"Mémếs" Nightly Juicy: Diamond Jokes Humor Dark Mode Collection by Denise L. Smith (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Text Fails Danks: Funny Texting Disasters With Jokes and More by Ricky Ronce-Memes (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Funny Text Fails and Dank Memes

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Gear Punk: A Post Apocalypse LitRPG (Twelve Worlds at War Book 2) by Paul Bellow (38 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Car Wars Meets Mad Max! Conquering a new world while raising a baby? Sure, why not. After consolidating power on an apocalyptic snow world, Scout once again needs to use her wits to survive and continue growing her virtual empire. With Harrison, Missy, and countless others by her side, she jumps into action on the harsh desert world. She controls one of twelve tribes battling for resources and total domination. Eleven against one? Tough as nails! Scout uses her advanced leadership skills to form a rebellion. The plan goes well enough until she learns the startling truth about Axel, the chief of the largest tribe who controls all the others except for her. When the facts are made clear, the stakes are raised even higher than she imagined. She only has one chance to win, and she plans on using it no matter the cost. Will the ends justify the means? Car Wars meets Mad Max in this science fiction LitRPG adventure, book two of the Chronicles of the Core series. One-Click ...

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Mêmês: Funny Stuff Humorous Danks 2024- Jokes Epic Mad Juicy Huge Collection by Wilton Maxwell (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Along for the Ride: A Romcom-ystery (Detectives in Love (4 book series) 1) by Heather Miekstyn (47 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

A waitress accused of murder. A detective bent on proving her innocence. Dating lessons gone horribly awry... Emily Brown has hit rock bottom. Dead end job, newly single, and, the cherry on top, her license just got suspended. Enter Reed Montgomery, the annoyingly attractive detective who offers to drive her to and from work in exchange for dating lessons. There's only one problem -- Reed is her ex boyfriend's brother and he doesn't remember Emily. Oh and also, Emily might be developing a teeny-tiny crush on him. Make that two problems, then. Emily has the situation all in hand though. Reed has his sights set on a beautiful lawyer, so the beautiful lawyer she will help him get. Then everyone can move on with their lives none the wiser about both her duplicity and her crush. Whew. But when one of her fellow waitresses is found dead at the restaurant, a series of unfortunate coincidences turns Emily into the top suspect. Now she may have to rely on Reed for even more than rides. ...

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'Me'Més: Hilarious Unlimit Stream Funny Danks Jokes and More by Tom Watson (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

We always try to refresh your life every day.

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'MeMé's Danks: All Time That Are Icons of Internet Culture by Gregory Jimenez (5 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This 'MeMés' is Damn Interesting.

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"Mémếs":Humorous: Funny Stuff Hilarious Danks Special Edition by Rae Hirthe Sr (4 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

The Special Edition Of Super Funny Memes Book! Get Ready For Laughs Like Never Before!

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Bloomed to Be Messy: A Small Town Sweet Romantic Comedy (Messy Love on Mango Lane) by Dineen Miller (78 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

She almost had it all. When she's forced to return home, will she find all the love she's ever wanted? I was this close to making my dreams come true. Hightailing it out of small-town Florida for the Big Apple, I went to art school and was in the running for the perfect job when the aunt who raised me died. Good news: She left me everything she had. Bad news: That includes her flower shop, which I have to run successfully for a year before I'm allowed to sell it. So now, I'm back where I don't want to be, trying to fix up a business that seems to be better at providing shelter for raccoons and cockroaches than making money. And that's when he shows up: Kade Maverick. The guy who bullied me in high school. Owner of the sparkling green eyes I've never been able to ignore. He's changed somehow. It's not just that he's got a scar on his face from a motorcycle accident. He's... vulnerable? He has a four-year-old niece he's caring for, and he's willing to do anything to help me fix up ...

