Download or read book Benji s Doll written by Luis Amavisca and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benji wants a doll more than anything in the world. When he finally gets one, he can ́t wait to take it to the park to show his friends... An up-lifting story which reminds us that there are no toys for boys or toys for girls - there are just toys. By the authors of I Love My Colorful Nails, Alicia Acosta and Luis Amavisca.

Download or read book The Doll House written by Phoebe Morgan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know who’s watching... ‘Spine-chilling ... makes you realise how little you ever know anyone!’ The Sun ‘A brilliantly creepy and insightfully written debut. I tore through it’ Gillian McAllister ‘Unnerving and spine-chilling’ Mel Sherratt

Download or read book Queer Horror written by Sean Abley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein), LGBTQIA characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have included "coded" content in their films with the homosexual experience translated into censor-friendly subtext for consumption by general audiences. Gradually, LGBTQIA characters and themes have moved from the background to the foreground as the horror genre has grown along with its audience's tastes and attitudes. Likewise, more and more LGBTQIA writers and directors have begun to offer their queer-centric takes on scary movies and today, "queer horror" is a thriving film genre. With more than 900 entries, this critical filmography is a comprehensive, critical, yet playful examination of the history of LGBTQIA content in horror films. Eight journalistic contributors dig into every era of scary movies, including the early silents, pre- and post-Hays Code content, grindhouse sleaze, LGBTQIA indies, and megaplex studio releases. From Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) to Don Mancini's Chucky films and everything in between, this collection explores what can be found at the intersection of "LGBTQIA" and "horror" in the film industry.

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Download or read book Love Santa written by Sharon Glassman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lighthearted book filled with hip illustrations and children's actual letters to Santa, Glassman shows readers how to become an "undercover Santa" by becoming involved with the U.S. Post Office's Operation Santa Claus. 15 illustrations.

Download or read book Last Call written by Sophie Sinclair and published by Sophie Sinclair. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TJ Ryan has always wanted a big family. Watching all of his friends have families of their own, he’s caught the baby bug. He just needs to convince his husband, Connor, it’s a brilliant idea. Armed with portfolios from different surrogates and a reality tv show to follow their journey, TJ tries to persuade Connor that they need a baby ASAP, but Connor isn’t so sure they shouldn’t explore other options like adoption or being foster parents. Connor Ryan loves his husband and wants to do whatever he can to make him happy, but to what extent? Connor is busy co-owning The Social Hour with his best friend, Cam, and they’re about to launch a new location. Now is not the time to add chaos to their lives. But chaos is TJ’s middle name. When TJ’s world begins to crumble, Connor has to decide to put a stop to all the madness, or pick up the pieces and try to glue TJ back together. Last Call is the fourth book in the Coffee Girl series. It’s a multi-POV, closed-door, supporting novel with returning characters. If you have not read the Coffee Girl series, the author suggests reading the first three for returning characters and references to the other books in the series.

Download or read book Nitty Gritty written by Ben Burns and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where Birds Go to Die written by Hannah Hardman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was a child, I would have looked you in the eye and told you I wanted to be a bird when I grew up. It was every child's dream at that time to be anything they weren't. Life passed with every fleeting imagination then, every absurd thought that entertained our masterminds. Worlds were made and forgotten to come and go and use as we pleased, where life was normal. We clothed ourselves with imagination as with immortality... The world is a marvelous place for a young Hebrew girl with a burgeoning imagination. Abra's audacity, frankness, and strong sense of justice often put her family at risk, to the unease of her elder brother, Benjamin, who understands the rising intensity of their world under Nazi occupation better than she. Life is twisted unexpectedly when, one November night in Vienna, Jewish shops, synagogues, and homes are burned by the Schutzstaffel. With the death of their father and the disappearance of their mother, sixteen-year-old Benjamin is forced to take care of his little sister on his own. Together in an abandoned attic, they create a hidden world to preserve their childhood and keep their dreams, humor, talents, and love alive. Despite such disheartening odds, Benjamin, Abra, and their friend Enoch are determined to cling to their humanity as their humanity is reduced to ashes. Where Birds Go to Die is a story of persistence, faith, and the exploration of the complexity and beauty of the human soul.

