The Monster's Caress


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CIA agent Asahi Tanaka grew up hearing tales from his grandfather about a mysterious realm where magic and monsters are real. His quest for answers takes him back to Yachats, Oregon, his childhood home, and a series of disappearances leads to a strange but eerily familiar world. Nali, Empress of the Monsters, will do anything to protect the creatures under her care. When one of her fabled Sea Stags washes ashore grievously injured, she knows that the last of the alien organisms who came to her world has made it to her kingdom. Her search for the alien leads to an unexpected discovery—another visitor, this one from Earth! A perilous journey to find the malevolent alien takes Nali and Asahi across the Isle of the Monsters, leading them to a discovery that changes their perceptions and makes them reexamine their place in the universe. Will the magic that sparks between these two warriors from different worlds be enough to destroy the threat, or will one have to be sacrificed to save not only the Seven Kingdoms but Earth as well? A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, hot romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold!




Embodying the Monster


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Exploring the ideas of bodily monstrosity; vulnerablity; normality; and perfection, this book examines the ideologies surrounding these perceptions and considers what this tells us about ourselves.




Monster of Monsters: Series One Mortem’s Basement Level #3 And Let The Real Games Begin: Gold Star Edition


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All Kein wanted was to be devoured... As an orphan, she had been told since joining her school that it was very important that a house or clan devour her so when she met a creature promising to devour her, she was confused at first, but then she was consoled that someone wanted her. A world of monsters and vampires and a world of humans. Loneliness can be a very strong emotion. Read the first two stories for FREE. Monster of Monsters: Series One Mortem’s Basement Level #1 Mortem's Opening & Monster of Monsters: Series One Mortem’s Basement Level #2 Mortem's Contestant. Gold Star Edition: Monster of Monsters is celebrating over 5 years of monstrously good fun and finding family and friends in this action packed adventure as Kein tries to survive a deadly game filled with monsters and secrets. This special edition includes a glossary. Monster of Monsters: Series One Mortem’s Basement Level #1 Mortem's Opening #2 Mortem's Contestant #3 And Let The Real Games Begin #4 A Bargain Has Been Struck... #5 Secrets Told And Secrets Unfold #6 Vampires, Dragons, and Mummies... Oh My! #7 The Outsider, Chimera Rises Enter a deadly game were one's greatest wish can be full-filled if they win the Mortem, but no one has ever won the Mortem. Survival horror... What would you do to obtain your greatest desires? Loneliness can be a very strong emotion, but it can also be a very strong motivator so even when a creature of the darkness invited her to come to her, innocence heeded the call. Kein began an adventure of heartache and joy as she walked the paths of shadow and light. She would discover what it was to be devoured as a dangerous game drew her into a deadly realm of wishes, revenge, hope, desire, love, & terror.




Monsters


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The Hunger Games mixes with The Walking Dead in this post-apocalyptic YA series that comes to a hair-raising conclusion in Monsters. The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now. When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse—until the doctors found the monster in her head. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. Now, with no hope of rescue—on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit—she discovers a new and horrifying truth. The Change isn't over. The Changed are still evolving. And...they've had help. With this final volume of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply. A world where, from these ashes, the monsters will rise.




Monsters in the Closet


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Monster in the Closet is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies, the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in relation to various medical, psychological, religious and social models of homosexuality. While recent work within gay and lesbian studies has explored how the genetic tropes of the horror film intersect with popular culture's understanding of queerness, this is the first book to examine how the concept of the monster queer has evolved from era to era. From the gay and lesbian sensibilities encoded into the form and content of the classical Hollywood horror film, to recent films which play upon AIDS-related fears. Monster in the Closet examines how the horror film started and continues, to demonize (or quite literally "monsterize") queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and "costs" of such representations might be both for individual spectators and culture at large.




Lovers & Monsters


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From the moment he first shook her hand, Detective Isaac Taylor knew that Sidney Fairchild was in danger. Even without the unwanted psychic powers he sensed it, and he has kept her safe at his side ever since. Through car explosions, police protective custody and numerous attempts on her life, he's kept her alive. But now the danger is personal, and it grows closer every day. Sidney doesn't know how much more she can take. Escaping a ruthless drug lord was bad enough, but facing the man who forced her into hiding is a whole new kind of terror. A terror she knows can cost her everything – including her sizzling new romance with protective, sexy Detective Ike Taylor. Desperate to hold on to the love they've found, Isaac and Sidney will both have to face their greatest fear to keep it. But with time running out and the body count rising, can Isaac learn to harness his abilities in time to save her?




The Land of Promise


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Harlequin Historical January 2013 - Bundle 1 of 2


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Harlequin Historical brings you three new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from January 1 to January 31! Look for timeless love stories set in the Regency and medieval periods featuring powerful heroes and scandalous, seductive romance. This Harlequin Historical bundle includes Some Like to Shock, book 2 in the Daring Duchesses duet by Carole Mortimer, Captive of the Border Lord, by Blythe Gifford, and The Caged Countess, by Joanna Fulford. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Historical!







The Birth of Venus


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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.