Desert Passions

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739389
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Passions by : Hsu-Ming Teo

Download or read book Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

Anger Is a Gift

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Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1250167043
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Anger Is a Gift by : Mark Oshiro

Download or read book Anger Is a Gift written by Mark Oshiro and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *31st Annual Lammy Finalist for LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult category* *2019 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Teen Winner* *Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018* *Vulture's 38 Best LGBTQ YA Novels* *Book Riot's Best Books 2018* *Hyable's Most Anticipated Queer YA Books of 2018* *The Mary Sue's 18 Books You Should Read in 2018* Moss Jeffries is many things—considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else—someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. And most of all, he wishes he didn’t feel so stuck. Moss can’t even escape at school—he and his friends are subject to the lack of funds and crumbling infrastructure at West Oakland High, as well as constant intimidation by the resource officer stationed in their halls. That was even before the new regulations—it seems sometimes that the students are treated more like criminals. Something will have to change—but who will listen to a group of teens? When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes again, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Desert Dream, Desert Romance

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ISBN 13 : 9780972565301
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Dream, Desert Romance by : Robert Z. Chew

Download or read book Desert Dream, Desert Romance written by Robert Z. Chew and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated history of the luxurious Royal Palms Resort in Phoenix, Arizona, includes a guided tour through the facility and recipes from its restaurant, T. Cook's.

Desert Gift

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Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 141436055X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Gift by : Sally John

Download or read book Desert Gift written by Sally John and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a nationally known marriage expert do when her own marriage falls apart? Just as Jillian Galloway sets out for a publicity tour to promote her new book, her husband drops a bombshell: He wants a divorce. Jill flees to her parents’ home in the California desert, wondering whether everything she’s built her career on—indeed, everything she’s built her life around—is a sham. Navigating this “side road” of life is an uphill climb that leads to new understandings about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with the One who created marriage.

Each of Us a Desert

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Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1250169208
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Each of Us a Desert written by Mark Oshiro and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey across the desert, they find their hearts could be a match... if only they can survive the nightmare-like terrors that arise when the sun goes down. Fresh off of Anger Is a Gift's smashing success, Oshiro branches out into a fantastical direction with their new YA novel, Each of Us a Desert. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Desert Eden (Book 3 Devereux Series)

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Publisher : Lachesis Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1927555906
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Eden (Book 3 Devereux Series) by : Patricia Grasso

Download or read book Desert Eden (Book 3 Devereux Series) written by Patricia Grasso and published by Lachesis Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gifts

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724900
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Book Synopsis Gifts by : Nuruddin Farah

Download or read book Gifts written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole. Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. Her self-sufficient world is rocked when her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant. And when Duniya accepts a ride to work from a wealthy, romantically interested family friend, her whole life is turned upside down. Meanwhile, the hospital where she works is besieged by a desperate population ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine. Western relief agencies have invaded Somalia with their charity, and some Somalis chafe at tainted goods and the burden of debts they can never hope to repay. With lyrical, luxuriant prose, Farah weaves a spellbinding tapestry of reportage, dreams, memory, folktales, and family lore. In his hands, Duniya's tale becomes emblematic of the struggles of an entire people. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

THE DESERT KING(Colored Version)

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Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596067740
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis THE DESERT KING(Colored Version) by : Olivia Gates

Download or read book THE DESERT KING(Colored Version) written by Olivia Gates and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Aliyah arrives to her wedding in a black wedding dress. This is a declaration of war to her husband, King Kamal. Seven years ago, the two were in a relationship, but he messed around with her and then left her. Now, the two of them end up in an arranged marriage, and she is being forced to give him an heir. Aliyah treats him coldly during the ceremony and that resistence awakens something within him. As the drums pronounce them husband and wife, Kamal takes Aliyah into the depths of the palace into his bedroom. Unable to hold himself back anymore, he rips off her black dress...

Love in the Library

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536225746
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Love in the Library by : Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Download or read book Love in the Library written by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak. To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minodoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George—the author’s grandparents—along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

Desert Bound

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Publisher : Recurve Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1959590138
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (595 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Bound by : Elizabeth Hunter

Download or read book Desert Bound written by Elizabeth Hunter and published by Recurve Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf shifter, Alex McCann, and mountain lion shifter, Teodora "Ted" Vasquez, came from rival clans. They left Cambio Springs together. Ted came back; Alex didn't. Now years later, the future alpha of the McCann wolves has returned with plans to bring new life to the dying desert community—plans that could change everything for the isolated enclave of shapeshifters in the California desert. As the town's doctor, Ted has concerns about exposing her community to outsiders. The two former lovers are at each other's throats. And everyone is watching to see what happens. But when murder once again strikes Cambio Springs, can they overcome their past to help the community they both call home? And can the love they once shared burn again when so many stand against it? Desert Bound is an contemporary fantasy romance. It is the second book in the Cambio Springs Mysteries series by ten-time USA Today bestselling author, Elizabeth Hunter.

Desert Angel

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Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821746370
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Angel by : Pamela K. Forrest

Download or read book Desert Angel written by Pamela K. Forrest and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing tale that will leave readers spellbound. A bewitching young beauty runs away to escape her past and finds a job--and unrivaled passion--keeping house for a wealthy Arizona widower. But will the secrets of her past destroy her one chance at happiness?

Uarda a Romance of Ancient Egypt

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis Uarda a Romance of Ancient Egypt by : George Moritz Ebers

Download or read book Uarda a Romance of Ancient Egypt written by George Moritz Ebers and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defiant in the Desert (Desert Men of Qurhah, Book 1) (Mills & Boon Modern)

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1472002709
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Defiant in the Desert (Desert Men of Qurhah, Book 1) (Mills & Boon Modern) written by Sharon Kendrick and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Williams’s hand in marriage was bought and paid for when she was a child to cover a debt the size of a small country. She knew her wedding day would come, but now an independent career woman, Sara is determined never to marry anyone!

Lions of the Desert

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Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 9781576731147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Lions of the Desert by : L. L. Chaikin

Download or read book Lions of the Desert written by L. L. Chaikin and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On leave from the war, nurse Allison Wescott and British Intelligence Office Bret Holden finds themselves in Cairo, Egypt, in 1915, investigating a murder and searching for treasure.

British Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alejandro's Gift

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452134944
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Alejandro's Gift by : Richard E. Albert

Download or read book Alejandro's Gift written by Richard E. Albert and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uplifting story about one man's gift to the desert and the gift he receives in return has a powerful environmental lesson. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.

The Independent

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: