Author : Jack Webb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440541485
Detective Sammy Golden was surprised to find her there—in the gaudy apartment of a dangerous diamond smuggler—standing of his dead body with a fortune in diamonds in her bag … and a pistol in her hand. She looked too pretty, and too nice, for the role. Besides, she was a widow—the widow of a cop who had been murdered just 48 hours before.
Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824816315
Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.
Author : Naomi Novik
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593128494
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD • “The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.”—Katherine Arden, author of the Winternight Trilogy I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. At least, that’s what the world expects. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school certainly does. But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one. With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a school bursting with magic like you’ve never seen before, and a heroine for the ages—a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come. The magic of the Scholomance trilogy continues in The Last Graduate “The can’t-miss fantasy of fall 2020, a brutal coming-of-power story steeped in the aesthetics of dark academia. . . . A Deadly Education will cement Naomi Novik’s place as one of the greatest and most versatile fantasy writers of our time.”—BookPage (starred review) “A must-read . . . Novik puts a refreshingly dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school. . . . Readers will delight in the push-and-pull of El and Orion’s relationship, the fantastically detailed world, the clever magic system, and the matter-of-fact diversity of the student body.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Maria Eftimiades
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1466863137
Her father called her his little princess... The adored only child of affluent parents who placed the world at her feet, Amy Fisher had a glowing future. But she yearned for excitement, for the dark thrill of danger. Her friends called her a mysterious loner... While her classmates happily planned dates for the prom, 17-year-old Amy Fisher appalled them with tales of her wild sexual escapades, of her steamy, obsessive alleged affair with a married man--of a wife she wanted out of the picture. Police called her a call girl and a killer... But it wasn't until Amy was arrested for attempting to slay unsuspecting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in cold blood in front of her own home, that police and reporters uncovered stories that included a sinister hidden world of secret call girl rings, attempts to hire hitmen with payment in sex--and a beeper still nestled in her purse on which clients could page her with personal codes. Veteran People reporter Maria Eftimiades has covered the case in Lethal Lolita--and in this riveting book reveals a story even more shocking than the sensational headlines that captured the attention of the nation, and turn an all-American town inside out.
Author : Robin Wasserman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439108641
Alpha girl Harper is used to getting what she wants, and that means Adam, Beth's all-American boytoy. Blond, boring Beth, who Kane, the charming playah, secretly wants too. Miranda thinks Kane is out of her league, but she wants him all the same. And then there's the new girl. Kaia. Who only wants trouble -- and he's definitely on his way. Want to know more? Commit
Author : Berdette West
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781549706707
ROMAS YOUNGBLOOD WAS ONE OF DUVAL DEADLIEST KILLER. HIM AND HIS BOYS LEFT THE GAME AFTER BECOMING VERY RICH AND POWERFUL YOUNG BLACK BUSINESSMEN. THE ONLY THING MISSING IN HIS LIFE WAS A GOOD WOMAN. AFTER BREAKING IT OFF WITH HIS LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND TONI, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE A GOLD DIGGER. HE GOES TO THE GENTLEMAN STRIP CLUB TO SEE THE BLIND DATE A FRIEND SET HIM UP WITH. AFTER SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL OWNER TERRA, DANCE ON STAGE, HE WANTED HER FOR HIS WIFEY. THE TWO STARTED DATING AND WAS JUST BEGINNING TO ENJOY EACH OTHER, WHEN THE PHONE CALLS STARTS. AT FIRST, IT WAS TELLING TERRA TO SELL HER CLUB, THEN THE CALLS TURN INTO THREATS OF RAPING AND KILLING HER. READ AS ROMAS AND HIS BOYS, THE TRIO GET PULL BACK INTO A LIFE OF KILLING. BUT WILL IT BE IN TIME TO SAVE TERRA FROM DEATH.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110209403
Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Stonehenge Editorial
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
THE FAIRER SEX? NOT THESE LADIES… The female of the species is absolutely deadlier than the male in these 14 cunningly-crafted tales of suspense, crimes of passion, and murder, all by women writers. Edited by MWA Grandmaster and bestselling mystery author John D. MacDonald, these bone-chilling stories show the depths both men and women will stoop to get what they want. Christianna Brand brings us a story of two sisters who engage in the ultimate cat-and-mouse game, with the prize being their lives. A woman accustomed to the finer things appears in Margaret Manners’ twisting tale of a socialite who will go to any lengths to keep what’s hers. Carolyn Thomas spins a tale of long-overdue revenge in the balmy Caribbean. From Veronica Parker Johns come the story of a cheating wife who’s too clever for her own good. And Juanita Sheridan delivers a marriage slipping toward disaster amid the tropical paradise of Hawaii. Fourteen tales of scheming women (and even a few dangerous men) told by the very best classic women mystery writers as they reveal…The Lethal Sex.
Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195347544
Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue." Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and our common cultural foibles. Blackburn takes a wide ranging, historical approach, discussing lust as viewed by Aristophanes and Plato, lust in the light of the Stoic mistrust of emotion, and the Christian fear of the flesh that catapulted lust to the level of deadly sin. He describes how philosophical pessimists like Schopenhauer and Sartre contributed to our thinking about lust and explores the false starts in understanding lust represented by Freud, Kinsey, and modern "evolutionary psychology." But most important, Blackburn reminds us that lust is also life-affirming, invigorating, fun. He points to the work of David Hume (Blackburn's favorite philosopher) who saw lust not only as a sensual delight but also "a joy of the mind." Written by one of the most eminent living philosophers, attractively illustrated and colorfully packaged, Lust is a book that anyone would lust over.
Author : Tim Challies
Publisher : Cruciform Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1453807284
If porn has corrupted your thinking, weakened your conscience, warped your sense of right and wrong, and twisted your understanding and expectations of sexuality, you need a moral and psychological reset by the One who created sex.
