Backward Glances

Backward Glances
Author: Mark W. Turner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781861891808

Focusing upon gay street life in London and New York, Mark Turner presents this gay urban history of male street cruising.

Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist

Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist
Author: Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810126818

Jeffrey Hanson is an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College. --Book Jacket.

Breakup, Makeup

Breakup, Makeup
Author: Stacey Anthony
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 076248165X

In this sweet and stylish romance, two lovers turned cosplay rivals go head-to-head for a chance at their dream school . . . and maybe a second chance at love. Eli Peterson is a self-taught, up-and-coming makeup artist in the cosplay scene who is barely making ends meet. While they might be slaying it with their breathtaking looks, they’re also trying to save enough money for top surgery and convince their parents that their artistic dream is worthwhile. During a convention, Eli hears about Makeup Wars, a competition that could change everything . . . The grand prize? A scholarship to Beyond, the best SFX school on the West Coast. The problem? Going head-to-head with the most talented up-and-coming makeup artists in the scene—including rival influencer Zachary Miller, their ex-boyfriend. Eli will have to juggle their makeup brushes, their rekindled feelings for Zach, and their self-doubt in order to win everything they’ve ever wanted: a chance to chase their dream and a second chance at love.

Preserving the Evidence

Preserving the Evidence
Author: Kaz Delaney
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1956387404

In this small town, not everyone is who they claim to be… When amateur baker, and now amateur sleuth, Rosie Hart finds herself embroiled in another mystery in rural Airlie Falls, Texas, she can’t believe her bad luck. Soon the town is reeling from a murder, an unidentified body, a late mayoral challenge, missing town money, and a strange group of socialites gathered at a mansion out of town. With so many of her new friends suspected of wrongdoing, Rosie can’t sit on the sidelines any longer. She’s convinced these strange occurrences are connected, but she’s running out of time to prove how. She’ll need to unmask a murderer before there’s another body to add to the tally. Snooping around undercover is harder than it looks, and Rosie will be lucky to get out of this one without more casualties than a batch of burned Buried Treasure Cookies.

The Corean Chronicles, Volume One

The Corean Chronicles, Volume One
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1761
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765395703

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the bestselling Recluce fantasy series, opens the door into a marvelous new world in The Corean Chronicles. This discounted ebundle includes: Legacies, Darknesses, Scepters Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a great worldwide civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations have fought their way up from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the lost world that preceded them or the details of its fall. Corus today is a world of contending countries, of humans, but also of strange animals and supernatural creatures. It is a place of magical powers, and of a few people who are talented enough to use them. Legacies — Alusius is drafted into the local Militia to fight against the invading slave armies of The Matrial, an immortal ruler in a nearby land. If the evil surrounding The Matrial is not brought to an end, the world as he knows it could very well end. Darknesses — Captain Alusius faces new challenges, both military and magical. A would-be conqueror has revived sorcerous creatures of legend to assist in his crusade to reunite the continent under his rule. Alucius's Talent is the only hope against this foe, or even survival. Scepters — Alusius must quell a strange religiously-inspired rebellion and then find a way to destroy the powerful weapons of ancient design. When a different, covert enemy threatens, only the timely assistance of the ancient Soarers, and the addition of his wife Wendra's Talent, gives him any hope of success. Other series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. The Saga of Recluce Imager Portfolio The Spellsong Cycle The Ghost Books The Ecolitan Matter At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Poetry Joice - Fresh Squeezed

Poetry Joice - Fresh Squeezed
Author: Torre A. DeVito
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0359016189

Poetry Juice is the most complete collection of the poetry of Torre A. DeVito with over 175 poems, including new and unpublished works.

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Red Scrolls of Magic
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481495097

A #1 New York Times bestseller! “A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance.” —Entertainment Weekly “[A] swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series.” —Publishers Weekly From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of “swoon-worthy romance [and] abundant action” (Publishers Weekly). The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel. All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation—a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke. Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand before the cult can cause any more damage. Demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. As their quest for answers becomes increasingly dire, Magnus and Alec will have to trust each other more than ever—even if it means revealing the secrets they’ve both been keeping.

Nocturnal Omissions

Nocturnal Omissions
Author: Peter Samuel Kolins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2008-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462823823

a grim faerie tale of murder, money laundering, buggery, incest, insecticide and lycanthropy-- an account of life within a disorganized and dysfunctional crime family.

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
Author: Matthew Solomon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1438435827

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.