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Book Voyeur Extraordinaire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cora Reilly
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-09-17
  • ISBN : 9781502394880
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Voyeur Extraordinaire written by Cora Reilly and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a dank one room apartment and working as a waitress in a shabby bar, Nora didn't think her life could get any worse. But that's before sexy-as-hell Adrian Black moves into the apartment across from her bedroom window and she's caught spying on him having sex. Now he has set his eyes on her. Not falling prey to his panty-dropping smiles proves to be a challenge Nora isn't sure she's ready for - especially since the most action she ever had are the butt slaps from leery customers at work. An encounter with Adrian involving a healthy dose of pent-up tension and too much alcohol leads to an awkward night that none of them will likely forget. But it's only the beginning... "Every night I take out my binoculars, point them at the window of my neighbor Adrian Black and watch him banging a new girl, and every night I wish the girl was me. Where the hell is a shooting star when you need one?"

Book Cruel Miracles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Orson Scott Card
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2010-09-17
  • ISBN : 1429988606
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Cruel Miracles written by Orson Scott Card and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of science fiction tales from the bestselling author of Ender's Game. Cruel Miracles, part of the Maps in a Mirror series of Card's collected fiction, presents the Hugo Award-winning story "Eye for Eye," as well as an autobiographical essay by the author himself. Introduction Mortal Gods Saving Grace Eye for Eye St. Amy’s Tale Kingsmeat Holy Afterword "This book is a revelation and a delight."--Macon Telegraph At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Spectatorship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roxanne Samer
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-10-25
  • ISBN : 1477313761
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Spectatorship written by Roxanne Samer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuality, including some that have become canonical in film studies, since the journal's founding in 1982. This anthology collects seventeen key articles that will enable readers to revisit foundational concerns about gender in media and discover models of analysis that can be applied to the changing media world today. Spectatorship begins with articles that consider issues of spectatorship in film and television content and audience reception, noting how media studies has expanded as a field and demonstrating how theories of gender and sexuality have adapted to new media platforms. Subsequent articles show how new theories emerged from that initial scholarship, helping to develop the fields of fandom, transmedia, and queer theory. The most recent work in this volume is particularly timely, as the distinctions between media producers and media spectators grow more fluid and as the transformation of media structures and platforms prompts new understandings of gender, sexuality, and identification. Connecting contemporary approaches to media with critical conversations of the past, Spectatorship thus offers important points of historical and critical departure for discussion in both the classroom and the field.

Book JUST KISS ME

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  • Author : Kathleen O'Reilly
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2014-02-15
  • ISBN : 1460371542
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book JUST KISS ME written by Kathleen O'Reilly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amanda Sedgewick runs out of nice ways to say "no way" to dating Dr. Avery Barrington, she dumps her defensive posturing and goes on the offensive. She signs up Joe, Avery's young hunk of a brother, for a faux fling. Truth be told, Amanda's always had the hots for the laid-back, rough-around-the-edges, drop-dead gorgeous Joe. But how to turn her fantasy into reality? As a successful attorney, Amanda spends her days being convincing in the courtroom; now she wants to spend her nights being convincing in the bedroom—with Joe. He wants to play it careful—no pressure, no risk—until the sexual sparks soon cost them everything!

Book The Brothers Grim

Download or read book The Brothers Grim written by Erica Rowell and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the art-house film scene with their neo-noir Blood Simple and ever since then they have sharpened the cutting edge of independent film. Blending black humor and violence with unconventional narrative twists, their acclaimed movies evoke highly charged worlds of passion, absurdity, nightmare realms, and petty human failures, all the while revealing the filmmakers' penchant for visual jokes and bravura technical strokes. Their central characters may be blind to reality and individual flaws, but their illusions, dreams, fears, and desires map the boundaries of their worlds—worlds made stunningly memorable by the Coens. In The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen, Erica Rowell unmasks the filmmakers as prankster mythmakers exploiting and subverting universal storytelling modes to further what seems to be their artistic agenda: to elicit laughs. Often employing satire and allegory, the Coens' movies hold a mirror up to American society, allowing viewers to both chuckle and gasp at its absurdities, hypocrisies, and foibles. From business partnerships (Blood Simple, The Ladykillers) to marriage (Intolerable Cruelty) to friendship and ethics (Miller's Crossing), the breakdowns of relationships are a steady focus in their work. Often the Coens' satires put broken social institutions in their cinematic crosshairs, exposing cracks in ineffective penal systems (Raising Arizona; O Brother, Where Art Thou?), unjust justice systems (The Man Who Wasn't There), a crooked corporate America (The Hudsucker Proxy), unnecessary wars (The Big Lebowski), a tyrannical Hollywood (Barton Fink), and the unbridled, fatuous pursuit of the American Dream (Fargo). While audiences may be excused for missing the duo's social commentary, the depth and breadth of the brothers' films bespeak an intelligence and cultural acuity that is rich, highly topical, and hard to pigeonhole.

