Seductive Reckoning

Seductive Reckoning

Author: Abbie Clover

Publisher: ForbiddenFables Press

Published:

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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Indulge in an exhilarating journey of passion and desire with our collection of 100 seductive romance stories for adults. Dive into a world where sizzling encounters, forbidden love, and untamed fantasies await at every turn. With each story carefully crafted to ignite your senses, you'll find yourself captivated by the raw emotion and intense intimacy that unfolds on every page. Immerse yourself in a whirlwind of steamy escapades as you explore the depths of human connection through these captivating tales. From sensual encounters that leave you breathless to heart-pounding moments of pure ecstasy, this collection promises to awaken your deepest desires and unleash your innermost passions. Whether you're seeking an escape from reality or simply craving a tantalizing read, these stories will envelop you in a realm where sultry romance knows no bounds. With 100 unique narratives waiting to be devoured, this collection offers endless hours of thrilling entertainment designed to transport you into worlds teeming with unbridled passion. Each story is meticulously tailored to enthrall readers with its seductive prose and magnetic characters, ensuring that every page leaves you yearning for more.


Stages of Reckoning

Stages of Reckoning

Author: Amy Mihyang Ginther

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1000823180

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Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces. This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world. This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teach and direct actors of color in ways that more fully honor their multiple identities.


Reckoning

Reckoning

Author: Linda Hirshman

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1328566447

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History of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.


Literary Couplings

Literary Couplings

Author: Marjorie Stone

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2007-07-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780299217648

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This innovative collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships—from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes—and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The essays place famous authors such as Samuel Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats in new contexts; reassess overlooked members of writing partnerships; and throw new light on texts that have been marginalized due to their collaborative nature. By integrating historical studies with authorship theory, Literary Couplings goes beyond static notions of the writing "couple" to explore literary couplings created by readers, critics, historians, and publishers as well as by writers themselves, thus expanding our understanding of authorship.


Reckoning

Reckoning

Author: Helen Hardt

Publisher: Hardt & Sons

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 304

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One Wolfe wife is forced into a marriage of convenience to the man she loves desperately Another is about to take the fall for a murder she didn’t commit. Time is running out for the Wolfes. Lacey is under arrest for the murder of patriarch Derek Wolfe, and the four Wolfe siblings—Rock, Roy, Reid, and Riley—are still considered suspects. Rock is determined to save his wife, even if it means committing murder himself, while Reid resolves to to discover the truth and avenge his love, Zee, for what she’s suffered at his father’s hand. A court order not to leave the state of New York doesn’t stop Rock and Reid. Using aliases, they venture out to find the key to this mystery once and for all. Several others are implicated, and an abduction, a death, and a long-lost relative complicate matters and bring new evidence to light. Rock and Reid will do anything to save the women they love—even if it means neither of them comes out alive.


Reckoning with the Devil

Reckoning with the Devil

Author: Court Carney

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2024-09-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0807183091

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Court Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his death, Forrest’s image continues to resonate with certain groups and bear varied interpretations, reflecting the intricate interplay of history, memory, and a contested past. Carney explores how historical omissions and erasures continually reshape perceptions of Forrest as well as the Civil War. Central to Forrest’s narrative is his involvement in the slave trade, a key to his ascent in the southern social hierarchy. Carney traces Forrest’s trajectory from a prosperous slave trader in Memphis to a politician and eventual military leader in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Forrest’s postwar years reveal his struggle to rebuild his life, leading him to engage in various economic ventures and eventually join the Ku Klux Klan. Carney argues that the slave trade, the Fort Pillow massacre, and his Klan affiliation were the fundamental elements shaping Forrest’s image. Those elements, although steeped in racism and white supremacy, were marked by an ambiguity and malleability that allowed Forrest to attract admirers as well as detractors as his image was memorialized in postwar white southern culture. Carney covers distinct phases of Forrest’s memorialization, from the unveiling of statues in Memphis in 1905 to his representation in literature and media and the controversies surrounding his monuments in the 2010s. That history culminates with the removal of the Memphis statue in 2017, reflecting the evolving societal perspectives on symbols tied to racism. Forrest’s significance lies in his capacity to encompass conflicting narratives—hero and villain, rebel and patriot. Carney contends that understanding Forrest’s legacy is essential for comprehending the intricacies of the southern past and its enduring impact on American society. By exploring the fluidity of Forrest’s image, Carney’s work illuminates the nuanced interplay of history, memory, and the ongoing struggle to reckon with a tumultuous past.


