While Nettie is shopping at the market, her cart collides with another cart pushed by a nice looking man. A week goes by, she runs into the same man at the post office. They get acquainted and learn their deceased spouses are buried in the same cemetery. They also learn from each other that their children want them to sell their houses and move in with them. But love starts to take hold. They don’…
Fans of Freddie Prinze Jr. will no doubt enjoy Summer Catch, which features Freddie running through sprinklers on a baseball diamond wearing nothing but an orange thong. Freddie plays Ryan, an aspiring pitcher at baseball camp. Ryan grew up in the New England town that hosts the camp, mowing lawns with his landscaping father, so he’s torn between his local friends and his new baseball buddies. Mea…
Holly Hunter plays a network news producer who, much to her chagrin, finds herself falling for pretty-boy anchorman William Hurt. He is all glamour without substance and represents a hated shift from hard news toward packaged “infotainment,” which Hunter despises. Completing the triangle is Albert Brooks, who provides contrast as the gifted reporter with almost no presence on camera. He carries a …
A wimpy remake of an already anemic movie (the 1947 Rita Hayworth vehicle Down to Earth), this glitzy musical from 1980 improbably stars Olivia Newton-John as a heavenly muse sent here to help open a roller-derby disco. Gene Kelly is mixed up in this well-meaning but goofy effort to fuse nostalgia with late-’70s glitter-ball trendiness, and he looks just plain silly. Directed by Robert Greenwald, …
Mike mccoy is the lead singer for a band combo and part-time racecar driver trying to get by when he is persued by a trio of very different women who want his hand in marriage. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: Elvis Presley Diane Mcbain Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Norman Taurog…
No one with romantic tendencies will be able to resist The Love Letter. Campbell Scott plays a Civil War buff who buys a desk from that era. While polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment, in which sits an unmailed letter–a letter written by a young woman named Lizzie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mys…
Sarah, a San Francisco accountant, moves into a new apartment building to be near her new boyfriend Jake, a writer with a case of writers block. When Jake has trouble with intimacy with Sarah, she escapes by eavesdropping on others people’s phone lines and soon suspects that a man’s voice on a phone sex line is a serial killer that is killing prostitutes all over the city on a nightly basis. Sarah…
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I want some good novels to read throughout the summer. I like romance, especially when the book is based during summer. I’ve read The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Its Not Summer Without You both by Jenny Han, and I loved them. Thank you!
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
The Last Song by Nicolas Sparks
Dear John by Nicolas Sparks
Hope it helps!
New Book Trailer for Madison Adler’s “The Glass Wall” – Young Adult Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Portia Mullins had always lived the life of a normal teenager, up until her sixteenth birthday. She is then informed by her grandma that she is actually a witch who is a descendant of a long line of witches and warlocks. After overcoming her disbelief she finds that being a member of the coven comes with one great perk in the form of the school’s handsome bad boy, Vance Mangum. Vance and Portia ha…
Ridley Heller thought her life would be perfect and trouble-free once she had Bo back. Unfortunately, she couldnât have been more wrong. Learning Boâs true identity has left them with their most difficult decision yet. They have two options. One, they can run away together and spend eternity looking over their shoulder, hiding from both God and Sebastian. Or, two, they can find a way…
A worthy companion piece to 1991′s Boyz N the Hood, John Singleton’s Baby Boy expresses compassionate but unforgiving criticism of young, African American black men who lead reckless, irresponsible lives while blithely blaming racism for their chronic disadvantage. That’s already enough to make this a provocative and emotionally challenging film, but Singleton injects his drama with such passionat…
The Blood Scene Trilogy combines the reality and perils of being a teenager with the added twists and turns of having to deal with being an immortal, bloodsucking rocker kid at the same time. The stories follow three âscene kidzâ on a journey that their Indie RockânâRoll lifestyle in the suburbs could never have prepared them for. Searching for answers, and making bizarre disco…
Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later their passionate romance is rekindled forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.Running Time: 124 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043749728…
A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual…
Western Romance Stories – Looking For Love And Romance
Western romance involves a lot more than endless sunshine and bliss! There are many hardships and challenges as well as romantic attractions which range from the gentle and sensitive to unusual kinds of loving that are decidedly erotic. Here are some of the best – meaning most popular – books available in this genre. They’ve been selected from the bestselling lists of the world’s largest bookstore.
The authors frequently have many titles in this field, so the list has been compiled to represent a range of notable writers, as well as some of their most popular western romances which, together, have sold in their millions.