Book Out of the Closet  Into the Archives

Download or read book Out of the Closet Into the Archives written by Amy L. Stone and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Anthology presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privateness—recognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibility—each mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and women's and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research. "Out of the Closet, Into the Archives represents the exciting directions for scholarship enabled by this rapid growth of new LGBTQ archives. Although mindful of critiques of the archive as an institution of power and attentive to experiences and ephemeralities that can escape it, the essays published here practice forms of the archival turn that put relentless curiosity and unapologetic passion to use as methods for intellectual invention." — from the Foreword by Ann Cvetkovich

Book South of My Dreams

Download or read book South of My Dreams written by F. K. Clementi and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman plans, God laughs... Woman Persists. Introducing a new Jewish voice from the South that tells us with humor, panache, and raw frankness her irresistible story of what it means to become an American woman today. South of My Dreams follows the adventures and misadventures of Fania, a quixotic heroine, who dreamed all her life of making it big in New York City. Growing up in 1970s Italy, Fania felt constrained by a stale environment, corrupt society, and national culture hostile to women's independence. In pursuit of her childhood fantasy, and heavily influenced by Hollywood films, she leaves everything behind to begin her new life in New York, where she thinks her American Dream awaits. Instead, her American nightmare begins. From miraculous breakthroughs to tragic setbacks, Fania's path is marked by an irreparable trauma while also being graced by intense love, faithful friendships, and inspiring mentors. Through dramatic twists and turns—and to her great surprise—Fania learns the true meaning of the American expression to "go south." Simultaneously merciless and humorous, F. K. Clementi's memoir is ultimately an inspiring account of a woman's disillusionment and personal rebirth. Entertaining, original, and poetic, South of My Dreams will resonate with all who fight hard for what they want and refuse to put aside their childhood dreams.

Book The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky  Volume Four  1981 1985

Download or read book The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky Volume Four 1981 1985 written by Louis Daniel Brodsky and published by Time Being Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the days of the writer edging into middle age, the 888 poems presented in volume four of The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky offer a glimpse into the frenzied life of a man compelled, by his discipline and inner passion, to capture the elements of his existence and explode them upon the page ... Startlingly honest and bristling with the energy of Brodsky's discontent, this book records the poet gaining momentum, as a writer, even as his personal life spirals out of control. --Time Being Books.

Book Hamlet of Morningside Heights

Download or read book Hamlet of Morningside Heights written by Kenneth Craven and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Craven’s detective work finds for the first time Apostle Paul’s ethical principles integrated throughout the play. The insights that emerge from this discovery reverberate throughout American culture today, explaining dramatic shifts in values that have cascaded down the generations. These dynamics reflect Craven’s lineage: a fascinating mix of genial humanists, fiery ideologues, and effective, business-minded Yorkers traced back to Shakespeare’s London. Craven melds groundbreaking literary insight with reflection on his own life, a continuing search for and demonstration of executive power.

Book Pulp

Download or read book Pulp written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coat with Long Sleeves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoff Duck
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2020-03-11
  • ISBN : 1838598588
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Coat with Long Sleeves written by Geoff Duck and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you lost your wife and kids and somebody took away your job in the company you’d started? If there was nothing left of your old life and your new one held only solitude and isolation? And you shut yourself away.

Book Travels  Explorations and Empires  1770 1835  Part I Vol 1

Download or read book Travels Explorations and Empires 1770 1835 Part I Vol 1 written by Tim Fulford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.

Book Ramparts

Download or read book Ramparts written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Dec. 1970-Apr. 1972 include section: Hard times.

Book Literature  Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era

Download or read book Literature Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era written by Tim Fulford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

Book Romanticism and Science  1773 1833

Download or read book Romanticism and Science 1773 1833 written by Tim Fulford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neuropolitique

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Leary
  • Publisher : New Falcon Publications
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Neuropolitique written by Timothy Leary and published by New Falcon Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maps in a Mirror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Orson Scott Card
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2009-11-30
  • ISBN : 1429966157
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Maps in a Mirror written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain. "One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library Journal At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.