Passion Of Clouds And Rain

Passion of Clouds and Rain

Passion of Clouds and Rain

It is a rare book about a Chinese woman's metamorphosis through cultural conflicts in love adventures. It contains five chapters. Chapter One, "Searching for the Music of the Soul", captures the amorous encounter of two professors on a California campus. It is deeply psychological and thrilling in the vortex of self-contradictions of the protagonist concerning a woman's quest for friendship, love, and self-identity. Chapter Two, "On the Wings," registers the narrator's first quixotic but promising adventures in America. Chapter Three, "An Ugly Duckling's Swan Song", reveals her culture shocks, agonies and setbacks on American campuses as a graduate student and her rebellious childhood in China with her father as a figure of communist authority and traditional patriarchy. Chapter Four, "Sex =/=Love?", shows how the protagonist Yun, a female Don Juan, embarks on the road to spiritual liberation through the separation of sex from love. In the final chapter, "A Separate Utopia", Yun has gone through purgation in the hell of East-West value conflicts. Does she find a utopia of her own?

Passion's Child

The first book in USA Today bestselling romance author Ann Major’s ANN MAJOR CLASSICS: Texas: Children of Destiny series, is the powerful story of a husband and wife reconnecting because of the son they both love. “Ann Major’s name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good read.” –New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown “Want it all? Read Ann Major.” –New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts “No one provides hotter emotional fireworks than the fiery Ann Major.” RT Reviews In Name Only Nicholas and Amy were madly in love until Nick broke Amy’s heart and she ran away to raise Triple, the child she loved as her very own. Fighting to keep her husband out of their lives, Amy had finally become successful and almost happy when a life-threatening illness and Nick’s sudden reappearance and his comforting arms threatened all she held dear. Now Nick was back to claim what was rightfully his, but Amy couldn’t forgive Nick for his part in the cruel circumstances that had forced her to deceive him in the most terrible way. Or could she? The TEXAS: CHILDREN OF DESTINY series includes the following eight titles: Passion’s Child Destiny’s Child Night Child Wilderness Child Scandal’s Child The Goodbye Child Nobody’s Child Secret Child