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Totally Charmed

Author : Jennifer Crusie

Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 13,7 MB

Release : 2015-01-06

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1941631525

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From Cole's downfall and Phoebe's somewhat questionable fashion sense to the power of three in history and literature and a magical tourist's guide to the Halliwells's hometown of San Francisco, this clever, lighthearted essay collection offers a fun and funny look at the world of the WB hit series Charmed. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie, these accessible and entertaining essays apply the wit and insight of one of today's leading romance authors to the stylish, occasionally campy fan favorite known for its scandalous outfits, revolving door of love interests, and the magical mayhem of three otherwise normal sisters who must fight against evil as they deal with the challenges of everyday life.



Charmed: The Illustrated Storybook

Author : Paul Ruditis

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 46 pages

File Size : 49,62 MB

Release : 2022-10-04

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1647227526

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The Power of Three returns in this original storybook starring the very first Charmed Ones in a never-before-told tale from their childhood. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe were the first sisters to be called the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches the world has ever known. But before they were charmed, they were just three little girls living with their Grams, and no idea of the power within them. When their constant bickering threatens the future unity of the Charmed Ones, their magic awakens to send the three young witches on an adventure that could change their destiny forever. THE OG P3 ARE BACK: Revisit the original Power of Three with an all-new story from a time before Prue, Piper, and Phoebe knew they were charmed. NEXT GEN FANS: Parents, grandparents and cool aunts and uncles can introduce young readers to Charmed. A STORY OF SISTERHOOD: Enjoy a timeless family tale of sisterhood mixed with magic. A SECRET HERSTORY: This unknown adventure from the Charmed Ones’ past reveals a secret herstory in their tale. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: See Charmed Ones in a whole new way with vibrant, original illustrations. TOTALLY TUBULAR TALE: Set in the 1980s, this blast from the Charmed Ones’ past is a retro adventure from a bewitching time.



Fierce Females on Television

Author : Nicole Evelina

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 253 pages

File Size : 22,93 MB

Release : 2023-10-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 153816566X

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A fascinating deep-dive into how shows from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Equalizer have changed the way women are portrayed on television. The last three decades of television have been a formative and progressive time for female characters, as stronger, more independent women have appeared on screen to guide a new generation of viewers into their own era of power. These characters battle vampires, demons, corrupt government officials, and scientific programs all while dealing with the same real-world concerns their audiences face every day. In Fierce Females on Television: A Cultural History, Nicole Evelina examines ten shows from the past thirty years to unveil the enormous impact they have had on the way women are portrayed on television. She reveals how Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Alias, Nikita, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Homeland, House of Cards, Orphan Black, and The Equalizer feature extraordinary lead characters who are at the same time utterly relatable, facing surprisingly familiar questions in their everyday lives regarding sexuality, gender, and how to fight back in a patriarchal world. Fierce Females on Television shows how, even with their captivating mix of melodrama, mystery, magic, and martial arts, these shows nevertheless represent the audience’s own desires and fears. Finally, viewers of science fiction, fantasy, spy, and political shows have strong, modern women to watch, admire, and emulate.



Charmed Thirds

Author : Megan McCafferty

Publisher : Broadway Books

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 26,99 MB

Release : 2006-04-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307345505

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Jessica Darling’s in college! Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she’s more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if he’s at a Buddhist college in California?); and she’s making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope. But Jessica soon realizes that her bliss might not last. She lands an internship at a snarky Brooklyn-based magazine, but will she fit in with the überhip staff (and will she even want to)? As she and Marcus hit the rocks, will she end up falling for her GOPunk, neoconservative RA . . . or the hot (and married!) Spanish grad student she’s assisting on a summer project . . . or the oh-so-sensitive emo boy down the hall? Will she even make it through college now that her parents have cut her off financially? And what do the cryptic one-word postcards from Marcus really mean? With hilarious insight, the hyperobservant Jessica Darling struggles through her college years—and the summers in between—while maintaining her usual mix of wit, cynicism, and candor.



The Novel

Author : Tim Parks

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 14,39 MB

Release : 2015-07-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 019106002X

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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. The Novel: A Survival Skill is the fruit of a lifetime's search for a different, more immediate, but again systematic and serious way of talking about literature. Developed over many years, it offers a completely new account of the relationship between a writer, his or her work, and the reader. As such it radically undermines traditional literary criticism and the various criteria used for evaluating a work of fiction. Drawing on ideas from systemic psychology, Tim Parks suggest that both the content and style of a novelist's work, the kind of stories told and the way in which they are told, form part of a more general strategy or simply habit of communication that the novelist has learned within his or her family of origin. The reader reacts to these in very much the same way he or she would react to the same communicative strategy in a real life encounter, different readers reacting differently depending on their own backgrounds and habits of communication. Looking at the different value structures that can dominate in any family—good/evil, independence/dependence, success/failure, belonging/exclusion—this book looks at how a number of major writers position themselves within these value structures, how this positioning is manifest in their writing, and how readers have responded to this depending on their own positioning in the same semantics. Thomas Hardy, for example, a man eager to believe himself courageous but terrified of the consequences of any socially 'unacceptable' behaviour, constructs stories which are courageous in their willingness to debate difficult issues, but which constantly suggest that any attempt to behave courageously is condemned to disaster. Hardy as it were imprisons himself in a world where it is folly to take risks. He is thus exceedingly conservative in his life, while at the same time able to think of himself as courageous in his writing. The Novel: A Survival Skill looks at the way different readers in different periods respond to this depending on their own position with regard to fear, courage, social convention and so on.