The Day of Reckoning

The Day of Reckoning

Author: C.H. Perry

Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 1386

ISBN-13: 1634923146

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What would you do if you suddenly discovered that you have the power of a god? This is the dilemma that Jason Christianson must confront as we follow his life’s journey from his humble beginnings to tragedies leading to his attaining a God-like power as he wrestles with his conscience regarding the final outcome of using his power. Spanning the globe, Jason’s journey takes him on a roller coaster ride of twists and turns, eventually leading him to meet up with a mysterious traveler who helps him to come to terms with his internal conflict regarding the evolvement of his power. The result is the culmination of Jason using his power to transform the conditions of the world into a modern day Atlantis of peace and prosperity upon the Earth that humankind has never experienced before. From the first page to the escalating culmination of events ripped from today’s headlines, The Day Of Reckoning pulls the reader in and doesn’t let go until the last page. Straightforward in its presentation but far-reaching and frightening in its implications, it is sure to transform the lives of anyone who reads it. Where will you be…and will you survive…The Day Of Reckoning?


Jasper: The Reckoning

Jasper: The Reckoning

Author: Eileen Sheehan

Publisher: Earth Wise Books

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Prepare yourself for the ultimate clash in the thrilling next chapter of the mesmerizing Jasper series! Unleashing vengeance of unprecedented power, the vampires find themselves at the precipice of their fate, teetering on the edge of their darkest hour. Their actions have set in motion a cataclysmic reckoning, forced to bear the weight of the witches' unspeakable suffering from the previous installment. With adrenaline-pumping action coursing through its veins, heartrending choices that test the very essence of humanity, an electrifying undercurrent of love, and a whirlwind of spine-tingling suspense, "The Reckoning" emerges as an unmissable gem in the realm of paranormal fiction. Brace yourself for an exhilarating odyssey that will grip you from the first page, relentlessly keeping you perched on the edge of your seat, and igniting a burning passion for more!


Reckoning with the Imagination

Reckoning with the Imagination

Author: Charles Altieri

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2015-07-22

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1501700545

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Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein’s later work that stresses Wittgenstein’s parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism. Altieri begins by offering a phenomenology of imagination, because we cannot fully honor art if we do not link it to a distinctive, socially productive force. That force emerges in two quite different but equally powerful realizations in his reading of John Ashbery’s "Instruction Manual," which explicitly establishes a model for a postromantic view of imagination, and William Butler Yeats’s "Leda and the Swan." He then turns to Wittgenstein with chapters on the role of display as critique of Enlightenment thinking, the honoring of qualities like sensitivity and the ability to attune to the actions of others, the role of expression in the building of models, and the contrast between ethical and confessional modes of judgment. Finally, Altieri produces his own model of aesthetic experience as participatory valuation and makes an extended argument for the social significance of appreciation as a way to escape the patterns of resentment fundamental to our current mode of politics. A masterful work by one of our foremost literary and philosophical theorists, Reckoning with the Imagination will breathe new life into ongoing debates over the value of aesthetic experience.


Reckoning with Restorative Justice

Reckoning with Restorative Justice

Author: Leanne Trapedo Sims

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2023-08-25

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1478027363

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In Reckoning with Restorative Justice, Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences of women who are incarcerated at the Women’s Community Correctional Center, the only women’s prison in the state of Hawai‘i. Adopting a decolonial and pro-abolitionist lens, she focuses particularly on women’s participation in the Kailua Prison Writing Project and its accompanying Prison Monologues program. Trapedo Sims argues that while the writing project served as a vital resource for the inside women, it also remained deeply embedded within carceral logics at the institutional, state, and federal levels. She foregrounds different aspects of these programs, such as the classroom spaces and the dynamics that emerged between performers and audiences in the Prison Monologues. Blending ethnography, literary studies, psychological analysis, and criminal justice critique, Trapedo Sims centers the often-overlooked stories of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women in Hawai‘i in ways that resound with the broader American narrative: the disproportionate incarceration of people of color in the prison-industrial complex.