Download or read book Roughstock Part Two A Box Set written by BA Tortuga and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughstock: Part Two Coke's Clown How does Dillon take care of Coke when Coke's destroying himself? Bullfighter Coke is having a rough time in the Roughstock universe. When his dear friend Sam Bell is injured at the finals of the bull riding season, he takes that and his injuries pretty hard. His very own clown, Dillon, is determined to take care of Coke, which is tough when Coke is usually the one to care for everyone. Coke has a huge secret from his past, though, and, when Dillon digs to discover what it is, the skeletons in Coke's closet threaten to destroy both men. Back to Back Landon knows who he wants, he's been dreaming about Adam Taggart his whole life. Tag, though? He thinks Landon's too poor, too young, too wrong to be his. Landon Gaudet may not be the best bull rider on earth, but he knows that's where the money is in rodeo. His Cajun heart is more involved with horses, though, and with finding the cowboy he's been dreaming of all of his relatively short life. Adam Taggart has been around the block more than once, and while he thinks Landon is special, he also thinks the kid deserves better than a safety man with more than his share of notches on the bedpost. Adam does everything he can to resist Landon, but there's not a man alive who doesn't love being loved, so eventually he gives in. Landon can't believe that Adam is finally with him, that his cowboy has finally come around to his way of thinking. The only problem is that Adam isn't sure he deserves love, or that he really has any to give. He questions everything from his need for Landon to his family's assertion that he can do better than a boy from the bayou. Can Landon show Adam that sometimes magic is real, and that all you really need is to have a little faith? Pulled from All Sides Balta is all fire and fury, Joa is his haven. What happens when Raul becomes their third? Joa is an anomaly on the bullriding circuit—he's Brazilian but grew up in Texas, so he's not sure where he fits in. Champion Brazilian rider Balta knows just where he wants Joa to be, both in his life and in his bed. Raul is new to the bullriding circuit and needs their help learning the ropes. From the start, Raul knows that Joa belongs with Balta, but he also knows that Balta's career is on its way down and the world is ripe for another champion from Brazil. When Balta decides that Raul is just what he and Joa need to even out the balance of power, they have to find common ground—professionally, publicly and, most importantly, personally.

Download or read book Survival Ste Benji A South West Survival Story written by Steven Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival Ste & Benji: A South West Survival Story is a 2021 book by Steven Kelly is a full time British soldier serving in 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery and the head instructor and founder of South west Survival. His work got featured in several international platforms including Thrive Global, Influencive and IBTimes.

Download or read book The Vampire Armand written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.

Download or read book A Thousand Voices written by Lisa Wingate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series.... Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her future has expanded in exciting new directions—a year abroad with a traveling symphony, teaching music to orphans in Ukraine, and applying for a scholarship to Julliard. But underneath Dell’s smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers—blood relatives she’s never met? Determined to find answers, and unable to share her emotional uncertainty with her adoptive family, Dell sets off on a secret journey into Oklahoma’s Kiamichi Mountains. Drawn by the only remaining link to her origins—a father’s Native American name on her birth certificate—she travels into quiet wooded valleys, into the heart of the modern Choctaw Nation. There she will find connections to a long and proud heritage and begin to answer the questions of her heart. In the voices of her ancestors, she’ll discover the keys to a future unlike anything she could have imagined.

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Download or read book Culture Shock and Japanese American Relations written by Sadao Asada and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Commodore Perry sailed into Uraga Channel, relations between the United States and Japan have been characterized by culture shock. Now a distinguished Japanese historian critically analyzes contemporary thought, public opinion, and behavior in the two countries over the course of the twentieth century, offering a binational perspective on culture shock as it has affected their relations. In these essays, Sadao Asada examines the historical interaction between these two countries from 1890 to 2006, focusing on naval strategy, transpacific racism, and the atomic bomb controversy. For each topic, he offers a rigorous analysis of both American and Japanese perceptions, showing how cultural relations and the interchange of ideas have been complex--and occasionally destructive. Culture Shock and Japanese-American Relations contains insightful essays on the influence of Alfred Mahan on the Japanese navy and on American images of Japan during the 1920s. Other essays consider the progressive breakdown of relations between the two countries and the origins of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese navy, then tackle the ultimate shock of the atomic bomb and Japan's surrender, tracing changing perceptions of the decision to use the bomb on both sides of the Pacific over the course of sixty years. In discussing these subjects, Asada draws on Japanese sources largely inaccessible to Western scholars to provide a host of eye-opening insights for non-Japanese readers. After studying in America for nine years and receiving degrees from both Carleton College and Yale University, Asada returned to Japan to face his own reverse culture shock. His insights raise important questions of why people on opposite sides of the Pacific see things differently and adapt their perceptions to different purposes. This book marks a major effort toward reconstructing and understanding the conflicted course of Japanese-American relations during the first half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Doll written by Maria Teresa Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our aspirations. They're commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word "doll" even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the '80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, “Doll” reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Download or read book Imperfect Timing written by Jessa Harmon and published by Jessa Harmon. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first installment of the Imperfect Duet. Part of the Lovestruck Hearts Series. Desi Palmer has her life in order. She’s finishing her graduate degree, climbing the ladder at her corporate job and preparing to set off on her entrepreneurial journey as soon as she’s financially able. Her office flirtation is blooming into a legitimate romance and Peter Grayson is everything she needs in her life… on paper, at least. The sudden reappearance of Benji Campbell, her childhood friend and first love, shakes up her carefully curated world. Benji is everything Desi doesn’t want in a partner and he’s already broken her heart once. Unresolved feelings resurface with a vengeance and Desi learns that Benji is not the same boy she once knew. Caught between a still burning first love and the realities of adulthood, will she follow her heart or remain focused on the path she’d spent so long planning?

Download or read book The Firefly Code written by Megan Frazer Blakemore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gorgeously-crafted utopian saga from Megan Frazer Blakemore, five friends must find the courage to change the course of the future . . .