The popular image of the British Raj—an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights—chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control.Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects—both British and Indian—The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions—from law courts to railway... Views: 17
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep—the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three—that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.In 1975 Meryl Streep, a promising young graduate of the Yale School of Drama, was finding her place in the New York theater scene. Burning with talent and ambition, she was like dozens of aspiring actors of the time—a twenty-something beauty who rode her bike everywhere, kept a diary, napped before performances, and stayed out late "talking about acting with actors in actors' bars." Yet Meryl stood apart from her peers. In her first season in New York, she won attention-getting parts in back-to-back Broadway plays, a Tony Award nomination, and two roles in Shakespeare in the Park productions. Even then, people said, "Her. Again."Her Again is an... Views: 17
Told in the tradition of Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s. Views: 17
The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed now.The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer?In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this elusive figure, meeting maimed survivors, interviewing the forensics teams who gather post-blast evidence, the wonks who collect intelligence, the drone pilots and contractors tasked to kill. His investigation reveals how warfare has changed since Iraq, becoming personal even as it has become hi-tech, with our drones, bomb disposal robots, and CSI-like techniques. As we use... Views: 17
When
a potential threat against her life forces Eva Daily to seek shelter on another
world, she has only one option available to her. She must offer herself to the
Interstellar Bride Program. After a deeply humiliating assessment of her suitability,
Eva will be assigned a mate and transported to his world to become his bride.
Upon
arriving on the desert planet Trion, Eva soon learns that things are quite
different than she is used to on Earth. Her assigned mate, the powerful,
handsome High Councilor Tark, makes it clear that she will be expected to
submit to him completely, and she quickly discovers that disobedience will earn
her a painful, embarrassing spanking on her bare bottom.
An
intimate examination from her new mate leaves Eva blushing crimson, but to her
surprise Tark’s mastery of her body arouses her beyond anything she could have
ever imagined. Soon enough she finds herself naked, bound, and unable to resist
the urge to beg for more as his skillful lovemaking brings her to one
shattering climax after another.
It
doesn’t take long, however, for Eva to realize that there is much more to Tark
than just a dominant brute who will not hesitate to take his misbehaving wife
over his knee and redden her bare bottom thoroughly. But just as her passion for
him begins to blossom into love, events back on Earth threaten to tear her away
from him forever. Can Eva find a way to remain at Tark’s side and in his bed,
or will she be left with nothing but memories of the man who has claimed both
her body and her heart?
Publisher’s
Note: Assigned a Mate is an erotic
romance novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, medical play, anal play, elements
of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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When these two opposites attract, mistakes will be made. Lots of mistakes. Big, long, hard mistakes. Over and over, and over again…
When Emily Cole’s suitcase explodes on a crowded airport baggage claim in her new hometown, sexy cop Luke Nolan is the first to pick up her most intimate items, including her 7.5-inch, 20-speed, hot pink battery-operated-boyfriend!
In town to run the Winslow Inn on the picturesque island in Lake Michigan, Emily is determined to put her bed-and-breakfast in the small town's spotlight—while also keeping herself well out of it. But her sexy nemesis is bent on getting her into trouble, and when her impulsive retaliation to his teasing lands her in the local jail, Emily is ready to shove her tormentor into the lake… or the nearest bed.
Luke has one job—to keep the quiet, sleepy island town quiet and sleepy. No drama. No surprises. No tragedies. Never again. But the strawberry-blonde with the porn star mouth and interesting luggage turns his life upside down from the moment she sets foot on the island, and what began as a distraction from his memories of That Day, quickly turns into something more. Trouble is, Luke doesn’t want more with Emily—she’s not his type. She’s the opposite of his type.
Until his brother Noah’s wedding, when bridesmaid Emily shows up with a sexy new look and their sweet tease escalates to a scorching hot, tender hookup that makes him forget why he was resisting the shy stutterer in the first place.
Getting involved with her would be a huge mistake, though it just might turn out to be the sweetest mistake of his life.
SWEETEST MISTAKE is the second book in the contemporary romance series featuring the five, Irish-born Nolan brothers. It is a full length, standalone novel with a Happily Ever After. Views: 17
