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The Baron Next Door (Prelude to a Kiss #1)

After an exhausting Season spent at the mercy of the whispering Ton, Bath's first annual music festival offers Charity the perfect escape: freedom to indulge her true passion and play the pianoforte to her heart's content. That is, until their insufferably rude, though undeniably handsome, neighbour tells her to keep the "infernal racket" to a minimum.Hugh Danby, Baron Cadgwith, is in Bath to heal hidden wounds, both mental and physical. He may think he's finally put an end to the noise next door, but he has no idea what he's begun. The more he discovers about Charity, the more he finds her bothersome, vexing, and . . . inexplicably enchanting. Before long, Hugh suspects that even if his body heals, it's his heart that might end up broken."Charmingly sweet and tender..." -Publishers Weekly"One of the most beautifully crafted romances I've read in years.' - Jillian Hunter"Charming, sensitive, and compassionate, this tale is Knightley at her best." -RT Book Reviews, 4½ stars"This sweet treat of a romance will entrance you with its delicious humor and delectable characters." -Sabrina Jeffries

Baron of Coyote River, The

Experience the Old West. Lance Gordon killed his father's murderer in a fair fight, but now he's got a price on his head and has been running from the law ever since. Cornered by men of the US Cavalry in Santos, Lance gets rescued by a mystery man who convinces him to join forces and go after a notorious cattle rustler up the infamous Coyote River. Even together the pair stands barely a chance of bringing the gang of thieves to account, much less dealing with the soldiers still hot on their trail. ALSO INCLUDES THE WESTERN STORY "REIGN OF THE GILA MONSTER""Heart-racing plot charges at the speed of thrumming hooves."--Library Journal* An International Book Awards Finalist

The Baron of Magister Valley (Dragaera #4)

From the vaults of Dragaeran history and the mind of master fantasist Steven Brust--a tale of betrayal and vengeance that is not at all a retelling of The Count of Monte CristoReader, you will undoubtedly have had the misfortune of consuming the rotten fruit of fallacies that we—Paarfi of Roundwood (esteemed historian of House of Hawk and exquisite artisan of truths)—“borrow” our factual recount of Dragaeran history from some obscure fellow who goes by the name Al Dumas or some silly nomenclature of that nature.The salacious claims that The Baron of Magister Valley bears any resemblance to a certain nearly fictional narrative about an infamous count are unfounded (we do not dabble in tall tales. The occasional moderately stretched? Yes. But never tall).Our tale is that of a nobleman who is betrayed by those he trusted, and subsequently imprisoned. After centuries of confinement, he contrives to escape and prepares to avenge himself against his betrayers. A mirror image of The Count of Monte Cristo, vitrolic naysayers still grouse? Well, that is nearly and utterly false.Standalones in The Khaavren Romances Series1. The Phoenix Guards2. Five Hundred Years After3. The Paths of the Dead4. The Lorde of Castle Black5. Sethra Lavode6. The Baron of Magister Valley: A Viscount of Adrilankha NovelAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Baron Orgaz (The Doctor Orient Novels #4)

Fifty shades of noir: Nazi sadists, occult killers, and underground BDSM bars are all part of a paranormal investigator's job description When Dr. Owen Orient is asked to investigate a young man's sudden disappearance, he reluctantly agrees. What begins as a missing-person case quickly morphs into murder, and before long, Orient is thrust into an international manhunt that takes him from Manhattan's S&M underground to the heart of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. After years of dedicated study in Tibet, Dr. Orient has honed his telepathic skills to become a formidable psychic investigator. But he finds himself the target of a powerful Nazi cult and becomes involved with a beautiful woman whose concept of sexual loyalty is slippery at best. With the help of his assistant, Sordi, Dr. Orient faces hostile cops, psycho Nazis wielding massive occult powers, and a hot war in Egypt in a case that races from drug and sex parties at a fabulous Hamptons mansion to the secrets of the ancient world. But will this adventure of a lifetime steal his soul?

