Devil's Entourage


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"Zeena Becks's masterpiece will leave you speechless, swooning, breathless, tearful, heartbroken, incredibly excited, happy, thrilled, hopeful. And always thirsty for more." - Goodreads Reviewer This "emotionally captivating story" (Amazon reviewer) will take you on a journey of friendship, love, mental health and heartbreak. Best Friends who've loved and lost reconnect after two years of silence. Nate Fox is the face of the British rock band Devil's Entourage. Writing one heart-melting hit after the other, he could have every girl he wants. But his heart only belongs to her. Jay. His best friend, the girl he couldn't help falling in love with. The girl who disappeared without a word of goodbye... What happens when they meet again after two years of silence? When Nate has to realise that she had to go through times harder than he ever imagined. Times that left the girl once known as the Devil's Daughter nothing but a shadow of herself. **If you're into rich alphah*les dominating their women, this book may not be your cup of tea. If you like your heroes flawed but sweet, caring and full of love, however, Nate Fox might just be your bookboyfriend-type-of-guy. This is a medium-heat open door romance series.** Content warning: This series contains strong subject matter that may not be suitable for, or enjoyed by all readers, including scenes that may depict, mention or discuss: rape, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, depression, anxiety, blood, death, homelessness, parental loss, child disease, pregnancy, abortion, birth trauma, strong language, and explicit sex.




Devil's Sexy Candy


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Life as the guitarist of a world-famous rock band has its perks. Plenty of money. Plenty of attention. And plenty of women. Usually, it also means plenty of work, just as Mickey Collins loves it. The less time spent all by himself, the better. Until destiny takes him to Lucy Stewart. She's smart, she's beautiful... and she's the first woman to ever make him fight for her attention. Getting her out of his head is impossible. Falling for her is inevitable. But being with her seems impossible. Not as long as she's still hung up on someone else. Ever since she was twelve years old, Lucy Stewart dreamed about being a nurse. Taking care of those in need, bringing a smile onto the faces of everyone around, there hadn't been a greater joy for her. Until a tragic loss left her with nothing but guilt, grief and red wine to fill the lonely hours at home. But her whole life is set to change when one of her patients presents her with tickets for the London show of her favourite British rock band. Devil's Entourage. It could have been the best day of Lucy's life. If it wasn't for the brief encounter with the band's guitarist resulting in a blooming friendship, torn feelings and too much sexual tension for a woman who is determined to never love again. Will Mickey succeed in leaving his playboy past behind to find true love? And what happens when Lucy has to realise that the man she had sworn to love until her very last breath may not have been as good for her as she had once believed? Devil's Sexy Candy is book 5 in the Devil's Series, a series following the mates of British rock band Devil's Entourage. The first four books of the series do not have to be read in order to understand and enjoy Mickey and Lucy's story!




Devil's Salvation


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Maybe Nate was right this whole time. Maybe nothing would change if he announced our relationship, only the number of people hating me. Maybe my need to officially be his girlfriend is caused by something entirely different than the wish to have everyone know he's mine. Maybe it's my last desperate attempt to save something that was broken long ago. "I don't want to talk. Not about us, not about the weather, not at all. What I want is for you to leave me alone," I tell him as I enter the lounge area on the upper deck. "Jay, please! We have to talk about this! You can't seriously expect me to leave like this, we have to talk this out, we have to find a solution!" He's feeling helpless, I hear it in his voice. But what I'm feeling is emptiness. Exhaustion. And not the slightest bit of interest in hearing any more meaningless promises. "I can’t, Nate, I'm so fucking tired of this." Sighing, I finally turn around to him. "You say you love me, right? Then please, if you really love me, go. Leave me alone, I'm begging you!" The devastation in his eyes takes my breath away, it tells me he can sense it too. Maybe this is how it all ends. Our love. Our friendship. Us. Six months have passed since Jay and Nate reunited. Six months of getting to know each other again, to fall in love again, well protected by the comfort of being home. But tour break is over now, it's time for Nate to get back on the road. Back to his life as the lead singer of the British rock band Devil's Entourage. Music, concerts, and the most beautiful places of Europe await them, but so do fangirls, rumours, and the watchful eyes of the public. Will their love still flourish when it's faced with jealousy and misunderstandings? And will Jay be strong enough to handle living a life in public?




BECKY


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In this slowburn contemporary romance, a grieving ballroom dancer falls for her brother's athletic best friend. Becky Teaguens is a strong-willed, ambitious dancer who has dedicated her young life to one thing only: dance. But when her partner and boyfriend breaks up with her, everything she ever dreamed of falls apart in front of her eyes. Grieving, lost, and unknowing of how to go on, Becky finds solace in the last person she's ever expected falling for. Her brother's best friend. But just as she's about to warm up to the new life she's living, her ex is back with an offer she can't turn down. Caught between new love and old, between the dream of a lifetime and the man she desires, she must decide what it is she truly wants in life. Is love worth sacrificing it all?




World Without End


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World Without End is a different approach toward finding ones way to an understanding of Gods likely overarching intention and expectations, plus hopes for a creation that includes humankind. Its an easy read; an unencumbered take on religion connecting to ancient and modern philosophy, psychology, sociology, and history; and an attempt at fusion of theories for an outlook regarding how we humans can continue to arrive at the best possible governance for endurance of the planet and of ourselvesexpanding democracy.




ISIS Beyond the Spectacle


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What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries’ dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book. More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book’s contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.




Mikhail and Margarita


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An NPR Best Book of the Year: “[A] brilliant novel of love, betrayal and censorship . . . Deeply suspenseful” (Margot Livesey, New York Times–bestselling author of Mercury). It is 1933 in Russia and Mikhail Bulgakov’s enviable literary career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of Stalin’s secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state. To make matters worse, Bulgakov has fallen in love with the dangerously outspoken Margarita. Facing imminent arrest, infatuated with Margarita, he is inspired to write his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a satirical novel that is scathingly critical of power and the powerful. Ranging from lively readings in the homes of Moscow’s elite to a Siberian gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country with a towering literary tradition confronting a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic woman fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will struggle in their attempts to shield her from the machinations of a regime hungry for human sacrifice in a time of systematic deception. Mikhail and Margarita, winner of the Center for Fiction’s 2017 First Novel Prize, is “an atmospheric, gripping, authoritative and deeply suspenseful narrative that utterly transports the reader” (Margot Livesey). “A book about authoritarian crackdown on speech and satire that is sadly timely.” —Flavorwire




Heresy and the English Reformation


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Medieval Europe was a hotbed of revolt against religious dogma. Particularly offensive to the established church were the views of the Cathars, whose dualist beliefs Rome condemned as heretical. Through a variety of literary works, this book explores the dualist religious movement which developed as a culture of the masses and took place in Europe between the 12th and 17th centuries. It examines the strong parallels between the Bogomils and Cathars and the religious practices of the British Lollards, extrapolating Lollardy's spread from eastern to western Europe. Providing numerous text comparisons, the work focuses on a number of authors including John Wycliffe, William Tynsdale, William Langland and John Milton, whose works exhibit the dualist philosophy.







Convergence


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As doomsday approaches, can the teens accept their destiny in time to protect their world? Seven special teens. A deadly ancient evil. Can they combine their unique powers and halt the infection before humanity is obliterated? Shaun is dying. The plane’s engine is failing. Kevin must open a portal to catch the falling plane and save Shaun's life. Sophia is terrified of God’s plan for her. Plagued by visions of planetary devastation, she prays Shaun and Kevin can reach her in time to save humanity. Convergence book three in The Emerald Tablet Series