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Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Leslie North
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Sheikh's Captive American Sheikh Tarek of Zahkim doesn't believe in superstitions or hunches, so when an old woman tells him an angel will fall from the sky and save him and his tiny kingdom, he ignores such a prophecy—until Tess Angel crashes into his life. Literally. Now he's struggling with an attraction to this very modern woman—but her life is worlds away from his own. There’s no chance of a future for them, but in the present moment, he can't keep his hands off her. After her jet crashes, Tess Angel is stuck in Zahkim with a gorgeous sheikh, and she has a hunch they could be soulmates. But this sheikh keeps telling her he's a rational man who doesn’t believe in true love, and while his grandmother is scheming to keep Tess in Zahkim, Sheikh Tarek seems willing to let her go on her way. Can she convince him there's more to this world than facts and numbers—and that true love can overcome any obstacles? The Sheikh's Determined Lover Christine Harper has no intention of becoming a Middle Eastern princess. She just wants access to the royal palace to find the research her father needs. He's badly ill, but Christine figures she can find a reason for him to live. That reason just might be solid proof for her father’s theories of the 'Lion People', an ancient tribe who first settled Egypt. To find the necessary proof and help her father, she’s willing to put her own career second… and even accept a deal from Sheikh Arif ben Iben. Arif is a man who knows what he wants—and what has been foretold to him in the stars. If he and his cousins marry for love, his country will prosper. And he's fallen for Christine Harper at first sight. The small spitfire is the woman he wants to win, but she turns down his immediate proposal. When she asks for access to the palace archives, he makes her a bargain—she'll have all the access she wants for three months, but he will use that time to convince her to marry him and stay in Zahkim. Now, Arif is out to win the love of his life, but can he pull her from the dusty papers long enough to prove their love is more than a fleeting fancy? The Sheikh's Unexpected Wife Sheikh Nasim Said is going through with his arranged marriage—it will be good for business, and his country Zahkim, even if his cousin Arif says it will be a disaster. But when his veil- shrouded bride faints halfway through the ceremony, he discovers he hasn’t married the daughter of a neighboring king, but the luscious Ginni Leeland. His wife is a stranger, but he can’t wait to get to know her better –in every way—even if her stunt has threatened Zahkim’s relationship with their neighbor. Ginni is full of Southern charm, and she plans to put it to good use in Zahkim, proving to her daddy she’s ready to take over the family business by cementing a deal to transport Zahkim’s oil. Helping her friend elope by taking her place (temporarily!) in her wedding is the perfect ruse to get her close to Sheikh Nasim. But the marriage wasn’t supposed to be legally binding! Now she’s married to a sheikh, her daddy’s furious, and—worst of all—she’s falling in love with her new husband. Now Ginni has to prevent a war, seal the deal with Zahkim, and keep her heart from breaking—all in less than a week.
Author : Carol Marinelli
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459293458
His sinful desert seduction… Sheikh Ilyas al-Razim was born to be king. He won’t let anything stand in his way, especially not the waitress daring to think she can blackmail him! It’s his duty to protect his family’s honor—even if it means taking impossibly stunning Maggie Delaney as his hostage… Beneath the starlit skies of Zayrinia’s desert, defiant Maggie convinces Ilyas she is innocent of his accusations. No longer his prisoner, Maggie is free to return home…yet now she’s held captive by their smoldering raw desire! Dare she surrender to the pleasure this desert prince promises?
Author : Alexandra Sellers,Susan Mallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Romance fiction, American
ISBN : 0373603746
Author : Lynne Graham
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459292321
A sheikh blackmails the working-class woman who broke his heart in this royal romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Tilda was living to regret that once she’d had a short-lived romance with Rashad, the Crown Prince of Bakhar. Now, not only had he gained possession of her impoverished family’s home, Rashad was also blackmailing her for the huge debt they owed him—and insisting she pay the price . . . as his concubine! Tilda was appalled—but in no position to refuse. Soon she was the arrogant sheikh’s captive, ready to be ravished in his faraway desert kingdom. But Rashad slipped up by publicly naming Tilda as his woman . . . and under the law of Bakhar this meant she and he were bound together forever . . . as husband and wife!
