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Book Synopsis Public Marriage, Private Secrets by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book Public Marriage, Private Secrets written by Helen Bianchin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish billionaire crosses the globe to win back his estranged Australian wife in this romance of second chances by a USA Today–bestselling author. Four years ago Gianna made a whirlwind marriage to the man she loved—Raúl Velez-Saldaña was the father of her baby. But, tragically, her pregnancy didn’t last and neither did their marriage. Discovering Raúl’s infidelity, Gianna left. But the Spaniard who stole her heart has returned! As far as Raúl is concerned, his marriage to Gianna was simply postponed—now he wants his wife back! In public they are the perfect society couple; in private the secrets of their past still haunt them both and their desire is just as strong as ever. . . .
Download or read book Public Secrets written by Nora Roberts and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts deftly blends romance and suspense in this compelling novel of a woman whose career, marriage, and very life are threatened by the truth about her own past. Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it’s the past that is about to catch up with her. For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale—until the tragic night that changed her family forever. But what Emma thinks she knows about that terrible night and the man she’s about to marry is only half the truth. The other half is locked away in the last place she’d ever think to look: her own memories. It’s a mystery a handsome and relentlessly driven homicide detective needs to solve in a case that’s haunted him for years—and a secret someone will kill to keep.
Book Synopsis Public Lives, Private Secrets by : Ann Twinam
Download or read book Public Lives, Private Secrets written by Ann Twinam and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council and Camara of the Indies in Spain to purchase gracias al sacar legitimations. Their applications provided intimate testimony concerning their own lives, accounts of their parents' sexual relationships, and details regarding the impact of illegitimacy within their families and communities. Bourbon officials in Spain debated which petitions merited approval, and in the process forged policies concerning gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, and the family." "Colonial elites distinguished between a private circle of family, kin, and intimate friends and a public world where status (honor) was negotiated with outside peers. This bifurcation was distinct yet permeable; an individual might "pass" to negotiate a public status different from a private reality. Thus, an unwed mother might enjoy the public reputation that she was a virgin, the bastard son of a priest might be treated as legitimate, and a mulatto could be transformed into someone white.
Book Synopsis Public Wife, Private Mistress by : Sarah Morgan
Download or read book Public Wife, Private Mistress written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the USA Today–bestselling author’s sexy international romance, a smoldering Sicilian calls his estranged wife back to his side—and into his bed. Being married to a rich, sexy Sicilian was supposed to be a dream come true. But when everything fell apart between Anastasia and Rico, she left Italy and he filed for divorce. But when a sudden crisis hits, Rico needs his soon-to-be ex-wife at his side. As the only person who can help Rico’s sister recover from a head injury, Stasia reluctantly returns. In public, he expects her to act the part of the perfect wife. But in private, the sparks between them are hotter than ever—and she becomes a slave to his passionate demands. Now Stasia must wonder if they’re finally living the dream—or if she’ll be cast aside once Rico’s sister recovers . . .
Book Synopsis Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by : J. Randy Taraborrelli
Download or read book Jackie: Public, Private, Secret written by J. Randy Taraborrelli and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period—as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library—Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. “I have three lives,” Jackie told a former lover, “public, private and secret.” In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three. New insights from the book include: · Jackie’s cold feet before her wedding to Jack Kennedy and her secret plan to avoid moving into the White House with him. · Jackie's plan to meet with the woman with whom her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was again having an affair, Maria Callas...and why, in the end, she decided against it. · The truth about the nude photos of Jackie which scandalized her in the 1970s...and which family member had betrayed her by selling them. · Her unusual relationship with Maurice Templesman, which was never what outsiders believed it to be. · The never-before-reported, last-ditch efforts to save Jackie’s life with experimental cancer treatments, and the doctor who wouldn’t risk jail time in order to treat her. Twenty-nine years after her death and sixty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie delivers the last word on one of the most famous women in the world.
Book Synopsis Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage by : Margery D. Rosen
Download or read book Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage written by Margery D. Rosen and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers dozens of personal stories illustrating the importance of seven characteristics of sucessful marriages, including trust, communication, fair fights, and a balance of power.
Book Synopsis One-Click Buy: October 2010 Harlequin Presents by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book One-Click Buy: October 2010 Harlequin Presents written by Helen Bianchin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-Click Buy: October 2010 Harlequin Presents by Helen Bianchin,India Grey,Carol Marinelli,Abby Green,Maisey Yates released on Oct 1, 2010 is available now for purchase.
