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The Year of Pleasures

Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364569
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Year of Pleasures written by Elizabeth Berg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love. Elizabeth Berg's The Year of Pleasuresis about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art. "Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems," said Andre Dubus about Durable Goods. And the same could be said about The Year of Pleasures.

The Pleasure of Your Kiss

Author : Teresa Medeiros
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157898
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Your Kiss written by Teresa Medeiros and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved and versatile voices in romantic fiction--and a "New York Times"-bestselling author--returns with a new novel of historical romance. Original.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 0771026323
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work written by Alain De Botton and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work. We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. Determined to correct this lapse, armed with a poetic perspective and his trademark philosophical sharpness, Alain de Botton heads out into the world of offices and factories, ready to take in the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. De Botton spends time in and around some less familiar work environments, including warehouses, container ports, rocket launch pads, and power stations, and follows scientists, landscape painters, accountants, cookie manufacturers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and aircraft salesmen as they do their jobs. Along the way, de Botton tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can pose about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? To what end do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also our planet? Equally intrigued by work’s pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton offers a characteristically lucid and witty tour of the working day and night, in a book sure to inspire a range of life-changing and wise thoughts.

The Captain of All Pleasures

Author : Kresley Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416554556
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Captain of All Pleasures written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Immortals After Dark series comes the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance. Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father's majestic clipper ship, willful Nicole Lassiter has never encountered an obstacle she couldn't overcome—until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland. His sizzling kisses leave her longing, but after they share a night of passion, his subsequent disdain makes her blood boil. Nicole vows to take her revenge by helping her father beat Sutherland in a high-stakes competition: the Great Circle Race from England to Australia. Nicole's scheme is thrown overboard after her father is wrongly imprisoned, yet she remains undaunted, taking to the high seas with her father's ship. But a storm wrecks her plans, and she finds herself a virtual prisoner aboard Sutherland's vessel. And while her mind tells her she should escape, her body urges her to surrender...

Pleasures of a Tempted Lady

Author : Jennifer Haymore
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1455511137
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Pleasures of a Tempted Lady written by Jennifer Haymore and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain William Langley knows the ocean well, but nothing could prepare him for what he discovers adrift on the cold Irish Sea. The tiny boat carries two passengers: a child--and Meg Donovan, Will's long-lost love. Meg's disappearance at sea eight years ago was a devastating blow. Now she's back, as beautiful as ever, and with secrets as deep as Will's own . . . After years held captive by a cold-blooded pirate, Meg has finally escaped with little Jake, the boy she's come to love as if he were her own. But the pirate wants his revenge--and Meg must do whatever it takes to shield Jake from the madman. Determined not to lose Meg again, Will vows to protect them both, yet Meg can't risk putting the only man she's ever loved in danger. With the threat to her safety growing, and her passion for Will burning brighter every day, surrendering herself to Will might be a pleasure too tempting to resist . . .

If You Desire

Author : Kresley Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416525009
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book If You Desire written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sexy historical romance, the second of the Dark Heart series, a Highlander with a dark past returns to the place he fled long ago to protect a woman he once loved from danger. He tried to run... In his youth, Hugh MacCarrick foolishly fell in love with a beautiful English lass who delighted in teasing him with her flirtatious ways. Yet he knew he could never marry her because he was shadowed by an accursed family legacy. To avoid temptation, Hugh left home, ultimately becoming an assassin. She tried to forget him... Jane Weyland was devastated when the Highlander she believed would marry her abandoned her instead. Years later, when Hugh MacCarrick is summoned to protect her from her father's enemies, her heartache has turned to fury—but her desire for him has not waned. Will passion overwhelm them? In hiding, Jane torments Hugh with seductive play. He struggles to resist her because of deadly secrets that could endanger her further. But Hugh is no longer a gentle young man—and toying with the fever-pitched desires of a hardened warrior will either get Jane burned...or enflame a love that never died.

In Search of Captain Zero

Author : Allan Weisbecker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1585421774
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Captain Zero written by Allan Weisbecker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend. In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away." In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for September/October.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019983167X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction written by Alan Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

Captain Jack's Woman and A Gentleman's Honor

Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780061121616
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Captain Jack's Woman and A Gentleman's Honor written by Stephanie Laurens and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the brightest stars of romantic fiction, the incomparable New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens flings wide the gates of the Bastion Club -- an elite society of unmarried London gentlemen dedicated to determining their own matrimonial futures. Here, in one volume, are two of the author's most captivating and sensuous novels: a "prequel" that brilliantly sets the stage for the popular series and an early Bastion delight. Captain Jack's Woman Rebellious Kathryn "Kit" Cranmer finds adventure at the head of a rag-tag band of smugglers. But her dashing, ruthless rival, the notorious Captain Jack, rules the night -- and becoming this bold man of mystery's woman will carry Kit to new heights of excitement beyond anything she's ever dreamed. A Gentleman's Honor Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, believes Alicia Carrington when the frightened young beauty swears she's innocent in the murder of the villain who was blackmailing her. But it is more than honor that compels the handsome nobleman to protect her, and to do everything in his seductive power to make Alicia his. Two classic novels in one volume!

Manhood for Amateurs

Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062124595
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Manhood for Amateurs written by Michael Chabon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- “an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as critics and readers have come to expect. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces: MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as -- simply because -- it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon’s memories of childhood, of his parents’ marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played -- on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key -- by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS is destined to become a classic.

