Author : Benjamin Percy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1555977596
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Jackie Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439140987
Jackie Collins’s most outrageous, erotically charged New York Times bestseller is a sexy, shattering roller-coaster thrill ride! From chic New York and the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of LA, this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions and relentless desires in the seemingly perfect world of a gorgeous film actress. She could have any man—but the one she can’t resist is a mysterious lover with a shadowed past. As their jolting affair skyrockets with electric passion, shocking secrets break through their hidden traps—in a brilliantly twisting story that sparks with the explosive Jackie Collins touch.
Author : Tracy M. Cooper, Ph.d.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2016-09-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781537444581
Do you love roller coasters, have a passion for traveling to new places, or crave novelty and new experiences?Are you deeply empathic, highly creative, and experience a deep, rich inner life? If so you may be one of the 30% of highly sensitive people who are also high sensation seekers.In this ground-breaking new book Dr. Tracy Cooper, the author of Thrive: The Highly Sensitive Person and Career, presents original, new research findings that will help you better understand how to:* maximize the potentiality inherent in both traits while balancing the challenges each trait presents* re-vision the way you think about career as a sensitive sensation seeker * attach value to your deep, rich inner life* engage in fulfilling, meaningful relationships* move beyond limiting societal constraints to greater personal authenticity.This book is a must read for all sensitive sensation seekers and the people who love them!
Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520952367
Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats—jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals—had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture.
Author : Mariah Adin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree, the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown, interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency, America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare, highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of America's "Golden Age."
Author : Raymond Pingitore
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2008
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780882822914
Chronicles the hunt for the killers of Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson, two college students who were murdered in Providence, Rhode Island in 2000.
Author : Kenneth Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108738109
Are you a thrill-seeker or a chill-seeker? A clinical psychologist lifts the lid on what makes adrenaline junkies tick.
Author : Daniel Barbarisi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525566112
“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune. Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest. But the mystery didn't end there. Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.
Author : Ann McCallum Staats
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 164160543X
"Ann McCallum Staats has written an uplifting book profiling a handful of extraordinary women whose example proves that nothing can or should hold women back. These women push the boundaries of what was believed possible, achieving the impossible." —Milbry Polk, author of Women of Discovery, and member of the Explorers Club board of directors Encompassing a diverse selection of women in extreme and unique sports, this book shares the stories of bold and daring thrill-seekers What is the allure of the extreme? Who are the women who seek out and excel at sports outside the conventional, such as cave diving, wingsuit flying, or Formula 1 racing? This collection of adventure dynamos is as fascinating as it is empowering. Thrill Seekers introduces readers to a diverse and fascinating selection of women whose determination, grit, and courage have propelled each of them into a life far from the sidelines. Each chapter introduces readers to modern role models and leaders, change-makers who opt into a life of risk—but one of astonishing rewards. Inspire young people to approach life with the same bold resolve. Women of Power. Bold books to inspire bold moves. Thrill Seekers is the debut title in the new Women of Power series. Women of Power is a timely, inclusive, international, modern biography series that profiles 15 diverse, modern women who are changing the world in their field while empowering others to follow their dreams.
Author : Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1421408902
Weaver-Zercher blends academic analysis with her own experiences of researching, reading, and talking with others about Amish fiction in order to explore the phenomenon, with particular attention to the hypermodernity and hypersexuality that are fueling the appeal of the genre for evangelical Christian readers.
