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Murder at the Rocks
When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs.Meanwhile, Laurence's nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a suspect in his uncle's death, and receives a mysterious gold locket that starts a chain of events unravelling his family's dark truths.
ALWAYS
Without darkness, there is no light... The epic Spiral series comes to a gripping, heart-wrenching conclusion as Liv and Dean fight the most torturous uphill battle of their lives. Dean has always been my hero, my knight in tailored suits, armed and ready to slay every evil or danger in our path. Every possible threat before, and every memorable day throughout our marriage, there’s never been anything he hasn’t been able to protect me from. Until now. “This story covered a very poignant topic that affects so many people. You better believe I cried like a baby! I can’t tell you just how much this series has meant to me. It’s one of my most beloved of all time.” -- Wrapped Up in Reading “What a way to end one of the best series I've ever read. Amazingly beautiful. Heartbreaking. Absolutely epic.” -- Steamy Reads Book Blog THE SPIRAL TRILOGY - Book 1: Arouse - Book 2: Allure - Book 3: Awaken AFTER THE SPIRAL DUET - Book 1: Adore - Book 2: Always
Icarus
Icarus: The Collected Plays is an excursion into the uniqueness of an individual confronting an indifferent and often hostile universe. A demigod, time travelers, vampires, the pioneers of modern-day rocketry, a magus, two young convicts, an amateur bodybuilder, a murderous alienmisfits, all of them. Each of these fifteen plays is a projection of existence with an unusual main character and those within his sphere of influence. They are the manipulators of a reality of their own creation.
Cancer Intersections
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. Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the city of Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that share a common goal of treating and curing cancer but are hindered by bureaucratic procedures, pernicious financial inter...
Six Plays of Comedy, Drama, and Mystery
In these six strikingly original plays, ranging from the existential, to the film noir, to madcap comedy, Gerard Denza introduces readers to a demi-god, an avenging teenage boy, a cynical vampire, a pathological killer, a celebrity housewife, and a competitive bodybuilder. The intriguing plots bring new twists to the life-after- death theme, time travel, the deadly politics of the opera world, the sub-culture of bodybuilding, the machinations of the world of terrorism, and the occult. Mr. Denza has a penetrating and off-beat understanding of character and motivation. Each play has its hero, anti-hero or villain and a cast of supporting characters who are memorable and entertaining.
Food
Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays about cooking, eating, and sharing food, by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring what they learned by eating with others. These are accounts of specific experiences - of cooking in Mombasa, shopping for organic produce in Vienna, eating vegetarian in Vietnam, raising and selling chickens in Hong Kong, and of refugees subsisting on food aid. With a special focus on the experience and challenge of ethnographic fieldwork, the essays cover a wide range of topics in food studies and anthropology, including food safety and food security, cultural diversity and globalization, colonial histories and contemporary identities, and changing ecological, social, and political relations across cultures. Food: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad view of the vibrancy of local and global food cultures, and provides an accessible introduction to both food studies and contemporary ethnography.
THE BOSS'S CONVENIENT BRIDE
Secretary Claire Dalgliesh was stunned by her boss Nicholas Monroe’s words: “You’re going to marry me.” It sounded almost like a proposal from the man of her dreams, but of course it was only an order from Nicholas, who was utterly disgusted by all the women trying to flirt with him. He was a man who declared that love was unnecessary and that this marriage would be nothing more than another practical arrangement for him. Claire couldn’t accept a marriage without love, but she risked losing her job if she refused…and she couldn’t afford to lose her job!
Skyblazers
SKYBLAZERS is a collection of plays that range from the existential, to "film" noir, and to the world of terrorism. They're a penetrating look into anti-heroes and the struggling individual. Among the protagonists are the father of modern day rocketry, an amateur bodybuilder, vampires, young prison inmates, and a murderous alien. "Gerard Denza is a fine writer. His plays contain unusual and original themes." Mario Fratti Playwright (NINE) "The playwright has a gift for words. EDMUND: The Likely is like being at a good, old fashioned 1940's radio mystery broadcast." Joe Franklin WOR-AM Rich dialogue . . . very rich dialogue in this play, THE DYING GOD: A Vampire's Tale. Paul Cohen Executive Producer/Distributor President, The Red Hills Motion Picture Releasing Co. LLC
Serial Killers
In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and shadow to our collective portrait of what a serial killer must be, Mark Seltzer draws upon popular sources, scholarly analyses, and the language of psychoanalysis to explore the genesis of this uniquely modern phenomenon. Revealed is a fascination with machines and technological reproduction, with the singular and the mass, with definitions of self, other, and intimacy. What emerges is a disturbing picture of how contemporary culture is haunted by technology and the instability of identity.
Words and Witness
Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of this boundary are governed by a different dynamic and set of rules from one another. Close readings of works by Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Jerzy Kosinski, Claude Lanzmann, Dan Pagis, Piotr Rawicz, André Schwarz-Bart, and Elie Wiesel explore the inventive means by which these Holocaust writers wrestle with experiences that, in a very real sense, cannot be put into words. A new reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness sets the stage for comparative and far-reaching literary insights into the notion and conception of traumatic narrative.
