Download or read book Erotica Exotica written by Richard LabontŽ and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great sex can be magical, but what if magic adds sizzleÑor horrorÑto the sex? A young manÕs magic binds him to both a demon and a vampire. The unlikely love of two men survives the tragic death of one. A college student experiences a nerve-wracking close encounter with dick-grabbing tentacles slithering out of his toilet. And when a man comes to visit an old school buddy, heÕs seduced by the father who has stolen his sonÕs soulÉ Arcane mystery, supernatural seduction, sex that haunts in a manner both weird and wondrousÑthese stories by ÔNathan Burgoine, Gregory L. Norris, Mark Wildyr, Jeff Mann, Johnny Murdoc, Davem Verne, and others offer sexual thrills and perverse arousal, spooky chills, and magical orgasms. Dare to enter a sexual Otherworld.
Download or read book Mondo Exotica written by Francesco Adinolfi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi provides extraordinary detail about artists, songs, albums, and soundtracks, while also presenting an incisive analysis of the ethnic and cultural stereotypes embodied in exotica and related genres. In this encyclopedic account of films, books, TV programs, mixed drinks, and above all music, he balances a respect for exotica’s artistic innovations with a critical assessment of what its popularity says about postwar society in the United States and Europe, and what its revival implies today. Adinolfi interviewed a number of exotica greats, and Mondo Exotica incorporates material from his interviews with Martin Denny, Esquivel, the Italian film composers Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, and others. It begins with an extended look at the postwar popularity of exotica in the United States. Adinolfi describes how American bachelors and suburbanites embraced the Polynesian god Tiki as a symbol of escape and sexual liberation; how Les Baxter’s album Ritual of the Savage (1951) ushered in the exotica music craze; and how Martin Denny’s Exotica built on that craze, hitting number one in 1957. Adinolfi chronicles the popularity of performers from Yma Sumac, “the Peruvian Nightingale,” to Esquivel, who was described by Variety as “the Mexican Duke Ellington,” to the chanteuses Eartha Kitt, Julie London, and Ann-Margret. He explores exotica’s many sub-genres, including mood music, crime jazz, and spy music. Turning to Italy, he reconstructs the postwar years of la dolce vita, explaining how budget spy films, spaghetti westerns, soft-core porn movies, and other genres demonstrated an attraction to the foreign. Mondo Exotica includes a discography of albums, compilations, and remixes.
Download or read book New Exoticisms written by Isabel Santaolalla and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their "others" as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then --if anything-- is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining --sometimes via significant examples-- the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic -whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.
Download or read book Knife Edge written by Malorie Blackman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: An eye for an eye. Great Britain: Corgi Books, 2003.
Download or read book Universes written by Rose Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born to the sound of nursery rhymes, and grew up in A Child's Garden of Verses. As a schoolboy, I learned the lines of Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell, recited the ringing rhymes of Tennyson, elegiazed with Gray in a country churchyard, soared with Shakespeare. I knew that Milton and Dante were among the immortals; that Byron, Keats, and Shelley were literary giants; and that even present-day pygmies like James Whitcomb Riley or Robert W. Service were respected as versifiers finding favor with the general public. Soon came the inevitable encounters with Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost and other exponents of the American tradition; Edna St. Vincent Millay, who didn't seem American at all; and maverick one-of-a-kind wunderkinder ranging from Oscar Wilde to Ezra Pound. But poesy, per se, was everywhere--not just in schools and libraries, but in newspapers and popular magazines. The art of the elocutionist consisted largely of poetry recitation, and popular performers frequently took to the vaudeville stage or the