Intimate Strangers Affair

Author : Monica Danetiu-Pana
Publisher : Bitingduck Press LLC
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932482584

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Intimate Strangers Affair by Monica Danetiu-Pana Pdf

Dark gray clouds had swallowed the rising sun, dawn outlining their ominous shapes in gold. And the skyOC crimson red, the color of fresh blood. Nathalie's blood started to pound with excitement. She could almost taste it. Rain was coming. A storm. Physician Nathalie Arnaud is on her way home to San Francisco from Paris. After living on old bread, studying by oil lamps, and swimming through mischievous opinions about unnatural females, she has finally earned a brand new diploma from L'Ecole de Medicin . On the ship she encounters an enigmatic green-eyed Capitin, a most irritating man who causes her to exhibit symptoms she's not used to diagnosing. When The Silhouette reaches port, Nathalie finds that nothing is quite as she remembered. San Francisco has grown up, and the Civil War hasn't stayed as far away as she'd hoped. Her aunt, Catherine Larsson, is running one of the most luxurious bordellos in town; her brother, Claude, has gone missing in connection with a most disturbing disappearance of the Union's gold; and doctoring on the front has taken a toll on her mentor, Doc James Calhoun, who's since closed his Infirmary for Women and Children. To top off her homecoming, Major William Wolfe, the man with unlimited powers over her fate due to a sin committed years ago, now claims to hold her brother's life in the balance. Nathalie is forced once again to secretly work for the Union, only this time as a physician and not as a spy. Don Miguel Samuelle Cabrillo is not only a powerful man, but also a man with many dark secrets. Nathalie's new assignment is to diagnose and cure Don Miguel of a most mysterious illness, even against his will. As one of the few female doctors, she is used to having trouble performing her duties, but when the young doctora finally comes face to face with Don Miguel Samuelle Cabrillo, the stipulations he imposes promise to make this the most challenging and stimulating assignment she has ever faced. She is determined not only to get to the bottom of the Don's illness, but also to unravel the mystery of the Union's gold disappearance, whatever it takes. And it may very well take her life. She doesn't, however, count on society balls and wartime intrigue being part of her job. Nathalie finds herself drawn further into the mysterious world of the Captain, and discovers that he can teach her a few things medical school could not. When in Don Miguel's arms, his kisses burn up all thought, his caresses wash away all reality, and his body obliterates all truth except the one in their hearts. The place they reach when they are together is softer than silk and brighter than lightning, peaceful and cataclysmic, familiar because they belong there, and foreign because they can never stay long enough. Boson Books also offers Kit Black by Monica Danetiu-Pana. For an author bio, photo, and a sample read visit bosonbooks.com."

Author : Juliette Mead
Publisher : Beyond Words/Atria Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671537946

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Swapping houses for an eight-week summer idyll is an equally attractive proposition to two couples, British and American. For Christy and Gabe McCarthy, it's an opportunity to soak up English culture and social life in the wild beauty of Wiltshire. For Oliver and Maggie Callahan, a North Carolina antebellum house and a beach retreat represent a journey into the exotic American South. But life can wreak havoc with the best-laid plans. As their lives begin to change profoundly, two couples defy the limits of love to enter the volatile seas of temptation.

Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139788625

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When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.

Author : Rebecca York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0733548350

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Author : Jan Springer
Publisher : Spunky Girl Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995064287

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Intimate Stranger by Jan Springer Pdf

Investigative journalist, Steve McCullen, has returned home with a new face, a new identity, and a burning desire for revenge. His wife, Emily, is about to marry his best friend; the man Steve suspects is behind his faked death and nightmare imprisonment for the past few years. The minute Emily catches the sexy stranger stealing food from her lighthouse kitchen, she feels a strong attraction to him. Resisting the urge to send him away, she decides to hire him as her handyman. But soon he’s making her feel so hot that she’s surrendering herself to her naughty intimate needs. Can she break through the painful walls surrounding this mysterious man? Why does he remind her so much of her dead husband? And why does his welcome touch make her forget the man she's about to marry? When shocking secrets are revealed, Emily must put aside her feelings of betrayal to stop someone who is bent on destroying her second chance at love. Other Intimate romantic suspense stories include: Intimate Lover & Intimate Kisses

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956715091

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Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fianc refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to keep them in their employ. Resolved to make her disappointments blessings, she perseveres until she can take no more.

Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409008750

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Investigative journalist, Laurie Forbes, is planning her wedding to Elliot Russell, when she receives a tip-off that a group of illegally smuggled women is being held somewhere in the East End of London. During her search unexpected and devastating events begin throwing her own life into chaos, so fellow journalist, Sherry MacElvoy steps in to help. Taking on undercover roles to get to the heart of the ruthless gang of human-traffickers, neither reporter can even begin to imagine what dangers they are about to face. Neela is one of the helpless Indian girls being held in captivity. Her fear is not only for herself, but her six-year-old niece, Shaila. A disfiguring birthmark has so far saved Neela from the abuse, but she knows it is only a matter of time before she is sent for - and worse, before Shaila is taken. Her desperate bids to seek outside help are constantly thwarted, until finally she, and the women with her, agree there is only one way out ...

