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...eed. She wrote over thirty-three books and hundreds of magazine articles and pamphlets during her short lifetime. Ms. Reed was best known for writing romance novels that often included themes of everlasting and unrequited love, ironic revenge, mystery, and the occult. Her best known book is Lavender and Old Lace , which later became the basis for Arsenic and Old Lace . Ms....

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...my mother never tired of pointing out. Not that we had a lot of such furniture, but perhaps it was part of my mother’s aspirations, garnered from the romance novels she loved to read when my father wasn’t looking. From photographic evidence I knew that I had actually started life as a blonde, like my mother and sister, and like our Virgin Mary. But now, at the age of nine...

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...my mother never tired of pointing out. Not that we had a lot of such furniture, but perhaps it was part of my mother’s aspirations, garnered from the romance novels she loved to read when my father wasn’t looking. From photographic evidence I knew that I had actually started life as a blonde, like my mother and sister, and like our Virgin Mary. The pictures showed a toddl...

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...he trainers on, she ties them up tight and reaching over to her bedside table picks up a book and starts to read. Nicola likes to read, especially romance novels and this one, about a girl in Jamaica has become very exciting; and Nicola is finding it hard to put down! Avidly she reads, imagining herself on a Jamaican beach in the arms of a strong, Jamaican hotel owner w...

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... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this wor... ...are driving a message toward the green of a person’s heart. Some of us write romance. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through le... ...? I’m humbled, but not subdued. “Couldn’t I just give my coworkers one of my novels and then give my two weeks’ notice?” It’s then the Savior’s words ... ...lan God gave me was to share the message 164 of hope not by preaching in my novels, but to do it through character development. If a not-so-perfect p... ...ne Grey died.” Who knew? I thought I was writing an inspirational historical romance? If God wants to use it as a Western (i.e., cowboy book), I’m mor... ...r at www.robinbayne.com. Lauralee Bliss has published fourteen inspirational romance novels and novellas in various genres, including contemporary, hi... ... is the proud mom of three sons, and several little fur kids. Her paranormal romance Saving Cinderella is scheduled for release in 2008. Brandy S. Bro...

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...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...n. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in A...

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...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin... ...e Emperor Shah Jehan and his love for the Princess Mumtaz. Her girlish heart dreamed that a great romance such as theirs would be hers one day. Her ...

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...a ruthless, take-no-prisoners kind of seduction that she read about only in romance novels. It took another week before she got the nerve to act on ... ...ss, take-no-prisoners kind of seduction that she read about only in romance novels. It took another week before she got the nerve to act on it. Now...

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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 ...

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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...Philosophy, Willamette University oices from the Past is a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progres... ...his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manu- scripts of the five novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at... ...She was a giver in so many ways—alms for all. Theirs has been a continual romance. The mind does tricks. I am back in my boyhood cabin. A prairie ...

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...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...s here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contemporary romances here, the classics there, the Encyclopedia Britannica collection—t... ... to paint his and Dagny's association as some grand, An-Affair-to-Remember romance? Edge pulled away from the curb, slid into the light flow of reside... ...utta here. And I don't mean to go home and vegetate in front of some sappy romance with Ben, either." "What's wrong with that? Some women would kill f...

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...e silk matted in black velvet. I can't believe I — — sound just like a d@mn romance novel! And she has the most radiantly clear, lightly sun- tanned ... ...his pressure and there's still nothing going on between us. I guess this is romance. But then again, I read a book by the Dalai Lama, in which he ex... ...But then again, I read a book by the Dalai Lama, in which he explained that romance is an illusion and a fantasy. If you look up the word romance in... ...s: imaginative, fictitious, and the aforementioned fantasy. In other words, romance isn't real, just like Hollywood isn't real. I'll quote the Dalai... ... compassion and mutual respect is what maintains a strong relationship, not romance. So I guess I better show Emilie respect first, before anything ... ...dest. — I decide to skip the magazines altogether and go over to the graphic novels section. I love reading the latest collections of DC Vertigo and ... ... to legal drugs. I finish looking through all of the shelves for new graphic novels and I see the kid, from the corner of my eye, getting up and taki...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...fe, tried to duplicate that ship rivet-for-rivet… and plaster a fake bullshit romance on top of it? So the only reason the millions were spent to m... ...e titanic seem real was to fool people into believing the Hollywood crap fake romance actually happened? Do you think one million people given two ... ...s widen and deepen. To fall in love: what comes first? Beauty? Sex? Love? Romance? Friendship? In what order? In what way? Which way is natu... ...ted corruptions of imbalanced human awareness. The surest way to kill love, romance, and intimacy… is taking the other person for granted. This i... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who... ...eries of the lower classes simply do not exist in these books. These romance novels are pure selective adult fairy tales: whose format, plot, and c...

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...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage, his eyes ... ...ief; over the life of a Buccaneer, to the youth of that day, the rosy light of romance was shed; men did not remember that every coin gained by the ou...

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...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...ver new types of products, whose economics were very different from those of novels. Rather than let the dominant software compa- nies use copyright t... ...en if the red dot rule were only to be applied to hardback books, or graphic novels, or cassette tapes, it would still be unconstitutional. Nor do we ... ... work for hire, 11, 131. WorldCat catalogue, 9, 253n6. “xkcd,” a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language, 245; “Content Protection,” 245, 296...

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...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...“Your mother is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love st... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu...

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...Granted, I’m not the most experienced person you could find when it comes to romance, but I felt pretty certain, that wasn’t a normal look for a cas... ...d the idea of being brazen, wanton or any of the thousand other words in the romance novel purple prose thesaurus. Yet just touching him made me bu... ...I hoped she had an answer. Well, one that wasn’t totally stupid or based on romance novels. She pursed her lips. “I guess you just do. You know a... ...she had an answer. Well, one that wasn’t totally stupid or based on romance novels. She pursed her lips. “I guess you just do. You know as well a...

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...r. The monopoly of the big publishing houses on everything written - from romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is iro... ... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T...

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... the trainers on. She ties them up tight and reaching over to her bedside table picks up a book and starts to read. Nicola likes to read, especially romance novels and this one, about a girl in Jamaica, has become very exciting; and Nicola is finding it hard to put down! Avidly she reads, imagining herself on a Jamaican beach in the arms of a strong, Jamaican hotel owner ...