Runway Riot

Runway Riot
Author: MJ Green
Publisher: NaomiAoki
Total Pages: 224
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Modelling wasn’t the glamourous job portrayed in the media. It wasn’t all glitzy parties, fashion shows, and photoshoots. There were also the long hours spent being fitted for garments, of being told how to walk and when to smile. But for Addison, none of that mattered so long as she got paid. Several years on the streets after living in a world of excess had given her a new look on life, and she no longer took anything for granted. But there was a darker side to the modelling world that wasn’t talked about. There were people who viewed models as nothing more than mannequins with a heartbeat. Men who refused to take ‘No’ for an answer…and those who thought Addison’s sexuality was something that could be changed with the right cock… Yeah, that wasn’t happening. Then there were the stalkers. Addison had had her fair share of them since taking up the modelling contract with House of Bolton. But none of them had required Addison being saddled with a bodyguard, Clio Di’lorio. Until this one. And the man behind all the threats might be closer than Addison or Clio realise. Runway Riot is a 59k fluffy dark, sapphic, mafia romance novel set in Melbourne, Australia. It involves a feisty bisexual bodyguard falling for her client, and a model with a dangerous stalker problem. Each book in the House of Bolton series can be read standalone.

There Was Nothing There

There Was Nothing There
Author: Sara Martucci
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 147981556X

"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those who have remained as Williamsburg transformed around them"--

Defrocked

Defrocked
Author: MJ Green
Publisher: NaomiAoki
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Faith Shattered. Vows Broken. After three years spent grieving secretly for his past lovers, a chance at something new appears in front of Killian McDonald. But will he grab a hold of what Nicoli Beltrame is offering him or ignore it in favour of renewing his commitment to his faith. Love isn’t restricted to being a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Nicoli Beltrame knows this firsthand having fallen in love with several men already, and he isn’t one to shy away from a chance of falling for another. It doesn’t matter that Killian was a gift to him from his deceased nephew or that it came three years after his nephew had been buried. But Killian is different to the other men who share Nicoli’s bed—a priest with broken vows and shattered faith—while his world is full of danger that might cost Killian his life. Defrocked is a 36k MM+ age gap novella set in the House of Bolton universe. It involves a priest with shattered faith and broken vows falling in love with a mafia emissary who sees the priest’s darker desires and willingly grants them. Being MM+ there is also consensual sharing of partners.

Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Author: Minh-Ha T. Pham
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2022-08-08
Genre: Design
ISBN: 147802321X

In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. In Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the way social media users monitor the fashion market for the appearance of knockoff fashion, design theft, and plagiarism. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, Pham demonstrates, constitute deeper struggles over the colonial legacies of cultural property in digital and global economies.

Rough Sketches

Rough Sketches
Author: MJ Green
Publisher: NaomiAoki
Total Pages: 203
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

An undercover cop in over his head. A future consigliere who falls hard. Lucas’s undercover assignment had seemed easy. Go undercover in the Tomasi Family and expose their latest money laundering scheme. Even possibly having to pose as a gay man didn’t faze him, it wasn’t like he’d need to actually sleep his way into the family... just catch a high-ranked members attention and string him along for a little bit. Easy, right? He’d never been so wrong. Lucas never intended to catch the eye of Ryland Beltrame, a man rumoured to be the next consigliere for the Tomasi Family. Never intended to find himself in the man’s bed, or that he’d go there willingly... beg for it. Never imagined how dangerous this assignment could get. And never imagined loving someone—a man—with so much blood on their hands. Blood that could easily be Lucas’s. Rough Sketches is a 56k a fluffy dark, high angst, mafia romance novel set in Melbourne, Australia and involves a caring Daddy Dom falling for the one man he shouldn't. Each book in the House of Bolton series can be read standalone.

"Code of Massachusetts regulations, 1993"

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN:

Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.

CRREL Report

CRREL Report
Author: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1985
Genre: Frozen ground
ISBN:

Twenty-First Century Celebrity

Twenty-First Century Celebrity
Author: David C. Giles
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787439658

David Giles examines digital culture’s impact on established celebrities from traditional media while charting the rise of new forms of celebrity such as vloggers and influencers, offering novel insights on topics such as parasocial relationships, micro-celebrity, memes and celetoids.