Walk on the Wilder Side

Walk on the Wilder Side
Author: Serena Bell
Publisher: Jelsba Media Group
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953498108

His best friend’s sister is rocking his boat. In the best way possible. Brody What’s a bad boy doing hosting a book club on his boat? Excellent question. All I can tell you is, it’s not going well. I forgot the bug wipes, the TP, and the hand sanitizer, we’re out of wine, and… well, I may have made some people angry, if the Yelp reviews are any indication. The only way to dig myself out of this hole is to redeem myself by offering the best girls’ nights out in town. Enter my best friend’s sister. I’ve gone out of my way to avoid Rachel, since despite her good-girl rep, I can’t seem to get her out of my head. Now she’s in my boat… and if I don’t watch myself, soon she’ll be in my bed. Things are going surprisingly well between us… but I know myself, and I’m not this guy. I’m the guy you want for fantasy fulfillment, not the guy you want for forever. But what if I need this time to be different?

A Walk on the Wild Side

A Walk on the Wild Side
Author: Nelson Algren
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374525323

With its depiction of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, "A Walk on the Wild Side" tells, in Algren's own words, "something about the natural toughness of women and men, in that order".

Wild Things

Wild Things
Author: Judy Attfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350070726

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's “lives”. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.

Make Me Wilder

Make Me Wilder
Author: Serena Bell
Publisher: Jelsba Media Group
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953498086

She’s a city girl. I’m a mountain man. This shouldn’t work. So why can’t I stay away? Gabe: I promised my dad I’d take care of the Wilder family adventure business, including my rowdy co-workers, AKA my brothers. Now the business is in trouble. Rush Creek has become a spa-and-wedding destination, and the new tourists aren’t interested in getting dirty—at least not in the woods. Then Lucy comes to town, all blond hair and silky blouses and spike heels. It’s her job to give Wilder Adventures a makeover. If she gets her way, Wilder Adventures will become Wilder Romantic Adventures. Lucy hates small towns, getting messy, and anything involving the woods or the water—which pretty much makes her Not My Type. That doesn’t explain why when I see her, I can’t look away. Why when I touch her, I can’t stop. And why, even though I know no one can talk a city girl into small town life, I’m still trying. She’s driving me wild. All I can do is make her wilder. “Serena Bell always delivers on fine writing and sexy characters. And, wow, fans of True North should know that her new series is right up your alley!” —Sarina Bowen, USA Today bestselling author of the True North Series “Absolutely loved the story! ♥” —@Bookstley on Instagram “Stayed up so late to read this book last night but it was sooooo worth it.” —@torlynnreads on Instagram ★★★★★ “Absolutely love this book!” —Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ “This book sizzles right from the start! I lost track of how many times I genuinely laughed out loud.” —Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ “Humor, steam, and a whole lot of heart.” —Misty, Reds Romance Reviews ★★★★★ “Wow! There aren’t words to describe how this book made me feel.” —Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ “Funny, romantic and wonderful characters!” —Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ “I really, really love this book! Just the right amount of humor, angst and sex with a perfect HEA.” —NetGalley reviewer Keywords: enemies to lovers, small town, alpha hero, band of brothers, fish out of water, opposites attract, outdoor adventure, steamy, fun, funny, romantic comedy, steamy contemporary, laugh out loud, found family, friends and family, steamy romance, contemporary romance, romance series, small town romance

Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences

Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences
Author: James W. Goll
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768498775

Go beyond… Go beyond the realm of your natural senses to the Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences. Jesus is bigger than all of us. His power and ways transcend our understanding. But if we are to grow in all He has for us, we need to tap into what the Holy Spirit has for us today. This book is filled with actual experiences from church history, and modern-day testimonies that are all grounded in the Word of God.Open your heart to God as He delights in revealing Himself to you through spiritual experiences such as: Encountering Angels. Dreams, Visions & Miracles. Near-death Experiences. Testing the Spirits. Insights into Things to Come. How to Keep Jesus Central. The authors are convinced of the importance of operating in God's supernatural realm: "Until authentic power displayed through God's prophets and healersÉinfuses society, people will continue to turn toward the only source of power they see-occult and paranormal power displayed through television and in New Age circles."