Baron Trigault's Vengeance

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor—a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town—offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

Barone per tutte le stagioni (Le spose di North Barrows #3)

Rupert Haskell aveva sempre pensato che Anthea, la sorella minore del suo amico Alexander, sarebbe stata un'ottima scelta come sposa, ma perdere la sua eredità gli aveva reso impossibile corteggiarla con onore. L'unico servizio che potesse rendere alla donna che gli stava a cuore era cancellare completamente la macchia dal suo nome, anche se ciò avrebbe significato vederla sposare un altro uomo. In bilico tra i suoi principi e il suo amore, Rupert avrebbe rinnegato il suo dovere o il suo cuore? Anthea Armstrong aveva lasciato Londra proprio al momento del suo debutto in società perché, ingiustamente, accusata di furto. Quando il vero colpevole fu arrestato, fu entusiasta di tornare in città per organizzare il matrimonio del fratello. Ma, ancora meglio, avrebbe potuto incontrare di nuovo il misterioso pretendente che le aveva rubato il cuore con un bacio a un ballo in maschera...e avere un matrimonio tutto suo

La Baronesa. Una vida de novela

La esperada novela sobre la vida de Tita Cervera. Esta aventura literaria comenzó a finales de 2019, cuando Carmen Thyssen me llamó por teléfono y me pidió que escribiera un libro sobre su vida. Mi única condición fue narrar las cosas tal como habían sido, con sus luces y sus sombras. Poco a poco me fui introduciendo en su mundo y, durante tres años, mantuve encuentros y largas conversaciones con ella en su casa de La Moraleja.Descubrí a una mujer de novela: una infancia con padres separados,una juventud romántica y un concurso de belleza, el de Miss España, que puso su vida del revés. Su romance con Lex Barker y las sombras que llegaron tras su muerte. Su relación con Espartaco Santoni, con su sórdido final. El nacimiento de Borja y la aparición de Heini, que la convertiría en baronesa y coleccionista. Su mala relación con Blanca Cuesta y la llegada de las mellizas, Carmen y Sabina...La historia de su vida iba avanzando ante mis ojos hasta que un día Tita comentó en una entrevista de televisión que ella misma iba a ser la autora de su biografía. Cancelaba, pues, nuestro trabajo conjunto de tres años. Nos enterábamos todos a la vez: los espectadores, la editorial y yo. Tita deseaba hacer memoria, pero creo que los abogados han tenido y tienen un lugar demasiado preferente en su vida.Hoy os presento este libro, diferente al que tenía pensado escribir, pero tal vez por ello aún más interesante. Una novela biográfica con hechos y personajes reales. Una historia con una protagonista a la que he llegado a admirar, pero a quien nunca he conseguido comprender realmente. Sin duda, el personaje más fascinante de las últimas décadas. Reseñas:«Tita Cervera: la baronesa filántropa que lo niega todo, pero no se priva de nada».AYANTA BARILLI «De no haber existido en la vida real, Tita Cervera habría sido un maravilloso personaje de novela».MARÍA DUEÑAS «Tita y Borja no se entienden porque en el fondo fondo, aunque parezca mentira, pertenecen a clases sociales diferentes. Es lo que pasa cuando te sale un hijo rico».JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS, El País «Hay personas a quienes nos apetece conocer de la misma manera que nos acercamos a un cuadro: con ganas de saber más y de hacerlo con detalle; siempre encuentras cosas que no ves a simple vista».REYES MONFORTE «Muchos, procelosos y hasta miserables, han sido los caminos para obtener un título nobiliario; y aunque el de Tita, en el reino de España, sea un poco de latón, no ha sido ni inusual ni el peor. Y si París bien valió una misa, el Museo Thyssen bien vale una bula, una indulgencia plenaria y una absolución».ANTONIO PÉREZ HENARES «La baronesa Thyssen tiene una cara oculta que la hace fascinante. Su pasión por el esoterismo y lo invisible, desconocida para el gran público, la convierte en una dama de otra época. Nieves Herrero ha sabido captar esa faceta como nadie».JAVIER SIERRA

Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel: A Publishing History (Ashgate Studies In Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital Ser.)

Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in theatrical and film adaptations. Sally Dugan charts the history of Baroness Orczy's elusive hero, from the novel's origins through its continuing afterlife, including postmodern appropriations of the myth. Drawing on archival research in Britain, the United States and Australia, her study shows for the first time how Orczy's nationalistic superhero was originally conceived as an anarchist Pole plotting against Tsarist Russia, rather than a counter-revolutionary Englishman. Dugan explores the unique blend of anarchy, myth and magic that emerged from the story's astonishing and complex beginnings and analyses the enduring elements of the legend. To his creator, the Pimpernel was not simply a swashbuckling hero but an English gentleman spreading English values among benighted savages. Dugan investigates the mystery of why this imperialist crusader has not only survived the decline of the meta-narratives surrounding his birth, but also continues to enthrall a multinational audience. Offering readers insights into the Pimpernel's appearances in print, in film and on the stage, Dugan provides a nuanced picture of the trope of the Scarlet Pimpernel and an explanation of the phenomenon's durability.

