Resultados para "Tainted Love" en Literatura y ficción

It's 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London's Soho—home to a vibrant, developing gay scene, and a million miles from the small town where Joe and Chris grew up. When Chris is found brutally murdered, the...

Sommer 1986 im nordhessischen Zonenrandgebiet. Die Luft flirrt vor Hitze, der Wald stirbt leise. Die Region ist ein verwunschenes Idyll, in dem Dörfer Märchennamen tragen und die Grenze zur DDR das Ende der Welt markiert. Hier leben Martin Ritter, Bibliothekar mit einem Faible fürs Fotografieren, und seine Freundin Christine Lehmann, eine scharfsichtige Journalistin. Sie sind Suchende, die sich in einer schrecklichen Nacht, in der ein kleines Mädchen verschwand, kennen- und lieben lernten.

War changes a man, and Captain Harry Marlow is no exception. Haunted by the horrors of the Crimean War, he now spends his time seeking solace in the quiet routines of military life. But when he encounters Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cotton, a woman trapped in the gilded cage of a retired colonel’s keeping, his world is thrown into turmoil.

Daring, transgressive and controversial, D.H. Lawrence scandalized the literary world with his frank descriptions of sex and desire. He was censored by his own publisher for being too explicit, and several of his most famous works were banned under the Obscene Publications Act. But for Lawrence, a self-described 'priest of love', passion was the stuff of life - and these two dynamic reimaginings celebrate him at his most bold, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and the fulfilment of furious need. 

After six years, I've returned to my hometown—and to Lanie, the woman I left behind. I'm pretty sure she still hates me for the way I left. No note, no goodbye, just there one day and gone the next. But there are reasons I had to leave, why I had no choice but to let her go. The scars of my past run deep, and I know that a man like me can never truly be worthy of the love of a woman as sweet and pure as Lanie.

It’s a universally known fact that all omegas want is a pack and a safe place for their babies. Wrong. I don’t want it. When I screw up my chances of being matched with a pack, I’m sent to the Omega Auctions. There, I’m sold to a royal pack to be their maid. I’m hardly qualified to clean, and I’m not sure being stuck with an unmated pack is the best idea because my first heat is coming and these guys are H.O.T. My name is Reagan and I’m a bad omega who refuses to fall in love. Let’s just hope my heart gets the memo, because that’s knot the life for me.