1. Branded As Trouble – Lorelei James 2. Texas! Sage – Sandra Brown 3. High Country Bride – Linda Lael Miller 4. The Husband Tree – Mary Connealy 5. Early Dawn – Catherine Anderson 6. Sarah’s Quilt – Nancy E. Turner 7. Heart Of Texas: Nell’s Cowboy and Lone Star Baby – Debbie Macomber 8. Dakota Heat: Her Dakota Men and Dakota Ranch Crude – Leah Brooke 9. Tied Up, Tied Down – Lorelei James 10. Christy – Catherine Marshall
Lest you think that western romance books occupy an area of little interest, one that is read only by lonely homesteaders, Debbie Macomber alone has sold more than 140 million copies of her books and ‘Christy’, by Catherine Marshall, was regarded highly enough to be produced as a TV series, which is now available on DVD.
Unsurprisingly, these authors all have their own individual styles and their treatments of the romantic aspects also vary from the gentle, suggestive and suspenseful to the openly erotic.
The problems and conflicts are those which women, especially, can identify with and may at times include social issues, such as alcohol, but will inevitably be concerned with personal attraction between the leading characters and the problems of trying to bridge the difficulties which prevent a lasting relationship. The heroines face jealousy, abduction, differences in social status, drought, attraction to several men at the same time, and more. Life in the Old West, through the eyes of these writers, was never dull!
A woman in modern western romance novels is usually strong and enduring, capable of surviving despite many hardships. She may be well educated, as with Sage in ‘Texas! Sage’, have her own business or ranch, be single or widowed with children. The situations she will face are many and varied. However, even if disadvantaged, she is never weak.
Despite the challenging demands of the situations which confront these women in western romance, they are capable of caring, sensitivity and loving deeply, often with great passion.
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Cover pictures, storylines and reader comments for the novels referred to above can be seen here: Western Romance You can also see details here: Romance Stories
“Your Book Is Your Hook!” Show – Bestseller Debbie Macomber & Literary Manager Elizabeth Fowler
Writer/director Michael Landon Jr. continues in his famous father’s footsteps by creating moral family entertainment set in the early days of the American prairie. Stubborn Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy) travels west with her new husband–but after they find a beautiful patch of land, her husband dies in an accident before they’ve even started building. A man named Clark (Dale Mi…
Cranford Adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels, the five-episode miniseries Cranford focuses on female characters in the 19th-century British town to thematically contemplate encroaching modernity in rural England. With the camera roving house to house, each drama within the grander story is constructed of scenes featuring dialogue between several gossipy ladies obsessed with moral code, romanti…
Much was written about Will Ferrell’s first “dramatic role” as Harold Crick, an IRS auditor who begins hearing a voice narrating his life. But Stranger Than Fiction is hardly a drama. However, what Ferrell does–like Jim Carrey before him in The Truman Show–is handle a toned-down character with genuineness and affection: you believe he is this guy. Crick leads a lonely life filled with numbers an…
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wandere…
Like most “overnight sensations,” Vonda Shepard had been slogging away for quite a spell–more than a decade’s worth of touring, and three previous albums, to be precise–before getting to grab the brass ring via the hit TV show Ally McBeal. This disc reprises most of the cover songs Shepard performed during the series’ first year, from the ubiquitous “Hooked on a Feeling” to a lovely reading of t…
Like the movie itself, the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack is filled with emotional twists; from the hardness of Garbage’s “#1 Crush” and the Butthole Surfers’ “Whatever” to Stina Nordenstam’s endearing, whispery “Little Star” the journey is all over the map. Within the CD-enhanced grooves, however, moments of absolute brilliance flow; Des’ree’s “Kissing You (Love Theme from Romeo + Juliet)” is perhaps …
Jane Austen’s classic novel of 1813, Pride and Prejudice, still wins the hearts of countless schoolgirls with its romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and her Mr. Darcy. Now, the 1996 BBC miniseries is winning over adults, with its faithful adaptation, gorgeous scenery, and superb acting. The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. Darcy, a wealthy single man who believes Elizabeth to be …
For a film heavily dependent on special effects, the best effect going in this 1994 comedy is the ever-expressive star, Jim Carrey, playing a shy bank teller who stumbles across an ancient mask that turns him into a green hepcat with extraordinary powers. Cameron Diaz plays the love interest, but the real purpose of the movie is to bring cartoonish energy and effects into a live-action production….
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That’s more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it’s practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the most honored of American filmmakers. In this late film from a long career, Ford looks at the civilizing of an Old West town, Shinbone, through the sad memories of settlers looking back. In the town’s wide-…