Baroni: un viaje

Como en cada libro de Sergio Chejfec, el pensamiento representado ocupa un lugar central en el desarrollo de la escritura. Y una vez más, sus dudas y disquisiciones, unidas a los seres limítrofes que elige exhibir, son la marca de una literatura muy personal. En la precordillera venezolana vive una de las figuras artísticas más singulares del continente. Reconocida tallista y sanadora, necrófila y performancera, vidente y educadora, en Rafaela Baroni se conjuga la religiosidad popular con la tradición pictórica de vírgenes y santos.Y como ocurre con los grandes artistas, su personalidad parece demasiado simple si se tienen en cuenta los resultados complejos de su actividad. Baroni: un viaje es un relato cuyo objeto resulta a primera vista impreciso: por momentos es la artista, o el arte en general, o Venezuela, o las mismas ideas o asociaciones del texto. El tono novelesco se combina sugestivamente con el ensayo, las descripciones asumen una faceta caprichosa y el testimonio alcanza un matiz elegíaco. Como en cada libro de Sergio Chejfec, el pensamiento representado ocupa un lugar central en el desarrollo de la escritura. Y una vez más, sus dudas y disquisiciones, unidas a los seres limítrofes que elige exhibir, son la marca de una literatura muy personal.

The Baron's Bride

Gisela of Brinkhurst enjoyed managing her father’s keep and had never thought much about marriage. Little did she foresee the threats to her father’s lands and how marriage would ensure their survival.Sir Alain de Treville needed a wife, and there was no better time than when the king placed him in Allestone Castle to protect the area from daring marauders. When nearby Brinkhurst was attacked, and Lady Gisela’s family suffered great losses, it was time for him to insist on their union, despite the beautiful maiden’s indifference to marriage.Would the brave Gisela give in to her growing love for Alain-a man who showed her every day how much he adored her?

The Baron's Gloves

<P>Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the "tour" of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance.<P> At this wish for adventure, a pair of gloves suddenly drops beside them from a balcony above their hotel room near Coblentz. <P>Ah, whose gloves? The two young men who enter the lives of these ladies are rich and eligible adventurers traveling through Europe and agree to play a prank on the young women by becoming aides to their uncle.

The Baron's Governess Bride

Lord Steadwell's three motherless daughters were heartbroken when their last governess ran off to elope. In her dowdy cap and spectacles, Grace Ellerby seems an ideal replacement-a nurturing, intelligent woman uninterested in marriage. No wonder Rupert doesn't recognize Grace as the golden-haired vision at a masked ball, who slips away before midnight....Frightened by the unwanted attentions of previous employers, Grace resolved to hide her beauty...and her growing feelings for Rupert. One enchanted evening-and a sweet, breathtaking kiss-changes everything. For with Grace's three adorable charges playing fairy godmother, Rupert may discover his happy ending is closer than he thinks.

The Baron's Honourable Daughter: A Novel

Bestselling author Lynn Morris weaves an inspirational Regency era romance rich in period detail. When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors-all men. As a young woman with no blood relation to the earl, they are all too ready to dismiss her. Much to her chagrin, she must rely on the assistance of her stepfather's distant kinsman, Alastair, Lord Hylton. He is handsome and noble, and Valeria senses under the veneer of his gentlemanly behavior that she never measures up to his expectations of a refined lady. In light of that, accepting his help and feeling under a burden of gratitude to him is almost unbearable. Even when Valeria leaves the country estate for the glittering London Season, where she gets into a series of escapades, Lord Hylton is always there to witness, criticize, and correct her behavior. But if Alastair insists on engaging in a battle of wits and wills with the lively Valeria, she'll stop at nothing to prove that he's met his match.

The Barons of Texas: Tess

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Tess Baron knew she was in trouble the second she laid eyes on the mysterious—and oh-so-sexy—stranger. Why had Nick Trejo suddenly appeared, asking her for a private meeting? And what was it about Nick that made Tess long to be in his arms…? Nick was on a quest to discover his family's fortune, and he wasn't going to let some beautiful heiress stand in his way—even if he was falling in love with her. Or could the treasure he'd been searching for his entire life be less precious than the treasure he'd just found—Tess's love?

The Barons of Texas: Kit

Kit Baron’ s one weakness in life, her delectable step-cousin Des Baron, had become her only chance at freedom. Wrongly accused of murder, she needed his legal genius. But her need for him ran even deeper. Which disturbed her, for, finally free of the oppression of her domineering father, Kit had vowed never to be ruled by a man again. Still, she burned to surrender herself to Des. And when their white-hot attraction turned into an inferno of passion, she faced a challenge equal to proving her innocence— she would have to confess...her love.

