly well-endowed with both wealth and beauty, Eloise is a matrimonial prize beyond compare-and has vowed to remain unwed. Potent and powerful, will Montisfryn be able to breach her walls, storm her castle, and succeed where all others have failed? Or will Eloise, haughty and defiant to the last, prevail? The gauntlet is flung, the challenge accepted. And desire enters the fray.

Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418584962

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The Journey of Desire by John Eldredge Pdf

Sometimes it seems we just can't get what we want. Circumstances thwart our best-laid plans. We struggle to live a heartfelt life. Worst of all, says Eldredge, the modern church mistakenly teaches its people to kill desire (calling it sin) and replace it with duty or obligation (calling it sanctification). As a result, at best Christians tend to live safe, boring lives of resignation. At worst, their desire eventually breaks out in destructive ways such as substance abuse, affairs, and pornography addictions. In The Journey of Desire, Eldredge invites readers to rediscover God-given desire and to search again for the life they once dreamed of.

Author : Edward A. Vinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524532895

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Rumi-Nations on Desire by Edward A. Vinson Pdf

This is a celebration of falling in love and partaking of the Wine of the Beloved. It is both a meditation on the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs and a celebration, a rumination on the love of the ancient Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi for the Divine in ways that bridge divides between faiths as the realization of the desire of nations.

Author : Brad Snyder,Tom Sileo
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306825156

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Fire in My Eyes by Brad Snyder,Tom Sileo Pdf

The inspiring story of Brad SnyderÕs journey from the Naval Academy to Afghanistan, from being blinded by an IED explosion to winning Paralympic gold Ê In Afghanistan, Lieutenant Brad Snyder had one of the worldÕs most dangerous jobs: to find and destroy enemy bombs, as an elite US Navy Special Operations warrior. On September 7, 2011, the former Naval Academy captain of the swim team stepped on an improvised explosive device while helping save the lives of his patrolÕs Afghan counterparts. The subsequent explosion left Snyder permanently blind. Through unrelenting pain, hard work, and dedication, Snyder qualified for the US Paralympic Team and on September 7, 2012Ñone year to the day after suffering his devastating injuryÑhe won a gold medal in menÕs swimming for Team USA in London. Brad SnyderÕs journey from darkness to light embodies the courage of AmericaÕs new ÒGreatest GenerationÓ and serves as an inspiration to all of us.

Author : Penny Jordan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488028922

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Desire's Captive by Penny Jordan Pdf

Desire's Captive Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan! Saffron lived a life of luxury as a millionaire businessman's daughter—until she met darkly charismatic Italian Nico Doranti. Swept away by her own longing, she finds herself kidnapped by him! Nico's cold, hard exterior masks his true motivations. For despite himself, he cannot ignore his urge to both claim Saffron and protect her. And when the truth comes out, Nico knows their passionate connection has branded Saffron as his—and he'll do what he must to prove it! Originally published in 1983

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094494

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Homiletical commentary on the Song of Solomon by Thomas Robinson Pdf

Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718080792

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The Journey of Desire by John Eldredge Pdf

In his groundbreaking book, The Journey of Desire, John Eldredge invites readers to: Rediscover their God-given desire. Abandon resignation. Search again for the life they once dreamed of. Sometimes it seems we just can't get what we want. Circumstances thwart our best-laid plans. We struggle to live a heartfelt life. Worst of all, says Eldredge, the modern church mistakenly teaches its people to kill desire (calling it sin) and replace it with duty or obligation (calling it sanctification). As a result, at best Christians tend to live safe, boring lives of resignation. At worst, their desire eventually breaks out in destructive ways such as substance abuse, affairs, and pornography addictions.