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To prove her brother's innocence in an embezzlement charge Kerry Sullivan resorts to kidnapping electronic security expert Rafe Dawson. But she may have to let Rafe have his way first-with her.
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To prove her brother's innocence in an embezzlement charge Kerry Sullivan resorts to kidnapping electronic security expert Rafe Dawson. But she may have to let Rafe have his way first-with her.
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HOT HOT HOT.......2007-06-21
Very fun and enjoyable read, and the passion was HOT
Not your typical romance novel - hot stuff !.......2007-05-28
Kerry Sullivan is desperate to save her brother Mark. He's in jail awaiting trial accused of embezzling millions of dollars. Mark is the only family that Kerry has left, and she'll do anything to save him.
Anything includes kidnapping, stripping, and chaining Rafe Dawson to the bed. He's a top electronic security expert. Kerry's tried to get him to help - honest! - but after failing to convince him on the phone (and now with him thinking she's nuts), she's desperate for his help. Although Rafe wakes up confused as to what's happened, he turns the tables on Kerry and she winds up handcuffed to the bed. Rafe promises to help, if Kerry gives herself to him for 48 hours.
This book has lots of steamy sex and some lightweight bondage sex scenes. Nothing hardcore but sizzling and not what you would expect looking at the cover of this book! There's a mystery here (who did embezzle the money?) but nothing too intense.
While I enjoyed reading this book, to me, Kerry was a little too ditzy and Rafe, while tempting, was a little too much of a loner to be appealing (someone who has no real friends or relationships doesn't appeal to me). Still it's a fun read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Recomended Read .......2007-04-01
THIS BOOK WAS EXTREMELY HOT AND SEXY, I have read Shelley Bradley as her pen name Shayla Black and I worried that I would'nt care for the books she writes under her own name...No dissapointments here!
5 Klovers! Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques.......2006-11-23
Shelley Bradley has quickly found a place on my automatic buy list! Having now read all of her currently available novels, I find each as compelling and touching as the next. Bradley has a definite talent for bringing her characters to life, making the reader feel as if they are a fly on the wall watching the story unfold.
From page one of Bound and Determined, you can feel Kerry's love for her brother and her desperation to save him - even resorting to kidnapping a man twice her size to do it! Kerry wins both Rafe and the readers with the depth of her love and loyalty to her brother Mark, and it is easy to see why Rafe is captivated by her.
Rafe is the hunkiest computer nerd you've ever seen! If I could find a bad boy computer geek like Rafe Dawson, I think I'd be more than willing to give up my single status! With omniscience to both Rafe's and Kerry's motivations and thoughts, we empathize with Rafe even when he is making the worst mistakes concerning his relationship with Kerry. Ultimately, he is the last to believe he has it in him to do right by the woman he loves, making the road to true love a wonderfully heart wrenching roller coaster.
Shelley Bradley proves her adeptness with a mystery plot mingled with romance with Bound and Determined, and sets the stage for an intriguing series, with the sequel Strip Search picking up where this novel finishes. If you like your romances with a good mystery and a bit of action, you will want to run to the nearest book store to pick up your copy of Bound and Determined!
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Strip Search (Berkley Sensation)
Romance with a little edge..........2006-11-17
This was pretty good. I actually read the sequel first, and then came back to this one. So, while this one is pretty good, I can say that the second one is better - definitely pick that one up! Both books have a lot of hot and sizzling sex scenes. This author is not afraid to go a bit further than your average romance book and describe some of the edgier activities that real people actually indulge in, in the bedroom. To me, it's refreshing to see a bit more realistic portrayal, not to mention a good way to get revved up! The relationship development is a little less fleshed out in this one than in its sequel, but it's still a fun read.
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In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of--he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt to trace his ancestral roots. With the help of Luigi, his guide and companion, he travels through Italy--Rome, Gamberale, Matera, Miglionico, Alessandria, even Mussolini's hometown of Predappio--and discovers the tragic legacy of the Second World War that is still affecting the Old Country. He visits ancient castles and village churches, samples superb Italian cuisine, haggles at the open air market at Porta Portese, enjoys and Alessandria siesta, and frequents "coffee bars", where beggars discuss politics with affluent Italian locals. He finds lost-lost cousins during the day and performs with an amateur jazz group during the night. Along the way, he discovers deeply moving stories about his family's past and learns answers to question that have plagued him since childhood.
