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THE COWBOY SHE NEVER FORGOT When the woman he loved vanished without so much as a farewell, cowboy Bram Ross vowed to harden his heart. He doesn’t want to trust beautiful Deborah Blue again – and she’s now suspected of being an accomplice to a treacherous outlaw.Yet trauma has erased Deborah’s memory of not just her supposed misdeeds, but also her passionate past with Bram. As the murky truth about her disappearance unravels Bram must protect her – by keeping her very close…
| Автор | Debra Cowan |
THE SECRETS BENEATH HER SMILE… Determined to seek out the villain who destroyed her family, Rosalie Rowland masquerades as a courtesan at London’s infamous Temple of Beauty. But when she revels in her alter ego a little too willingly Captain Alec Stewart’s potent masculinity proves impossible to resist…Alec is as much a stranger to the brothel as he is to the feelings that Rosalie incites within him. The passion between them may be unquestionably real, but having met under the guise of secrets...
| Автор | Lucy Ashford |
A collection of five tantalisingly seductive Regency short storiesNOT JUST A SEDUCTION by Carole MortimerThe Earl of Chambourne has never forgotten the only woman he’s ever loved. So when he discovers Sylviana is a widow he hungers to possess her once again.AN OFFICER BUT NO GENTLEMAN by Bronwyn ScottElowyn Bagshaw is not the simpering lady Captain Grahame Westmore expected to escort to Vienna. He’s got a fight on his hands – one they’re both going to enjoy!ONE NIGHT WITH THE HIGHLANDER by Ann...
| Автор | Кэрол Мортимер |
Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, <i>The Modern World-System,</i> is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
| Автор | Immanuel Wallerstein |
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.
| Автор | Charles M. Payne |
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region.
| Автор | Mehran Kamrava |
A Gift Most Rare by Miranda JarrettSara had never thought to see her precious Rev ever again. Yet here he was, come to stay for the holidays in the very home where she was a governess…and bringing up the painful memories of their shared past.Christmas Charade by Lyn StoneBeth didn't want a husband. But when she agreed to marry handsome Jack as part of a scheme, she didn't expect to be playing with her heart.The Virtuous Widow by Anne GracieEllie was afraid she had no future. Left to...
| Автор | Anne Gracie |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesThe man behind the mask. When night fell on the lawless streets of old San Francisco, Matthew Covington–seemingly just another wealthy society idler–became the mysterious crime-fighter known as the Black Bit. Nothing could tempt him to reveal his secret identity, until the English...
| Автор | Allie Pleiter |
She's Everything He Despises–And Desires…When Captain Stuart Marston meets, woos and then marries Cassandra Everson in Barbados, he is unaware of her real identity. And then the truth is revealed–she is none other than the daughter of his enemy, a notorious pirate who has terrorized the seas.Cassandra is unable to understand why her once passionate husband can no longer bear to be near her. When they're forced to spend days–and nights–together, it's more than obvious that Stuart...
| Автор | Хелен Диксон |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesAll Miranda Warfield had ever wanted was to be a wife to a man, not a title, but her marriage to Adrian, Duke of Windmere, had been merely a polite ton alliance for years.Now, miraculously, the tender, loving Adrian of her youth had returned, making her feel like a bride again. But...
| Автор | Terri Brisbin |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesUpon meeting the young lady who'd bedazzled his best friend, Gilen de Mowbry was surprised to find her hauntingly familiar. But surely this demure ton miss couldn't be the violet-eyed Gypsy who had danced for him in the firelight-and still taunted his dreams. . . . Desperate...
| Автор | Julia Justiss |
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specifically at the case of American Indians.
| Автор | Eva Garroutte |
The Spanish Civil War contains some of the most thrilling stories of rebellion against fascism in recent history. This history manages to be both well-written and engaging while offering new insight into the most storied of revolutions. The book tells the story of how average working people prepared and positioned themselves to respond to the challenges of the fascist coup in 1936.
| Автор | Agustín Guillamón |
Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and «the streets» remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere.
| Автор | Benjamin Dangl |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesOvernight, Delia Keller went from penniless preacher's grdaughter to rich young heiress.She's determined to use her money to find the security she's always lacked. building herself a new house by Christmas is her first priority. But hsome Jude Tucker is challenging her...
| Автор | Laurie Kingery |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesLinda Ford grew up devouring books and making up stories in her head often late at night when she couldn't sleep. But she hadn't planned to write. Instead, she dreamed of running an orphanage. In a way, that dream came true. She married, had four homemade children, adopted...
| Автор | Linda Ford |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesA short conversation with Gail Ranstrom will convince readers that she should have written a book titled "Jobs I Have Had. " Before taking up the pen, her work experience ran the gamut from a seamstress making waitress uniforms for a German beer garden, to inventory clerk at the...
| Автор | Gail Ranstrom |
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek. These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Žižek’s firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao’s thought in the revolutionary canon.
| Автор | Mao Tse-Tung |
A fully updated new edition, by the author of The Holocaust Industry. First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process.
| Автор | Norman Finkelstein |
RUNNING FROM THE PAST… SHE BUMPS INTO HER FUTURE!Mail-order bride Constance Jennings steps off the stage in Cottonwood, Wyoming, waiting for her husband-to-be. But he never shows up, and instead several other men are vying to take his place! Single father Ellis Clayton must be the only man in town not looking for a bride.But his young daughter’s habit of rescuing wounded critters means he ends up offering Constance a temporary shelter. Having a woman around the house again is all too easy –...
| Автор | Lauri Robinson |
A MARRIAGE MOST INCONVENIENT! Agreeing to a fake betrothal should suit both society dressmaker Belle Marchmain and landowner Adam Davenant fittingly – clearing Belle’s debts and keeping Adam’s husband-hunters at bay. Even if blue-blooded Belle, with her extravagant clothes and razor-sharp tongue, despises the very air that nouveau riche Adam breathes!If Adam wants a wife who’s agreeable he has his work cut out. Yet when his demanding mouth caresses Belle’s for the first time ever she’s lost for...
| Автор | Lucy Ashford |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesWhat unseen h guided Kody Douglas's horse to that bleak, windswept South Dakota farmhouse?The «half-breed» cowboy–a man of two worlds, at home in neither–would never know. But when he finds a lovely, vulnerable young woman there, aboned in the darkest hours of the Depression, he...
| Автор | Linda Ford |
TO OBEY HIS DUTY IS TO DENY HIS HEART Anusha Laurens is in danger. The daughter of an Indian princess and an English peer, she’s the perfect pawn in the opulent courts of Rajasthan. Even so, she will not return to the father who rejected her. Arrogant angrezi Major Nicholas Herriard is charged with bringing the alluring Princess safely to her new life in Calcutta.Nick’s mission is to protect, to serve – but under the searing Indian sun an initial attraction unfurls into a forbidden temptation....
| Автор | Louise Allen |