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Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage-the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

Ladies, it is time to give yourself something you deserve - an escape. Forget your worries, cuddle up in your favorite reading spot and indulge in a story that is just like candy; delicious and irresistible to put down. The Fire Down Below has everything you need. A steamy plotline that will make you laugh, blush and eagerly anticipate what will.

The fiery Lady Talia resides in a castle of great strategic importance. With his eye on the castle, King Stephen wants Lady Talia tamed. He assigns Lord Alex de Monteneau to protect the maiden and make certain she is properly married off. Lady Talia has beaten back would-be husbands before, and the last thing Lord Alex counts on is becoming a suitor himself. But he could never anticipate just how quickly he would fall for his charge.

Garrett McKettrick likes fast politics, fast women, and fast cars. But when scandal sends him home, Garrett learns to appreciate Julie Remington, his former high school nemesis.

Horse breeder Tobin McMurray doesn't venture too far from his homestead. But when a Texas senator offers Tobin handsome compensation to deliver a horse to his daughter and teach her how to ride, he grudgingly agrees. Soon Tobin finds himself falling in love with the beautiful woman--but their budding romance is headed straight for danger.

When 17-year-old Sophie abandons her North Dakota family in 1901, she never dreams tragedy will turn her again toward home. But she fears the loved ones she hurt will reject her--and that she'll never love again.

Life's tough on the Montana Territory, especially for the three sisters running the Gallatin Roadhouse---guilt-ridden Gwen, romantic Beth, and headstrong Lacy. Gwen was married at 22, but her husband, Harvey, died 10 days later. When his brother, Hank, turns up looking for stocks he claims Harvey stole, Gwen's perplexed. Will Hank steal her heart?