The Rake And The Reformer

Author : Mary Jo Putney
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451161437
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rake and the Reformer written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a treacherous suitor, Alys Weston disguises herself as a man to take a position as manager of an isolated estate, but her masquerade is threatened by the arrival of the notorious, seductive Reginald Davenport

Author : Mary Jo Putney
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1420127942
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rake written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman holds the key to one man’s destiny in this classic Regency romance from the legendary New York Times bestselling author. Disinherited and disgraced, Reginald Davenport’s prospects cried for a dire end. But fate has given him one last chance at redemption—by taking his rightful place as the heir of Strickland, his lost ancestral estate. Davenport knows his way around women, yet nothing prepares him for his shocking encounter with Lady Alys Weston. Masquerading as a man in order to obtain a position as estate manager of Strickland, Alys fled a world filled with mistrust and betrayal. She was finished with men—until Strickland’s restored owner awakens a passion she thought she would never feel. A passion that will doom or save them both . . . if only they can overcome their pasts . . . Praise for Mary Jo Putney “Putney’s endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight.” —Sabrina Jeffries “A complex maze of a story twisted with passion, violence, and redemption. Miss Putney just gets better and better.” —Nora Roberts “A gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romance work.” —Amanda Quick “No one writes historical romance better.” —Cathy Maxwell “Dynamite!” —Laura Kinsale

Author : Mike Block
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540021270
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Cello Etudes written by Mike Block and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Learn the contemporary techniques and practices of the modern cello. The collection is a vital exploration of 21st-century cello techniques that every contemporary cellist should know when playing music outside of the standard classical repertoire. By exploring techniques such as chopping, pizzicato, improvisation, chords, ornaments, modes, polyrhythmic playing, and more, you will be prepared to play in a variety of contexts, including folk, rock, funk, jazz, world music and accompanying yourself while singing. Compiled and edited by Mike Block, this volume of etudes contains pieces composed by: Ashley Bathgate * Mike Block * Stephen Braun * Rufus Cappadocia * Rushad Eggleston * Erik Friedlander * Eugene Friesen * Natalie Has * Giovanni Sollima * Mark Summer * Jacob Szekley * Matt Turner * Jeffrey Zeigler.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : Pulley Press
ISBN 13 : 9781734979176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man with a Rake written by Ted Kooser and published by Pulley Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Kooser lives and writes on 62 acres of wooded hills and pasture in rural Nebraska with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, a retired editor of the Lincoln Journal Star. None of their property is farmed and is instead left to an abundance of wildlife. For many years Kooser worked at a desk in the life insurance business, retired at 60, and for fifteen years taught poetry writing in the graduate program of the University of Nebraska. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, five volumes of nonfiction, five children's picture books, and seventeen chapbooks and special editions. He served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and his 2004 collection of poems, Delights & Shadows, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the publication of A Man with a Rake, his most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, from Copper Canyon Press. More about his life, his work, and his many honors can be found at www.tedkooser.net.

Author : Jo Beverley
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821767245
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unwilling Bride written by Jo Beverley and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content with her independent life as a teacher, free from the bonds of matrimony, Beth Armitage suddenly finds herself trapped in a betrothal to the rakish Lucien de Vaux, Marquess of Arden, who must marry to secure his inheritance.

