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![]() ![]() Individual books from each of his pennames (save any that wrote exclusively in the erotica genre, which the author disowns) have bubbled up over the years in the form of revised texts released under the author’s actual name. The sorts of fiction he has since rocketed to fame with appeared under pennames such as Brian Coffey, Leigh Nichols, and others. Fun fact: The author kicked off his career in the science fiction realm under his own name. The sixties and seventies saw Koontz trying out a variety of fiction genres using a stable of pennames. Long, long, long, long before author Dean Koontz kicked off his spree of releasing original novellas tied to his latest novels, he wrote a slender action thriller under pseudonym. Murder Will Out: The… on The Psychology of Fear: The Ca…īent and Uncanny: De… on Now I Have the Truth Ho, Ho,… Murder Will Out: The… on Spoooooky Hands and Moving Can… ![]() Murder Will Out: The… on SHOCKtober: Old Dark House Dou… ![]() I Wish I Were Special: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3īloody Awful Work in… on CAMP BLOOD REDUX: ADAM CESARE…. ![]() Bent and Uncanny: Dean Koontz’s The Other Emily.Bloody Awful Work in the Berks: Adam Cesare’s The Summer Job.Across the Prairie With Blood and Bullets: Winchester ’73 (1950). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the more they stalk their eccentric quarry, the more they seem actually to be stalking the Big Questions-the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of language” (New York Times). This critically praised series of three novels turn “the detective genre into something tonier: the gumshoes in their chilly pages keep meeting doppelgangers and spitting out references to Don Quixote and Hawthorne and Thoreau. “Paul Auster’s groundbreaking New York Trilogy could give meta-fiction good name… They’re wickedly clever brain-ticklers” (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner). Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Each are signed by Paul Auster on the title page. $1,500.00 Item Number: 121435įirst editions of Paul Auster’s detective novels, each signed by him on the title page, with volume one a early printing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tomorrow.maybe she's already fallen for him. ![]() And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams. As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he's much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she's sparred with for the past four years. Rachel Lynn Solomon is a bestselling author of love stories for teens and adults, including Today Tonight Tomorrow, See You Yesterday, The Ex Talk, and Weather Girl.Originally from Seattle, she’s currently navigating expat life with her husband in Amsterdam, where she’s on a mission to try as many Dutch sweets as possible. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they're the last players left-and then they'll destroy each other. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. ![]() ![]() While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she'd love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() "O'Keeffe's New York City is a living organism, a breathing giant. ![]() Original illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth, with silver lettering on spine. His conviction that sexist imagery, codified around 1900, still dominates the popular imagination informs this brilliant, often startling study. Finally, he traces a trajectory of fantasies involving men attaining supermale status from Nietzsche to Ezra Pound and Hitler. Rider Haggard, in Jung's psychology of unchanging archetypes, in the social Darwinist teachings of Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. Shuttling between high and popular culture, Dijkstra argues that antifeminine, racist and imperialist attitudes merge in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, in Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. ![]() Mencken, Elinor Glyn's bestselling 1907 potboiler Three Weeks, and unravels the sexist assumptions of sociologist Emile Durkheim, sexologist Havelock Ellis and philosopher of love Remy de Gourmont. He unmasks predatory females in Hemingway, H.L. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Beginning with vamp' Theda Bara's 1915 silent-film debut in A Fool There Was, Dijkstra (Idols of Perversity), writing with passionate feminist scholarship, decodes images of women as predators, destroyers and vultures who deplete civilized males of their creative energies. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book does indeed belong to the women. Notes on an Execution was born from a desire to dissect this exhausting narrative.” Amen, sister. She writes in the Author’s Note that precedes the novel, “Average men become interesting when they start hurting women. It’s not that there’s a real one on the loose, but rather we obsess over - and glorify - their mythology. I wanted to get back to it whenever I had to put it down.