Golden Torment

Golden Torment
Author: Janelle Taylor
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142012742X

Bestselling author Janelle Taylor's stories ring with fiery passion and thrilling adventure. This sensual and compelling romance carries on that tradition in the icy wilderness of Alaska where a tempestuous beauty and a rugged lumberjack discover a love hot enough to melt the frozen tundra.

Herd Register

Herd Register
Author: American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1927
Genre: Cattle
ISBN:

"Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300?650 "

Author: JohnR. Decker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351570102

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ?s Passion and its aftermath, but the martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice visited on the wicked, and broadsheet reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of the body?s desecration. Contributors to this volume interpret pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form not simply as the passing fancies of a cadre of proto-sadists, but also as serving larger social functions within European society. Taking advantage of the frameworks established by scholars such as Samuel Edgerton, Mitchell Merback, and Elaine Scarry (to name but a few), Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 provides an intriguing set of lenses through which to view such imagery and locate it within its wider social, political, and devotional contexts. Though the art works discussed are centuries old, the topics of the essays resonate today as twenty-first-century Western society is still absorbed in thorny debates about the ethics and consequences of the use of force, coercion (including torture), and execution, and about whether it is ever fully acceptable to write social norms on the bodies of those who will not conform.

Someday Soon

Someday Soon
Author: Janelle Taylor
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1420127608

THE PAST HELD THE KEY TO THEIR PASSION. . . AND THEIR FUTURE. Cammie Miller's career hangs on convincing Oscar-winning actor Tyler Stovall to play the lead in the movie that would make her a star. But she would rather die unknown than succumb to begging Tyler. Although ten years have passed, she still remembers the reckless night they once shared-and the hurt when he mysteriously disappeared. What Cammie doesn't know is that Tyler is running away from a dark Hollywood secret and that nothing can lure him back-unless Cammie can prove to him that their love is worth a second chance. . ..

Wild Winds

Wild Winds
Author: Janelle Taylor
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1420127705

With her trademark combination of intrigue, adventure and sensual romance, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor crafts novels that hold readers spellbound time and time again, now, she recreates the rugged grandeur of the old southwest in her lushest, most romantic love story yet. Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective--a daunting profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the wild West. And when her stepfather asks her to help his son escape the hangman's noose for a bank robbery he didn't commit, she rises to the challenge. The Yuma Prison break will place Maggie's own life in jeopardy--and leave her with grave doubts about whether she's done right or terribly wrong. . . Sworn to help clear her stepbrother's name by tracking down the men who framed him, Maggie meets Hawk Reynolds. An ex-Texas Ranger and half-blood Cheyenne, Hawk is on a vengeance quest to find his parents' killers--the same desperadoes Maggie is seeking. Destiny draws Hawk and Maggie to each other and to the stirring of an unbidden, irresistible desire. Together, they will ride into Tombstone and into a crossfire of lies, double dealings, and searing betrayal as they search for answers that will sow the seeds of suspicion between them--and arouse a passion fated to explode beneath the bright desert sky.

Music and Men

Music and Men
Author: Helen Fry
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0752474723

It was during the turbulent decade of World War I that the intensely gifted and beautiful Harriet Cohen established herself as a pianist. Enjoying huge success in her professional life, she was the first person outside the Soviet Union to play the music of the modern Soviet composers and was a huge success in America and throughout Europe. Her beauty and talent made her one of the most talked-about and photographed musicians of her day. Yet it was in her private life that the story of this extraordinarily talented young woman becomes one of the greatest love stories of all time. Her passionate love affair with the composer Sir Arnold Bax spanned more than 30 years. Their infatuation was played out against the backdrop of World War I, and was peppered with betrayal, lust, and tragedy. Their letters, published here for the first time, are among the most explicit of any written during that time and are staggering in their passion and poetry. Brilliant author Helen Fry tells for the first time the remarkable story of this forgotten woman. Music and Men tells of Harriet Cohen’s friendships—and relationships—with leading figures from every walk of life, from George Bernard Shaw to D.H. Lawrence and H.G. Wells, Sir Edward Elgar, Albert Einstein, Arnold Bennett, Vaughan Williams, Ramsey MacDonald, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Offering an insight into the politics, arts, and culture of the day, this incredible new biography tells the poignant story of a beautiful, possessive, flirtatious, and determined musician.

A Crash of Rhinos

A Crash of Rhinos
Author: Paisley Rekdal
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2000
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780820322735

In these quizzically probing and provocative poems, atoms and torture, tattoos and laundromats, mug shots, the theory of light, and such personalities as Joe Louis and Bruce Lee join in shaping a simultaneously personal and historical narrative of love, family, and desire. The tension between the public and the private saturates these poems with a breathless energy that carries the reader through Rekdal’s self-aware depiction of American culture and romance, complete with Harlequin romance novels and an account of her parents’ courtship. Though Rekdal delights in turning traditional images of love upside down, what she finally offers is a grateful and graceful view of humanity, which convinces us that, as she says in “Convocation”: “Nothing is a single moment . . . / No private event lacks history.”

Lakota Dawn

Lakota Dawn
Author: Janelle Taylor
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1420127462

From New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor, comes her most compelling Native American saga. Taking you to an unforgettable time and place, the Great Plains of 1854, this magnificent novel of a proud warrior who must reclaim his heritage and the woman he is destined for, will move you with its breathtaking beauty and spellbinding passion. . . LAKOTA DAWN Cloud Chaser was merely a boy of ten when a cruel twist of fate took him away from his family and changed his life forever. Now, after twelve years, he has returned home. Struggling to gain the trust and acceptanceof his tribe, Cloud Chaser is ready to face any obstacle to fulfill his dream of riding with the Lakota. But he never expects to lose his heart to the beautiful Indian maiden Dawn, who shared his wish of bringing peace to the Black Hills. Now as an even greater challenge awaits him, he and Dawn together strive to secure the future of their people-and their love. . . "A STORY THAT WILL THRILL." -Romantic Times