Love in the Afternoon

Author: Lisa Kleypas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429922486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Love in the Afternoon continues the Hathaways series by Victorian romance author Lisa Kleypas. As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted...and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man—just to avoid spinsterhood? Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome, daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend, the vivacious flirt Prudence Mercer, when he returns from fighting abroad. But, as he explains in his letters to Pru, life on the battlefield has darkened his soul—and it's becoming clear that Christopher won't come back as the same man. When Beatrix learns of Pru's disappointment, she decides to help by concocting Pru's letters to Christopher for her. Soon the correspondence between Beatrix and Christopher develops into something fulfilling and deep...and when Christopher comes home, he's determined to claim the woman he loves. What began as Beatrix's innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled love—and a passion that can't be denied...

Love in the Afternoon

Author: Alison Packard
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 142689483X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
Kayla Maxwell is eager to shed her slasher-flick bimbo image—and she plans to do just that in her new role on daytime's most popular soap. With a chance to showcase her dramatic range, Kayla will be able to wash away the lingering betrayal and public humiliation left by her controlling, philandering ex-boyfriend. Sean Barrett, the son of an influential, award-winning actor, is the hottest soap star in the country. Paired on-screen with the talented and beautiful Kayla Maxwell, Sean is determined to keep her at arm's length, burned before by fame-seeking actresses who had no qualms about using him to get to his famous father. But when Kayla receives threatening letters, her past as a scream queen seems to be coming back to haunt her. Succumbing to an attraction neither one of them can deny, Sean and Kayla must face down her stalker and their own personal demons before trusting what they both feel—a love that lasts long after the cameras stop rolling. 94,000 words

Love in the Afternoon

Author: Patricia Forsythe
Publisher: IndieWrites, Inc.
ISBN: 1680160133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
This was supposed to be easy, peaceful, quiet – or so Nick Chaney thought when he moved to Lucky Break in an attempt to get away from the pressures of the family company in Phoenix. He loves owning and running his garage and auto parts store and living by himself, but his house is much too close to the Lucky Break Bed and Breakfast. The pretty owner, Grace Oesterling, has two mischievous kids who apparently think he would make a great new dad. She also has tourists, a choir practicing in her basement, and a constant stream of the town’s off-beat citizens in and out of her place. She is a pushover for any hard luck story, exactly like Nick’s mom and sisters have always been. He doesn’t want to get involved, but he’s finding harder and harder to stay away.

Love in the Afternoon

Author: Rose Burghley
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726564726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Stephen Lestrange, a handsome painter living in Paris, was on the verge of getting married to the plain Lucy. Was he truly ready to settle down with Lucy, considering that he had first turned to her to get over someone else? When the charming Helga from his past reappears into his life, Lucy's odds appear weaker than ever. Yet she might have an advantage for winning the heart of this man, after all... The 20th-century love story set in romantic Paris is written by Rose Burghley, a pseudonym of the beloved romance writer Ida Pollock. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate. Rose Burghley is a pseudonym of Ida Pollock (1908 – 2013), a highly successful British writer of over 125 romance novels translated into numerous languages and published across the world. Ida Pollock has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career. Pollock began writing when she was 10 years old. Ida has travelled widely, living in several different countries. She continues to be popular amongst both her devoted fan base and new readers alike. Pollock has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105 and continued writing until her death. On the occasion of her 105th birthday, Pollock was appointed honorary vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, having been one of its founding members. Ida Pollock wrote in a wide variety of pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

Love and Ideology in the Afternoon

Author: Russell E. Mumford
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"Why do I like soap operas?" Laura Stempel Mumford asks, and her answer emerges in a feminist analysis of soap opera that participates in current debates about popular culture, television, and ideology. She argues that the conventional daytime soap has an implicit and at times explicit political agenda that cooperates in the "teaching" of male dominance and the related oppressions of racism, classism, and heterosexism -- so that they seem inevitable. All My Children, General Hospital, Another World, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless: a close reading of their texts will also answer some larger questions about television and its place in the broad landscape of popular culture.

Love in Exile

Author: Bahaa Taher
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774249020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
A new paperback edition of a haunting novel of love and loss and the impossibility of true exile from the world

Love Is a Treasure

Author: Earl Cooke
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503585948
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
Love is a Treasure that contains Religious, Romantic and Cultural Themes based on Inspiration.

Love in the Fast Lane

Author: Joan de Frenay
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 142693596X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Set in the artistic and literary Bohemian hey-day of Dublin in the 1930s and 1940s, Love in the Fast Lane is the passionate memoir of a young, aristocratic Irish woman's rebellion against convention and her awakening to love and her own sexuality. Former Christian Science Monitor columnist, writer, and noted Tarot card reader, Countess Joan de Frenay paints a vivid portrait of a hidden era in Irish history (long before the 1960s) when Dublin served as a refuge for a bohemian pot-pourri of draft dodgers, artists, film-makers, writers, out-of-the-closet homosexuals, drag queens, occultists, and proponents of utopian free love. Penniless but ever ingenious, the intrepid author and her beloved Pekinese named Wang, survive evictions, near-starvation, pre-Pill birth control in a staunchly Catholic country, pneumonia, gas meter readers, and Brendan Behan drunkenly gate-crashing her parties, as she searches relentlessly and uncompromisingly for truly requited love.

Counting the Ways and Listening

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822202424
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
THE STORIES: COUNTING THE WAYS. In a series of blackout sketches, He and She probe into the nature of their love for one another. Long married, but aware that time has wrought changes in their relationship, the two spar and thrust at each other

On Sunset Boulevard

Author: Ed Sikov
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496812654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 769

Book Description
On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in 1906 to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, where he moved as a young man while establishing himself as a journalist and screenwriter, and triumphantly to Hollywood, where he became as successful a director as there ever was. Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment"Wilder's cinematic legacy is unparalleled. Not only did he direct these classics and twenty-one other films, he co-wrote all of his own screenplays. Volatile, cynical, hilarious, and driven, Wilder arrived in Hollywood an all-but-penniless refugee who spoke no English. Ten years later he was calling his own shots, and he stayed on top of the game for the next three decades. Wilder battled with Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, and Peter Sellers; kept close friendships with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, and Walter Matthau; amassed a personal fortune by way of blockbuster films and shrewd investments in art (including Picassos, Klees, and Mir's); and won Oscars--yet Wilder, ever conscious of his thick accent, always felt the sting of being an outsider. On Sunset Boulevard traces the course of a turbulent but fabulous life, both behind the scenes and on the scene, from Viennese cafes and Berlin dance halls in the twenties to the Hollywood soundstages of the forties and the on-location shoots of the fifties and sixties. Crammed with Wilder's own caustic wit, On Sunset Boulevard reels out the story of one of cinema's most brilliant and prolific talents.