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(Dank 'MeMés'): Extremely Funny Platinum Humor Mad Jokes Epic Collection by Catalina M. Osuna (16 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

MÉMÉS That Make You Say Hol'up!

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Minécraft Funny:Juice Danks Humorous Epic Jokes Gaming Collection by Tom Sheeran-memés (12 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Gaming Funny Quotes Juice Pictures Books!

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MÊMÊS: Ultimate Funny MÊMÊS And Funny Jokes Dank Book XL by Ben Chips-MÊMÊS Price verified one minute ago

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The Naked Truth: A Humorous Romantic Mystery (Emily Potens Mysteries Book 2) by Maggie Aldrich (219 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Readers' Favorite awards The Naked Truth 5 stars - "Author Maggie Aldrich has a compelling and realistic narrative style that really brings Emily to life and is genuinely enjoyable to read for its comedic twists and snappy dialogue." The love of her life. A mysterious note. An uninvited guest. What do these things all have in common? They show up at Emily Potens' wedding. Emily's parents died two years ago in a tragic one-car accident. No witnesses. No bodies. Just a car pulled from the bayou. Ready to settle into her comfortable new life after that tumultuous time, the arrival of a strange note -- supposedly penned by her father -- makes Emily holler out a big "What the #$@%*?!" Are her parents alive? If so, why are they hiding? Determined to find the truth, she sets out on a wild goose chase with new husband Michael and Fritz, zany private investigator, in tow. There's just one problem. She's on her honeymoon. With Fritz snoring on their couch, Michael tempting her to bed ...

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Neverending Tactics: 3003 Positions to Perfection by Lyudmil Tsvetkov (96 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Everything about tactics in a single book: - checkmate patterns - tactical patterns - the art of calculation - useful tactical rules - positional rules having a bearing on tactics and much much more All written in a funny entertaining style. A must for any tactical aficionado. Please note, that the current newer version of the Kindle edition has added a second diagram specifically for the solutions, thus addressing some outstanding concerns.

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FUNNY MÊMÊS: The Funny Cat MÊMÊS Collection Joke Books by Ben Chips-MÊMÊS (2 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

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Mémếs: Gaming Me'Més Only True Gamers Understand Danks Collection Vol 1 by Jarrell Brown (62 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Gaming Memes Only True Gamers Understand! Funny danks jokes for relax!

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Mémés: Jokes & Funny Internet Stuff: Hilarious 'What Ifs' and Lots More Cool Comedy by Lloyd Phillips (20 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

MEMES, Jokes and Funny Internet Stuff! This exceptional comedy book has loads of cool comedy comedy for you to enjoy! We have funny memes, jokes and loads more cool stuff and even some stories about the history of world famous memes! So get ready to spend some time laughing and download today!

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FUNNY MÊMÊS: Clean and Fresh Dankalicious MÊMÊS by Ben Chips-MÊMÊS (11 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Funny MÊMÊS Special Edition

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MÊMÊS: Life Hacks Special With Dank Funny MÊMÊS by Ben Chips-MÊMÊS (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Life Hacks and Funny MÊMÊS

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Twilight Zone Reflections: An Introduction to the Philosophical Imagination by Saul Traiger Price verified 12 hours ago

Twilight Zone Reflections is the first book of its kind to explore the entirety of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) as a series. It acts as both an introduction to the field of philosophy and as a complete guide to the philosophical issues illustrated throughout the original 1959-64 television series. Author Saul Traiger explores each of the 156 episodes, investigating the show's themes in metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and other topics in a way that is accessible to both seasoned philosophers and those outside academia. Each short chapter dives into a single episode and concludes with helpful cross-references to other episodes that explore similar philosophical problems and subjects. For example, a reader may be interested in questions about the nature of the mind and whether machines can think. By referencing this book, they could easily discover the thematic connections between episodes like "I Sing the Body Electric" or "The Lateness of the Hour," and ...