Heat of the Night

Author : Sylvia Day
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061746630
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Heat of the Night written by Sylvia Day and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paranormal romance “so hot the pages should be on fire” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bared to You (Gena Showalter). NATIONAL READERS’ CHOICE AWARD WINNER Stacey Daniels has always been attracted to the wrong type of man . . . And she knows in her heart the virile, wounded Viking at her front doorstep will certainly be no exception. A vision from her most secret erotic fantasies—a glorious god of a man—he excites her with his tantalizing aura of dangerous sensuality. Stacey knows in the deepest depths of her soul that submission will bring unforeseen peril into her life, and yet she is helpless to resist him—for he is a master of decadent pleasures and sweet seduction . . . and all she has ever wished for. But loving Connor carries a burden that no mortal woman can bear. Though he finds solace in Stacey’s passion and the warmth of her welcoming body, his true realm is one of darkest dreams, torn by violence and strife, that is now following him into Stacey’s world . . . “Day’s hot and steamy sex scenes will leave readers breathless and aching for more. The hero and heroine are believable and well written, and the hero is rugged and definitely dreamy.” —RT Book Reviews “In normal Sylvia Day style, Heat of the Night absolutely rocked my world! I love EVERYTHING Sylvia Day writes, but this one is definitely one of my faves. I seriously, utterly loved this book.” —Romance Reader at Heart

Masters of Seduction

Author : Lara Adrian
Publisher : Obsidian House Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780991647514
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Seduction written by Lara Adrian and published by Obsidian House Books, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrender to sinful pleasures and forbidden passions with Masters of Seduction, the sizzling new paranormal romance novella series from "New York Times" and internationally bestselling authors Lara Adrian, Donna Grant, Laura Wright and Alexandra Ivy. "In the realm of the Incubi Masters, pleasure is to die for and love is the deadliest game of all . . ." Merciless: House of Gravori by Lara Adrian Seeking vengeance for the murder of his brother, Incubus Master Devlin Gravori demands justice from the high court of the Nephilim. But fury and retribution are no match for the consuming desire he feels for Nahiri, the beautiful Nephilim warrior he claims as his hostage. Soulless: House of Romerac by Donna Grant Incubus Master Canaan Romerac is focused solely on revenge against those who betrayed him and put him in the Oubliette for five hundred years. That is until he sets eyes on Rayna. Can the beautiful Nephilim heal Canaan's wounded soul before it's too late? Shameless: House of Vipera by Laura Wright Sexy Incubus Master Scarus Vipera has grown weak, and the only thing that will strengthen him again is Rosamund, the power-rich female of the Harem. But the mysterious Nephilim is determined to leave the Harem untouched, her heart intact. Ruthless: House of Xanthe by Alexandra Ivy Jian, Master of the House Xanthe, has devoted his life to returning his family to their former prominence. When he's offered a contract to hunt down the missing Sovereign, he's eager to accept. The last thing he expects is to encounter a stunningly beautiful angel who stirs more than his lust.

The Pleasure Principle: A steamy standalone romance

Author : Jane O'Reilly
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474028306
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure Principle: A steamy standalone romance written by Jane O'Reilly and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time for Verity to get a new kind of education... When it comes to sex, shy and awkward Verity is as reluctant as a virgin. So imagine her horror and shame when her ex reveals her inadequacies to the entire world online!

Pleasures of the Table

Author : Christina Hardyment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712357807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Pleasures of the Table written by Christina Hardyment and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far-ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary eating and great writing about food will amuse, surprise, and make the mouth water. The anthology begins with examples of hospitality, ranging from Chaucer's convivial Franklin to Walter Scott's bountiful breakfasts and dinner with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay. Next comes eating to impress--dazzling banquets from Flaubert to F. Scott Fitzgerald--and some great fictional love feasts (there is no doubt that in literature food and love go together rather better than love and marriage). Many of our most vivid memories of food in literature were laid down in childhood, and nostalgia is to the fore in such classic scenes as Pinocchio aching with hunger, Ratty and Mole picnicking, enchanted Turkish delight in Narnia, and a seaside picnic from Enid Blyton. A section on distant times and places ranges from seethed tortoise in ancient China to seal's liver fried in penguin blubber as a treat for Captain Scott. Those who relish simplicity rather than excess will enjoy Sydney Smith's delicate salad dressing and Hemingway's appreciation of oysters.

If You Dare

Author : Kresley Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416540946
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book If You Dare written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book of a thrilling new trilogy, Cole introduces the MacCarrickbrothers, three fierce Scots with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadlycurse. Original.

The Price of Pleasure

Author : Kresley Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416554475
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Pleasure written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kresley Cole returns with a breathtaking romantic saga of love, honor, and passion unbound -- as a man of duty faces his greatest trial, and a young castaway discovers her greatest desire.... A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one. Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above stifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires her but won't take what she offers. Grant struggles to control his own savage passions -- and fails, Tori must decide what she wants more -- her unfettered independence or the only man who could tame her wild heart....

MacRieve

Author : Kresley Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147673920X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book MacRieve written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ... next installment in Kresley Cole's New York Times bestselling Immortals after dark series, featuring the immortal inhabitants of The Lore, from Vampires to Lykae, from Furies to Shifters, from the Fey to Valkyries"--