The Ardour of the Detective - Erotic Short Story
The Ardour of the Detective - Erotic Short Story

Author: Chrystelle LeRoy

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2024-02-14

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 8726931400

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Christine is a detective who puts a lot of herself into her work. This petite, luscious brunette with blue eyes has no qualms about using her devastating charm to untie tongues and move her investigations forward. When a new client comes to her with an unusual case, she will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it, not even the sultry advances of a dancer... Chrystelle LeRoy is a Canadian author who grew up in Montreal with a French father. From an early age, she developed a passion for animals and nature, largely due to growing up near a zoo. In recent years, she has worked as a historian in museums in both Canada and France. Her writing is often based on history, with elements of eroticism.

Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-09-24

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1101146389

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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

Japanese and Western Literature
Japanese and Western Literature

Author: Armando Martins Janeira

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1462912133

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Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West. Contrastive studies are also made into such concepts as time, nature, love, and tragedy. This broad yet incisive survey of Japanese literarily genres and themes is more than a comparative study of literature, however; it is an attempt to grasp the core of Japanese culture by setting it against world culture. From this born a complex of new ideas and problems, and author is able to probe the extent of Western influence on Japanese fiction, poetry, and essays in the past hundred years.

The Murder on the Links
The Murder on the Links

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780425067949

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Monsieur Renauld dies on a golf course just days after sending a plea for help to detective Poirot. Since Renauld possessed a plundered fortune, a scorned wife, a mistress, and an estranged son, there is no lack of suspects. It's up to Poirot to put the police onto the culprit before more murders occur.

Johnny Swanson
Johnny Swanson

Author: Eleanor Updale

Publisher: David Fickling Books

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0375896880

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The secret to instant height? Stand on a box. Want to make your money go further? Roll it down a hill. The answer to smelly feet? Wear a clothes pin on your nose. Eleven-year-old Johnny Swanson is in business. He's raking in the money with his advertising scams and his advice columnist persona, who offers advice on absolutely anything in return for a shilling. But his money-making schemes are getting him in too deep with the wrong kinds of people. Everything is spiralling out of control, and now his own mother is in mortal danger. There's only one thing to be done: Johnny must assume another role as undercover detective! In the spirit of Roald Dahl, this is a funny and delightful story with a satisfying mystery, a wonderful cast of characters, and an unlikely but completely likeable hero.

The Company We Keep
The Company We Keep

Author: Wayne C. Booth

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 0520062108

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"Bibliography of ethical criticism": p. 505-534. Presents arguments for the relocation of ethics to the center of literature, examining periods, genres, and particular works.

Miguel Street
Miguel Street

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0307370615

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To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel.

Goodbye Sweetheart
Goodbye Sweetheart

Author: Marion Halligan

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1760111295

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A successful lawyer, bon vivant, loving husband and father, has a heart attack and dies while swimming in the local pool. A man apparently happily married, yet, with two divorces behind him and three puzzled children. In death it seems that he is not the person everyone thought. As his extended family gathers to mourn, secrets and lies unfold uncomfortably around them. Those pornographic images on his laptop? An unexpected lover - is he still philandering? But somewhere in the turmoil of mourning each of them has to find an answer to the question - who was this man really? What mysteries has he taken to the grave with him? Goodbye Sweetheart is a powerful novel of love, the desire for understanding, and the inevitable messiness of life.