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Work Wife Balance (Kate King Series Book 1) by Jo Edwards (700 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

'This is well-written, very funny and I raced through it, occasionally squealing in horror at the antics of Kate's colleagues. It's also a joy to read about a strong woman with a big job and fiery opinions, a nice antidote to the sugary sweet sort of chick lit.' DAILY MAIL Kate King is furiously flailing to keep afloat. As her team bicker, finger-point and cheat their way through rumours of sackings and site closures, her ill-tempered husband is becoming increasingly embittered and secretive. Kate knows she must address his petulant question: "Surely there's more to life than this?" but all her energies are required to dodge the corporate bullets constantly fired in her direction. Under pressure from an attractive, younger colleague, Kate is also concerned by her sudden invisibility to the opposite sex and the alarming appearance of back fat. Disturbingly, beige knitwear has started to call to her from the shelves of M&S. Growing more and more suspicious of her husband's activities, ...

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Puerto Paz by Jefferey J. Reese (Puerto Paz Entertainment) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

We live in an increasingly polarizing landscape of political extremism. Liberal versus Conservative. Freedom versus order. What if that divide caused the United States to split into two countries and four extremist cultures? Marcus Coleman lives in a world where, decades earlier, exactly that happened. The black high school football and track star and his white best friend run away from their home in one extremist culture, and travel through three other extremist cultures, before finally finding the balanced moderation of Puerto Paz. Like a pair of nomadic Goldilocks, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, entering a strange new world full of drastically differing political ideologies and struggling to find a culture that feels like the right fit. Although raised in a culture that demands strict loyalty, their travels lead them to discover differences between themselves that test the limits of their friendship.

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Surveillance Cinema (Postmillennial Pop Book 2) by Catherine Zimmer (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From ...

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Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture by Sarah Projansky (4 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already achieved equality for women. Not so, says Sarah Projansky. In Watching Rape, Projansky undermines this complacent view in her fascinating and thorough analysis of depictions of rape in U.S. film, television, and independent video. Through a cultural studies analysis of such films as Thelma and Louise, Daughters of the Dust, and She's Gotta Have It, and television shows like ER, Ally McBeal, Beverly Hills 90210, and various made-for-tv movies, Projansky challenges us to see popular culture as a part of our everyday lives and practices, and to view that culture critically. How have media defined rape and feminism differently over time? How do popular narratives about rape also communicate ideas about gender, race, class, nationality, and sexuality? And, what is the future of feminist ...

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Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation (Feminist Media Histories Book 6) by Jennifer S. Clark (University of California Press) Price verified 14 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this deeply archival work, Jennifer S. Clark explores the multiple ways in which women's labor in the American television industry of the 1970s furthered feminist ends. Carefully crafted around an impressive assemblage of interviews and primary sources (from television network memos to programming schedules, production notes to executive meeting agendas), Clark tells the story of how women organized in the workplace to form collectives, affect production labor, and develop reform-oriented policies and philosophies that reshaped television behind the screen. She urges us to consider how interventions, often at localized levels, can collectively shift the dynamics of a workplace and the cultural products created there.

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Xander Barns Series (Books 1-2-3) by Sarah Tork (6 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

ALWAYS WANTED (BOOK 1) If someone were to have told me a year ago, that by the end of this year I was going to break up with Ben my boyfriend of five years and leave my family home to move to a different city to start a new life, I'd have told them they were crazy. There was no way something like that could happen... ever! It did happen. Twenty two year old university drop out Marisa Gellys' relaxed lifestyle takes a turn for the worse when she arrives early at Kyle Matthews' annual Halloween bash to find her boyfriend making out with another girl. Heartbroken she sets off to a brand new city to get away from her family who think she's made the biggest mistake of her life by breaking up with Ben. For the first time in her life, Marisa's doing everything on her own and she loves it. A brand new city, a brand (sort of) new job, and a hunky, dreamy late night customer who shows her the kinds of things he likes to do. Welcome to the ride. This year will be nothing like last ...

