![]() When Reagan's ex, Ethan Connor, enters the scene, Trey's secret desires come back to haunt him, and pleasure and passion are taken to a whole new level of dangerous desire. ![]() Book 5 of The Sinners on TourHe craves her music and passion.she can't get enough of his bodyOn the rebound from the tumult of his bisexual lifestyle, notoriously sexy rock guitarist Trey Mills falls for sizzling new female guitar sensation Reagan Elliot and is swept into the hot, heady romance he never dreamed possible.Ecstatic to be on tour learning the ropes with Trey's band, The Sinners, Reagan finds she craves Trey as much as she craves being in the spotlight. ![]()
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![]() A ring-bound photocopy of the fair copy of the author s typescript showing the final but very substantial holograph revisions and corrections in the author's hand on more than 100 pages. The Satanic Verses - No Place: Privately Printed, 1988. Wrappers with some minor creases and rubbing, else fine with the usual paper browning. The Jaguar Smile - London: Pan Books/Picador, 1987. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, signed by the author upon publication. Boards marked, slight spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in a near fine dustwrapper with only the slightest hint of fading on the spine. Midnight's Children - London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. Dustwrapper with minimal rubbing along spine ends. Book is fine except for a small mark across fore edge and an ink spot on lower paste down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Updike’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Moreover, Updike has been called a “maker of fables and parables, ” which can be seen through his use of symbolism and imagery. As a prominent voice of literary realism for 1970s American fiction, Updike’s Rabbit novels commented on the changing social and political hierarchies of late modernism in America’s Eisenhour era. ![]() Titles in this study guide include Rabbit Run and Rabbit Redux. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Updike, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction in 19. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But President Puchkov has secrets of his own, secrets that could rip everything apart. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on.In the chaos, Jack's relationship with the Russian president, Sergey Puchkov, grows closer, and the two nations find themselves working almost as allies. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. Fifteen years from now, an affair rocks the world.Two men commit to their impossible love.One general is determined to destroy them both.President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service Agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ghost considers it a great insult that the American family is not scared of him. In a role reversal, the ghost is scared after scaring people for more than three hundred years. But when the notorious Canterville Ghost makes his appearance, the family is not afraid at all. But that does not deter the family, who do not believe in ghosts. An American family named Otis moves into an old English mansion called Canterville chase. It is both a parody of the traditional ghost story and a satire of the American way of life. Wilde takes an American family, places them in a British setting, then, through a series of mishaps, pits one culture against the other. The Canterville Ghost is a study in contrasts. We see him brave, frightening, distressed, scared, and finally, depressed and weak. During the course of the story, we come to understand the complexity of the ghost's emotions. The story takes place in an old English country house, Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrement of a traditional haunted house. The Canterville Ghost is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Splicing social history and critical theory with a personal conversion narrative, Reynolds tracks the mercurial development of house and techno back and forth across the Atlantic-through countless archipelagos of subgenres-with firm precision. With robust back matter including deep bibliographies and listening recommendations, it’s a comprehensive trial-by-fire for techno novices. Documentary evidence in the form of names, places, and dates accumulates with dizzying force. But it’s still 390 pages of close analysis, lively interviews, and epic descriptions of the reflexive textures of music and drugs. Generation Ecstasy is the abridged American version of Energy Flash, British critic Simon Reynolds’ definitive postmortem of ’90s rave culture. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Puritans are notorious for their staunch religious beliefs, prudish sentiments, and harsh criticisms. The Scarlet Letter (published for the first time in 1850) takes place in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England in the 1640s. If you’ve never read the story, I’ll give you a little bit of background information before I dive in. The Scarlet Letter may have been written by a man, but the novel’s main character, Hester Prynne, is a strong female character, and I’d like to argue that Hawthorne gave her a very feminist mindset and attitude from the very start of the story. I’m sure many of you had to read this novel as a teenager, and I’m sure even more of you have seen the movie Easy A, which is loosely based on the book. ![]() Like most of the books I have reviewed so far, The Scarlet Letter is a classic. While The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne obviously does not fit into this criteria, I felt strongly that I needed to review it through a feminist lens this month. ![]() The Mistress of the House of Books is all about putting the spotlight on womxn writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington's granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington's “favored” dower slave. “A brilliant work of US history.” -School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” -BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life-now available as a young reader's edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family-and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation's Founding Fathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I first read this novel in Bulgarian translation, where the original Polish title has been kept: Bieguni. Flights has echoes of WG Sebald, Milan Kundera, Danilo Kiš and Dubravka Ugrešić, but Tokarczuk inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own. Olga Tokarczuk is a household name in Poland and one of Europe’s major humanist writers, working here in the continental tradition of the “thinking” or essayistic novel. It is a novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices and stories seemingly unconnected across time and space, which meander between the profound and the facetious, the mysterious and the ordinary, and whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity. This reflects the existential preoccupations of Flights, whose central recurring tropes are physical movement, the mortal body and the meaning of home. ![]() ![]() ![]() L, they’re a motley crew headed by restaurant manager, Lazlo, who looms large as a presence both comforting and cautionary. Surrounded by coworkers who seem to be perpetually in some state of a drug-induced high, attempting to score drugs, and temperamenta While Over Easy documented Pond’s time as a recent art school graduate, floundering in her future and recently hired as dishwasher, and then waitress at The Imperial Cafe, The Customer Is Always Wrong finds her fully immersed in the restaurant and its dysfunctional staff and weirdo regulars. ![]() The Customer Is Always Wrong follows her time as a waitress at The Imperial Cafe filled with a cast of characters as colorful as the aqua watercolor filling the pages of her book junkies, dealers, wannabe artists, and criminals fill Pond’s story as she struggles to make a career as a cartoonist while also continually being drawn into a world frequently at odds with that goal. ![]() Comic artist Mimi Pond’s continuation of the memoir she began in Over Easy delves right back into the world of late ’70s / early ’80s Oakland, California. ![]() |