More that just a spiritual account of one man's ancestral search, Dances With Luigi is also a stunning portrait of la bella Italia--both old and new--that is painted beautifully in all of its glamour, history, and contradiction.
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Francesco's Gift.......2003-04-06
When I picked up "Dances With Luigi", I thought the author would put into writing thoughts that I, as a third generation Italian American would relate to in some wonderfully metaphysical way. I was disappointed.
Firstly, the title has nothing to do with the actual theme of the author's journey. I suppose Mr. Paolicelli intended to interperse his musings with his Umbrian landlord, Luigi, as chapter endings, to further enlighten his findings about his family, and the Italians of the Mezzogiorno region of Italy. But, these revelations do not occur consistently enough to warrant the honor of a title. Luigi, a man living through his own tragedy, merely comes along for the ride and acts only, at times, as Paolicelli's sounding board. I believe that Mr. Paolicelli, as a television journalist, intended to follow New Yorker magazine's Adam Gopnik lead in his 'Paris to the Moon' essays that eventually formulated a bestselling book. This would account for some of the redundance in descriptions and events from chapter to chapter that as individual essays would need the refreshment of repeated explanation.
However, this observation is minor. My main problem with 'Dances With Luigi' is that it succeeds only in telling the story of one specific grandson searching for his grandfather's records; it fails in becoming universally emblematic for all the rest of the third and fourth generation Italian Americans in America who know nothing about their roots in Italy. Paolicelli is lucky that he knew anything about his grandfather's life in Italy; many of us were told nothing. The southern Italians wanting nothing more than freedom from the oppression of the Risorgimento government and the prejudice of the Northern Italians. They wanted a better life and chose a strange place with unfamiliar sights and sounds, in spite of their immense sense of family and tradition, over the repression they knew in their homeland. Paolicelli touches on this a little when he talks about his grandfather's obsession with the needs of his children rather than those of himself. For that generation, as in all other founding American generations, the past was over, the present endured and the future awaited.
I am pleased that Mr. Paolicelli found his grandfather's records, but more so that he found a sense of his future----a future that he speaks of only when he describes his musical triumphs and more concretely in a very small epilogue. I sense he finally understands the unselfishness of these strong people of America's past.
I would have rather heard more about how Paolicelli realized his grandfather's dream, rather than the goings on in a homeland that our grandparents wanted to forget. Perhaps more of the reasons why his family specifically left Italy would have been revealing. The book should have been called Francesco's Gift in honor of his grandfather, who gave him a name, a life without stuggle and a dream for the future.
Nevertheless, I will recommend the book to all Italian Americans that have that itch for understanding.
A promising story with too many loose ends.......2003-01-26
I was really pulling for this book because I'm going through the same experience, although more at my family's behest, of tracing my Italian ancestry. The first chapter or two show promise, and Paolicelli has a readible style. When his Italian friends insist he detour off the highway into a town whose name he suddenly remembers from his childhood, the resulting episode at the town hall is fascinating. But in the end the book just doesn't hang together very well. The story wanders off into too many dead ends. We read at first about his landlord and guide Luigi, who the book is named after, but that really isn't the focus of the story. And when it appears that the common thread between the author and his ancestors may be music, that theme doesn't get developed either. I could live with that, but the main problem with the lack of focus is with the ancestors themselves. No sooner do you begin to get a picture of one relative from the old country than he jumps to another of the dozen or so aunts, uncles, grandparents and great grandparents on both sides of his family that he's tracing. You'll need to chart his family tree to keep up.
I can relate.......2002-06-20
This book was one I found hard to put down. An accurate story about what it is like to visit Italian villages and mix with the locals.
The author has a way of taking you along and making the scene come to life. I do wish he had included a family chart to help keep tract of the family members.
I'll remember this book for years to come!
Nice story, although............2001-09-28
Nice story, sometimes too sloppy, the book could be cut down 70 or 90 pages, too redundant. I barely trust the find of Mr Paolicelli's grandfather birth record during his last days in Italy; too rushed the editing, many misspellings of Italian names. Needed a much better editor.
