Wolfish Girl

Wolfish Girl
Author: Andy Mascola
Publisher: Andy Mascola
Total Pages: 157
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1539698726

Jenny Wolfe attempts to balance friendships, a career, and a budding romance, all while trying to figure out why she's begun to exhibit the traits of a horrific, wolf-like creature. Jenny's life is thrown into further chaos when her slacker brother shows up from out of town on the run from violent loan sharks. After two thugs are found viciously attacked in an alley, detectives begin investigating Jenny. How far will she go to protect her frightening secret and the people she loves?

Wolfish

Wolfish
Author: G K DeRosa
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-11-24
Genre:
ISBN:

I'm not alone. There are other Mystic wolves out there, and now I have to find them. And win the Alpha Trials, get my revenge on the supreme alpha and of course, break my mate's curse. Phew... And I thought things would be easier now that we'd finally completed the mate bond. I was very wrong. When Hunter takes matters into his own hands, a desperate decision escalates the situation from bad to worse. With our new relationship on the line, my jilted wolfy fiancé makes his move, trying to worm his way into my fragile heart. As if dealing with two males wasn't bad enough, the final round of the Alpha Trials takes a dark turn, and an unexpected loss nearly breaks me once again. With my love life in turmoil, the survival of my pack on the line and everything up in the air, the question isn't whether I'll win the trials and get my happily ever after with my mate, but will I live to see the last day of the competition? *** This is an upper YA/NA crossover with schmexy alpha wolves and is best suited for ages 16+. Be warned this is a slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance, and the steaminess factor does increase through the course of the series! ♥ *** Wolfish is set within the world of Azar, along with (in reading order) Hitched, Darkblood Academy, Royally Hitched and Darkblood Prison but it's not necessary to read the other series first to enjoy this one.

Witch Girl

Witch Girl
Author: Jan Eldredge
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1407187635

Evangeline is apprentice to her witch grandmother, who spends her days and night studying the ways of magic and superstition, honing her skills hunting creatures of the night. When she and Gran are called to a creepy old mansion for work, she encounters a monster who's been after her family for generations and may be more than she can handle...

The Abject of Desire

The Abject of Desire
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9401204896

The Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The “experience of disgust”, which Winfried Menninghaus describes as “an acute crisis of self-preservation”, is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in theories of the abject/abjection. In view of this general crisis of identity in the experience of disgust, the contributions to this volume discuss examples of the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in cultural representations and locate conceptual (re)codings of the body, gender, and identity with regard to the abject as an immediate and uncompromising experience on the one hand, and a social and political phenomenon on the other. Considering a variety of cultural narratives by writers as diverse as Samuel Delany, Sarah Schulman, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Magrs, J. G. Ballard, Stevie Smith, T. C. Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self, by film directors John Waters and Peter Greenaway, playwrights Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani, and “body artist” Gunter von Hagens, the contributors to this volume scrutinize different implications of the ambivalent concept of the abject/abjection.

Now We Have Nothing

Now We Have Nothing
Author: Andy Mascola
Publisher: Andy Mascola
Total Pages: 152
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1087242126

Growing up in a small English village in the 1800s, Catherine Howe could have never predicted her otherwise ordinary life would turn out the way it did. Soon after she begins secretly learning witchcraft from a domestic servant, Catherine's neighbors start witnessing strange occurrences they believe are related to Catherine's peculiar adopted brother, Max. Following an unforeseen, tragic event, Catherine clandestinely flees her homeland for America. After adjusting to a new life in an oceanside New England town, she soon discovers that in order to prevent further tragedy, a deadly part of her tumultuous past must be reckoned with. Inspired by elements of Wuthering Heights, the films Let the Right One In and Nosferatu the Vampyre, the Salem witch trials, and the music and lyrics of Marc Bolan, Now We Have Nothing follows the unusual siblings Catherine and Max Howe over hundreds of years into the present-day as they struggle independently for survival and a sense of identity in a world where their secrets could cost them their lives.

The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed

The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed
Author: Charles Runyon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440539022

Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back to town to clear his brother of murder, convinced there is more to all these deaths than mere coincidence. Enlisting the aid of Velda, whose sister was supposedly murdered by Curt's brother, the two of them gradually begin to attract the attention of a very ingenious killer, a man well versed in the game of Death.

Blueberries

Blueberries
Author: Ellena Savage
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1925923177

A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.

Zero Percent Juice

Zero Percent Juice
Author: Andy Mascola
Publisher: Andy Mascola
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2024-10-06
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

Phillip Attenberg is a twenty-six-year-old virgin with no charm or charisma. Other than working at a big-box membership-only warehouse retail store, Phillip's only other activities include drinking canned iced coffee and watching his grouchy roommate harass women through a speaker hanging out of a window of the apartment the two share. One day, Phillip discovers there's a man living in his city who looks exactly like him. The difference between Phillip and his doppelgänger, however, is that the look-alike has loads of charm and charisma. Another difference is that Phillip's double has started seducing and murdering women by drowning them! The local press begins referring to the wicked scoundrel as the Cold-Water Killer, and this evil twin quickly becomes the bane of Phillip's already miserable existence. Will the Cold-Water Killer be brought to justice before Phillip mistakenly takes the fall for him? Will Phillip ever get the "juice" he needs to establish a social life for himself? Will Phillip's roommate ever stop pestering ladies walking by their apartment? Find the answers to all these questions in Zero Percent Juice!

The Peeper and the Playwright

The Peeper and the Playwright
Author: Andy Mascola
Publisher: Andy Mascola
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Tom Dulcet's girlfriend has become enamored with Reuben Wild, an eccentric local playwright whose controversial works take aim at the rampant corruption in the city they're performed in. A shadowy political figure known as the Accountant has also become aware of Reuben and has made it his goal to strongarm anyone who supports Wild's subversive plays. Through Tom's eyes, we watch as Reuben's stories embolden and energize his neighbors to rise up against their oppressors. We also partake in Tom's secret obsession, peeping on a beautiful young woman who lives with her parents in the wealthiest neighborhood in the city. The Peeper and the Playwright is a story that will be appreciated by anyone who's ever objected to authority and wanted to fight back against those keeping them down.

I'll Let You Go

I'll Let You Go
Author: Bruce Wagner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2024-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648210562

Twelve-year-old Toulouse “Tull” Trotter lives with his grandfather on a vast Bel-Air parkland estate and spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, “the girl detective,” and Edward, a prodigy who was born disfigured by the effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation by Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tull—and the Trotter family—forever. I’ll Let You Go, the third novel of Bruce Wagner, is a Angelino Bleak House that follows a young boy as he searches for his lost father, his beautiful, drug-addicted mother, Katrina, who is still coming down from the disappearance of her husband, and their family’s connection to a street orphan and a homeless schizophrenic. A masterful, modern-day family saga about the valleys between wealth and poverty and reality and fantasy.