Author: Laura Scott
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488019533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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MISTLETOE MEMORY LOSS Assaulted a week before a high-profile drug trafficking trial, assistant district attorney Madison Callahan narrowly escapes death...but suffers amnesia. Now, when she can’t recall the identity of her attacker, everyone is suspect—except the handsome policeman who saved her. Officer Noah Sinclair will do anything to bring the mob-connected drug trafficker to justice, including providing personal protection to Madison—the sister of the partner he nearly got killed. But helping her regain her memory may end their unlikely alliance because once she remembers him, Noah might be the last man she’ll want to rely on. As the trial looms and with the assailant dead set on ensuring that Madison doesn’t survive to see Christmas, it’ll take everything Noah’s got to keep Madison alive.
Author: Lynette Eason
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488088357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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With no memory, who can she trust? A deadly Christmas in Wrangler’s Corner Robin Hardy survived an explosion in her university lab—but her memories are gone. With danger lurking behind every Christmas tree, she needs shelter from the attackers she can’t identify. She’ll trust fellow professor Toby Potter to safely hide her away. But when his secrets come between them, the truth could mean the difference between life and death this holiday season.
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476648131
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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In November 1939, NBC's fledgling television station W2XBS broadcast the first known holiday special, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Despite its small viewership (very few TV sets existed at the time), the experimental telecast was a harbinger of a now-beloved American tradition: the holiday television special. This book offers a thorough account of holiday television specials in the United States from 1939 to 2021, highlighting variety shows, comedic performances, musical spectaculars and more. From familiar favorites (1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) to campy one-offs (1985's He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special), the 1140 programs are covered alphabetically and feature performance casts, production credits and storylines for each. Three appendices cover "lost" holiday specials, along with Christmas and Halloween-themed episodes of popular television series.
Author: Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498541828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 559
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Film plays a vital role in the celebration of Christmas. For decades, it has taught audiences about what the celebration of the season looks like – from the decorations to the costumes and to the expected snowy weather – as well as mirrors our own festivities back to us. Films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone have come to play key roles in real-life domestic celebrations: watching such titles has become, for many families, every bit as important as tree-trimming and leaving cookies out for Santa. These films have exported the American take on the holiday far and wide and helped us conjure an image of the perfect holiday. Rather than settling the ‘what is a Christmas film?’ debate – indeed, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are discussed within – Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural focuses on the how Christmas is presented on the deluge of occasions when it appears. While most Christmas films are secular, religion makes many cameos, appearing through Nativity references, storylines involving spiritual rebirth, the framing of Santa as a Christ-like figure and the all-importance of family, be it the Holy family or just those gathered around the dining table. Also explored are popular narratives involving battles with stress and melancholy, single parents and Christmas martyrs, visits from ghosts and angels, big cities and small towns, break-ups and make-ups and the ticking clock of mortality. Nearly 1000 films are analyzed in this volume to determine what the portrayal of Christmas reveals about culture, society and faith as well as sex roles, consumerism, aesthetics and aspiration.
Author: Bijou Hunter
Publisher: Bijou Hunter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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HEAT ღ HUMOR ღ HEA Pax Reed doesn't need any distractions from the bloody civil war brewing in Little Memphis. His goal is to watch his brother's back and survive. But a beautiful single mom soon complicates his life. Though Bebe Green craves a danger-free life, club enforcer Pax proves to be too tempting. The seductive stud makes her laugh while his touch ignites a glorious fire inside her. "Broken Memphis" contains graphic sexual content, violent situations, disturbing content, and harsh language. The book is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+.
Author: Christine Angot
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love and yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical and wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences with homosexuality, paranoia, and, at the core of it all, incest. In a masterful translation from the French by Tess Lewis, Christine Angot's Incest audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos.
Author: Laura Scott
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 036971623X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Laura Scott Keeping out of sight is the only way to survive. A frantic call from a witness whose Colorado safe house is breached sends US marshal Slade Brooks to Robyn Lowry’s side at Christmastime. But when he reaches her, she doesn’t remember him—or the crime she witnessed. With the trial just days away, someone won’t stop until Robyn’s dead. And while she might recover her memory in time, keeping Robyn alive long enough to testify is Slade’s hardest mission. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Justice Seekers Book 1: Soldier's Christmas Secrets Book 2: Guarded by the Soldier Book 3: Wyoming Mountain Escape Book 4: Hiding His Holiday Witness Book 5: Rocky Mountain Standoff
Author: William D. Crump
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664889
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Santa Claus is in trouble! Who will save Christmas? This A-to-Z guide to holiday films, television movies and series specials provides cast, credits, production information and commentary for 228 cinema Christmases that were almost ruined by villains, monsters, spirits, secularism, greed, misanthropy or elf error--but were saved by helpful animals, magic snowmen, selfless children or compassionate understanding. Reviews and references are included.
Author: Sherri Shackelford
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488040737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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When an investigative reporter wakes up with amnesia, she must solve the mystery of her own dangerous past in this romantic suspense novel. Run off the road, investigative reporter Emma Lyons awakens with no memory of who she is or what happened. And researching her own past with Deputy Liam McCourt quickly leads to a killer who wants them both silenced. Branded outsiders in a sleepy Texas town full of dark secrets, they must rely on their faith—and each other—if they want to escape an unknown killer determined to rob Emma not only of her past, but also her future.
Author: William D. Crump
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476672938
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.