Dances with Luigi, really, dance along with Paolo!.......2001-08-16
I am an Italophile with southern italian roots. This book grabbed me by the throat. I couldn't put it down. He trudged through the northern Italian stereotypes of southerners, but then colorfully decribed wonderful, vital people, as he finds friends, countrymen, and then, finally family in the Southern Italian towns that his ancestors left so many years before. His story describes a combination of hard work, diligence and good fortune. A great read for anyone trying to find their roots, or who is interested in things Italian.
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An irresistible account of the pioneers of mountaineering "as colorful and eye-opening as the characters involved." --Guardian
Imagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-light hiking boots and polyamide fleece. Imagine a time when the Alps were as remote as the Himalayas and the Himalayas as remote as the moon. Traversing a century of climbing that began with the Victorian enthusiasts and ended with the conquest of the great Himalayan peaks, Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan take us back to that (not-so-distant) world to tell the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains--the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K2. Their quests provide welcome historical context and very modern thrills for readers of adventure narratives. Accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, Mountain Men invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all their romance and stupidity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation, intact.
Meet the Mountain Men:
Albert Smith was an impresario who climbed Mont Blanc with the help of 16 guides, 18 porters, and 90 bottles of spirits; his Piccadilly shows turned mountaineering from a folly into a sport.
Edward Whymper, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian climbers, was the first to summit the Matterhorn, but not an hour later he lost four members of his party in a horrible accident that would shadow him for the rest of his life.
The Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the Italian throne, reached the intimidating slopes of K2 in 1909 but concluded that no one could climb it in his lifetime--and discovered he was right.
Mount McKinley was claimed by not one but several climbers, including America's great explorer--and, it turned out, fraudster--Dr. Frederick Cook, who had his porters take pictures of him on a lookalike crevasse many miles away from the actual mountain; and Hudson Stuck, an English missionary whose ghost reportedly haunts the area today.
The eccentric Maurice Wilson, convinced that he enjoyed God's protection, decided to climb Everest alone--just as soon as he taught himself to fly and got himself smuggled into Nepal. He got further than anyone could have dreamed, but his body was discovered frozen just a hundred feet from a food cache left by an earlier party.
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Sarcasm doesn't equal humor.......2007-07-09
On the upside, the book is a very easy and quick read, and it cost less than $2 on Amazon when I bought it, so not much was at stake.
That said, I was very disappointed. The entire book is just sarcasm. While sarcasm can be effective, there has to be more substance in a humor book. Cindy Chupak's Between Boyfriends Book effectively combined insight, sarcasm, and personality to create a bittersweet collection that sometimes made me laugh, and sometimes made me indecisive about laughing and crying. Whitman fails miserably in that regard. Her "humor" is shallow, formulaic, and predictable. By the 30th page, I knew what was coming, and it was no longer funny.
Book sux.......2007-02-20
Im sorry I spent money on this book. I did not find it funny at all, I thought it was stupid.. I got half way thru the book in about 5 mins and then threw it away. Ugh!
Funny book!.......2007-02-04
It's short, cynical, hilarious -- a perfect tonic to the avalanche of relationship books that take the subjects of love and romance WAY too seriously. Love should be fun -- and funny.
Fun book!.......2007-02-03
Fun Book! I rarely laugh out loud while reading alone, but I did while reading this book. It would make a good un-valentine gift for a girlfriend (or stalker...).
Don't waste your $$.......2007-02-02
Don't waste your time or money reading this book. Here we are reaching out for relationship guidelines and this author (supposedly an expert) selling books under the pretense of being helpful. Instead she writes a not funny at all book which ended in my garbage. If the author wants to write a comedy, market it as such. It wasn't even funny.
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"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.
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The Guns of August.......2007-09-15
If you have any interest in World War I the Guns of August is a must read. This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for years--I know this because the price on the jacket is under $20.00. I was always concerned that the book would be a slow and plodding work with too much time invested in describing the strategies of the various battles.. Yes, there are varied descriptions of the various August 1914 battles, but they read like a novel, are essential in understanding the futility of the War and the superficial understanding of the world that England, France, Russia, and even the United States had in 1914.
