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When a body is discovered at a genetics research company in the quaint town of Snoqualmie, Washington, it's up to local police detective Paxton Tavish to find the killer. With the help of private detective Regina Harrington, the victim's niece and his ex-lover, Pax tries to unravel the layers of darkness from a maze of potential suspects. With only a handful of clues and no obvious motive, Pax and Regina struggle to reveal the truth while coming to terms with their own relationship.
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Most of George Gissing's 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing's frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting with Workers in the Dawn (1880), almost all of Gissing's fictional works are set in his own time period of late-Victorian England, and five of his first six novels focus on the working-class poor that Gissing would have encountered frequently during his early writing career. While most recent criticism focuses on Gissing's works as biographical narratives, this work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art, giving him the benefit of the doubt regardless of how well his book...
A thought-provoking thriller in the vein of the futuristic technologies of Michael Crichton merged with the intensity of a Robin Cook medical mystery, MYND Control will make you never want to use your smartphone again. MYND Control merges the disturbing world of neuro-marketing with the personal invasion of real-time advertising and provides a glimpse into the near future. Don't be surprised when this technology comes soon to your smart phone and tablet! Programmer Vega Swift is struggling to care for herself and her ailing mother, stricken with early-onset Alzheimer's. When the healthcare application programming company she works for is bought by neuro-marketing giant, Neilmann Corporation,...
A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart—from the “brilliant mind” (Michaela Coel, creator of I May Destroy You) behind Shutterbabe “The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you’ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.”—Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE I’m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces. Twenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly ...
Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.
Jacob Fyock (1741-1818) was born in Froshen, Thaleischweiler, Germany. In about 1764 he immigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Barbara Blartrah and they were the parents of five children, one of whom was John Fyock (1772-1852) who was born on the family farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John married Susannah Messenbaugh (1778-1858) and they were the parents of thirteen children. John also had a mistress with whom he fathered an illegitimate child. Descendants live in Pennsylvania and other parts of the United States.
The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The editors of that mammoth undertaking, Paul Mattheisen, Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas, had long been an inspiration to the younger generation of Gissing scholars, and their presence at the International George Gissing Conference at Amsterdam in September 1999 explained the success of the encounter between Gissing's older and younger critics. Ever since the reappraisal of Gissing's works began to get under way in the early 1960s through the publication of many new editions of the works and ground-...
This book collects a number of Richard Levin's essays, beginning with his well-known PMLA article of 1988 on Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy and continuing through the 1990s, that examine and evaluate some of the most important aspects of the new critical approaches to the interpretations of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries- principally the New Historicism, feminism, and revisionist versions of Marxism and Freudianism. In these essays he is looking not only for rational arguments in these approaches, but also for a rational argument with their practitioners, and therefore he reprints several of the responses that these essays have elicited (including th PMLA Forum letter signed by twenty-four people who objected to Feminist Thematics) along with his answers to them, which contribute to this critique of the present state of the discourse in this field.