The Lure

Author : Lynne Ewing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062206907
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure written by Lynne Ewing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Lynne Ewing comes a gritty, sexy novel perfect for fans of books like Perfect Chemistry—about a teen forced to become a "lure," a beautiful girl used by her street gang to seduce and entrap rival gang members. The Lure tells the story of fifteen-year-old Blaise Montgomery, who lives on the dangerous outskirts of Washington, DC, where a stray bullet can steal a life on the way to school and death lurks around every corner. Drugs and violence are the only ways to survive, so Blaise and her friends turn to gangs for safety, money, and love. And when Blaise is accepted into one of the toughest gangs in the city, she's finally part of a crew. A family. But as Blaise is put in increasingly dangerous situations, particularly as her gang's newest lure, she begins to see there's more to lose than she ever realized. Should Blaise continue to follow the only path she's ever known, or cut and run?

Author : Felice Picano
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602824177
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure written by Felice Picano and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Cummings's life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan's gay life that stirs his own secret desiresÑuntil he forgets he is only playing a role.

Author : John Paul Ricco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226711013
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of the Lure written by John Paul Ricco and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot—such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With The Logic of the Lure, John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic, and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics, one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to taking place, Ricco considers a variety of issues, including the work of Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways.

Author : Brenda Denzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224329
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Edge written by Brenda Denzler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly exploration of the "UFO movement" probes life on the fringes of modernity, tracing the fascinating links between science and religion implied by this philosophy.

Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764403
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Vampire written by Milly Williamson and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

Author : Stephen C. Schroeder
Publisher : Course Technology
ISBN 13 : 9781435457126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure written by Stephen C. Schroeder and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the sting operation used by the Dept. of Justice to catch Russian hackers who were gaining control of computers and stealing private data from victims in the United States.

Author : Shumei Shi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220641
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Modern written by Shumei Shi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange

Author : Gretchen Coombs
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781789383225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Social written by Gretchen Coombs and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lure of the Social is an intimate and personal exploration into the key individuals, institutions, and gatherings that make up the field of socially engaged art. In this book of encounters, the reader follows Gretchen Coombs on her journey through what could be considered the most significant shift in art world practices in the last two decades. The book navigates a spectrum: at one end, the author works closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic research; at the other, she tries to find critical distance from which to write about their art projects and the institutional structures that support their work, such as art schools and conferences. Readers are introduced to artists, their work, and the key debates and issues facing this emergent field. In the course of her study, Coombs analyzes the contradictions and paradoxes of this field of practice and gives expression to the artists working to make art relevant in times of social and political uncertainty.

Author : Colta Feller Ives
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588390624
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Exotic written by Colta Feller Ives and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He believed firmly in his difference, often referring to himself as a "savage," and once he discovered his passion for art he had to create forms that were original and unique. "What does it matter that I set myself apart from other people? For most I shall be an enigina, but for a few I shall be a poet...," he wrote.".

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066380
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Sea written by Alain Corbin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.