Author: Ella Miles
Publisher: Ella Miles
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Caspian Conti is my savior and also a monster. I'm the princess of darkness. I'm used to dealing with monsters. My father was the devil. My brothers are no saints. My ex sold me as a slave to a man who I thought was the biggest monster of all. Turns out I was wrong. None of those men are as dark as Conti. I thought he would save me. Instead, he turned me on to the darkness. Now, I have no chance at escape at all. I no longer care about escaping. Revenge is all I seek. Revenge can set me free. Revenge is greater than love. This is book 3 in the Dirty series. Serier Order: Dirty Obsession Dirty Addiction Dirty Revenge What readers are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author, Ella Miles "This is a well written, yet hauntingly beautiful story, which is dark, twisted, brutal..." "It was unpredictable and addictive!" "Hot, hot hot, and super steamy with loads of dark themes! I could not put it down!!!" "Deep, Dark and Delicious..." Topics: dark romance, romantic suspense, romantic suspense series, dark romance series, romance, romance series, contemporary, contemporary romance, hot romance, steamy romance, free book, free, second chance, new adult, mafia romance, billionaire romance, bestselling series, romance novel, Ella Miles book, survival romance, alpha, series starter, free series starter, strong heroine, first in series, USA Today Bestselling Author, action romance, action and adventure, suspense, mystery, hot new romance, seduction, seduction romance, sexy. Similar Authors: Charlotte Byrd, Penelope Sky, Victoria Quinn, Roxy Sloane, Meghan March, Helen Hardt, Skye Warren, Lexy Timms
Dirty Revenge
Author: Ella Miles
Publisher: Ella Miles
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Caspian Conti is my savior and also a monster. I'm the princess of darkness. I'm used to dealing with monsters. My father was the devil. My brothers are no saints. My ex sold me as a slave to a man who I thought was the biggest monster of all. Turns out I was wrong. None of those men are as dark as Conti. I thought he would save me. Instead, he turned me on to the darkness. Now, I have no chance at escape at all. I no longer care about escaping. Revenge is all I seek. Revenge can set me free. Revenge is greater than love. This is book 3 in the Dirty series. Serier Order: Dirty Obsession Dirty Addiction Dirty Revenge What readers are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author, Ella Miles "This is a well written, yet hauntingly beautiful story, which is dark, twisted, brutal..." "It was unpredictable and addictive!" "Hot, hot hot, and super steamy with loads of dark themes! I could not put it down!!!" "Deep, Dark and Delicious..." Topics: dark romance, romantic suspense, romantic suspense series, dark romance series, romance, romance series, contemporary, contemporary romance, hot romance, steamy romance, free book, free, second chance, new adult, mafia romance, billionaire romance, bestselling series, romance novel, Ella Miles book, survival romance, alpha, series starter, free series starter, strong heroine, first in series, USA Today Bestselling Author, action romance, action and adventure, suspense, mystery, hot new romance, seduction, seduction romance, sexy. Similar Authors: Charlotte Byrd, Penelope Sky, Victoria Quinn, Roxy Sloane, Meghan March, Helen Hardt, Skye Warren, Lexy Timms
Publisher: Ella Miles
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Caspian Conti is my savior and also a monster. I'm the princess of darkness. I'm used to dealing with monsters. My father was the devil. My brothers are no saints. My ex sold me as a slave to a man who I thought was the biggest monster of all. Turns out I was wrong. None of those men are as dark as Conti. I thought he would save me. Instead, he turned me on to the darkness. Now, I have no chance at escape at all. I no longer care about escaping. Revenge is all I seek. Revenge can set me free. Revenge is greater than love. This is book 3 in the Dirty series. Serier Order: Dirty Obsession Dirty Addiction Dirty Revenge What readers are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author, Ella Miles "This is a well written, yet hauntingly beautiful story, which is dark, twisted, brutal..." "It was unpredictable and addictive!" "Hot, hot hot, and super steamy with loads of dark themes! I could not put it down!!!" "Deep, Dark and Delicious..." Topics: dark romance, romantic suspense, romantic suspense series, dark romance series, romance, romance series, contemporary, contemporary romance, hot romance, steamy romance, free book, free, second chance, new adult, mafia romance, billionaire romance, bestselling series, romance novel, Ella Miles book, survival romance, alpha, series starter, free series starter, strong heroine, first in series, USA Today Bestselling Author, action romance, action and adventure, suspense, mystery, hot new romance, seduction, seduction romance, sexy. Similar Authors: Charlotte Byrd, Penelope Sky, Victoria Quinn, Roxy Sloane, Meghan March, Helen Hardt, Skye Warren, Lexy Timms
The Dirty South
Author: James A. Crank