Author : Brian VanDeMark
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616144777
American Sheikhs is the story of a great institution—the American University of Beirut (AUB)—and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark’s vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance, generosity, paternalism, and vision, the author clearly sees an allegory for the larger history of the United States in the Middle East. Before 1945, AUB’s history is largely positive. Despite American nationalism and presumptions of Manifest Destiny, Middle Easterners generally viewed the school as an engine of constructive change and the United States as a benign force in the region. But in the post-World War II era, with the rise of America as a world power, AUB found itself buffeted by the strong winds of nationalist frustration, Zionism and anti-Zionism, and—eventually—Islamic extremism. Middle Easterners became more ambivalent about America’s purposes and began to see the university not just as a cradle of learning but also as an agent of undesirable Western interests. This story is full of meaning today. By revealing how and why the Blisses and Dodges both succeeded and failed in their attempts to influence the Middle East, VanDeMark shows how America’s outreach to the Middle East can be improved and the vital importance of maintaining good relations between Americans and the Arab world in the new century.
Author : Amira Jarmakani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781479815616
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231512084
Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese invading army, Matar surveys this early modern period, in which Europeans and Arabs often shared common political, commercial, and military goals. Matar concentrates on how Muslim captives, ransomers, traders, envoys, travelers, and rulers pursued those goals while transmitting to the nonprint cultures of North Africa their knowledge of the peoples and societies of Spain, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period. Letters from male and female captives in Europe, chronicles of European naval attacks and the taqayid (newspaper) reports on Muslim resistance, and descriptions of opera and quinine appear here in English for the first time. Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France.
Author : Sarah S.G. Frantz,Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786489671
Despite the prejudices of critics, popular romance fiction remains a complex, dynamic genre. It consistently maintains the largest market share in the American publishing industry, even as it welcomes new subgenres like queer and BDSM romance. Digital publishing originated in erotic romance, and savvy online communities have exploded myths about the genre's readership. Romance scholarship now reflects this diversity, transformed by interdisciplinary scrutiny, new critical approaches, and an unprecedented international dialogue between authors, scholars, and fans. These eighteen essays investigate individual romance novels, authors, and websites, rethink the genre's history, and explore its interplay of convention and originality. By offering new twists in enduring debates, this collection inspires further inquiry into the emerging field of popular romance studies.
Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Laura Bliss is an assistant location scout with no sense of direction—which is how she got stuck with a faulty GPS and the job of scouting sand dunes rather than the oasis her boss is currently viewing. With the sun going down and Laura seriously worrying for her life, she stumbles across a tent that looks more like a palace than a campsite. Dehydrated and burnt, it seems like salvation—until men wearing desert garb and toting AK47’s ride out in jeeps to gather her. Sheikh Raheem can barely believe his luck when an American woman is brought into his tent. He is passionate about his country’s natural splendor, but its PR is in desperate need of a makeover—perhaps as much as the dirty beauty in front of him. He makes an offer: Laura, with her eye for finding the beauty in a location, will help him craft a campaign promoting his country, and when she completes the project he’ll send her back to America with a paycheck she can live on for years. Seeing a chance for financial freedom, Laura jumps at the opportunity. As Raheem shows off the magnificence of his land, Laura finds herself getting swept into a fairy tale full of palaces, five-star luxury, and the most sensuous sex she’s ever experienced. Though she values her independence, the temptation to stay—not just for Raheem, but for the beautiful country that isn’t getting the attention it deserves—holds her in place. But when the country’s natural treasures are threatened, Raheem and Laura must decide what means more to them: their love for one another or their original plans.
Author : Violet Winspear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0373103247
The Sheik's Captive by Violet Winspear released on Sep 24, 1979 is available now for purchase.
Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Three sizzling romance novellas set in the enchanting Kingdom of Maatkare during Christmas. Join Ana, Maia, and Sondra as they find love, passion, and holiday magic with the irresistible Yared Sheikhs. Get ready for spicy kisses, heartwarming moments, and happily ever afters that will leave you wanting more. Book 1: "The Sheikh's Christmas Fling" 'Tis the season for a royal rendezvous! When Ana Rizzo, a chef on a mission for redemption, lands a gig cooking for the royal family, she's not prepared for the sizzling heat that ignites between her and Noel Yared, the smokin' hot middle son. Can Ana resist his charm and focus on their fling, or will love spice up her Christmas feast? Get ready for a scrumptious mix of steamy kisses and culinary delights! Book 2: "The Sheikh's Christmas Family" Deck the halls with love and laughter! Maia Kurtz's world turns upside down when she locks lips with Yonas Yared, the youngest Sheikh of Maatkare. Sparks fly, temperatures rise, and her heart dances to a whole new beat. But will their holiday fling become a forever thing? Find out in this delightful romp that proves Christmas miracles do come true. Book 3: "The Sheikh's Christmas Lover" Sondra Wilson-Woods, a meticulous event planner, takes on the challenge of organizing a traditional Maatkare Christmas. When the handsome Sheikh, Robel, offers his help, Sondra's carefully scripted plans go awry, and sparks fly between them. As they navigate mishaps and unexpected attraction, Sondra must decide if she can protect her heart and successfully complete the Christmas season. But even the best-laid plans can give way to the irresistible power of love.
Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The desert heats up with danger and desire… When enemies kidnap Erin, Sheikh Kamal’s new bride, the powerful prince entrusts the Head of Palace Security, Talib, to get her back. And to ensure his wife’s safety, he orders Talib to work hand in hand with Erin’s personal bodyguard, the beautiful and capable PJ. But PJ is already fighting an attraction to her partner. Talib is dangerously handsome, and when his hands touch her, she feels an unquenchable desire deep inside. But on a mission this dangerous, romance is a distraction she can’t afford. At least, that’s what she tells herself… Talib has never met a woman like PJ. She’s a spitfire who delights in breaking the rules, and she refuses to obey his orders. But he soon finds her strength and determination rival any man’s. She is tough, smart and never backs down from a challenge. He wants her to surrender to him. But it may be him doing the surrendering… With the temperature rising in every sense of the word, it’s a race against time to locate Erin and bring her back to Kamal. And every second her chances of survival grow slimmer…
Author : Paul J. Springer
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700617173
Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive study of the subject in more than half a century, Paul Springer presents an in-depth look at American POW policy and practice from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Springer contends that our nation's creation and application of POW policy has been repeatedly improvised and haphazard, due in part to our military's understandable focus on defeating its enemies on the field of battle, rather than on making arrangements for their detention. That focus, however, has set the conditions for the military's chronic failure to record and learn from both successful and unsuccessful POW practices in previous wars. He also observes that American POW policy since World War II has largely sought to outsource POW operations to allied forces in order to retain American personnel for frontline service-outsourcing that has led to recent scandals. Focusing on each major war in turn, Springer examines the lessons learned and forgotten by American military and political leaders regarding our nation's experience in dealing with foreign POWs. He highlights the indignities of the Civil War, the efforts of the United States and its World War I allies to devise an effective POW policy, the unequal treatment of Japanese prisoners compared with that of German and Italian prisoners during World War II, and the impact of the Geneva Convention on the handling of Korean and Vietnamese captives. In bringing his coverage up to the so-called War on Terror, he also marks the nation's clear departure from previous practice-American treatment of POWs, once deemed exemplary by the Red Cross after Operation Desert Storm, has become controversial throughout the world. America's Captives provides a long-needed overarching framework for this important subject and makes a strong case that we should stop ignoring the lessons of the past and make the disposition of prisoners one of the standard components of our military education and training.
Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Work always comes first for Sheikh Nassir Adjalane. From an early age, he learned business was infinitely more important than having a personal life. But with the pressure from an opponent on his board, Nassir suddenly has only one month to marry, or risk being voted out of his company. With everything he's working on the line, Nassir desperately needs a bride ... and only one woman will do it. Wedding planner Janna Davis never imagined she would be summoned to Middle East to plan Sheikh Nassir's nuptials. But the outrageous sum he's offered will finally give her what she needs to stand on her own two feet. As planning gets underway, Janna is put off by Nassir's businesslike way, but she can not deny his appeal. No matter what she's feeling though, Janna has a job to do. Janna values her independence and refuses to fall for a soon-to-be married man, but what will happen when she learns that she is Nassir's intended bride?