The Other Side of Fear

Author : Mary Hitchcock George

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 578 pages

File Size : 48,72 MB

Release : 2020-09-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 166550014X

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War hero, Matt McCormick has earned a respectable badass reputation in Afghanistan; but his enemy has moved west. Having special skills useful to the fight, he goes undercover; not for the military, but for the feds. The audacious, self-sacrificing hero escapes, and heads home to NEK Vermont, to his ill-fitting reputation for good looks and moral conduct; but his life has changed forever. Under capricious circumstances, he’s surprisingly catapulted into a new investigation, where his two diametrically-opposed worlds collide, and he finds himself, once again, in the presence of his enemy. Lives get shattered and lost as yesterday’s failures chafe the day. Surprises abound, and winning this battle will take, not only his badass training, but his blood, guts and grit. Faint-hearted, but savvy journalist, Andrea Daye is any editor’s dream; but her personal life has gone sideways. Oblivious to her new husband’s past, she’s abhorred to find agents, lurking in shadows as evidence of his corruption rises to the surface. Trusting no one, her innocent, but sassy equivocations set her free-falling, not only into criminal charges, but into the arms of love. The Other Side of Fear is a story to savor.



We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Author : Karen Joy Fowler

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 47,95 MB

Release : 2013-05-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 110159568X

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences. “A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”—Khaled Hosseini



Wolf of her Own

Author : N.J. Walters

Publisher : Entangled: Amara

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 12,51 MB

Release : 2018-05-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1640630821

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Mikhail Matheson may be an outsider in Salvation, but he stays with the pack to be close to his sister. It has nothing to with the fact that Elise—the most fascinating woman he’s ever laid eyes on—is part of the pack. Mikhail has wanted Elise for years, but being with her could cost him his life. Soon he’ll have to decide if he’s going to leave the pack or risk it all to pursue a place at her side. After escaping her abusive mate, Elise LaForge has made a home in Salvation with her sons. She never expected to have her emotions stirred up by the always serious and seriously handsome Mikhail. But can she finally put her past behind her and dare to move on? When danger creeps into the pack, both she and Mikhail have to be willing to sacrifice everything to have a chance at love. Each book in the Salvation Pack series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order. Series Order: Book #1 Wolf at the Door Book #2 Wolf in her Bed Book #3 Wolf on the Run Book #4 Wolf from the Past Book #5 Wolf on the Hunt Book #6 Wolf on a Mission Book #7 Wolf in his Heart Book #8 Wolf in her Soul Book #9 Wolf of her Own





Semi-Charmed

Author : Isabel Jordan

Publisher : Isabel Jordan

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 33,84 MB

Release : 2022-02-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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She's infamous. He's legendary. Together, they'll be epic...or a complete train wreck. It could go either way, really... Psychic and paranormal PI Harper Hall isn't that surprised when her business partner skips town. She never really trusted the jerk anyway. But if Harper wants to consult for the police on a high-profile case, she'll need a new partner-- preferably one with some supernatural talents of his own. Noah Riddick, a slayer left jobless when vampires went public and earned human rights, is perfect for the gig. Too bad he's grumpy, anti-social, and completely resistant to the idea of working with her. Riddick's dark secrets and shady past forced him into exile from human society--an exile he was comfortable with until gorgeous and exasperating Harper waltzed into his life. Now, all too aware of how unlifelike his life has been, he realizes partnering with her might be the best thing that could ever happen to him...even though it might be the worst for her. Fighting vampires, making immortal enemies, staging daring rescues...it's all in a day's work. But falling in love? Well...that's a little trickier. Even for the Semi-Charmed Harper Hall. "If you love Charley Davidson, True Blood or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then you will definitely want to read this quirky vampire/paranormal series." --Literati Literature Lovers The Harper Hall Investigations series is perfect for fans of strong, smart, kickass heroines, grumpy, brooding heroes, paranormal mystery and hijinks, and snarky humor. Get it today! Note: Semi-Charmed is written in dual POV, 3rd person. No cliffhanger, guaranteed happy ending. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone, but works best if read in order: Book 1: Semi-Charmed Book 2: Semi-Human Book 3: Semi-Twisted Book 4: Semi-Broken Book 5: Semi-Sane Book 6: Semi-Obsessed Book 7: Semi-Magical Book 8: Semi-Fated Keywords: supernatural romance, paranormal romance, free paranormal romance, heroine with powers romance, light hilarious romance, paranormal bestsellers, adult paranormal romance, paranormal romance series, paranormal romance books for adults, grumpy protective hero paranormal romance, paranormal romance funny, paranormal romance hea, paranormal romance magic, paranormal romance mystery, paranormal romance shifter, paranormal romance vampire, paranormal romance werewolf, paranormal romance with sex, free, strong heroine romance, snarky romance, action adventure, humor, second chances, comedy, free ebook, free romance, female protagonist, free romance ebooks, vampire, undead, immortal, shapeshifter, paranormal romance comedy humor, slow burn romance, vampire hunter romance, vampire slayer romance, psychic romance, female detective romance, urban fantasy romance, urban fantasy romance strong female, romantic comedy, vampire romance, vampire adult romance, free vampire books, vampire comedy, vampire ebooks, vampire fantasy books, vampire hunter, vampire huntress, vampire paranormal romance, sexy paranormal romance, human paranormal romance, psychic detective, psychic mystery, psychic romance suspense, psychic detective romance, psychic paranormal, psychic private investigator, psychic romance free, psychic romance suspense paranormal, psychic rom com