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807180793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic works from the 1970s such as Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James A. Crank traces the image of a “dirty” South into the twenty-first century to explore the social, political, and psychological effects of the region’s hold on the imaginations of southerners and nonsoutherners alike. With a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned—including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and popular music by artists such as Waylon Jennings and OutKast—The Dirty South probes the sustained fascination with southern dirtiness while reflecting on its causes and consequences since the end of the civil rights era. Highlighting the period from 1970 to 2020, during which the South began to represent several new possible identities for the nation as a whole and for the area itself, Crank considers the ways that southerners have used depictions of dirt to create and police boundaries and to contest those boundaries. Each chapter pairs prominent literary or cultural texts from the 1970s with more contemporary works, such as Jordan Peele’s film Get Out, which recycle similar investments or, critically, challenge the inherent whiteness of the earlier images. By historicizing fantasies of the region and connecting them to the first decades of the twenty-first century, The Dirty South reveals that notions about southern dirtiness proliferate not because they lend authenticity or relevancy to the U.S. South, but because they aid so conspicuously in the zombified work of tethering investors (real and imagined) to a graveyard of ideas.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807180793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic works from the 1970s such as Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James A. Crank traces the image of a “dirty” South into the twenty-first century to explore the social, political, and psychological effects of the region’s hold on the imaginations of southerners and nonsoutherners alike. With a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned—including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and popular music by artists such as Waylon Jennings and OutKast—The Dirty South probes the sustained fascination with southern dirtiness while reflecting on its causes and consequences since the end of the civil rights era. Highlighting the period from 1970 to 2020, during which the South began to represent several new possible identities for the nation as a whole and for the area itself, Crank considers the ways that southerners have used depictions of dirt to create and police boundaries and to contest those boundaries. Each chapter pairs prominent literary or cultural texts from the 1970s with more contemporary works, such as Jordan Peele’s film Get Out, which recycle similar investments or, critically, challenge the inherent whiteness of the earlier images. By historicizing fantasies of the region and connecting them to the first decades of the twenty-first century, The Dirty South reveals that notions about southern dirtiness proliferate not because they lend authenticity or relevancy to the U.S. South, but because they aid so conspicuously in the zombified work of tethering investors (real and imagined) to a graveyard of ideas.
Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance
Author: Janet Clare
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed. The implication that there is an identifiable genre of revenge tragedy rehearsing common conventions is challenged as Clare examines Renaissance plays of revenge on their own terms. While disclosing evident inter-textual links and a similar appeal to classical material, revenge plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period strive for a range of effects including satire, parody and farce. Some plays embody a providential outlook while others seem defiantly secular. Francis Bacon's famous maxim 'a kind of wild justice' captures the moral ambivalence of revenge: a rough justice on the point of anarchy. Janet Clare demonstrates the problematic nature of revenge as it defines dramatic action As the exploration of plays in this study reveals, revenge is not only bound up with justice, honour and duty, but impelled by perverted impulses, envy and resentment.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed. The implication that there is an identifiable genre of revenge tragedy rehearsing common conventions is challenged as Clare examines Renaissance plays of revenge on their own terms. While disclosing evident inter-textual links and a similar appeal to classical material, revenge plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period strive for a range of effects including satire, parody and farce. Some plays embody a providential outlook while others seem defiantly secular. Francis Bacon's famous maxim 'a kind of wild justice' captures the moral ambivalence of revenge: a rough justice on the point of anarchy. Janet Clare demonstrates the problematic nature of revenge as it defines dramatic action As the exploration of plays in this study reveals, revenge is not only bound up with justice, honour and duty, but impelled by perverted impulses, envy and resentment.
