A Guilty Pleasure

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101146385

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Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton Pdf

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

Author : Dana Schwartz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478970385

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Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz Pdf

A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer.

Author : Arielle Zibrak
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479807093

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Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures by Arielle Zibrak Pdf

"Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims the femme fictions dismissed as "trash" to celebrate the surprisingly cathartic pleasures of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of patriarchal culture"--

Author : Hugh McIntosh
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941660

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Guilty Pleasures by Hugh McIntosh Pdf

Guilty pleasures in one’s reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived in the public sphere as at once beloved and contested objects, an ambivalence that reflected and informed America’s cultural insecurity. This became a matter of nationhood as well as aesthetics: the amateurism of popular narratives resonated with the discourse of new nationhood. In Guilty Pleasures, Hugh McIntosh examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to such best-sellers as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ben Hur, and Trilby as well as fictional representations—from Trollope to Baldwin—of American culture’s lack of artistic greatness. Drawing on a transatlantic archive of contemporary criticism, urban display, parody, and advertising, Guilty Pleasures thoroughly documents how the conflicted attitude toward popular novels shaped these ephemeral modes of response. Paying close attention to this material history of novel reading, McIntosh reveals how popular fiction’s unique status as socially saturating and aesthetically questionable inspired public reflection on what it meant to belong to a flawed national community.

Author : Laura E. Little
Publisher : Law & Current Affairs
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780190625764

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Guilty Pleasures by Laura E. Little Pdf

Few people associate law books with humor. Yet the legal world--in particular the American legal system--is itself frequently funny. Indeed, jokes about the profession are staples of American comedy. And there is actually humor within the world of law too: both lawyers and judges occasionally strive to be funny to deal with the drudgery of their duties. Just as importantly, though, our legal system is a strong regulator of humor. It encourages some types of humor while muzzling or punishing others. In a sense, law and humor engage a two-way feedback loop: humor provides the raw material for legal regulation and legal regulation inspires humor. In Guilty Pleasures, legal scholar Laura Little provides a multi-faceted account of American law and humor, looking at constraints on humor (and humor's effect on law), humor about law, and humor in law. In addition to interspersing amusing episodes from the legal world throughout the book, the book contains 75 New Yorker cartoons about lawyers and a preface by Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor for the New Yorker.

Author : J. L. Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985141757

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Guilty Pleasures by J. L. Sanchez Pdf

Sofia always thought she got lucky in love. After marrying her college sweetheart and having three children, life was good. But when her husband of fifteen years came home and announced he'd fallen in love with a 25-year-old fitness model, her world shattered around her. To add insult to injury, she only had thirty days to move out.Broke and disheartened, Sofia scrambled to find an affordable home for her and her children. Just as she was about to give up hope, a rude stranger in a coffee shop gave her a tip that saved her from moving in with her parents. Overwhelmed with gratitude, she kissed the rude but thoughtful man before rushing out of the coffee shop. Santiago had always been the hottest guy in the room, and he had the ego to go with it. But that was before¿ Now he had a hideous scar that ran down his face and no filter over what came out of his mouth. He spent his days hiding from the world. It wasn't until that fateful day at the coffee shop that things changed. The sadness in her eyes called to his damaged heart. He never expected a simple cup of coffee would change everything. That a kiss from a sad stranger would turn his world upside down. He quickly realized one kiss wasn't enough, and he became determined to find this woman with the sad eyes and broken heart. When Sofia and Santiago run into each other again, would their last impressions hold a candle to the chemistry they now felt for each other? Would they be able to get past their own issues and meddling ex's to be together? Would it be possible for two broken people to love again?

Author : Kevin Dickson,Jack Ketsoyan
Publisher : Imprint
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250122261

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Guilty Pleasure by Kevin Dickson,Jack Ketsoyan Pdf