Chautauqua circuit with readings or song. There were poetry hours on radio, the bastion of pop culture. Poetry was alive and well and living in the twentieth century. Then came World War II, and there is no need to expatiate on what happened to the poetic form in its aftermath. To the majority of today's youth, poetry is something spewed out by a rap group. For real profundity and spiritual significance, of course, there's always Bob Dylan. And the rest is silence. Or almost silence. Poetry, like live theater, seems perpetually moribund: a constant loomer in Death's doorway, yet never venturing beyond the threshold. Poems are still being written, still being published, and, if one listens closely, one can hear the whisper of words rise again. It's a slow and painful convalescence, but a noticeable one--noticeable, and laudable. This felicitous phenomenon is due, in no small part, to the talents of a new generation of the creatively gifted: talents like Rose Wolf. In a way, her work breaks new ground, taking the form in a direction usually hitherto confined to the pioneering prose of Joyce and his emulators. Although a recognizable portion of her efforts constitutes homage or serious appreciation, she is not constrained to solemnity or self-pretension in her approach. Whim and whimsy abound, and in this lies her strength: the utter lack of verbal inhibition. To her, verse is the medium of perfect freedom, as her wordplay so aptly demonstrates. In her poetry, anything is permissible--she is definitely a no-holds bard. Her voice rises joyfully from these pages, with wit, witticism, and wisdom. Rose Wolf knows that fantasy leads us to the gates of reality; and, confronting those gates, her poetry provides us with the key. --Robert Bloch
Download or read book Trust Me written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desdemona Wainwright thinks Sam Stark looks much too calm for a man who has just been left at the altar. But she was hired to cater his wedding, not to save it. She marches into Stark's den to demand the much-needed payment for the canceled reception -- and discovers opposites do attract! Head of a multimillion-dollar company, Sam decides Desdemona would make the perfect no-strings-attached, stand-in wife, little dreaming how she will drive him crazy with desire. But when someone breaks into Sam's secret computer files, sinister intrigue swirls around this unlikely pair. Now they must discover the real appeal of unstoppable passion and unbreakable faith...in TRUST ME, the wonderful new love story from Jayne Ann Krentz!
Download or read book Three written by Nathan Burgoine and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the full moon, the vampires gather to renew their bonds. It takes three, and those in groups have total power over those who aren’t. For Luc, alone since he was created, the full moon is his only opportunity. Seeking blood to satiate him for the month ahead, Luc finds a rival instead: Anders, a demon just as alone, who’s also on the hunt. They choose the same prey: Curtis, a handsome young man resistant to their supernatural charms. When neither a vampire’s glamour nor demon’s passion work on him, it becomes clear their only chance of success lies in the unthinkable: working together. As Luc tastes blood and Anders devours soul, they gain a chance at something neither expected: freedom. Originally appearing in Bold Strokes Books’s Blood Sacraments, “Three” introduces the characters from ’Nathan Burgoine’s novel Triad Blood.
Download or read book Cyclopedia Exotica written by Aminder Dhaliwal and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica. Also serialized on instagram to her 250,000 followers, this graphic novel showcases Dhaliwal’s quick wit and astute socio-cultural criticism. In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor’s office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the majority. Whether they’re artists, parents, or yoga students, the cyclops have it tough: they face microaggressions and overt xenophobia on a daily basis. However, they are bent on finding love, cultivating community, and navigating life alongside the two-eyed majority with patience and the occasional bout of rage. Through this parallel universe, Dhaliwal comments on race, difference, beauty, and belonging, touching on all of these issues with her distinctive deadpan humour steeped in millennial references. Cyclopedia Exotica is a triumph of hilarious candor.
Download or read book The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin written by Henri Dorra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modern Gauguin studies—complex interpretations of the works based on the identification of the artist's sources in ancient sacred art from around the world—began in the early 1950s with the pioneering research of Bernard Dorival and Henri Dorra. The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity, Dorra's ultimate meditation on the art of Gauguin, constitutes a milestone in the history of Post-Impressionism."—Charles Stuckey is an independent scholar and consultant
Download or read book Worth the Risk written by Karis Walsh and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to overcome a lifetime of barriers and finally take a chance on love? Jamie Callahan handles her job as an investment analyst, her distant relationship with her niece, and her romantic liaisons with a cool head and unaffected heart. Until she meets Kate Brown, a woman who threatens to push aside Jamie’s protective defenses and uncover the emotions hiding underneath. Kate has a mask for every occasion. She wears them to please her parents, to move ahead in her career, to fit in the right social circles. She meets with Jamie because she needs funding for an Olympic-caliber horse, but instead she finds someone who sees beyond the image Kate projects and brings out her true desires. From the boardroom to the show ring in Portland, Oregon, Jamie and Kate routinely face uncertainty and challenge in their careers but never in romance. As their growing attraction threatens to expose vulnerabilities both try to hide, will they decide the stakes are too high or that love is worth the risk?
Download or read book High Impact written by Kim Baldwin and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No risk is too high. No adventure too daunting. Emery Lawson reinvents herself after another near-death experience prompts a thorough reevaluation of her priorities. Empowered to live a life of no regrets, she casts aside all that is familiar to face her fears and chase her dreams. But as she heads for the wilds of Alaska, romance is definitely not on her agenda, because she's convinced she's incapable of falling in love. Pasha Dunn has learned to expect the unexpected in her job with an adventure outfitter in the remote Alaskan interior. Adaptability is essential in such a savage and unforgiving landscape. But she's woefully unprepared when her infallible intuition tells her that client Emery Lawson is the soul mate she's been waiting for all her life. Emery is clearly determined to remain unattached, and her high-risk vagabond lifestyle is too far outside Pasha's comfort zone. All that they think they want and know will be challenged when they are thrust into a nightmare of survival and endurance high above the Arctic Circle.
Download or read book Exotica Erotica written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scrub Match written by Bill Eisele and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting over in San Francisco after college, Paul Carter, haunted by a painful breakup, joins the Gay Men's Basketball League where he meets Evan "Twitch" Hartwitch, and as they begin to fall in love, Paul becomes caught in the middle of a biracial love feud that forces him to grow up. Original. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Traveling Auteurs written by Luca Caminati and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Traveling Auteurs, author Luca Caminati analyzes the work of influential Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Michelangelo Antonioni as they engaged politically and aesthetically with the global landscapes and politics of the Cold War period. As documentaries, the films considered in this book record specific manifestations of political sensibilities of the twentieth century. As bodies of work, they reveal that the traveling auteurs who made them were symptomatic actors in complex geopolitical networks. As cultural objects reflecting and shaping contemporaneous debates, they provoke a complex afterlife at home and abroad. In the three chapters dedicated to Rossellini in India, Pasolini in Africa and the Middle East, and Antonioni in China, Caminati pays particular attention both to the reception that these films had in the countries where they were shot and to their legacies in Italian film history. As it follows the entanglements of filmmakers, artists, and activists involved as allies or direct witnesses to momentous political change, this book sheds new light on anticolonial struggles, the reaffirmation of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the consolidation of the Chinese Communist Party.
Download or read book EXOTICA written by Mia Song and published by Pipit Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXOTICA is the ultimate escape made for ADULT readers with a taste for sublime ecstasy that nothing else compares to. WARNING: The content of this monograph is RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDICTION and is not suitable for sensitive and minor readers. ***** EXOTICA est l'évasion ultime faite POUR LES LECTEURS ADULTES avec le goût pour les extases sublimes que rien d'autre ne se compare à. AVERTISSEMENT: Le contenu de cette monographie est RESPONSABLE DE L'ADDICTION et ne convient pas aux lecteurs sensibles et mineurs. ***** EXOTICAは究極のエスケープで、他には何もない崇高なエクスタシーの味を持つアダルトリーダーのために作られたものです。 警告：このモノグラフの内容は、有害である可能性があり、敏感で未成年の読者には適していません。
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artificial Color written by Catherine Keyser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perhaps the most artificial color of them all.
