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Late Westerns

Lee Clark Mitchell
Late Westerns Book PDF

Author : Lee Clark Mitchell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496210692

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For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle--with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre--maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach "post" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously "Western" at all. Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell's critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the Western has essentially been "post" all along.

The Lapone Sisters

Barry Wilker
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Author : Barry Wilker
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665723442

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In the summer of 1976, three exceptionally different sisters begin walking their individual paths. Schmellda, the eldest daughter, launches into her personal tale of family and self-discovery. Setting out on her own for the first time in her life, she remains a frumpy self-appointed mother hen to her younger sisters. Sorina is her stunning and stuttering middle sibling, venturing out slowly in search of her dreams. The youngest, Esmerelda, is an outspoken, non-filtered, sharp-tongued fireball ready to fly from the nest. Their parents have provided a safely nurtured life for the three. It is in this happy environment that an unimaginable spiral of events begins that will change all their lives forever. The girls compete, take road trips, and go to camp. They get makeovers, follow their hearts, and fall in love. Over the months, the sisters cross paths and wits with each other and encounter a menagerie of misfits, loners, losers, and dreamers, marking an adventure like no other. Their wry humor, hopes, and fledging philosophies take them, and you, to places never imagined.

The Great Wave of Tamarind

Nadia Aguiar
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Author : Nadia Aguiar
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250116635

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Penny Nelson grew up listening to her older sister and brother recount their adventures in Tamarind, a magical island not found on any map, but she sometimes she can't tell which of her memories are hers and which are theirs. After drifting out to sea, Penny once again finds herself on the shores of Tamarind. But things are wrong on the island: portals lead to treacherous places, a strange creature is wreaking havoc, and a Great Wave is coming to bring the Bloom, magic that can stabilize the island. Whoever completes three challenges gets to catch the Bloom—and keep some of that life-changing magic for their own use. To save Tamarind and collect the magic, Penny has to brave dark ocean depths, survive the perils of the jungle, and outwit a cunning creature bent on bringing chaos. Don't miss The Great Wave of Tamarind, the stunning conclusion to Nadia Aguiar's critically acclaimed middle-grade trilogy!

The Billionaire Raj

James Crabtree
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Author : James Crabtree
Publisher : Crown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524760076

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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

Glimpse

Jane Higgins
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Author : Jane Higgins
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781922459114

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The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It’s a no-go area where ongoing earthquakes threaten to destroy what’s left. But Jonah and Bas and everyone else trying to survive in the devastation there can’t leave—they’re ‘illegals’, without citizenship, without rights. Jonah can see the quakes—before the ground shudders and grinds, before the buildings fall. Glimpsing is a rare ability and a great survival asset. It has attracted the attention of the entertainment company GlimpseCorp and the cult movement People for a New Nation. Both are desperate to control and cash in on this remarkable power. When Bas joins People for a New Nation and disappears, Jonah knows his friend is in great danger. And he knows that GlimpseCorp, with its reality TV program, offers a way to save him—and a way to bring new hope to the people of the D-Zone. But Jonah’s plan puts everything, including his own life, at risk. Glimpse is a compelling adventure, an intriguing story of conflict, power, manipulation, love and friendship, set in richly imagined world that is in many ways very much like our own. Jane Higgins won the 2010 Text Prize for her debut novel The Bridge. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. Glimpse, her third novel for young adults, draws on her experience of the 2010–12 earthquakes, which killed 185 people and caused major damage to the city.

Golden Girl

Mary E. Twomey
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Author : Mary E. Twomey
Publisher : Mary E. Twomey, LLC
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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It doesn’t take long for Zara to realize that what she thought she knew about the world is about to change forever. When Connery doesn’t return, there is precious little time for mourning the loss of Zara’s closest companion. Innocent people are rotting away in the king’s prison and freeing them is only part one of the dangerous job. Around every corner is a new threat, a new obstacle that would force the oppressed people of Crimshade to stay where they are and give up hope that they will ever breathe the free air again. The soldiers are on the hunt to capture anyone who dares defy the king, but Zara and her team refuse to surrender until every last prisoner has been freed… even if it costs them their lives. This is the fourth in a six-part inclusive LGBTQ+ fantasy romance series written by USA Today Bestselling Author Mary E. Twomey. Download now to start this heart-pounding adventure!

