by Jeffrey Rosen (2001)
"In this book, Jeffrey Rosen explores the legal, technological, and cultural changes that have undermined our ability to control how much personal information about ourselves is communicated to others, and he proposes ways of reconstructing some of the zones of privacy that law and technology have been allowed to invade. In a world in which everything that Americans read, write, and buy can be recorded and monitored in cyberspace, there is a growing danger that intimate personal information originally disclosed only to our friends and colleagues may be exposed to - and misinterpreted by - a less understanding audience of strangers.". "Privacy is important, Rosen argues, because it protects us from being judged out of context in a world of short attention spans, a world in which isolated bits of intimate information can be confused with genuine knowledge. Rosen also examines the expansion of sexual-harassment law that has given employers an incentive to monitor our e-mail, Internet browsing habits, and office romances. And he suggests that some forms of offensive speech in the workplace are better conceived of as invasions of privacy than as examples of sex discrimination. Combining discussions of current events with innovative legal and cultural analysis, The Unwanted Gaze offers a powerful challenge to Americans to be proactive in the face of new threats to privacy in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Susan Grant
Young General Tao knows only one kind of honor, to his people. But when fate and his enemies throw him together with Elsabeth, a rebellious royal tutor, the fierce warrior and the sensitive scholar must unite to fight for their planet, their world, and their love.
Ethan Canin
Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from a small town in Missouri, feeling unsophisticated and disadvantaged by his family's bedrock values. He meets Marshall Emerson, the charismatic gem of a worldly family, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker who is revealed, as time passes, to be bent on destruction. The novels explores with depth and sophistication the conflicts of character at the heart of every life, the desire for grandeur and the lure of normalcy, the tension between rivalry and friendship, fathers and sons, love and betrayal. For Kings and Planets is the story of a man who thinks of himself as moral, and who tests his character against power, deception, and seduction. It is also the story of a friendship fractured by love.
Lisa Jackson
THE SECRET Ten years ago, an innocent Samantha Rawlings had surrendered herself--body and soul--to a man whose blue-eyed gaze promised forever. But when the summer sun faded, Kyle Fortune was gone, and Samantha was left to raise their child alone--and in secret. Then fate intervened, bringing the restless millionaire back to Wyoming's wide-open spaces. Suddenly he was face-to-face with the willful beauty he'd never forgotten--and a blue-eyed daughter he'd never known.... Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding!
Anne Avery, Madeline Baker, Kathleen Morgan
**DREAM SEEKER ~~ ANNE AVERY** On faraway planets, a pilot and a dreamer learn that passion can bridge the heavens, no matter how vast the distance from one heart to another. **HEART OF THE HUNTER ~~ MADELINE BAKER** A Lakota warrior must defy the boundaries of life itself to claim the spirited beauty he has sought through time. **THE LAST GATEKEEPER ~~ KATHLEEN MORGAN** To save her world, a dazzling temptress must use her powers of enchantment to open a stellar portal-and the heart of a virile but reluctant warrior.