Īs author Kukafka sees it, America has a serial killer problem. I reread paragraphs to make sure I’d fully absorbed them. It’s the rare unicorn of a novel that is masterfully written, has a page-turning plot, and manages to make a statement about our society all at the same time. Danya Kukafka’s brilliant sophomore novel, Notes on an Execution, will take top honors as the best book I’ve read this year. ![]() With just over a month left in 2021, I’m calling it. ![]() ![]() And just as Lexie, Laurie, and Krystal before her, it is her job to unfuck him ) The reason Chace is a little broken- he has family issues(his father) and his wife was murdered (even though there marriage was a joke- it still does something to him. Bossy, sexy, protective, and a little broken. And Chace Keaton is the perfect alpha male. Sweet, but has a backbone, loyal, loving, funny, and geeky (can’t tell you how much my inner nerd loved all the Firefly and StarWars references). Faye is everything I love about a good heroine. The man she has been crushing on for 13 years is now single. ![]() The reason? She’s holding out for a hero. She doesn’t really put herself out there. Faye reads about love, but has yet to experience it. She is twenty nine and always has her head in a book. ![]() ![]() This was such a beautiful book! Laughter, tears, smiling from ear to ear, this book just had it all!įaye Goodnight is Carnal’s librarian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ideal for students both in philosophy and gender studies, this highly readable book takes us to the very heart of two of the most important dimensions of human experience and meaning-making: to the seductive and alluring, confusing and frustrating, realms of love and sex. ![]() ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. In twelve original and philosophically thought-provoking essays, the authors reflect on the broader meanings of love and sex: what their shifting historical meanings entail for us in the present how they are constrained by social conventions the ambiguous juxtaposition of agency and passivity that they reveal how they shape and are formed by political institutions the opportunities they present to resist the confines of gender and sexual orientation how cultural artefacts can become incorporated into the body and how love and sex both form and justify our ethical world views. This article examines the oppositional agency articulated by Lordes thought, locating feeling, poetry, and the power she calls ‘the erotic’ within her avowed project of self-preservation. New Philosophies of Sex and Love: Thinking Through Desire 1st Edition and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This volume challenges some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and more. Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other and our shared world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Witches and Pagans looks at women's sacraments in early medieval Europe, a subject that has been buried deep for centuries. Veneration of the Fates persisted under many titles, as the Norns, sudice, fatas and f es, Wyrd or the Three Weird Sisters. They include Berthe P dauque, also known as the "Swan-footed Queen," whose spinning began at the proverbial beginning of time. ![]() Archaeological finds of their ritual staffs show that many symbolize the distaff, a spinner's wand that connects with wider European themes of goddesses, fates, witches, and female power. She shows that the old ethnic names for "witch" signify 'wisewoman, ' 'prophetess, ' 'diviner, ' 'chanter, ' 'herbalist, ' and 'healer.' She fleshes out the oracular ceremonies of the Norse v lur ("staff-women"), their incantations and "sitting-out" on the land seeking vision. In this compelling exploration of language, archaeology, and early medieval literature, Max Dashu illuminates hidden cultural heritages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Samuel suspects Honor is hiding something, but will uncovering the truth confirm his worst fears or truly bring them together as man and wife?Set against the backdrop of dramatic and pivotal moments in American history, the Quaker Brides series chronicles the lives of three brave heroines, fighting to uphold their principles of freedom while navigating the terrain of faith, family, and the heart.Ĥ.5 star rating Honor's devotion to her Quaker beliefs makes her anything but weak as she fights against slavery and for the new family she has so quickly inherited. Nevertheless, her tenacity and passion sweep her into important winds of change, and she becomes increasingly-though secretly-involved in the Underground Railroad. Samuel is drawn to Honor, but he has been unwilling to open his heart to anyone since scarlet fever took his hearing as a child.A move west brings the promise of a fresh start, but nothing in Honor's genteel upbringing has prepared her for the rigors of frontier life with Samuel. ![]() With no marketable skills, her survival hinges on a marriage arranged through the Quaker community to local glass artisan Samuel Cathwell. ![]() When unexpected circumstances leave Honor Penworthy destitute after the death of her grandfather, she is forced to leave her Maryland plantation-and the slaves she hoped to free-and seek refuge with a distant relative. ![]() |