Barbara Tuchman is an excellent writer--it is know accident that she won the Pulitzer Price for this book. Surprisingly, this is a quick read and the 400 pages (hard cover) go very quickly. One develops a keen understanding of the mindset of the French, English, and Germans before and during the war. Tuchman gives fair treatment to the French, English, and Germans. It is not surprising that the war aims of the Germans do not seem to differ much between WWI and WWII. . Tuchman paints a portrait of pre war Europe with its artificial entangling alliances as a powder keg ready to explode. As you read the story of the first month of the War you are struck with the overarching theme, which I think is true of most wars, that while the powers sough an early overwhelmingly decisive battle you feel the foreboding by those in the know that if timetables are not met this will be a long and stalemated conflict. August of 1914 certainly sets the stage for the remainder of 20th century history. This is a great book. I do not know why I waited so long to take it off my shelf
Guns of August.......2007-09-12
Super account of the first days and campaigns of WWI.
"Guns of August" is particularly good in its ability to capture the mindsets of generals on both sides. The account of the violation of Belgian neutrality and the civilians' taking up arms to defend their nation at all costs was especially effective (and well-researched).
A great start.......2007-09-12
For those of you just beginning to explore the Great War and it's causes this book is the place to start. Tuchman's ability to weave together the all to human story of the mistakes and blunders committed by egotistical, naive, and often downright stupid leaders, still resonates clearly today. This book should be required reading for all politicians and State Department officials.
Strong anti-German bias.......2007-08-27
This book has excellent military analysis and I can see why it has many admirers. However, I purchased it in order to learn more about the origins of World War I and was profoundly disappointed. The analysis is quite limited and dominated by a heavy anti-German bias. Of course all works of history will show the author's bias to some degree, but parts of this book read like a melodrama, with Germany as the villain and Belgium as the hero.
Studying the start of World War I gives us an opportunity to learn better ways of preventing future catastrophic wars. When the analysis of German war aims relies on "the hatred of a barbaric culture against anything civilized," that opportunity is lost.
An August Book.......2007-08-23
While it's been a while since I read this, I clearly remember that it was superb. Tuchman's ability to bring history to life is unsurpassed.
I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone with the least interest in the subject of WWI. While just using the war's first full month, BT gives us a clear view of that world and its people who became involved in the incredible machine of death that was The Great War.
I would also suggest Keegan's "The First World War" for a fuller description of the war in its entirety.
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Captivated.......2007-05-07
Not one of the stories had a great plot and the all lacked even a little bit of a relationship beyond the sexual exploits.
Only one readable story but that's a splendid one!.......2006-11-25
Most of the stories in this book are a total waste, trying to use S&M (which I usually have no objection to unless it's gratuitous and emotionless as presented here) instead of good writing and logical plots to carry the story.
"Ecstasy" is just plain silly with a smirking "hero" who fakes submission in an implausible, female-dominated society. "Bound and Determined" had too many nasty moments where the two protagonists snipped and snarled at each other; I got tired of them both. "Dark Desires" had a few steamy moments but neither character was believable or likable.
However, the last one "A Lady's Pleasure" by Robin Schone was worth the price of admission - glorious, erotic sex with passionate characters you really care about and wish well. This one rates 5 stars, the others are just goofy trash.
Buy this book used or borrow it. It's mostly going to be a waste of your time, your money and your patience.
*OH YEAH*.......2006-07-22
I LOVED IT! Erotic to the core! Great writers all! Highly recommend it if you are a Susan Johnson or Bertrice Small fan!!! If you are not you will be now!
Depends on what you want it for.......2006-07-02
You may rate this item higher...it just depends on what you're looking for in a "romance." This one is dark indeed, a sort of "how-to" for the S&M crowd. Therefore the stories are completely ridiculous, the characters implausible, the attraction between the characters inexplicable, and the setting as realistic as a child's painting. BUT, if you're just into it for the sex, there's plenty of it here, and all the rest of it you're just going to skim over anyway. In which case, you may rate this a bit higher than I have. I KNOW Bertrice Small can do better, though I don't think this is any better or worse than anything else Robin Schone has done and I don't know the other authors. My advice is: keep looking.
