Author: Mark E. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735467306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Claire Holbrook is an equine veterinarian, standing on the brink of a huge promotion. She performs horse surgery, hydrotherapy, and rehabilitation for sport horses. Her mentor, Doc Somerville, promised to promote her, but there's one hitch. Before she can assume leadership, the lady vet needs to address her past. Recently, she missed a cardio diagnosis and failed to order medical supplies. Distracted by a lingering curse, the red-haired beauty must patch things up with her iron-willed father, Bart Holbrook. The one cowboy in her corner happens to be a llama rancher and former SEAL, but he has some strange notions about relationships. She never thought Beau Ladue, a llama outfitter, and special ops man, would assemble a parent closure team, give her confidence in steer roping, or help her train affectionate llamas. The gorgeous Frenchman came to her defense and flattened a drug-crazed criminal. The lady vet delivered baby cria and trained a cross country llama team. When she rejected Beau's marriage proposal due to infertility, the expert breeder vowed to use the Broodmare Method to get her pregnant. Faced with a once in a lifetime opportunity, she went along for the ride. Captain Beau Ladue served two tours in the Middle East and came home to run the llama ranch. He leased pack llamas and sold guard llamas. After seven years, he secured his parent's retirement and was at a crossroads. His sister, Blaire, made him promise to end his pursuit of divorcees and vow to open his heart to the next decent woman. Into his life walked Claire Holbrook, a tall red-head with a specialty in equine medicine. The problem was, she wouldn't marry him unless he found a way to end her infertility streak. Never challenge a Frenchman when it comes to conception. Would she walk down the aisle, or was he fated to be the lone llama cowboy?
The Llama Cowboy
Author: Mark E. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735467306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Claire Holbrook is an equine veterinarian, standing on the brink of a huge promotion. She performs horse surgery, hydrotherapy, and rehabilitation for sport horses. Her mentor, Doc Somerville, promised to promote her, but there's one hitch. Before she can assume leadership, the lady vet needs to address her past. Recently, she missed a cardio diagnosis and failed to order medical supplies. Distracted by a lingering curse, the red-haired beauty must patch things up with her iron-willed father, Bart Holbrook. The one cowboy in her corner happens to be a llama rancher and former SEAL, but he has some strange notions about relationships. She never thought Beau Ladue, a llama outfitter, and special ops man, would assemble a parent closure team, give her confidence in steer roping, or help her train affectionate llamas. The gorgeous Frenchman came to her defense and flattened a drug-crazed criminal. The lady vet delivered baby cria and trained a cross country llama team. When she rejected Beau's marriage proposal due to infertility, the expert breeder vowed to use the Broodmare Method to get her pregnant. Faced with a once in a lifetime opportunity, she went along for the ride. Captain Beau Ladue served two tours in the Middle East and came home to run the llama ranch. He leased pack llamas and sold guard llamas. After seven years, he secured his parent's retirement and was at a crossroads. His sister, Blaire, made him promise to end his pursuit of divorcees and vow to open his heart to the next decent woman. Into his life walked Claire Holbrook, a tall red-head with a specialty in equine medicine. The problem was, she wouldn't marry him unless he found a way to end her infertility streak. Never challenge a Frenchman when it comes to conception. Would she walk down the aisle, or was he fated to be the lone llama cowboy?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735467306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Claire Holbrook is an equine veterinarian, standing on the brink of a huge promotion. She performs horse surgery, hydrotherapy, and rehabilitation for sport horses. Her mentor, Doc Somerville, promised to promote her, but there's one hitch. Before she can assume leadership, the lady vet needs to address her past. Recently, she missed a cardio diagnosis and failed to order medical supplies. Distracted by a lingering curse, the red-haired beauty must patch things up with her iron-willed father, Bart Holbrook. The one cowboy in her corner happens to be a llama rancher and former SEAL, but he has some strange notions about relationships. She never thought Beau Ladue, a llama outfitter, and special ops man, would assemble a parent closure team, give her confidence in steer roping, or help her train affectionate llamas. The gorgeous Frenchman came to her defense and flattened a drug-crazed criminal. The lady vet delivered baby cria and trained a cross country llama team. When she rejected Beau's marriage proposal due to infertility, the expert breeder vowed to use the Broodmare Method to get her pregnant. Faced with a once in a lifetime opportunity, she went along for the ride. Captain Beau Ladue served two tours in the Middle East and came home to run the llama ranch. He leased pack llamas and sold guard llamas. After seven years, he secured his parent's retirement and was at a crossroads. His sister, Blaire, made him promise to end his pursuit of divorcees and vow to open his heart to the next decent woman. Into his life walked Claire Holbrook, a tall red-head with a specialty in equine medicine. The problem was, she wouldn't marry him unless he found a way to end her infertility streak. Never challenge a Frenchman when it comes to conception. Would she walk down the aisle, or was he fated to be the lone llama cowboy?
Female Masculinity
Author: Judith Halberstam
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.
Dragon Cowgirl
Author: Mark E. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735467344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Agatha Johnson is a terrified tomboy who hides beneath floorboards, hoping to survive a gang of outlaws. She and her mother Tatyana eke out an existence, milking an old dairy cow and cultivating a tattered vegetable garden. Aggie's nerves are frayed beyond repair, and she can't sleep or plan a future. Her one magic skill is to turn completely invisible and to will herself into non-existence. When she hears an unfamiliar voice, a soft-footed cowboy offers an invitation, "Thirty-four gunslingers are coming to kill you. If you want to live, meet me in the homestead, and we'll find a way out."Aggie never thought a red poncho cowboy, Decker Amherst, would supply the answer to her prayers. The giant dragon warrior believed that she was a gifted fae seer. Since he didn't know fae magic, Decker offered her dragon wizardry. With mere hours before the outlaws arrived, she accepted his offer. Little Agatha transformed into a magic-laden gunslinger, and there was going to be payback. The frightened prey had become a dangerous fighter, laden with lightning reflexes and the awakened bloodline of an Ancient Fae Princess. If the outlaws thought they had an easy victim, better think again. Decker ran for mayor in the small town of Dubois, Alberta. After the townsfolk heard that he and Agatha eliminated the cattle baron, the cowboy was the prime candidate to beat Carter Ralston. The railroad engineer threatened to reduce Dubois to a one-horse town. After the couple convinced the citizens that a silent partner would stop Ralston, they left the podium. When they rounded the corner, a Gatling gun drilled two hundred rounds per minute into Agatha's chest. Aggie turned dragon just in time, but would it be enough to withstand the barrage? Was Decker going to lose his lifemate? Would Aggie's dragon lock talons and become his forever girl? Hard to say.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735467344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Agatha Johnson is a terrified tomboy who hides beneath floorboards, hoping to survive a gang of outlaws. She and her mother Tatyana eke out an existence, milking an old dairy cow and cultivating a tattered vegetable garden. Aggie's nerves are frayed beyond repair, and she can't sleep or plan a future. Her one magic skill is to turn completely invisible and to will herself into non-existence. When she hears an unfamiliar voice, a soft-footed cowboy offers an invitation, "Thirty-four gunslingers are coming to kill you. If you want to live, meet me in the homestead, and we'll find a way out."Aggie never thought a red poncho cowboy, Decker Amherst, would supply the answer to her prayers. The giant dragon warrior believed that she was a gifted fae seer. Since he didn't know fae magic, Decker offered her dragon wizardry. With mere hours before the outlaws arrived, she accepted his offer. Little Agatha transformed into a magic-laden gunslinger, and there was going to be payback. The frightened prey had become a dangerous fighter, laden with lightning reflexes and the awakened bloodline of an Ancient Fae Princess. If the outlaws thought they had an easy victim, better think again. Decker ran for mayor in the small town of Dubois, Alberta. After the townsfolk heard that he and Agatha eliminated the cattle baron, the cowboy was the prime candidate to beat Carter Ralston. The railroad engineer threatened to reduce Dubois to a one-horse town. After the couple convinced the citizens that a silent partner would stop Ralston, they left the podium. When they rounded the corner, a Gatling gun drilled two hundred rounds per minute into Agatha's chest. Aggie turned dragon just in time, but would it be enough to withstand the barrage? Was Decker going to lose his lifemate? Would Aggie's dragon lock talons and become his forever girl? Hard to say.
A History of Experimental Film and Video
Author: A.L. Rees
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838714197
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838714197
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.
Buyology
Author: Martin Lindstrom
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0385523890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0385523890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
C-bar
Author: Mark Baugher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725673465
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
From the bestselling author of the "C-Bar" series comes his latest Western. This is "C-Bar: Volume Six" from Mark Baugher! Guns! Glory! Action! From Mark Baugher, the bestselling author of "Cimarron Frost, Bounty Hunter," comes his latest Western, "C-Bar: Volume Six." Action, adventure and gun-smarts come in many forms. For Baugher, it comes in the form of his ability to write Westerns-a Western he knows how to write better than almost anyone else. Filled to the brim with action, adventure, plot twists and gunsight justice, you'll find Dockie is not a man to be crossed. This is a book filled with the dead, the dying and those who don't get in his way-because those who do cross Dockie end up dead. Real dead. From the Author: As stories emerge from my mind, some characters become favorites. This story introduces Shotgun Alice. I think she may be my favorite. On second thought, I know she is.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725673465
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
From the bestselling author of the "C-Bar" series comes his latest Western. This is "C-Bar: Volume Six" from Mark Baugher! Guns! Glory! Action! From Mark Baugher, the bestselling author of "Cimarron Frost, Bounty Hunter," comes his latest Western, "C-Bar: Volume Six." Action, adventure and gun-smarts come in many forms. For Baugher, it comes in the form of his ability to write Westerns-a Western he knows how to write better than almost anyone else. Filled to the brim with action, adventure, plot twists and gunsight justice, you'll find Dockie is not a man to be crossed. This is a book filled with the dead, the dying and those who don't get in his way-because those who do cross Dockie end up dead. Real dead. From the Author: As stories emerge from my mind, some characters become favorites. This story introduces Shotgun Alice. I think she may be my favorite. On second thought, I know she is.
The Devil's Notebook
Author: Anton Szandor LaVey
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1932595562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey ponders such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge," demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions.
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1932595562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey ponders such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge," demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions.
Color Me in
Author: Natasha E. Diaz
Publisher:
ISBN: 0525578234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0525578234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
Why Fairy Tales Stick
Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135204349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135204349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.
Holy Cow
Author: Sarah Macdonald
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918142
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918142
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.