Author : Kristin Hardy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 1408900394
Her High-Stakes Playboy Shy Gwen Braxton would do anything to retrieve her grandfather’s stolen $4. 5m stamps, even blag her way into a Vegas poker tournament! Yet she didn’t gamble on getting help from sexy fellow competitor Del – or on spending the most sensual night of her life with him!
Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 143915726X
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141924047
THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair
Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592134823
From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.
Author : Eleanor Hull
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Christina Bauer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525281259
Eighteen year old Myla Lewis is a girl who loves two things: kicking ass and kicking ass. She's not your every day quasi-demon, half-demon and half-human, girl. For the past five years, Myla has lived for the days she gets to fight in Purgatory's arena. When souls want a trial by combat for their right to enter heaven or hell, they go up against her, and she hasn't lost a battle yet. But as she starts her senior year at Purgatory High, the arena fights aren't enough to keep her spirits up anymore. When the demons start to act weird, even for demons, and the King of the Demons, Armageddon, shows up at Myla's school, she knows that things are changing and it's not looking good for the quasi-demons. Myla starts to question everything, and doesn't like the answers she finds. What happened seventeen years ago that turned the quasi-demons into slave labor? Why was her mom always so sad? And why won't anyone tell her who her father is? Things heat up when Myla meets Lincoln, the High Prince of the Thrax, a super sexy half-human and half-angel demon hunter. But what's a quasi-demon girl to do when she falls for a demon hunter? It's a good thing that Myla's not afraid of breaking a few rules. With a love worth fighting for, Myla's going to shake up Purgatory.
Author : Bob Wilber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 1987-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1349096032
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813591759
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.
Author : J. Whalley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 023010794X
Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture sheds new light on the ways in which Saturday Night Live s confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history, such as National Lampoon s Animal House, Ghostbusters, and Beverly Hills Cop. Jim Whalley also considers how SNL has adapted to meet the needs of subsequent generations, launching the film careers of Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and others in the process. Supported by extensive archival research, some of Hollywood s most popular comedians are placed into the contexts of film and television comic traditions and social and cultural trends in American life.