Book Synopsis Marriage of Convenience by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book Marriage of Convenience written by Helen Bianchin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andreou Marriage Arrangement Loukas Andreou: a force to be reckoned with in business…and in the bedroom. The same man who, to Alesha Karsouli’s horror, she must marry, according to the terms of her father’s will. She concedes to a paper marriage, but according to Loukas, the only way to make the arrangement appear authentic is if she’s also his willing bride in private! The Replacement Wife Becca Whitney lives with the knowledge that her blue-blooded family disowned her. So when she receives a summons to return to the ancestral mansion, she’s intrigued. Theo Markou Garcia needs a wife—or at least someone who looks similar to his infamous fiancée. The deal: masquerade as the Whitney heiress in exchange for your own fortune—but don’t fall for your husband!
Book Synopsis Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic by : Susan Shapiro
Download or read book Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic written by Susan Shapiro and published by Delta. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since her former boss introduced her to her handsome, brilliant husband-to-be, Susan Shapiro has been on a marital mission. So far, she's fixed up twelve marriages and countless couples. Unlike all those "relationship experts" who are incapable of having a real relationship, or who took off their first ring to pledge their vows to their second or third life partner, Shapiro has witnessed--and scored--on all sides of the setup spectrum. She learned to charm her own blind dates, walk down the aisle with her personal Mr. Perfect, keep her first and only marriage rapturous, and expertly set up dozens of other duets. Now the author of the acclaimed memoirs Lighting Up and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and a self-proclaimed "diehard romantic optimist," shares her honest, provocative, and sometimes downright subversive slant on every stage of dating, sex, and domestic relations. She'll show you how to: - Fix yourself up first so you're really ready to be fixed up fabulously - Recognize raw marriage material and not let a good one get away - Break through your fears, insecurities, and dating defenses to land true love - Find love mentors who will set you up and help you close the deal - Decide which love and marriage myths to lose if you want to win - Keep fixing up your relationship so it stays warm and loving forever
Book Synopsis The Capital of Free Women by : Danielle Terrazas Williams
Download or read book The Capital of Free Women written by Danielle Terrazas Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives “A breathtaking study that places free African-descended women at the nexus of questions about religion, commerce, and the law in colonial Mexico. Danielle Terrazas Williams has produced a dazzling and important contribution to the history of women, family, race, and slavery in the Americas.”—Sophie White, author of Voices of the Enslaved The Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain, and Italy, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of African-descended women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period.
Book Synopsis Alexei's Passionate Revenge by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book Alexei's Passionate Revenge written by Helen Bianchin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today–Bestselling Author: It’s been years since she broke his heart—and he is all too ready for their reunion . . . Natalya Montgomery thought she was over Alexei Delandros, but working with him again rekindles old feelings and promises of the intense ardor they once shared. But if Natalya once held Alexei’s heart, now she only holds his contempt . . . Alexei has built an empire for himself, jetting between Sydney and Paris, Washington and northern Italy. But beneath his wildly successful exterior, he hides a secret: Natalya’s love almost destroyed him. Their lust blinded him to the truth about her. But the formidable Greek won’t be fooled again! Natalya will pay for her betrayal in the most passionate way Alexei knows, and his vengeance will be all the sweeter . . .
Book Synopsis Harlequin Presents January 2018 - Box Set 1 of 2 by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book Harlequin Presents January 2018 - Box Set 1 of 2 written by Helen Bianchin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: ALEXEI’S PASSIONATE REVENGE By Helen Bianchin Working with Alexei Delandros rekindles Natalya Montgomery’s memories of their ardour — but if Natalya once held Alexei’s heart, she now holds his contempt! Natalya’s love blinded Alexei, and then she betrayed him. Now, she’ll pay the price of his revenge! THE INNOCENT’S ONE-NIGHT SURRENDER By Kate Hewitt Escaping attack, Laurel Forrester runs to her stepbrother Cristiano Ferrero, and finds herself helpless to resist his raw magnetism. Their dangerous chemistry leads to one night of sin, but Laurel’s surprising inexperience entices Cristiano to bring her to endless surrender... HIS MERCILESS MARRIAGE BARGAIN Conveniently Wed! By Jane Porter After losing his brother, devastated Giovanni Marcello can’t believe Rachel Bern’s bombshell that he has a nephew. But a smouldering kiss sparks an idea. He’ll set a high price for acknowledging his heir: Rachel must walk down the aisle! MARTINEZ’S PREGNANT WIFE Convenient Christmas Brides By Rachael Thomas When Lisa Martinez last saw Maximiliano she was walking out on their marriage, but one last seduction had nine-month consequences! Lisa agrees to return for their baby’s sake. Dare she hope for more than mindless pleasure in Max’s arms? Be sure to collect Harlequin® Presents’ January 2017 Box Set 2 of 2!
