Linda Lael MillerBatteries Not Required Contrary to popular opinion, Gayle Hayes's love life is out of service. But when she returns to her small Montana hometown, rodeo bad boy Tristan McCullough gives her a whole new lesson in power surge. . . Jill ShalvisCaptivated James Scott warned his investigator ex-wife Ella to be more careful. Now he finds the irate woman nearly naked and handcuffed to the towel rack in his Mexican vacation condo. ...
Heat up the winter nights with this trio of sexy, festive stories. A Promise For The Holiday Donna Hill Devastated by her divorce, Cara Holiday vowed never to be vulnerable again. Now she's a wildly successful real estate broker, and wildly lonely. Restaurateur Mitch Davis has had his eye on her, but can't break the ice–until he cooks up a scheme to hire her. Soon Cara is enjoying his company–and secretly drawing out the process of ...
Theirs is a world of ancient desires and forbidden pleasures. They are men of mystery and women of seduction, wild creatures with the power to entrance and enchant, tease and tantalize. Enter their secret world, if you dare. . . The Yearning by Hannah Howell Alpin has lived for centuries with a lust that can never be quenched with mere physical pleasure. And then he meets Sophie whose own search for lasting love binds them together in a cloak ...
• Anthology of diverse, contemporary, cutting edge fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, stemming from Los Angeles and streaming outward nationwide • Short entries and diversity of authors’ voice make for quick, stimulating read • Quirky, unusual, often controversial subject matter ...
Книга посвящена диалогу русских писателей-модернистов с Данте и Петраркой. В трех ее разделах исследуются: общемодернистское преклонение перед «Канцоньере» Петрарки; стихотворения Анненского, Кузмина, Ходасевича и Ахматовой, отмеченные творческой переработкой «Божественной комедии» и «Канцоньере»; путь, проделанный Мандельштамом от игнорирования Данте и Петрарки к оригинальному переосмыслению их наследия в стихах и прозе. Эти сюжеты рассматриваю ...
Альманах «In Umbra: Демонология как семиотическая система» объединяет работы, посвященные мифологическим персонажам – амбивалентным и вредоносным духам, «низшим» божествам, демонам. Представления о незримых врагах-искусителях, вредителях, агентах болезней играют важную роль в культуре разных народов. С их помощью объясняются многие бедствия и катаклизмы, от личностных до глобальных. В традиционных обществах духи воспринимаются как естественные с ...
Предлагаемая вниманию читателя монография посвящена историко-теоретическому исследованию лирического цикла, преимущественно в русской книжной поэзии XVII–XX вв. Анализируются лирические циклы и книги стихов Симеона Полоцкого, В.К. Тредиаковского, М.М. Хераскова, Г.Р. Державина, Н.М. Карамзина, А.С. Пушкина, И.В. Гёте, Е.А. Баратынского, Г. Гейне, А. Белого, О.Э. Мандельштама, И.А. Бродского. Книга может быть интересна как профессиональным филол ...
Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collec ...
