A Maria: 228 books

A collection of five erotic stories with a central theme of sex in foreign places. The Warmth Of His Touch by Viva Jones When Belinda accepts her friend’s dare to date the intellectual and straight-laced Alistair, who is about as far from her usual rugged and sporty type as he possibly...

"José Matias," the tale of a madly romantic man of leisure who is going to his grave accompanied by a very brief procession of carriages, highlights the gentle irony—equal parts affection and sarcasm—that makes the work of the great nineteenth-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de...

This issue of Profession contains Michael Bérubé's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Avenues of Access, which was held at the 2013 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants: Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers, Maria Maisto, and Robert Samuels. The issue also features a section on a...

Discover what happens when lovers mix business with pleasure - working nine to five has never been such a thrill! Taking passion out of the bedroom and into the boardroom, this collection of twenty erotic stories explores sex in the workplace. In a world of mergers and acquisitions, hostile...

An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture. Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the...

O meu amigo Jacintho nasceu n'um palacio, com cento e nove contos de renda em terras de semeadura, de vinhedo, de cortiça e d'olival. No Alemtejo, pela Extremadura, atravez das duas Beiras, densas sebes ondulando por collina e valle, muros altos de boa pedra, ribeiras, estradas, delimitavam os campos...

Amaro Vieira nascera em Lisboa em casa da senhora marqueza d'Alegros. Seu pai era criado do marquez; a mãi era criada de quarto, quasi uma amiga da senhora marqueza. Amaro conservava ainda um livro, o Menino das selvas, com barbaras imagens coloridas, que tinha escripto na primeira pagina branca: Á...

Raising Our Children Out of Poverty shows what can be done at the national and local community levels to raise children out of poverty by strengthening families, communities, and social services. br>Based on the April 1998 symposium “Raising Our Children Out of Poverty” at the Saint Louis University...

We are all of us monsters. We are none of us monsters. Through the work of twenty-six writers, emerging to award-winning and masters of their craft, THE HUMANITY OF MONSTERS plumbs the depths of humane monsters, monstrous humans, and the interstices between: Monstrous heralds of change,...

The book is divided into two major sections: (1) “Reclaiming Integration”; (2) “Reclaiming the Language of Race.” Both sections are located in the context of the “post-racial” era and analyzed by nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions. The purpose of this organization is to...

„Ich kann nur sagen: Lesen Sie‘s und dann ist der Inhalt in verschiedener Variation zur Nachahmung sehr empfohlen.“ (Dr. Gabriele Weishäupl,Wiesn-Chefin) "Eine vielstimmige Liebeserklärung!" (SZ) Liebesgeschichten rund ums Münchner Oktoberfest.Die Sehnsucht ist es, die alljährlich...

This edited volume examines the impacts of the 2014-2015 decline in the price of oil. Participants will examine the economic, social and political consequences on states and regions, along with their responses. The following questions will be examined: what were the impacts for countries experiencing...

Le fasi processuali della consulenza e della perizia sono diventate momenti decisivi delle sorti del processo e degli interessi delle parti. Il volume esamina gli aspetti giuridici più salienti dell’attività del consulente tecnico e del perito: - nel processo civile (cognizione, esecuzione e procedimenti...