The Romance Of Crossing Borders

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.

One love that isn’t enough. One love that is. And the choice that could ruin a family. It all started when I came back from a vacation with my mom. My best friend Ripley introduces me to her new friend Tyler, and I find out that he’s got a hot, straight brother, Grant. Sure, we date for a bit, but it turns out that he’s still holding a torch for a girl that he was seeing while he was in combat. We stay friends though, and then it happens to Tyler, and it’s almost too painful to watch. Worst part is, there’s nothing I can do to help him, except watch him fall. *** Frankie’s great. Yeah, but she’s not for me. She was cool when I broke it off, too. My brothers all hate it that I’m basically going back in time, trying to save something that they think is already dead and buried. But I’m not a sucker, and I don’t give up easily. What’s hard is how bad Tyler’s taking it. He’s my brother and my best friend, and he hates the woman I love. And then they’re all standing there, holding the bag, when I learn of the ultimate betrayal…and how she’s been lying to me since day one…again. HEA (Happily ever after) Military romance Second chance romance Medium heat Course language Final book in a 5 book complete standalone series Sneak peek into 'Dress Rehearsal' "Great ending to a great series." - 5 Stars from Michelle Brown, Amazon reviewer "It was satisfying to see Grant and Frankie finally have their chance at a HEA to their story." - 5 Stars from Emily Pennington, Amazon Top 500 reviewer "...a terrific ending to this series. I don't know that I could pick a favorite from the Miles for Love books. All of them have been just wonderful to read." - 5 Stars from Karen C., Amazon reviewer "Great finale to the series." - 5 Stars from Jessib, Amazon reviewer "A great close to a wonderful series." - 5 Stars from tt, Booksprout reviewer

On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.” Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love. Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.

One love that isn't enough. One love that is. And the choice that could ruin a family. Grant Lynch goes to combat with his brother Tyler, leaving behind his one and only love. When he comes home on leave, he's greeted with an unwelcome surprise, and a change that threatens his happiness forever. But when the mission is over, Grant is willing to set aside their differences and clean the relationship slate, only to learn that his love is packing her bags and moving to Canada...to marry someone else. Frankie isn't looking for a relationship. After a painful and seemingly unending divorce, all she wants is to have a little fun, and Grant gives that to her during a weekend getaway. But what starts out as a casual relationship turns into a relationship, only for him to unexpectedly ditch her for another woman in the end. While confused, Frankie still likes Grant, and their casual relationship ends up morphing into a close friendship, and Frankie finds herself suddenly helping Grant mend his broken heart. When Grant is struck by a stinging reality, Frankie is there to hold the bag, and hold Grant, during his time of need. But with Grant's family falling apart, and him at a crossroads, he discovers that he needs to make a choice, and a quick one, before what wounds he's caused end up ruining what it's taken a lifetime to build. Can the Lynch family survive this tumultuous turn of events? Can Grant make the right choice in time? And will Grant be able to salvage what is left of the only real love that he's ever had? This is the final chapter in the Miles for Love series. The story takes us on a voyage through all the Lynch family members, including some older characters that haven't been seen since earlier in the series. It's a warm, tender-hearted close to a great, family-oriented series. Be warned that there is course language and sexual scenes in this book, as in the whole series, but this one deals with an issue that is close to the heart...Grant's heart. Pick up your copy today! In the back of this book, you can also enjoy a healthy sample of the first book in the brand new rock star romance series called 'Dress Rehearsal' coming in spring 2021!

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gérard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.

Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-sex desire and sexual practices that has gone all but unnoticed. The Arabic tradition on eroticism breaks through into French literary writings on gender and sexuality in often surprising ways, she argues, and she demonstrates how strategies of gender representation deployed in Arabic texts came to be models to imitate, contest, subvert, and at times censor in the West. Amer's analysis reveals Western literary representations of gender in the Middle Ages as cross-cultural, hybrid discourses as she reexamines borders—cultural, linguistic, historical, geographic—not as elements of separation and division but as fluid spaces of cultural exchange, adaptation, and collaboration. Crossing these borders, she salvages key Arabic and French writings on alternative sexual practices from oblivion to give voice to a group that has long been silenced.

We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don’t have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must confront Kafkaesque immigration systems to be together—as she did to be with her partner. Written with suspenseful storytelling worthy of the greatest love stories, Love Across Borders takes readers across contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing people. Lekas Miller tells her own story of meeting and falling deeply in love with Salem Rizk, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian War. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn’t allowed to stay in the country, nor could he safely return to Syria. He was a man without a country. So Lekas Miller had to decide her next move: she has an American passport, but deep personal ties to the Middle East, and knew it was unfair that Salem couldn’t travel freely the way she could. More important, she loved him. Over the next few years, as they navigated Salem’s asylum claims, the United States’ Muslim ban, and labyrinthine regulations in several different countries, Lekas Miller learned about—and bonded with—other people whose spouses had been deported, who found love in refugee camps, whose differing immigration statuses caused complicated power dynamics and financial hardship or threatened the wellbeing of their children. Here, offering a uniquely diverse, international, and intimate look at the global immigration crisis, she interweaves these rich, complicated love stories with a fascinating look at the history of passports (a surprisingly recent institution), the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day. Ultimately, she builds a powerful, moving case for a borderless society—one where a border patrol agent can’t keep anyone’s love story from its happy ending