This book was lucky to have Robin Schone!.......2006-02-09
Wow! I expected so much more of these great writers, however . . . .
I stopped reading Beatrice Small's offering after about 15 pages. It was completely absurd.
Susan Johnson, who I normally LOVE, seemed to phone her story in. Predictable and lacking depth (but what else shoud I expect from erotic romance?)
While Thea Devine's tale was very erotic, by the end of the story I wanted to kill the "hero". He was such a jerk and insisted on sexually humiliating his wife.
The only story worth reading was Robin Schone's, and I know I can usually count on her. Not only was the story VERY erotic, but the love was sweet, and most importantly: plausible. This book was lucky to have Robin Schone.
Don't waste your money, check it out from the library.
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FOUR BRIDES, FOUR BEGINNINGS. . .FOUR STORIES OF ROMANCE FROM THE INCOMPARABLE KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS, and JO BEVERLEY, TANYA ANNE CROSBY, and SAMANTHA JAMES
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
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The wedding of Jeff Birmingham of THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER and his new bride Raelynn inflames the jealous ire of a determined rival. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
JO BEVERLEY
A women abandoned on the battlefield discovers that dreams can cone true when an honorable commanding officer gallantly offers his name. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
TANYA ANNE CROSBY
A rebellious heiress who must wed by the stroke of midnight learns that a twist of fate has fulfilled her heart_s deepest desire. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
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A young woman_s reckless scheme to defy her father_s ultimatum leads to a hasty union and unexpected passion. . .
Celebrate the glorious, magical moment of new beginnings with for uncertain couples joined by a passionate promise--and surprised by unforeseen love.
FOUR BRIDES, FOUR BEGINNINGS. . .FOUR STORIES OF ROMANCE FROM THE INCOMPARABLE KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS, and JO BEVERLEY, TANYA ANNE CROSBY, and SAMANTHA JAMES
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS
The wedding of Jeff Birmingham of THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER and his new bride Raelynn inflames the jealous ire of a determined rival. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
JO BEVERLEY
A women abandoned on the battlefield discovers that dreams can cone true when an honorable commanding officer gallantly offers his name. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
TANYA ANNE CROSBY
A rebellious heiress who must wed by the stroke of midnight learns that a twist of fate has fulfilled her hearts deepest desire. . .
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT by
SAMANTHA JAMES
A young womans reckless scheme to defy her fathers ultimatum leads to a hasty union and unexpected passion. . .
Celebrate the glorious, magical moment of new beginnings with for uncertain couples joined by a passionate promise--and surprised by unforeseen love.
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Married at Midnight an Anthology.......2007-07-04
It is a very good book. It was shipped in a timely basis. I do most of my shopping here
No problems.......2007-05-27
No problems. Book arrived in good time. Book had slight imperfection with the cover having a slight tear halfway down. Otherwise, everything was fine.
On my KEEPER shelf.......2007-02-10
I don't agree with the other reviewers...I loved it and as you can see it is on my KEEPER shelf.
As anthologies go, terrible. Don't waste your money!.......2001-11-09
I knew there was a reason I tend to avoid anthologies; this one has reminded me of it with a vengeance. Basically, most anthologies aren't worth the paper they're printed on: you get a selection of authors, some of whom may not be very good, and shorter stories than usual, some of which - if they are at all good - don't benefit from being compressed into under 100 pages.
This book is very definitely a case in point. We have novellas from Jo Beverley (normally excellent), Tanya Anne Crosby, Samantha James and Kathleen Woodiwiss - three authors I'd never come across before and whose work therefore I know nothing about. After reading this anthology, I know to avoid their work in future.
The Beverley novella, The Determined Bride, was interesting, but I kept feeling that I'd come in halfway through the story. Told by her soldier husband that their marriage hadn't been genuine, Kate desperately wants her baby to be legitimate. Unfortunately, her 'husband' has just been killed in battle. His commanding officer offers to marry her to give the baby a name. Afterwards, Kate returns to England with her son - but what of Captain Charles Tennant, the man she's just married? Does she want him? Does he want her? How does he really feel about having a legal son who is not his biological child?
An intriguing premise, written with something close to Beverley's usual style; but too rushed. Perhaps three stars.