Named a “Great Beach Read” by People Magazine “When you're packing your beach bag this summer, no doubt you'll want a copy of Guilty Pleasure tucked inside.” —E! Online Can Hollywood's hottest secret relationship survive a PRomance? Find out in this jaw-dropping sequel to Blind Item as three young Hollywood professionals strive to keep the industry’s most salacious scandals under wraps during awards season. Nicola faces her biggest challenge as a publicist when she is forced to represent her superstar ex-boyfriend, Seamus, when he returns from rehab. Her boss Gaynor is struggling to keep the PR agency afloat, and Seamus is one client who definitely won’t leave as long as Nicola is around. He’s willing to do anything to win her back—even start a fake relationship for some badly needed good publicity. Meanwhile, tabloid journalist Billy’s integrity is tested when he’s asked to print the inside scoop on a troubled star. And as for their bestie Kara? Miss Reality Show may have a sex tape on the market. With everyone's career and relationships in jeopardy, the three friends must trust each other again—before all their dirty secrets spill. An Imprint Book Named a “Summer Must-Read” by Life & Style Magazine An A grade from InTouch Magazine “Hollywood insiders ... pull back the curtain on celebrity scandals in this dishy sequel.” —People Magazine “Written by Hollywood insiders, this jaw-dropping novel is ripped from the headlines, and from the scandalous secrets that never made print!” —InTouch Magazine “Grab a bottle of wine, and let Dickson and Ketsoyan take you on a new dark yet refreshing Hollywood adventure. ... an A rating.” —Digital Journal Named one of the 10 Books You Must Add to Your Summer Reading List Right Now by Her Campus

Author : Timothy Aubry
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674988965

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Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Timothy Aubry Pdf

For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

Author : Pamela Robertson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822317486

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Guilty Pleasures by Pamela Robertson Pdf

Using detailed studies of stars such as Mae West, Joan Crawford and Madonna, Guilty Pleasures examines the tradition of feminist camp - a female form of aestheticism related to masquerade and rooted in burlesque, parallel but different to gay male camp.

Author : Chilly Gonzales
Publisher : Rough Trade Books
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781912722877

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ENYA by Chilly Gonzales Pdf

Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.

Author : C. L. Parker
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345548795

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A Million Guilty Pleasures by C. L. Parker Pdf

Two million dollars secured Noah Crawford the most enticing woman he has ever known. Initiating Delaine Talbot into a sensuous world of pleasure took them both to the brink—again and again. But when Noah discovers why the beautiful innocent sold her body to the highest bidder, he’s faced with the hardest thing he ever had to do: Set her free. Lanie can’t believe Noah would let her go. Doesn’t he know they share a bond deeper than sex—a connection too powerful to sever? Not even a treacherous enemy out to destroy Noah or the dark secret haunting the multimillionaire can keep them apart. But first Lanie has to show him that he belongs to her, even if it means risking everything for a love that can never be bought or sold. Praise for A Million Guilty Pleasures “[C. L.] Parker’s story shines with sexy shenanigans that steam up the pages.”—RT Book Reviews (4-1/2 stars) “The charm and passion that made the first book a success are back in spades here. . . . A great followup, and a fitting end to an amazing pair. Noah and Lanie are a raunchy, loving couple and so much fun to read about.”—Miss Boxy Frown “Million Dollar Duet has a sexy billionaire hero and quirky heroine. It is packed with steamy scenes, and as romantic as can be.”—Under the Covers A Million Guilty Pleasures is intended for mature audiences.

Author : Sue Caba
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 0740733397

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Guilty Pleasures by Sue Caba Pdf

Eight Midwestern women satirize their on-and-off addiction to food, e-Bay, toenail polish, gossiping, buying beads, and more in this vault of information that exposes what women really like to do.

Author : Philippe Vergne,Walker Art Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042480346

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Let's Entertain by Philippe Vergne,Walker Art Center Pdf

This major collection of interdisciplinary essays by several notable artists and cultural critics examines the many issues surrounding the relationship between art and entertainment. Topics range from the films of David Lynch to celebrity politics. 150 color and 75 b&w photos. Ties into traveling exhibit.

Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743532492

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Guilty Pleasure: A Bound Hearts Novel by Lora Leigh Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh has captivated millions with her sizzling tales. When FBI agent Marty Matthews is assigned to shadow Khalid, a dangerous, forbidden man who has haunted her dreams for years, she struggles against her desires for him. That is, until Khalid is cleared and Marty freed from her assignment. Now all bets are off . . . The beautiful, fierce Marty Matthews is the one woman Khalid hungers for like no other and is the one woman he dare not let himself have. His past dogs his every step and danger lurks around every corner. To save her he must keep away. But the power of their desire is something they cannot deny - and once Marty is his, Khalid will do whatever it takes to keep her in his arms forever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655827264

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Guilty Pleasures by Anonim Pdf