Beller Ties Omnibus - Two-Book Romantic Suspense Set
Beller Ties Omnibus - Two-Book Romantic Suspense Set

Author: Lee Dawna

Publisher: LeeDawna Books

Published: 2021-12-11

Total Pages: 739

ISBN-13: 1949192083

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Beller Ties is a thrilling romantic suspense book set featuring four different members of the illustrious – and wealthy – Beller Family. This omnibus collection includes the first two books in the set: Something So Beautiful & Now And Always. Something So Beautiful – When green-eyed charmer John Beller breaks through the chaos of her life, offering all the fruits of lust and love, thirty-two-year-old Mary Williams desperately wants to partake. On the verge of a mental break where footsteps echo from empty rooms and constant phone calls have no one on the other end, she craves the peaceful embrace of John’s arms. But the confident man is demanding, and he’s digging into secrets she has no intention of letting anyone find out about. When an insane driver intentionally forces her car off the road and leaves her for dead at the bottom of a ravine, she wakes to find herself hospitalized, then forced into confinement at John’s house. And in his house, it’s his rules. But is he isolating her for her protection? Or using her injuries against her? One thing is certain—her nightmares are real. And the more John kisses her, the closer the threat looms. Love isn’t only blind, it’s dangerous. ~ Now And Always – Avery Kingwood’s marriage crashed and burned…on his honeymoon. After finding out his wife Cassie’s devastating truth, she forces him to sign a separation agreement—more like a gag order. Unable to say what happened to his marriage, Cassie expertly manipulates Avery’s entire family against him. All he’s got left is his father’s business, but even that tie to his family is troubled. Broken, Avery unexpectedly finds something that gives his life renewed meaning and hope: Sheila Beller. Perfect, well-respected, charming—and untouchable. She wants nothing to do with divorced men and he’s worse than divorced, he’s married. While convincing Sheila he is a man she can count on, Avery keeps his secrets close and his lies relegated to omissions. But Cassie is out for blood and Avery’s only hope for love is slipping farther away by the second. One thing is certain—The only thing worse than lying is finding out the secrets you’re protecting aren’t the truth at all. And the more Sheila clashes with the Kingwoods, the more unfathomable the truth becomes. Deceit runs deep in this suspenseful romance!

Sacred
Sacred

Author: M. C. Beeler

Publisher: Sacred

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781736123836

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An orphaned girl. A mysterious new world. One connected fate. When Beatrice Tidal is shipped off to summer camp by her foster parents, she expects the worst, but she does not expect to find herself pursued by a shadowy demon through a strange magical land where she must uncover the mystery of her past and rise to the challenges of her future. Worse, Obellius Kalaar, usurper to the throne of Eslura, will stop at nothing to find Beatrice and prevent her from gathering the Sacred Rulers to reunite the kingdom. Now Obellius has escaped from his island prison confinements and is determined to regain his throne. Can Beatrice help these powerful Rulers and save Eslura from Obellius, or will the shadow of darkness fall forever over this sacred land? Eslura's Calling is the first book in the Sacred series, a young adult portal fantasy. Steeped in friendship, adventure, and furry creatures, Eslura's Calling is a thrilling beginning to a fantastic new series. Perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Studio Ghibli!

The Role of the Reader
The Role of the Reader

Author: Umberto Eco

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780253203182

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Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.

The Silo Series Collection
The Silo Series Collection

Author: Hugh Howey

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 1925

ISBN-13: 0358512913

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For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Silo Stories The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced than to never speak of going outside. The punishment is exile and death. When the sheriff of the silo commits the ultimate sin, the most unlikely of heroes takes his place. Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, who never met a machine she couldn’t fix nor a rule she wouldn’t break. What happens when a world built on rules is handed over to someone who sees no need for them? And what happens when a world broken to its core comes up against someone who won’t stop until things are set to right? Their world is about to fall. What—and who—will rise?

Average Jones
Average Jones

Author: Samuel Hopkins Adams

Publisher: 1st World Publishing

Published: 2005-09-20

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1421811855

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Three men sat in the Cosmic Club discussing the question: "What's the matter with Jones?" Waldemar, the oldest of the conferees, was the owner, and at times the operator, of an important and decent newspaper. His heavy face wore the expression of good-humored power, characteristic of the experienced and successful journalist. Beside him sat Robert Bertram, the club idler, slender and languidly elegant. The third member of the conference was Jones himself. Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomi-tance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. Happily, his otherwise commonplace face was relieved by the one unfailing charac-teristic of composite photographs, large, deep-set and thought-ful eyes. Otherwise he would have passed in any crowd, and nobody would have noticed him pass. Now, at twenty-seven, he looked back over the five years since his graduation from college and wondered what he had done with them; and at the four previous years of undergraduate life and wondered how he had done so well with those and why he had not in some manner justified the parting words of his favorite professor.

Wilkie Collins and Copyright
Wilkie Collins and Copyright

Author: Sundeep Bisla

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814212356

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Uncovers the paradox that places Wilkie Collins' displeasure with copyright violations in tension with his budding understanding of the nature of the "iterability" of the word.

The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth

Author: Naomi Wolf

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 006196994X

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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India
Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India

Author: Lalitha Gopalan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 3030540960

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This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.

The Matrix of Visual Culture
The Matrix of Visual Culture

Author: Patricia Pisters

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0804740283

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This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.