Somitra
Author: Dan Luedke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1954676832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
“Mortality provides the certainty of the grave. Being privy to that knowledge has brought our species a measure of solace; there’s an end to our sorrows. Amortality takes away that certainty, creating its own peculiar anxiety.” Death taunts us as we age. Despite our efforts, we inevitably grow frail until we draw our last breath. Imagine a drug that parries death’s taunt by giving us amortality—life without death—and reversal of the aging process. Should we embrace this elixir or reject it as being contrary to the laws of God? A large pharmaceutical company discovers SOMITRA, a drug giving mice amortality. Elijah-Co keeps the discovery under wraps as it feverishly tries to duplicate its effects on human subjects. When word is leaked to the public, a culture war breaks out between religious fundamentalists and Grizzleds, senior citizens who want the right to choose amortality for themselves. SOMITRA picks up where the first book, ELIJAH-CO, left off. Dr. Lars Sorenson returns, facing the consequences of his desperate attempt to save his beloved wife, Kate. The reader is taken into the lives of clandestine drug developers, religious zealots, mercenaries, and an aging population who want to experience eternal life on Earth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1954676832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
“Mortality provides the certainty of the grave. Being privy to that knowledge has brought our species a measure of solace; there’s an end to our sorrows. Amortality takes away that certainty, creating its own peculiar anxiety.” Death taunts us as we age. Despite our efforts, we inevitably grow frail until we draw our last breath. Imagine a drug that parries death’s taunt by giving us amortality—life without death—and reversal of the aging process. Should we embrace this elixir or reject it as being contrary to the laws of God? A large pharmaceutical company discovers SOMITRA, a drug giving mice amortality. Elijah-Co keeps the discovery under wraps as it feverishly tries to duplicate its effects on human subjects. When word is leaked to the public, a culture war breaks out between religious fundamentalists and Grizzleds, senior citizens who want the right to choose amortality for themselves. SOMITRA picks up where the first book, ELIJAH-CO, left off. Dr. Lars Sorenson returns, facing the consequences of his desperate attempt to save his beloved wife, Kate. The reader is taken into the lives of clandestine drug developers, religious zealots, mercenaries, and an aging population who want to experience eternal life on Earth.
The Dark
Author: James Herbert
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330470396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In James Herbert's The Dark, madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil . . . It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night . . . a small girl smiled as her mother burned . . . Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants . . . in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330470396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In James Herbert's The Dark, madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil . . . It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night . . . a small girl smiled as her mother burned . . . Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants . . . in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered.
Counseling Troubled Boys
Author: Mark S. Kiselica
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113591611X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool for school and mental health practitioners who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males, Counseling Troubled Boys creates a bridge between young men and helping professionals. Key content includes adjustment issues, strategies for establishing rapport, interventions, case studies, and suggestions for future training and research.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113591611X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool for school and mental health practitioners who need to understand and respond to the developmental and special issues of boys and adolescent males, Counseling Troubled Boys creates a bridge between young men and helping professionals. Key content includes adjustment issues, strategies for establishing rapport, interventions, case studies, and suggestions for future training and research.
The Abyss Beyond Dreams
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345547209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Bestselling science fiction master Peter F. Hamilton delivers the first of a two-book saga set in his popular Commonwealth universe. Distinguished by deft plotting, a teeming cast of characters, dazzling scientific speculation, and imagination that brings the truly alien to life, The Abyss Beyond Dreams reveals Hamilton as a storyteller of astonishing ingenuity and power. The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics—the Fallers—that are intelligent but merciless killers. Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever—if Nigel can uncover their secrets. As the Fallers’ relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers—before he is killed by the very people he has come to save. Praise for The Abyss Beyond Dreams “The work of an author at the top of his game.”—Science Fiction and Fantasy World “Incredibly robust and exciting and rousing, sharing flavors of Jack Vance, John Wright, China Miéville, Orson Scott Card, and A. E. van Vogt . . . Hamilton’s deployment of lots of grand super-science is utterly deft and convincing.”—Locus “Solidy engrossing fare . . . The characters, always Hamilton’s strength, remain as distinctive as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews “Everything one wants in sf—great characters, mind bending stuff, adventure, politics, romance, revolution . . . just superb.”—Fantasy Book Critic “Hamilton does a particular kind of planetary politics and space opera very well, and this is a perfect example of it. . . . [The Abyss Beyond Dreams is] a satisfying and well-oiled story, with potential for more epic adventure to come.”—Booklist
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345547209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Bestselling science fiction master Peter F. Hamilton delivers the first of a two-book saga set in his popular Commonwealth universe. Distinguished by deft plotting, a teeming cast of characters, dazzling scientific speculation, and imagination that brings the truly alien to life, The Abyss Beyond Dreams reveals Hamilton as a storyteller of astonishing ingenuity and power. The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics—the Fallers—that are intelligent but merciless killers. Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever—if Nigel can uncover their secrets. As the Fallers’ relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers—before he is killed by the very people he has come to save. Praise for The Abyss Beyond Dreams “The work of an author at the top of his game.”—Science Fiction and Fantasy World “Incredibly robust and exciting and rousing, sharing flavors of Jack Vance, John Wright, China Miéville, Orson Scott Card, and A. E. van Vogt . . . Hamilton’s deployment of lots of grand super-science is utterly deft and convincing.”—Locus “Solidy engrossing fare . . . The characters, always Hamilton’s strength, remain as distinctive as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews “Everything one wants in sf—great characters, mind bending stuff, adventure, politics, romance, revolution . . . just superb.”—Fantasy Book Critic “Hamilton does a particular kind of planetary politics and space opera very well, and this is a perfect example of it. . . . [The Abyss Beyond Dreams is] a satisfying and well-oiled story, with potential for more epic adventure to come.”—Booklist
I Met You After the End of the World (Light Novel) Volume 2
Author: Oniisanbomber
Publisher: Oniisanbomber
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
“The world we used to know is fading away, and all we can do is watch it happen.” Japan has fallen and most of its population has died at the hands of a pandemic. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka have settled at the southern end of Japan, in Kagoshima. The former office worker and former high school student stick together, doing their best to survive the winter. But without modern inventions, even the mild winter of the south is a challenge to weather. But staying in one place feels like a shame, so the two of them decide to travel all the way to the northernmost part of Japan - Hokkaido. Get there by summer and return to Kagoshima before the winter. All around them, the Japan they used to know is fading away. What will they find in these remains?
Publisher: Oniisanbomber
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
“The world we used to know is fading away, and all we can do is watch it happen.” Japan has fallen and most of its population has died at the hands of a pandemic. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka have settled at the southern end of Japan, in Kagoshima. The former office worker and former high school student stick together, doing their best to survive the winter. But without modern inventions, even the mild winter of the south is a challenge to weather. But staying in one place feels like a shame, so the two of them decide to travel all the way to the northernmost part of Japan - Hokkaido. Get there by summer and return to Kagoshima before the winter. All around them, the Japan they used to know is fading away. What will they find in these remains?
Moral Art of Dickens
Author: Barbara Hardy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567620301
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567620301
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Fictions of Power in English Literature
Author: Lee Horsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader. Lee Horsley explores fictional representations of political power during this period, surveying a wide range of texts from the adventure story, romance, thriller and science fiction to the novels of Conrad, Huxley, Orwell and Greene.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader. Lee Horsley explores fictional representations of political power during this period, surveying a wide range of texts from the adventure story, romance, thriller and science fiction to the novels of Conrad, Huxley, Orwell and Greene.