Next, there is Tanya Anne Crosby's A Kiss After Midnight. Two children brought up together are separated when Victoria's father, a duke, becomes concerned about her friendship with the gardener's son. Can their love survive? What happens when Victoria needs to marry to save her estates? To begin with, I thought her hero, Thomas, was American; his internal narrative in the first few pages is entirely American in dialect and vocabulary. Too many things didn't ring true in this story for me to take it seriously. For instance, apparently Thomas and Victoria drove to Gretna Green in under five hours. So where were they? North of the Lake District and in the middle of nowhere fifty miles south of the border? Unlikely. And did Victoria really not recognise Thomas??
Oh, and *what* is "a'tall" supposed to mean? That simply isn't a word. It's not an expression used anywhere in the UK (or in Ireland, in case Crosby thinks it is). If she means 'at all', then she should say so. Terrible. One star.
The next story is Samantha James' Scandal's Bride. It was readable, more or less, though Victoria seemed to me to behave like a spoilt brat. I can't understand what Miles saw in her; he should have refused to marry her and insisted that her father sent her back to the country until she grew up. Two stars, maybe.
And finally, Kathleen Woodiwiss's Beyond The Kiss. This, I gather, is the sequel to another book by Woodiwiss. She spends the first dozen pages summarising Raelynn and Jeff's story to date (tedious exposition of an overly melodramatic tale) before launching into this story. The language is extremely overblown -talk about purple prose! The dialogue is stilted: I couldn't believe some of Jeff's speeches. Take this:
"In my lengthy quest for the woman of my dreams, I cannot deny that I've tested my heart with others, but they never assuaged that unsettled feeling gnawing at my vitals. I tell you no lie, madam, when I say that of those maidens I've courted, I favoured none with a plea to be my wife. Whatever enticements inspired me to seek their company were ephemeral, as fleeting as the morning dew." Ewwwww!!!!! I couldn't take this guy seriously at all.
In fact, I couldn't even finish this story. After 30 pages of it I'd had enough, and it's definitely put me off reading any more by Woodiwiss. I can't believe she's considered to be a top historical fiction writer! Zero stars.
Don't waste your money on this one.
Married at midnight.......2001-06-25
It's not easy to rate four stories with one mark, so I do it one by one:
The determined bride" - I give it 3 stars. It's not a bad story, but I found something missing there.
A kiss after midnight" - nice, but just a little bit unbelievable. How Victoria couldn't recognize her best friend? I don't believe a man can change so much! And that marriage ceremony ... oh, it was sooo long, I became unpatient! 3 stars.
Scandal's bride" - a bit cliche. I read so many books about London high society of 19th century I became tired of them. Why always London and 19th century? Why not France during 100 years war for example? 3 stars.
Beyond the kiss" - out of question the best of Married at midnight". I just love Woodiwiss and Birminghams. 5 stars.
And at the end - romance authors, keep writting. We need your stories to warm our hearts and make our lives easier.
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Often referred to as the Newton of France, Pierre Simon Laplace has been called the greatest scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He affirmed the stability of the solar system and offered a powerful hypothesis about its origins. A skillful mathematician and popular philosopher, Laplace also did pioneering work on probability theory, in devising a method of inverse probabilities associated with his classic formulation of physical determinism in the universe. With Lavoisier and several younger disciples, he also made decisive advances in chemistry and mathematical physics.
Roger Hahn, who has devoted years to researching Laplace's life, has compiled a rich archive of his scientific correspondence. In this compact biography, also based in part on unpublished private papers, Hahn follows Laplace's journey from would-be priest in the provinces to Parisian academician, popularizer of science during the French Revolution, religious skeptic, and supporter of Napoleon. By the end of his life, Laplace had become a well-rewarded dean of French science.
In this first full-length biography, Hahn illuminates the man in his historical setting. Elegantly written, Pierre Simon Laplace reflects a lifetime of thinking and research by a distinguished historian of science on the fortunes of a singularly important figure in the annals of Enlightenment science.
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- Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
- Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
- Childhood's End
- Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America)
- Desert Solitaire
- Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- DietMinder Personal Food & Fitness Journal (A Food and Exercise Diary)
- DK Readers: The Story of Anne Frank (Level 3: Reading Alone)
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