Guilty Pleasure

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101146389
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Arielle Zibrak
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479807095
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures written by Arielle Zibrak and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims the femme fictions dismissed as "trash" to celebrate the surprisingly cathartic pleasures of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of patriarchal culture"--

Author : Hugh McIntosh
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941660
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Hugh McIntosh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guilty pleasures in one’s reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived in the public sphere as at once beloved and contested objects, an ambivalence that reflected and informed America’s cultural insecurity. This became a matter of nationhood as well as aesthetics: the amateurism of popular narratives resonated with the discourse of new nationhood. In Guilty Pleasures, Hugh McIntosh examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to such best-sellers as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ben Hur, and Trilby as well as fictional representations—from Trollope to Baldwin—of American culture’s lack of artistic greatness. Drawing on a transatlantic archive of contemporary criticism, urban display, parody, and advertising, Guilty Pleasures thoroughly documents how the conflicted attitude toward popular novels shaped these ephemeral modes of response. Paying close attention to this material history of novel reading, McIntosh reveals how popular fiction’s unique status as socially saturating and aesthetically questionable inspired public reflection on what it meant to belong to a flawed national community.

Author : Dana Schwartz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1478970383
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choose Your Own Disaster written by Dana Schwartz and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer.

Author : Kevin Dickson
Publisher : Blind Item
ISBN 13 : 1250122279
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasure written by Kevin Dickson and published by Blind Item. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young Hollywood professionals hustle to keep the industry's dirtiest secrets in this addictive and salacious sequel to Blind Item. Nicola is forced to represent her superstar ex-boyfriend, Seamus, when he returns from rehab. Her PR agency is struggling, and Seamus is one client who definitely won't leave as long as Nicola is around. He's willing to do anything to win her back--even start a fake relationship for some badly needed good publicity. Meanwhile, tabloid journalist Billy's integrity is tested when news of a sex tape leaks, and it's starring his best friend Kara. With everyone's career in jeopardy, the three friends must trust each other again--before all their dirty secrets spill.

Author : Timothy Aubry
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988965
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures written by Timothy Aubry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

Author : Kevin Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1250122252
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Item written by Kevin Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Hollywood insiders fill a fictional tale with real-life scandals.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1743532490
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasure: A Bound Hearts Novel written by Lora Leigh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh has captivated millions with her sizzling tales. When FBI agent Marty Matthews is assigned to shadow Khalid, a dangerous, forbidden man who has haunted her dreams for years, she struggles against her desires for him. That is, until Khalid is cleared and Marty freed from her assignment. Now all bets are off . . . The beautiful, fierce Marty Matthews is the one woman Khalid hungers for like no other and is the one woman he dare not let himself have. His past dogs his every step and danger lurks around every corner. To save her he must keep away. But the power of their desire is something they cannot deny - and once Marty is his, Khalid will do whatever it takes to keep her in his arms forever.

Author : J. L. Sanchez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by J. L. Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia always thought she got lucky in love. After marrying her college sweetheart and having three children, life was good. But when her husband of fifteen years came home and announced he'd fallen in love with a 25-year-old fitness model, her world shattered around her. To add insult to injury, she only had thirty days to move out.Broke and disheartened, Sofia scrambled to find an affordable home for her and her children. Just as she was about to give up hope, a rude stranger in a coffee shop gave her a tip that saved her from moving in with her parents. Overwhelmed with gratitude, she kissed the rude but thoughtful man before rushing out of the coffee shop. Santiago had always been the hottest guy in the room, and he had the ego to go with it. But that was before¿ Now he had a hideous scar that ran down his face and no filter over what came out of his mouth. He spent his days hiding from the world. It wasn't until that fateful day at the coffee shop that things changed. The sadness in her eyes called to his damaged heart. He never expected a simple cup of coffee would change everything. That a kiss from a sad stranger would turn his world upside down. He quickly realized one kiss wasn't enough, and he became determined to find this woman with the sad eyes and broken heart. When Sofia and Santiago run into each other again, would their last impressions hold a candle to the chemistry they now felt for each other? Would they be able to get past their own issues and meddling ex's to be together? Would it be possible for two broken people to love again?