Author : Fredric Brandfon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827619036

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The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans have lived in close contact with the largest continuously functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church. Given the church’s origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of family have shaped the self-understanding of both Roman Jews and Catholics. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family member often persecuting the weaker one; the church ghettoized the Jews of Rome longer than any other community in Europe. Yet respect and support are also part of the family dynamic—for instance, church members and institutions protected Rome’s Jews during the Nazi occupation—and so the relationship continues. Brandfon begins by examining the Arch of Titus and the Jewish catacombs as touchstones, painting a picture of a Jewish community remaining Jewish over centuries. Papal processions and the humiliating races at Carnival time exemplify Jewish interactions with the predominant Catholic powers in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The Roman Ghetto, the forcible conversion of Jews, emancipation from the Ghetto in light of Italian nationalism, the horrors of fascism and the Nazi occupation in Rome, the Second Vatican Council proclamation absolving Jews of murdering Christ, and the celebration of Israel’s birth at the Arch of Titus are interwoven with Jewish stories of daily life through the centuries. Intimate Strangers takes us on a compelling sweep of two thousand years of history through the present successes and dilemmas of Roman Jews in postwar Europe.

Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231168687

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Intimate Strangers by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Pdf

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought shaping American political discourse after World War II. Yet none of them was American, and this was crucial to their thinking, which relied on ways of arguing and reasoning that stand both inside and outside of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this Òstranger ethos,Ó a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Despite its many successes, though, the stranger ethos did alienate audiences, and many critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book concludes with an appeal to reject this kind of xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of both citizens and noncitizens.

Author : Saranne Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373161808

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Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714547381

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Intimate Strangers and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again - against the wishes of her in-laws - and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of social pressure on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252065794

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Distant Friends and Intimate Strangers by Charles East Pdf

Fourteen stories on old age. In Crazy Heart, an old man reflects on his failed marriage, while Mr. Alello is on the indignity of a lonely death.

Author : Jo Conard
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480032735

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When Bobby Hughes moves to Carter Valley, Kentucky to begin a new life as school principal, she doesn't plan to fall in love, especially with the wife of the most affluent man in town. Her only wish is to shake her past and gain acceptance in the small closed community. Her affair, however, puts more than her acceptance at risk. When she becomes involved in the personal lives of the community through her classes in self-esteem, she becomes entangled in their secrets. Intimate Strangers is the story of people who strive for freedom from their dark pasts, only to be trapped in each other's lives. "A psychotherapist who practiced for thirty years, Jo Conard knows about relationships, love and conflict. Intimate Strangers rings with authenticity, down-home compassion, and gentle humor. It will change your heart." -Chris Coward, author of Stone Perfect, 5 stars, readers' favorite; first place, unpublished science fiction. Florida Writers Association.

Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231537919

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Intimate Strangers by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Pdf

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this "stranger ethos," a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Yet despite its many successes, the stranger ethos did alienate many audiences, and critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book encourages readers to reject this kind of critical xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of citizens and noncitizens alike.

Author : Kendall Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538104941

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The Gatsby Affair by Kendall Taylor Pdf

The romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre has been celebrated as one of the greatest of the 20th century. From the beginning, their relationship was a tumultuous one, in which the couple’s excesses were as widely known as their passion for each other. Despite their love, both Scott and Zelda engaged in flirtations that threatened to tear the couple apart. But none had a more profound impact on the two—and on Scott’s writing—as the liaison between Zelda and a French aviator, Edouard Jozan. Though other biographies have written of Jozan as one of Scott’s romantic rivals, accounts of the pilot’s effect on the couple have been superficial at best. In The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal That Shaped an American Classic, Kendall Taylor examines the dalliance between the southern belle and the French pilot from a fresh perspective. Drawing on conversations and correspondence with Jozan’s daughter, as well as materials from the Jozan family archives, Taylor sheds new light on this romantic triangle. More than just a casual fling, Zelda’s tryst with Edouard affected Scott as much as it did his wife—and ultimately influenced the author’s most famous creation, Jay Gatsby. Were it not for Zelda’s affair with the pilot, Scott’s novel might be less about betrayal and more about lost illusions. Exploring the private motives of these public figures, Taylor offers new explanations for their behavior. In addition to the love triangle that included Jozan, Taylor also delves into an earlier event in Zelda’s life—a sexual assault she suffered as a teenager—one that affected her future relationships. Both a literary study and a probing look at an iconic couple’s psychological makeup, The Gatsby Affair offers readers a bold interpretation of how one of America’s greatest novels was influenced.