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\"The sizzling second novel in a sexy new contemporary romance series featuring the Lawless siblings--from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. Brandon Lawless is a man on a mission: obtain the information that will clear his father's name. He's willing to do whatever it takes--even seduce his enemy's personal assistant, the beautiful and innocent Carly Hendricks. But with her beguiling smile and captivating intelligence, Brandon soon realizes he doesn't want to deceive Carly, he wants to win her over--both in the boardroom and the bedroom. Then a twisted crime leaves Carly vulnerable and Brandon finds himself reeling. The stakes of his mission are now life or death--Carly's life. And Brandon realizes he's lost his heart to an amazing woman and his plan must succeed, because the stakes are no longer just revenge, but a once in a lifetime love\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Happily Ever After
\"Find your one true love and live happily ever after.\" The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the BiblicalSong of Songsto Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
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Craving him : a Love by Design novel
\"In Working It, New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan delivered a sexy and addictive contemporary romance about Emmy Clarke, a sweet southern girl out of her depth in New York City's cutthroat fashion industry, and Ben Shaw, the hot male model who introduced her to a world of pleasure. But their story is far from complete... Emmy Clarke is no quitter. Toughened by her experience working for fashion heavyweight Fiona Stone, Emmy has come a long way from her country girl roots, embracing her fast-paced and unpredictable life in New York City. Though that life comes with more than a few complications. First there's the mystery of Fiona's pregnancy, which may or may not involve Emmy's boyfriend, superstar male model Ben Shaw. Emmy has always known that Ben comes with more baggage than she can handle--and not the Louis Vuitton kind. Yet Ben is the only man who has ever loved Emmy for who she is, and she wants nothing more than to do the same for him, even if it means forgiving his past and overlooking their wildly different lifestyles. But when a shocking secret from Ben's past comes to light, unraveling all of their progress, Emmy must decide if their relationship is worth the fight, or if it's time to ignore her passion for him and let go\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels
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Looking inside
\"The New York Times bestselling author who brought you Glow, Glimmer, and The Affair is back with a new novel that will have you leaving the curtains open. Are you just going to stand there and watch? -- Eleanor Briggs just can't help herself. The sight of the man in the high-rise across the street is driving her wild. She longs to feel his touch up close and personal. To win him over, she'll need to shake off her wallflower sensibilities and become the seductress she never imagined she could be. The only trouble will be finding the perfect way to meet him...Or are you going to join in? -- Sex is easy for millionaire entrepreneur Trey Riordan. Finding something of substance, however, seems impossible. That is until a simple night of reading at a local coffee shop becomes something far steamier when a beautiful brunette comes by and leaves a note telling him to look out his bedroom window at eleven o'clock. But when the time comes, neither of them will be truly ready for what follows...\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Creating Identity
While the world often categorizes women in reductive
false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus
fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an
imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her
journey to selfhood.
In Creating Identity , Jayashree Kamblé examines the
romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what
audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an
important question: \"Who is the romance heroine, and what does she
want?\" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten
novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on
their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional
approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical
race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of
heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship,
and race.
Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary
criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which
heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving
relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both,
echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so
popular.
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Make me
\"Available for the first time as a complete novel--the serial from the New York Times bestselling author of When I'm With You that explores hidden pasts, dangerous obsessions, and uncontrollable passion... Harper McFaddan established herself as an investigative journalist by being both compassionate and fearless. After tragedy strikes her family, she moves to the shores of Lake Tahoe to find some peace. But when mysterious software mogul Jacob Latimer enters her life, her thoughts turn from her own healing to an insatiable desire to get closer to him... No one knows what secrets lurk in the past of Jacob Latimer. He built his corporation from nothing, but rumors abound about his mysterious rise to power. Harper is the last person he should let into his life. She could expose the truth about his origins. But Jacob knows things about Harper's past that draw him in. He wants nothing more than to make her his--and Jacob is a man who always gets what he wants..\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction
Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market.
Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research
Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking
exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of
the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an
overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical
analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and
understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and
still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance
fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible
to romance readers.
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Racked and stacked
\"Opposites don't just attract in the West--they sizzle--and Wyoming has never been hotter than in the latest sexy Blacktop Cowboys novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hang Tough. Growing up with three older brothers, Larissa \"Riss\" Thorpe defines the term tomboy--a moniker that never mattered to her until she crossed paths with sexy cowboy playboy, Ike Palmer. His declaration that he prefers his women soft and feminine is the one benefit to becoming his business partner. Since Riss is obviously not his type, there's little chance they'll mix business and pleasure when they're in close quarters on the road together. Former cattle broker Ike Palmer was ready for a new chapter in his life when he partnered with Riss, a contrary redhead who lords her mechanical abilities over him at every turn. Ike raised his three younger sisters; he knows a thing or three about how women work. The problem is...Riss is unlike any woman he's ever met. With the odds stacked against them, Riss and Ike will have to choose between the stubbornness that keeps them apart and the fiery attraction that could lead to something more..\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nuala
A giant adolescent puppet becomes self-aware in a dystopian world of love and treachery.
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