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Servant of the Crown: An Epic Fantasy Novel (Heir to the Crown Book 1) by Paul J Bennett (Amazon Digital Services) (1,871 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

An old warrior, too stubborn to die. A royal heir, hidden since birth. Can they save a realm on the brink of war? Tragedy tears Gerald's world apart and only his unwavering loyalty saves him. After serving as a soldier for years, a single act of self-sacrifice thrusts his future into the world of politics. Cut off from all he knows, he becomes no more than a pawn to those in command. Banished with little more than the clothes on his back, he seeks a new purpose, for what is a warrior who has nothing left to fight for? A fateful meeting with another lost soul unmasks a shocking secret, compelling him to take up the mantle of guardian. Bandits, the Black Hand, and even the king, he battles them all for the future of the realm. Memories of the past, secrets that shape the future; his adventure is only the beginning. Servant of the Crown is the series starter in the epic Heir to the Crown medieval fantasy series. If you like realistic fight scenes, compelling characters, and a ...

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Ravensdale (That Scoundrel Émile Dubois) by Lucinda Elliot (155 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

When the disgraced earl turned highwayman Reynaud Ravensdale becomes fascinated by the hoydenish Isabella Murray, she agrees to elope with him, on the condition that he helps her to become a highwaywoman. Isabella's parents want to marry her off to Ravensdale's cousin, the next in line to the title, while she suspects that he knows more about the killing which led to Reynaud Ravensdale's disgrace than he cares to admit. Isabella plans to carry out a few Robin Hood type raids with Reynaud, and then to escape abroad. That is, if it proves hopeless to clear his name of the old murder charge first. Meanwhile, the forces of law and order are closing in... This hilarious spoof uses vivid characters and lively comedy to bring new life to a theme traditionally favoured by historical novelists - that of the wild young Earl, who, falsely accused of murder by the machinations of a conniving cousin and prejudged by his reputation, takes up life as an outlaw. 'Ravensdale' is written as a prequel ...

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New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (Cinema Cultures in Contact Book 4) by Masha Salazkina (University of California Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist Cinema maps the circulation of films between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late twentieth century, illustrating the distribution networks, festival circuits, and informal channels that facilitated this international network of artistic and intellectual exchange. Building on decades of meticulous archival work, this long-anticipated film history unsettles familiar stories to provide an alternative to ...

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Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times) by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (Palgrave Macmillan) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media ...

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Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood by Adam O’Brien (Berghahn Books) Price verified 14 hours ago

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly "grounded" cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema) by Mónica García Blizzard (SUNY Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade -- the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity -- during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, Mónica García Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two divergent discourses about race in postrevolutionary Mexico: the government-sponsored celebration of Indigeneity and mestizaje (or the process of interracial and intercultural mixing), on the one hand, and the idealization of Whiteness, on the other. Close readings of twenty films and primary source material illustrate how Mexican cinema has mediated race, especially in relation to gender, in ways that project national specificity, but also reproduce racist tendencies with respect to beauty, desire, and protagonism that survive to this day. This sweeping survey illuminates how Golden Age ...

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Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human by Anat Pick (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed "posthuman cinema." It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

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Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria by Noah Tsika (University of California Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake is the Nigerian postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a testament to cinema's ...

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Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press by Eric Hoyt (University of California Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business -- a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that constituted key subscribers, Ink-Stained Hollywood tells the story of how a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to the foundational aspects of industry culture -- taste, vanity, partisanship, and exclusivity. In captivating detail, Eric Hoyt chronicles the histories of well-known trade papers (Variety, Motion Picture Herald) alongside important yet forgotten publications (Film Spectator, Film Mercury, and Camera!), and challenges the canon of ...

