Author: Henry SollyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Lady Stella and her lover
Author: Henry SollyHow Stella Got Her Groove Back
Author: Terry McMillanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101209127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it. Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love—and all of love's nasty fallout—anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core—not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean—and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.
A Descriptive List of Novels
Author: For One Man's Pleasure
Author: Nellie Fortescue-HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Dublin University Magazine
Author: Goethe's Families of the Heart
Author: Susan E. GustafsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501315781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century ideals of aristocratic and civil families, notions of heritage, assumptions about biological connections, expectations about heterosexuality, and legal mandates concerning marriage. The questions Goethe's plays and novels pose are often modern and challenging: Do social conventions, family expectations, and legal mandates matter? Can two men or two women pair together and be parents? How many partners or parents should there be? Two? One? A group? Can parents love children not biologically related to them? Do biological parents always love their children? What is the nature of adoptive parents, children, and families? Ultimately, what is the fundamental essence of love and family? Gustafson demonstrates that Goethe's conception of the elective affinities is certainly not limited to heterosexual spouses or occasionally to men desiring men. A close analysis of Goethe's explication of affinities throughout his literary production reveals his rejection of loveless relationships (for example, arranged marriages) and his acceptance and promotion of all relationships formed through spontaneous affinities and love (including heterosexual, same-sex, nonexclusive, group, parental, and adoptive).
Illusion of Love
Author: Denise RobinsPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444750461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Soon after Pamela Morris marries Lord Julian Eden in 1918, his plane is shot down and he is presumed dead. Julian's terminally ill mother offers her daughter-in-law a home at Eden Hall, but Pamela has married again. So Stella, Pamela's kind-hearted sister, takes her place to make the old lady's last days happy...
Love the Way You Dance
Author: Allison M. BootPublisher: Boot Books
ISBN: 1732126720
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Since being adopted by the King and Queen of Starrycrest two years ago, Kara has lived a magical life, complete with doting parents and staff as well as a starring role in the Starrycrest Starlets' production of The Nutcracker. The princess is on top of the world until big changes threaten her place in the Denison family as well as in the kingdom. Kara's magical life quickly turns into a nightmare when she is forced to face her deepest insecurities and prepare for the biggest night of her life with a dance partner whom she does not even like. To complicate matters even more, Stella Dixon, the Starlets new dance instructor, tells the princess about a program in Eclipston that helps orphans find their forever families. Kara loves the idea and wants to implement a similar program in Starrycrest, but others in the royal family refuse. The tiny royal soon realizes that, in order to be the princess she has always hoped to be and make Starrycrest a better kingdom, she must take matters into her own hands as her mother once did. After an encounter with Victrollia, an evil troll who hates the Denisons and wants to avenge the death of her cousin, Trovella, goes terribly wrong, the princess and her loyalty to her family is put to the ultimate test. In the end, Kara will learn that living life to the fullest means you must love the way you dance.
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems
Author: A. D. CousinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893689
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also explored.
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride: Volume 15
Author: Fuminori TeshimaPublisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718325282
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The battle between Archdemons may be over, but Zagan still has plenty of problems at hand. He doesn’t have a birthday present for Nephy yet—and the special day is closing in fast! What’s more, now that the group knows of Shere Khan and Lisette Dantalian’s fates, they’re also determined to mend the relationship between Angelic Knights and sorcerers. Their solution? Leaving it all to an unrestrained Gremory! And most pressingly, hundreds of Shere Khan’s Nephilim survived the conflict. Since these resurrected heroes of the past can’t be left to roam, Zagan creates a town for them and decides that his beloved daughter Foll will be in charge! She’s extremely motivated to succeed at her first big job, but then a wounded girl with no memories appears out of nowhere...