Book Synopsis The Secret History of Domesticity by : Michael McKeon
Download or read book The Secret History of Domesticity written by Michael McKeon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Communication and Cultural Studies Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publics—society, public opinion, the market—and the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality. McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of being—not a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relations—among them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel. A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.
Book Synopsis The Many Meanings of Poverty by : Cynthia E. Milton
Download or read book The Many Meanings of Poverty written by Cynthia E. Milton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.
Book Synopsis The Normal Bar by : Chrisanna Northrup
Download or read book The Normal Bar written by Chrisanna Northrup and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on data obtained from nearly 100,000 respondents, here is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to learn the relationship-tested ways couples can achieve satisfaction and contentment in areas such as communication, sex, affection, and financial cooperation. What constitutes “normal” behavior among happy couples? What steps you should take if that “normal” is one you want to strive for? To help answer those questions, wellness entrepreneur Chrisanna Northrup teamed with two of America’s top sociologists, Yale Ph.D. Pepper Schwartz and Harvard Ph.D. James Witte, to design a unique interactive survey that would draw feedback from around the world. What has resulted is the clearest picture yet of how well couples are communicating, romancing each other, satisfying each other in the bedroom, sharing financial responsibilities, and staying faithful – or not. Since the Normal Bar survey methodology sorts for age and gender, racial and geographic differences and sexual preferences, the authors are able to reveal , for example, what happens to passion as we grow older, which gender wants what when it comes to sex, the factors that spur marital combat, how kids figure in, how being gay or bisexual turns out to be both different and the same, and –regardless of background -- the tiny habits that drive partners absolutely batty. The book is dense with revelations, from the unexpected popularity of certain sexual positions, to the average number of times happy – and unhappy -- couples kiss, to the prevalence of lying, to the surprising loyalty most men and women feel for their partner (even when in a deteriorating relationship), to the vivid and idiosyncratic ways individuals of different ages, genders and nationalities describe their “ideal romantic evening.” Much more than a peek behind the relationship curtain, The Normal Bar offers readers an array of prescriptive tools that will help them establish a “new normal.” Mindful of what keeps couples stuck in ruts, the book’s authors suggest practical and life-changing ways to break cycles of disappointment and frustration.
Book Synopsis Australia: Sinful Secrets: Public Marriage, Private Secrets / Every Girl's Secret Fantasy / The Heart Surgeon's Secret Child by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book Australia: Sinful Secrets: Public Marriage, Private Secrets / Every Girl's Secret Fantasy / The Heart Surgeon's Secret Child written by Helen Bianchin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Marriage, Private Secrets Four years ago Gianna married Raúl Velez-Saldaña, the father of her baby. But her pregnancy didn’t last and neither did their marriage. But now Raul has returned and as far as he’s concerned, their marriage was simply postponed – now he wants his wife back!
Book Synopsis At The Billionaire's Bidding/Bride, Bought And Paid For/The Italian's Ruthless Marriage Command/Public Marriage, Private Secrets by : Helen Bianchin
Download or read book At The Billionaire's Bidding/Bride, Bought And Paid For/The Italian's Ruthless Marriage Command/Public Marriage, Private Secrets written by Helen Bianchin and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bride, Bought and Paid For Romy Picard will do anything to prevent her aged father from being imprisoned. But the only man who can help her is the rich, notorious Spaniard who stole her virginity and her heart three years ago... Xavier DeVasquez could drop all charges against Romy's father with a click of his fingers but he sees an opportunity to have Romy in his bed one more time. This time, though, he'll make sure that she stays on his terms! The Italian's Ruthless Marriage Command Taylor Adamson has just come face–to–face with the man with whom she must share custody of her orphaned nephew – the infamously arrogant Dante d'Alessandri! And he won't let Taylor out of his sight! At first, Dante sees Taylor as a nanny. But soon he realises this young beauty could fill a more pleasurable role in the bedroom. The ruthless Italian will test how far Taylor will go to care for her nephew! Public Marriage, Private Secrets Four years ago Gianna married the man she loved – Raúl Velez–Saldaña, the father of her baby. But, she had a miscarriage, ruining their marriage and Gianna left. But now, Raúl's back! Raúl considered his marriage to Gianna simply postponed – now he will reclaim his wife! In public they are the perfect society couple; in private their past haunts them and their desire is as strong as ever...