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The Circle of Sorcerers: A Mages of Bloodmyr Novel: Book #1 by Brian Kittrell (Late Nite Books) (1,183 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

When Laedron Telpist's sorcery training is interrupted by a knock on the door, what once seemed a proper profession must now be hidden. In a world where priests and mages vie for the limitless power of the elements and a new Grand Vicar has sworn death to all sorcerers, Laedron is tossed into a nightmare which would see his destruction at every turn. From the home shores in western Sorbia, through the Cael'Brilland heartlands, and even across the seas to the great city of Azura, Laedron finds himself embracing old friends, consorting with unlikely allies, and confronting potent enemies. As he struggles to train himself in spellcraft, Laedron must face that he lives in a time when the utterance of a simple spell could be the signature on his death warrant. # # # 81,000 words, 310 pages. Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

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Wizards: Character Backstory Examples (Tower of Gates Fantasy RPG Guide Book 1) by Paul Bellow (23 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

GPT-3 AI + Human = RPG Gold Read hundreds of wizard character backstories! This collection of wizard character backstories is a sample of output from the LitRPG Adventures Workshop which is powered by GPT-3 from OpenAI.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Pandora's Box Classics) (143 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d'Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her -- on their wedding night -- after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination. -- Irving Howe What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace -- I don't know which. -- D. ...

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Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema by Christina Klein (9 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity -- such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism -- in the ...

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Turning On by Mike B. Good (42 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

A madman in the White House... A war in Vietnam... And on campus, the only marijuana was seeded Mexican. Someone had to do something. Why did it have to be Mike Good? No hero, he'd have been happy to graduate without getting killed marching for Peace. But when he learns of Uncle Dick's (AKA: President Nixon) diabolical plot to destroy Communism while getting rich quick, Mike is forced to take action. If not, it won't be just the commies who disappear. In this hilarious prequel to the Señor Bueno Travel Adventure series, Mike, avid surfer/mild-mannered revolutionary/wanna be rock star, turns on, tunes in, and plots against the government. Not to mention, runs afoul of professors, guidance counselors, theater critics, music critics, frat rats, porn directors, picky women, the Black Student Union, the National Guard, Governor Reagan, the CIA, and of course, President Nixon. Can an underdog armed only with a quick wit, a sarcastic tongue, and no common sense, find time for fun while ...

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The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (Cinema Cultures in Contact Book 1) by Giorgio Bertellini (University of California Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact ...

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Between Boyfriends: Free Romantic Comedy (The Between Boyfriends Series Book 1) by Sarka-Jonae Miller (SJ Publishing) (933 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Enjoy this award-winning, feel-good summer beach read free! More than 850,000 reads. At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents cut her off. Suddenly without money, without a man, and without a plan, it's time for Jan to grow up. Determined to get her life back on track, Jan decides it's time to make it on her own. Can she find her way as a single lady in San Diego? Can she fix her friendships, her job prospects, and her hair? And can she keep her vow that she'll never date again, even after she meets a guy who just might be perfect for her? BETWEEN BOYFRIENDS is a sexy, hilarious story of living life, finding love, and growing up... but not necessarily in that order.

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Ren of Atikala (Kobolds Book 1) by David Adams (134 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

I am Ren of Atikala. Kobold. Sorcerer. Warrior. I am many things and I have many stories to tell. This one is about my home. Home. The word has a special resonance with us all. Great or humble, rich or poor, everyone cherishes their home and if deprived of it loses a piece of themselves. I remember looking back at Atikala, its ceiling collapsed in, the homes of fifty thousand kobolds crushed under unimaginable tonnes of rock and dirt. I remembering the feeling of horror and denial that immediately set in. I wanted to reject that this had happened to me, to scream to the ceiling until the rock receded, until fate changed its mind and restored everything to the way it was. I thought that life could not be so cruel as to take everything I'd known in an instant. Oh, how I now understand that life can be capricious indeed. This is story of how I came to the surface of Drathari and unwillingly traded a life for a life.

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War Poetry of the South by Various (11 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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