Red Hott and Wilder

Red Hott and Wilder
Author: Serena Bell
Publisher: Jelsba Media Group
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2023-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953498310

Hotter, Wilder, and oh so holiday-ready. Three small-town holiday romcom stories with found family, big hearts, hot nights, and ALL the feels. HOT UNDER THE COLLAR All Reggie wants is the cute rescue pup at the shelter. She couldn’t care less about the adopt-a-pup, win-a-date special. But now she’s on the hook for a day out with the hot firefighter she’s been ogling. Unfortunately, he’s also the man who rescued her when she set her bedroom on fire during a failed attempt at “self care.” Can she turn a recipe for humiliation into a hot holiday fling—or more? 10,000 words. Originally published in the Chasing Holiday Tail anthology. WILDER FOR THE WIN Let the games begin! The coldest thing at the Tinsel and Tatas Winter Games is Amanda and Heath’s marriage. Can Amanda’s Wilder stubbornness melt the ice? Or will Heath have to bring the heat? 10,000 words. Originally published in the Tinsel & Tatas anthology. A WILDER WEEKEND (co-written w Brenda St James Brown) Was it a mistake for Mika to kiss her best friend's brother all those years ago? She'll find out, because she’s partnered up with him for the Rent-An-Elf fundraiser on her visit to Rush Creek. Connor is as confident and sexy as she remembers, and it's no easier for them to keep their hands off each other than it was the last time around… 20,000 words. Originally published in the Holiday Heart-On anthology.

Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk
Author: Fintan McDonagh
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-07-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476680922

Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Finding himself blacklisted after his prison sentence and unable to operate under a pseudonym, he took the step of testifying and naming names to the Committee. His career resumed to considerable commercial success, but also to prolonged and bitter criticism from the left and persistent mistrust from the right. Acknowledged as one of the key figures in the development of the film noir genre, having directed one of its first films, Murder, My Sweet, Dmytryk has otherwise frequently been sidelined in critical studies because of the controversy. This book is the first to critically evaluate each of the dozens of films he made between the 1930s and the 1970s including The Young Lions, Crossfire and The Caine Mutiny, among many others.

Elusive Adulthoods

Elusive Adulthoods
Author: Deborah Durham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253030196

Essays on the changing meanings of adulthood in places around the world: “An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages.” —Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and Conflicts Elusive Adulthoods examines why, in recent years, complaints about an inability to achieve adulthood have been heard in societies around the world. By exploring the changing meaning of adulthood in Botswana, China, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the United States, contributors to this volume pose the problem of “What is adulthood?” and examine how the field of anthropology has come to overlook this meaningful stage in its studies. Through these case studies we discover different means of recognizing the achievement of adulthood, such as through negotiated relationships with others, including grown children, and as a form of upward class mobility. We also encounter the difficulties that come from a sense of having missed full adulthood, instead jumping directly into old age in the course of rapid social change, or a reluctance to embrace the stability of adulthood and necessary subordination to job and family. In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how changing political and economic factors form the background for generational experience and understanding of adulthood, which is a major focus of concern for people around the globe as they negotiate changing ways of living.

Hott Take

Hott Take
Author: Serena Bell
Publisher: Jelsba Media Group
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1953498299

The hard part isn’t acting like we’re falling for each other. It’s pretending we’re not. Shane: My grandfather’s will has me between a rock and a Hott place. If I don’t score a celebrity wedding, my sister will lose her wedding planning business—and our family’s land. As a playboy movie star, I know Hollywood’s ins and outs. But finding two celebrities in love is tougher than it looks. Enter Ivy Scofield—the beautiful star of one of TV’s most beloved failures. She’s hiding from her past in Rush Creek, running a community theater for troubled kids. She needs my family’s wedding barn to save her program. So we make a deal: I give her the barn—she gives me her hand in fake marriage. Lights, camera, action—and cut—right? Not so fast. Planning our fake wedding is way more personal than I was expecting. I’m learning Ivy’s quirks, preferences, and pet peeves—and that’s before I walk in on her enjoying my most infamous on-camera scene. Plus she’s slowly peeling back my layers—the ones I’ve built up to protect myself. If someone doesn’t do something soon, we might discover that the only thing fake about this wedding is the way we keep pushing each other away. A spicy, movie star, marriage of convenience, fake relationship standalone romantic comedy set in the beloved small town of Rush Creek.

Walking Wonders

Walking Wonders
Author: Richard Cathy Dodson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001-07-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780759525320

In this delightful daybook, Cathlynn Dodson shows us how we may find inspiration and relaxation through the simple practice of taking a daily walk. Good for the body as well as the spirit, walking opens us up to the beauty and wisdom of the natural world--all we must do is pay attention. In prose both clear and compelling, the author leads us through a series of meditations based on her own experience, sharing the lessons she has learned in her wanderings, and posing questions we may ponder during our own sojourns. Perfect for reading on a personal digital assistant,