The Beam: Season Two

Johnny B. Truant,Sean Platt
The Beam Season Two Book PDF

Author : Johnny B. Truant,Sean Platt
Publisher : Johnny B. Truant
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Beam: Season Two by Johnny B. Truant,Sean Platt Pdf

Power is in the mind. The mind is in the network. As the NAU’s "Shift" approaches, the Directorate and Enterprise parties are doing whatever they can both on-Beam and off- to win the citizen’s minds. The Beam itself, however, seems to be evolving. As more and more people become addicted to connectivity, a question arises: Does the Beam serve our minds ... or do our minds serve the Beam? Meanwhile, using politics as cover, an organization is pushing human enhancements further than they were ever meant to go — and maybe more than the struggling NAU with its hyperconnected minds can hope to survive. ★★★★★ "Another homerun for Platt and Truant. Usually second books in a series are the weak link -- that didn't happen in The Beam. Just like the first season I got sucked in to this book and told the kids to just feed themselves poptarts and leave mommy alone already so she could read. An amazing series!" -- Patricia Eimer ★★★★★ "I loved the first season, but this did such a great job of fleshing out the story line that I'm already champing at the bit for the next season." -- BruceIn Baghdad ★★★★★ "A real high-tech futuristic political thriller with a great storyline and a cliff-hanger ending that leaves you wanting for more. Can't wait to read season 3." -- beachbaby

Alaska

Walter R. Borneman
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Author : Walter R. Borneman
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 1069 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780061865275

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The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.

Policing the 2012 London Olympics

Gary Armstrong,Richard Giulianotti,Dick Hobbs
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Author : Gary Armstrong,Richard Giulianotti,Dick Hobbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317747017

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The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions are experienced directly by local host communities and publics. This ethnography examines the everyday policing of the London Borough of Newham in relation to the London 2012 Olympics. It explains how police defined, monitored, prioritized, contained and investigated ‘Olympic-related’ crime, and how ‘Olympic-related’ policing connected to the policing of Newham. The authors examine how the threat of terrorism impacted on the everyday policing of the 2012 Olympics, as well as the exaggeration of other threats to the Games – such as youth gangs – for political reasons. The book also explores local resistance to Olympic policing, and the legacy of the Games with regard to policing, local housing, demographics and social exclusion. Discussing the lessons that can be learned for the future staging of sporting mega-events, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sport, policing, crime and criminology, mega-events, event management, urban studies, global studies and sociology.

The Makeup Artist

Sophie Sinclair
The Makeup Artist Book PDF

Author : Sophie Sinclair
Publisher : Sophie Sinclair
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sarah Bowen’s life is nothing like she thought it’d be ten years ago. She runs a successful lifestyle boutique with her two best friends, she’s the makeup artist to one of country’s hottest bands, and she’s in love with a womanizing heartthrob who doesn’t give her the time of day. After years of pining after Lex Ryan, she decides it’s finally her turn, even if it might ruin everything she’s worked for… Lex Ryan is the sexy Irish lead guitarist for the hottest country band in the States. He’s known as a serial dater, a commitment-phobe, a player who prefers one-night stands. His wild heart has zero plans of settling down—not even with the band’s makeup artist, Sarah Bowen. He’s vowed to keep his heart from falling for her. Until the band travels to Ireland where his past suddenly crashes into his present. They say wild hearts can’t be tamed. They never said they can’t be broken. The Makeup Artist is the second book in the Coffee Book Series. It’s a standalone novel, but the author suggests reading Coffee Girl first because of returning characters. "In a time when so little holds my attention, this book made me smile and kept me entertained." - Brooke Obsessed

The Unbeatables

Richard O. Smith
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Author : Richard O. Smith
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781909930261

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Shy boy Amadeo reigns supreme at table football in his local café. Taking on all comers he is one of “the unbeatables” with his loyal team of tiny foosballers. But there's another “unbeatable” in town. Aggrieved by his only ever defeat at the hands of Amadeo in a foosball match when they were kids, Flash the town bully returns to seek revenge. Not only does he destroy the foosball table, but he challenges Amadeo to a game of actual football. Amadeo has never played real football - and Flash, with his insatiable quest for glory, has subsequently risen to become the world's most famous soccer star. With the future of the village at stake and his foosballers scattered, the situation looks hopeless for Amadeo. Unless he can recruit the help of his eccentric fellow villagers and the girl he loves, Lara, to take on the world’s best football team captained by his nemesis Flash. And unless the foossballers can be reunited. “It’ll be like Barcelona against a non-league team with an injury crisis,” predicts Lara. What nobody predicts, however, is how Amadeo’s foosballers will affect the game… The Unbeatables novel is the ultimate fantasy football story. Expanding upon the original movie, the novel includes additional adventures and characters. Written for young adults (and not so young adults), the book is a scintillating, action-packed 90 minutes of end-to-end incident, comedic flair, goalmouth scrambles and dubious off the ball challenges on the ethos of the modern game. Praise for The Unbeatables: “The witty dialogue and banter makes for some very funny moments, while the digs at the excesses of modern footballers will ring true to followers of the Beautiful Game.” - Radio Times “The Unbeatables is great fun for young and old.” - Daily Express “Nice jokes at the expense of FIFA, overpaid prima donna footballers and slimy agents.” - Daily Mail “Lively and consistently funny.” - Irish Times “An utterly charming gem. Deft one-liners. Back of the net!” - Irish Independent

