Author: claudellaire Publisher: Starlight ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
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Emory can’t live her life with someone she doesn’t love. She’s happy with Lyndon Thorne. He’s the man she’s been dreaming of all her life. A perfect husband she wanted to stay with forever. But her world turned upside-down when the Bloody Moon appears and is time for the Alpha to choose his mate. She is too certain that it would be impossible for her to get chosen because her heart is already bound to love Lyndon. And yet, the unexpected happened in a blink of an eye when she got imprinted with Caleb Throndsen, the Alpha of their Clan during the “Choosing”. Now, she has to deal with his dominant and intimidating personality to make their bond work. She is forced to play the role she never wanted, get into a relationship she never dreamed of, and have to serve a man who treats her like an object. She couldn’t even deal with a ruthless Alpha and there came Finnegan Whitlock, an Antediluvian Elder Vampire who mistakes her for his reincarnated wife who looks so much like her. But there is more in Lyndon that she never thought would lead her to a more catastrophic event in her life…
Author: Zev de Valera Publisher: ISBN: 9781490544526 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
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Do you know who you are? Diego Manning thinks he does, until the high school senior enrolls in an exclusive summer study program at the Mission of San Bernardino Realino. Within the walls of this converted monastery, Diego will discover a world of sexual license and secrets with roots as old and deep as those of the Mission's winery, La Viuda Riseuna. Diego will discover that, sometimes, you don't know who you are until you lose yourself.
Author: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0316187151 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
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Immerse yourself in the world of Twilight with the official illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring exclusive illustrations, character profiles, and more! This must-have edition -- the only official guide -- is the definitive encyclopedic reference to the Twilight Saga and provides readers with everything they need to further explore the unforgettable world Stephenie Meyer created in Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. This comprehensive handbook -- essential for every Twilight Saga fan -- is full-color throughout with nearly 100 gorgeous illustrations and photographs and with exclusive material, character profiles, genealogical charts, maps, extensive cross-references, and much more. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times
Author: Ambrose Bierce Publisher: Standard Ebooks ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
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“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Nick Land Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 095530878X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 678
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A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British “speculative realist” philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers—writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers—who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision. Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s—long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print)—in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids. Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.
Author: Laurence A. Rickels Publisher: ISBN: 9780816633913 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 358
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Bela Lugosi may -- as the eighties gothic rock band Bauhaus sang -- be dead, but the vampire lives on. A nightmarish figure dwelling somewhere between genuine terror and high camp, a morbid repository for the psychic projections of diverse cultures, an endlessly recyclable mass-media icon, the vampire is an enduring object of fascination, fear, ridicule, and reverence. In The Vampire Lectures, Laurence A. Rickels sifts through the rich mythology of vampirism, from medieval folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead. Based on the course Rickels has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for several years (a course that is itself a cult phenomenon on campus), The Vampire Lectures reflects Rickels's unique lecture style and provides a lively history of vampirism in legend, literature, and film. Rickels unearths a trove that includes eyewitness accounts of vampire attacks; burial rituals and sexual taboos devised to keep vampirism at bay; Hungarian countess Elisabeth Bathory's use of girls' blood in her sadistic beauty regimen; Bram Stoker's Dracula, with its turn-of-the-century media technologies; F. W. Murnau's haunting Nosferatu; and crude, though intense, straight-to-video horror films such as Subspecies. He makes intuitive, often unexpected connections among these sometimes wildly disparate sources. More than simply a compilation of vampire lore, however, The Vampire Lectures makes an original and intellectually rigorous contribution to literary and psychoanalytic theory, identifying the subconscious meanings, complex symbolism, and philosophical arguments -- particularly those of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche -- embeddedin vampirism and gothic literature.
Author: Wesley Hyatt Publisher: ISBN: 9780823083152 Category : Television broadcasting Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Five-decade chronicle of television history [covering] ... all daytime programs that aired for three or more weeks on a commercial network between 1947 and 1996, plus 100 nationally syndicated shows from the same period ... . [Includes] cartoons, children's programs, game shows, news shows, soap operas, sports programs, [and] talk shows ... . Provides the dates each show aired, a synosis of its plot, its principal cast members, and other pertinent information"--Back cover.
Author: Judith Fathallah Publisher: Transmedia ISBN: 9789089649959 Category : Fan fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
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Whether you look at quantity, quality, or readership, we are in an unprecedented era of fan fiction. Thus far, however, the genre has been subject to relatively little rigorous qualitative or quantitative study--a problem that Judith May Fathallah remedies here through close analysis of fanfiction related to Sherlock, Supernatural, and Game of Thrones. Her large-scale study of the sites, receptions, and fan rejections of fanfic demonstrate how it often legitimates itself through traditional notions of authorship even as its explicit discussion and deconstruction of the author figure contests traditional discourses of authority and opens new spaces for writing that challenges the authority of media professionals.
Author: Troll Lord Games Publisher: Troll Lord Games ISBN: 9781936822355 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 551
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Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:
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