Marissa & Mr. White: (Sexy Contemporary Romance)
When 22 year-old, Marissa Riley is dumped by her boyfriend six months after the death of her mother her friend, Bianca, tries to get her out of her sexual slump by inviting her to a sex club to explore and learn. There, Marissa finds a masked man in white that ignites a fire in her like she’s never experienced before. Has Marissa found the key that unlocks her inner sex goddess, unleashing her red-hot appetite for a man that she thinks is just a stranger in the club?
"Heroism and true romance set inside one of the most heart-rending tragedies of all time? Oh, yeah, that deserves an Award!" Judge
Shy and insecure Pia Rogaland wants nothing more than to save the children. For feisty Elish Cork, it’s the promise of adventure that drives her to commit. And Karl Ontario? He’s a lab geek who never dreamed of stepping outside his medical facility, until the mission to save doomed children on the ill-fated Titanic is proposed and Fate compels him to step up.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012
This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. The present volume testifies to the significance of the analysis of Romance languages for the field of linguistics in general, and theoretical linguistics in particular.
Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural theory.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.