The Barons of Texas: Jill

THE PROPOSAL SHE COULDN'T REFUSETexas tycoon Colin Wynne had wanted Jill Baron for two long years. So when she came to him for help, he made her a deal: in exchange for a small piece of land, Colin would transform Jill into a femme fatale guaranteed to nab the man of her dreams.But Colin had no intention of teaching her the ropes and then sending her into the arms of another man. His "lessons" were all about making Jill fall in love with him-and it was obviously working. Because before long, Colin knew his job as her teacher was finished-but his job as her husband was only beginning.

The Baron's Quest

The Baron DeGuerre Had Finally Met His MatchThough famed for prowess in tourney and war, Etienne DeGuerre now found himself at odds in the Battle of the Sexes. For his opponent, Gabriella Frechette, was a woman of singular beauty...and single-minded resolve. One who had easily stormed his defenses, and laid siege to his unsuspecting heart.

El baronzuelo bandido Rob y el mercader de especias

Las aventuras de Rob, el baronzuelo bandido. Apenas recuperado del sarampión, el pequeño barón bandido Rob tendrá que seguir las huellas de su padre. El rey ha secuestrado al padre de Rob y otros caballeros ladrones mientras estaban en una boda y ahora pide rescate. Pero en las arcas del tesoro de sus padres no hay suficiente dinero. Afortunadamente, un mercader de especias pasa por el valle de Heller. Rob se sube al caballo para reclamar su parte del peaje. Y así comienzan las aventuras que nuestro pequeño barón Rob tendrá que superar. Una aventura en el mágico mundo de la edad media, para niños a partir de seis años.

The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Routledge Revivals)

First Published in 1978, The Baroque focuses on eight areas where it expressed itself most successfully. The cultural movement called baroque dominated most of the Western Europe from the late sixteenth century to the 1720s. During that long time, it went through various phases, affecting some arts, some countries more than others. There are many overlapping definitions of baroque like from a mode of European painting to a style of architecture or rather a cultural phenomenon which manifested itself most noticeably in the fine and applied arts. In this book each chapter presents a separate exploration of different interlinked facets of this vast and maze-like subject. This book is an interesting read for scholars of European literature.

Baroque and Desperate

In a Treasure-Laden Mansion Unflappable and resourceful, Abigail Timberlake, antique dealer and owner of Charlotte, North Carolina's Den of Antiquity, relies on her knowledge and savvy to authenitcate the facts from the fakes when it comes to either curios or people. Her expertise makes Abby invaluable to exceptionally handsome Tradd Maxwell Burton, wealthy scion of the renowned Latham family. He needs her to determine the most priceless item in the Latham mansion and then split the proceeds of it with her. A treasure hunt in an antique-filled manor? All Abby can say is "let the games begin." It's Tough to Keep Help Accompanied by her best girlfriend, C.J., Abby arrives at the estate and is met with cool reserve, if no downright rudeness, from the members of the Latham clan. Trying to carry out Tradd's request, Abby finds that she could cut the household tension with a knife. But someone has beaten her to it by stabbing a maid to death with an ancient kris. Suddenly all eyes are on C.J., whose fingerprints happen to be all over the murder weapon. it's up to Abby to use her knack for detecting forgeries to expose the fake alibi of the genuine killer.

The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World

Get all three novels in Neal Stephenson's New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle" in one e-book, including: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. This three-volume historical epic delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century.

A Baroque Fable

This novel takes readers on a romp through a fantasyland of star-crossed lovers, bumbling heroes, wicked witches, and dragons (one of whom, our heroine, Esmeralda, started out as a human but got caught up in a witch's curse.) Lighthearted adventure with a seemingly never-ending cast of strange and whimsical characters working at cross-purposes and together creates a world of little consequence and frothy entertainment.

Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, mutation, monstrosity, murder, and mayhem, and delivers them to us with an inimitable flair for the sensational that nonetheless rejects sensationalism because it remains so grounded in historical fact." ---William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University. Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and history, "reality" and "authenticity" may be experienced as spectator sports and staged attractions, as in the "real lives" captured by reality TV and the "authentic cadavers" displayed around the world in the Body Worlds exhibitions. Rather than thinking of virtual reality and staged authenticity as recent developments of the postmodern age, Castillo looks back to the Spanish baroque period in search for the roots of the commodification of nature and the horror vacui that accompanies it. Aimed at specialists, students, and readers of early modern literature and culture in the Spanish and Anglophone traditions as well as anyone interested in horror fantasy, Baroque Horrors offers ways to rethink broad questions of intellectual and political history and relate them to the modern age. David Castillo is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Baroque Lorca: An Arcaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque, in particular with Cervantes and Calderón, to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play, one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting, an altering, the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba).