Author: Hannah Murray
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1802508244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR HANNAH MURRAY Book four in the Perfect Taboo series Never make a bet with a Dom... It' s a bad idea under any circumstances, and when the Dom is Jack— a sadist with a perpetual frown and no discernible sense of humor— it' s a really bad idea. But backing down isn' t in Sadie' s DNA, and by the time her self-preservation instincts kick in, it' s too late— she' s lost the bet and owes Jack a scene. Jack' s been waiting for a chance to have Sadie all to himself from the moment he saw her, but the timing' s never been right. Now, thanks to her sassy mouth overriding her common sense, his patience is paying off. She owes him a scene, and he intends to collect. But one scene does not a relationship make, and Jack wants Sadie for more than an occasional play partner— he wants her as his lover, his partner... and his submissive. Problem is Sadie' s not interested in serious, and showing his cards too soon could send her running. If he' s going to win the day— and the girl— he' ll have to play his hand at just the right time. If he doesn' t overplay it first.
The Sadist and the Brat
Author: Hannah Murray
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1802508244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR HANNAH MURRAY Book four in the Perfect Taboo series Never make a bet with a Dom... It' s a bad idea under any circumstances, and when the Dom is Jack— a sadist with a perpetual frown and no discernible sense of humor— it' s a really bad idea. But backing down isn' t in Sadie' s DNA, and by the time her self-preservation instincts kick in, it' s too late— she' s lost the bet and owes Jack a scene. Jack' s been waiting for a chance to have Sadie all to himself from the moment he saw her, but the timing' s never been right. Now, thanks to her sassy mouth overriding her common sense, his patience is paying off. She owes him a scene, and he intends to collect. But one scene does not a relationship make, and Jack wants Sadie for more than an occasional play partner— he wants her as his lover, his partner... and his submissive. Problem is Sadie' s not interested in serious, and showing his cards too soon could send her running. If he' s going to win the day— and the girl— he' ll have to play his hand at just the right time. If he doesn' t overplay it first.
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1802508244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR HANNAH MURRAY Book four in the Perfect Taboo series Never make a bet with a Dom... It' s a bad idea under any circumstances, and when the Dom is Jack— a sadist with a perpetual frown and no discernible sense of humor— it' s a really bad idea. But backing down isn' t in Sadie' s DNA, and by the time her self-preservation instincts kick in, it' s too late— she' s lost the bet and owes Jack a scene. Jack' s been waiting for a chance to have Sadie all to himself from the moment he saw her, but the timing' s never been right. Now, thanks to her sassy mouth overriding her common sense, his patience is paying off. She owes him a scene, and he intends to collect. But one scene does not a relationship make, and Jack wants Sadie for more than an occasional play partner— he wants her as his lover, his partner... and his submissive. Problem is Sadie' s not interested in serious, and showing his cards too soon could send her running. If he' s going to win the day— and the girl— he' ll have to play his hand at just the right time. If he doesn' t overplay it first.
Sadie the Sadist
Author: Zan Sachs
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499145731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Like many people, Sadie feels undervalued and frustrated. Employed by a supermarket, she plots to murder coworkers—or lure them into the employee bathroom for a quickie. Sick of being treated like a robot, she taps into a powerful (and deranged) alter-ego and transforms into Sadie the Sadist. READER BEWARE: This book contains graphic violence, psycho/sexual incidents, and Sadie's favorite recipes. X-tremely Black Humor/Horror."You have never read anything like Sadie the Sadist -- a pitch black satire that is not only deeply disturbing but funny as hell." –Blake Crouch, Author, Wayward Pines“A brilliant, bloody read. Bone chilling. Dark. Funny. Sadie makes Hannibal Lector look like dating material. My heart quickened as I braced for Sadie the Sadist's next step down that slippery slope called sanity. Highly recommended.” –Barbara Silkstone, Author of the Wendy Darlin Tomb Raider series
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499145731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Like many people, Sadie feels undervalued and frustrated. Employed by a supermarket, she plots to murder coworkers—or lure them into the employee bathroom for a quickie. Sick of being treated like a robot, she taps into a powerful (and deranged) alter-ego and transforms into Sadie the Sadist. READER BEWARE: This book contains graphic violence, psycho/sexual incidents, and Sadie's favorite recipes. X-tremely Black Humor/Horror."You have never read anything like Sadie the Sadist -- a pitch black satire that is not only deeply disturbing but funny as hell." –Blake Crouch, Author, Wayward Pines“A brilliant, bloody read. Bone chilling. Dark. Funny. Sadie makes Hannibal Lector look like dating material. My heart quickened as I braced for Sadie the Sadist's next step down that slippery slope called sanity. Highly recommended.” –Barbara Silkstone, Author of the Wendy Darlin Tomb Raider series
Counting the Days
Author: Craig B. Smith
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps: Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1. Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings, imprisoned them, and eventually released them to a harrowing jungle existence caught between Philippine guerilla raids and Japanese counterattacks. Mitsuye Takahashi was a U.S. citizen of Japanese descent living in Malibu, California, who was imprisoned by the United States for the duration of the war, disrupting her life and separating her from all she owned. Masashi Itoh was a Japanese soldier who remained hidden in the jungles of Guam, held captive by his own conscience and beliefs until 1960, 15 years after the end of the war. This is the story of their struggles to stay alive, the small daily triumphs that kept them going—and for some, their almost miraculous survival.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps: Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1. Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings, imprisoned them, and eventually released them to a harrowing jungle existence caught between Philippine guerilla raids and Japanese counterattacks. Mitsuye Takahashi was a U.S. citizen of Japanese descent living in Malibu, California, who was imprisoned by the United States for the duration of the war, disrupting her life and separating her from all she owned. Masashi Itoh was a Japanese soldier who remained hidden in the jungles of Guam, held captive by his own conscience and beliefs until 1960, 15 years after the end of the war. This is the story of their struggles to stay alive, the small daily triumphs that kept them going—and for some, their almost miraculous survival.
Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction
Author: Matt Graham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104009113X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Postmodernism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century? Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104009113X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Postmodernism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century? Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.
Unspeakable
Author: Abbie Todd
Publisher: Atom
ISBN: 0349002053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Megan doesn't speak. She hasn't spoken in months. Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. Because there are things locked inside Megan's head - things that are screaming to be heard - that she cannot, must not, let out. Then Jasmine starts at school: bubbly, beautiful, talkative Jasmine. And for reasons Megan can't quite understand, life starts to look a bit brighter. Megan would love to speak again, and it seems like Jasmine might be the answer. But if she finds her voice, will she lose everything else?
Publisher: Atom
ISBN: 0349002053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Megan doesn't speak. She hasn't spoken in months. Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. Because there are things locked inside Megan's head - things that are screaming to be heard - that she cannot, must not, let out. Then Jasmine starts at school: bubbly, beautiful, talkative Jasmine. And for reasons Megan can't quite understand, life starts to look a bit brighter. Megan would love to speak again, and it seems like Jasmine might be the answer. But if she finds her voice, will she lose everything else?
Rights Forfeiture and Punishment
Author: Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190274778
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights. Despite this, the vast majority of theorists working on punishment focus instead on important aims, such as achieving retributive justice, deterring crime, restoring victims, or expressing society's core values. Wellman contends that these aims may well explain why we should want a properly constructed system of punishment, but none shows why it would be permissible to institute one. Only a rights-based analysis will suffice, because the type of justification we seek for punishment must demonstrate that punishment is permissible, and it would be permissible only if it violated no one's rights. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment by culpably violating (or at least attempting to violate) the rights of others. After defending rights forfeiture theory against the standard objections, Wellman explains this theory's implications for a number of core issues in criminal law, including the authority of the state, international criminal law, the proper scope of the criminal law and the tort/crime distinction, procedural rights, and the justification of mala prohibita.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190274778
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights. Despite this, the vast majority of theorists working on punishment focus instead on important aims, such as achieving retributive justice, deterring crime, restoring victims, or expressing society's core values. Wellman contends that these aims may well explain why we should want a properly constructed system of punishment, but none shows why it would be permissible to institute one. Only a rights-based analysis will suffice, because the type of justification we seek for punishment must demonstrate that punishment is permissible, and it would be permissible only if it violated no one's rights. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment by culpably violating (or at least attempting to violate) the rights of others. After defending rights forfeiture theory against the standard objections, Wellman explains this theory's implications for a number of core issues in criminal law, including the authority of the state, international criminal law, the proper scope of the criminal law and the tort/crime distinction, procedural rights, and the justification of mala prohibita.
Yanks Don't Cry
Author: Martin Boyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : POWs
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Marine's-eye view of four years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : POWs
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Marine's-eye view of four years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
The Scene Stealers
Author: Siobhan Curham
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473617960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'If you could recreate any movie scene and cast yourself in the lead role, which would you choose?' This chance remark made late one night over the counter of a North London video store brings together four very different characters with hilarious and dramatic consequences. United only by their love of film, Sadie, Lana, Liam and Tel join forces to recreate cinematic history, discovering along the way that friendship, trust and even love can spring from the most unlikely of sources. Once again, Siobhan Curham has mixed the elements of comedy with heart-wrenching tragedy, creating a warm and poignant tale that will cause laughter and tears with every turn of the page.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473617960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'If you could recreate any movie scene and cast yourself in the lead role, which would you choose?' This chance remark made late one night over the counter of a North London video store brings together four very different characters with hilarious and dramatic consequences. United only by their love of film, Sadie, Lana, Liam and Tel join forces to recreate cinematic history, discovering along the way that friendship, trust and even love can spring from the most unlikely of sources. Once again, Siobhan Curham has mixed the elements of comedy with heart-wrenching tragedy, creating a warm and poignant tale that will cause laughter and tears with every turn of the page.
Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry
Author: Ruben Moi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004355111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.
All That Remain
Author: Becca Sandford
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039165176
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
When the bus that Jessa is on with her high school’s football team takes a wrong turn into remote mountainous wilderness, she has an ominous feeling. Soon after, a rock slide crashes into the bus and kills half her classmates, the driver, and all the coaches. Jessa and the remaining teens are alone, lost, injured, and without cell reception to call for help. As the football team’s junior trainer, Jessa steps up to help her schoolmates but is terrified and unsure of who to trust. Jessa finds support in Nick, the kind and gentle running back she’s been tutoring. He’s the opposite of her ex-boyfriend, Troy, who’s also trapped on the bus. Troy threatens and abuses Jessa as new dangers appear and the survivors must find shelter and safety. As the peril escalates, the teens realize they may be stranded indefinitely, and Jessa must protect herself from Troy while finding the inner strength to navigate the minefield of teenage love and friendship. In the process of finding trust in her schoolmates, Jessa gains the confidence to share what she’s been hiding about Troy and become closer to Nick. In the wild, Jessa finally faces past trauma and confronts the challenges of adolescence to find her own voice, renewed hope, and the courage to stand up for herself and others. But just when things seem resolved and Jessa thinks they’ll be saved, another danger arises...
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039165176
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
When the bus that Jessa is on with her high school’s football team takes a wrong turn into remote mountainous wilderness, she has an ominous feeling. Soon after, a rock slide crashes into the bus and kills half her classmates, the driver, and all the coaches. Jessa and the remaining teens are alone, lost, injured, and without cell reception to call for help. As the football team’s junior trainer, Jessa steps up to help her schoolmates but is terrified and unsure of who to trust. Jessa finds support in Nick, the kind and gentle running back she’s been tutoring. He’s the opposite of her ex-boyfriend, Troy, who’s also trapped on the bus. Troy threatens and abuses Jessa as new dangers appear and the survivors must find shelter and safety. As the peril escalates, the teens realize they may be stranded indefinitely, and Jessa must protect herself from Troy while finding the inner strength to navigate the minefield of teenage love and friendship. In the process of finding trust in her schoolmates, Jessa gains the confidence to share what she’s been hiding about Troy and become closer to Nick. In the wild, Jessa finally faces past trauma and confronts the challenges of adolescence to find her own voice, renewed hope, and the courage to stand up for herself and others. But just when things seem resolved and Jessa thinks they’ll be saved, another danger arises...