Prisoners of the Castle

Ben Macintyre
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Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Signal
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771001987

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inmates were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture. Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school surrounded by barbed wire, initially containing prisoners of all Allied nations, including Canada, but eventually only Britons and Americans, a heavily guarded cage with its own culture, eccentricities, and internal tensions. In intimate and compelling detail, Macintyre explores what happens to people when they are locked up without committing a crime and with no idea when or if they might be liberated. Colditz, then, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, hidden sexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity, and farce. With access to declassified archives, private papers, and never-before-seen photos, the author reveals a remarkable cast of characters, previously hidden from history: Indian doctor Birendranath Mazymdar, the only non-white prisoner, whose ill-treatment, hunger-strike and eventual escape reads like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; Christoper Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture escape aids for POWs, from maps hidden in playing cards to a compass secreted inside a walnut; and many others. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed stunning new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.

Meow for Murder Boxed Set (Books 1-7)

Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom
Meow for Murder Boxed Set Books 1 7 Book PDF

Author : Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom
Publisher : Addison Moore
Page : 2115 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Meow for Murder Boxed Set (Books 1-7) by Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom Pdf

Meow for Murder Boxed Set (Books 1-7) Humor with a side of homicide. A highly inaccurate vision. A grumpy writer. And a corpse. Welcome to Starry Falls. Running from the mob can be murder. Includes Recipes! A Cozy Mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street JournalBestseller Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" Confession. I’m no psychic. But I can sort of see the future—albeit not accurately. And you better believe, I’ve never let that little detail stop me from prognosticating my way into a pickle. So when I ticked off the mob, the feds, and my wily ex, I decided to take my Uncle Vinnie’s advice and start over with a new name and new hair color while relying on my old shtick—getting my visionary wires crossed and putting myself in danger. Living in Starry Falls can be deadly.

Murder at Mortimer Manor (Meow for Murder 1)

Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom
Murder at Mortimer Manor Meow for Murder 1 Book PDF

Author : Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom
Publisher : Addison Moore
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Murder at Mortimer Manor (Meow for Murder 1) by Addison Moore,Bellamy Bloom Pdf

Humor with a side of homicide. A highly inaccurate vision. A grumpy writer. And a corpse. Welcome to Starry Falls. Running from the mob can be murder. Includes Recipe! A Cozy Mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal Bestseller Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" Confession. I’m no psychic. But I can sort of see the future—albeit not accurately. And you better believe, I’ve never let that little detail stop me from prognosticating my way into a pickle. So when I ticked off the mob, the feds, and my wily ex, I decided to take my Uncle Vinnie’s advice and start over with a new name and new hair color while relying on my old shtick—getting my visionary wires crossed and putting myself in danger. Living in Starry Falls can be deadly.

Suddenly Starstruck

Brooke St. James
Suddenly Starstruck Book PDF

Author : Brooke St. James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1544751710

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Suddenly Starstruck by Brooke St. James Pdf

Bad Medicine was one of television's most popular dramas, and Ethan Prescott was the show's biggest star. He was a talented actor and an all-around good guy. His quick wit, intelligence, and dashingly handsome appearance only added to his larger than life persona. And somehow, Macy Tillman ended up sitting right next to him at dinner. Macy was a gifted artist and former resident of the Shower & Shelter Artist Collective. Though she was still pursuing a career as an artist, she also devoted much of her time to caring for her young niece while her sister was at work. Her quirky personality, unique perspective on life, and stunning beauty captivated Ethan. Macy made Ethan experience feelings that he had never known. It was about more than just being attracted to her. Somehow, Macy inspired Ethan to want to be a better person. But those feelings were overwhelming, and they made it difficult for Ethan to decide whether or not he should follow his heart.