Author : Richard F. Weyand
Publisher : Weyand Associates, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781732128040
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire written by Richard F. Weyand and published by Weyand Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruling over the vast bureaucracy of the Sintaran Empire is the Imperial Council. It's only check: The Empress, whose every decree is binding law. The corruption of the bureaucracy has reached staggering proportions when a true reformer ascends to the Throne. She has a long-term plan to reform the Empire. But can the new Empress and her young allies succeed? And at what cost? AN INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND Is EMPIRE part of the Childers Universe, or a completely new series? EMPIRE is a completely new series. I wrote myself out of a job in Childers. Jan Childers solves the interstellar war problem, so life gets much less interesting from a novelist's point of view. The Childers books start a few hundred years in the future, and span about three hundred years. EMPIRE is likely a thousand years or so in the future, and spans only about thirty years across all five planned books. What are the core technologies underlying the science in EMPIRE? Fully immersive virtual reality is here. I think direct neural VR is virtually a certainty. Hyperspace is here as well, although it works differently than in the Childers Universe. I need hyperspace to have interstellar travel while not violating normal-space physics, but it's only a one-layer hyperspace, not the multi-layered hyperspace of Childers. Finally, EMPIRE has quantum-entanglement radios, which allows something like the Web across the entire EMPIRE. Real-time connectivity. So you can stream video across light years in real time. Are you doing something new here with plotting? Yes. Childers grew organically. I didn't have five books in mind at the start. I didn't even know if Childers was going to be novel-length. I just started writing. Each book in the series was planned after the last book was done. For EMPIRE, I had a five-book story arc laid out before I started this first book. So what's the grand scheme? Well, without getting into spoilers, the five-book arc is the story of Robert Allan Dunham. I can't say any more without major spoilers. This first book is the story of how Bobby Dunham, his sister Dee, and their friends grow up and ally with the Empress to reform a hugely corrupt Imperial bureaucracy. The cover blurb says the Empire is 150,000 planets and 300 trillion human beings. That's a huge scale. Yes, but it's still a human story. If you had told someone in 1000 AD that in 2000 AD there would be cities with twenty million people in them, countries with over a billion people, and seven billion people on Earth, they would have thought you were crazy. Even Rome at the height of its power had a population of barely a million. So there are lots of planets, and lots of people, but the human story is still about what does this person do, how does this person's life unfold, against this bigger backdrop. How did EMPIRE write? Was it fast? EMPIRE: Reformer is 88000 words and took 44 days to write, so about 2000 words a day. That includes non-writing days. I take off one day a week even in mid-novel, and sometimes I have to take a day off to rake leaves or something. I usually write about 2500 words per writing day, and that maintained through this book. What about the cover? That's a departure for you. For the Childers books, I used photography of real people. I have seen a lot of book covers that were artwork, and the characters often just weren't real to me. They weren't human, but more like a detailed cartoon. Lifeless. But I found a wonderful artist on-line, Aaron Griffin in England. Even very raw sketches from him catch the humanity of his subject, like a pencil drawing could just start talking to you. They're alive. He's a terrific young talent, and I contracted with him for the five-book series.

Author : Scarlett Peckham
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062935623
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rakess written by Scarlett Peckham and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Romance of 2020 by EW, Washington Post, NPR, and Bookpage! Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS—three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve… She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights… Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning. He’s not looking for a summer lover… Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his passions buried with the losses of his past. But one night changes everything... What began as a fling soon forces them to confront painful secrets—and yearnings they thought they’d never have again. But when Seraphina discovers Adam’s future depends on the man she’s about to destroy, she must decide what to protect… her desire for justice, or her heart.

Author : Cheryl Bolen
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373829388
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage of Inconvenience written by Cheryl Bolen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have always been friends-and nothing but friends. However, that changes when she asks him to father the child she so desperately wants. Rich agrees-if she'll marry him. Because he thinks their Marriage of Inconvenience could become a real marriage instead.

Author : Carla Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101573007
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady's Companion written by Carla Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady in distress finds an unlikely companion in this classic Signet Regency Romance from Carla Kelly. AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME Miss Susan Hampton never imagined she would have to make her own way in the world. But when her reckless father gambles away the family estate, and she becomes an unpaid servant of her aunt, she flees in search of a better life. Taking the position of companion to a temperamental dowager, she finds herself in dangerously close contact with the dowager’s handsome bailiff, David Wiggins, who is everything a man should be—except a gentleman. Though she tells herself he is a thoroughly unsuitable suitor, his irresistible charms could make her forget she was ever a lady… Don’t miss Carla Kelly’s other classic Signet Regency romance, The Wedding Journey.

Author : Mary Jo Putney
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9781420117271
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rake written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disinherited and disgraced by his libidinous exploits, Reginald Davenport's last chance for his respectability is to claim his place as master of Strickland, his ancestral estate, where he discovers his estate manager is a woman in disguise. Reissue.