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In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art can reflect and amplify its effects, to positive and negative ends.
In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in...
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From romantic horror author Rojana Krait comes a lesbian vampire tale blurring the lines between pleasure and pain, good and evil, and freedom and bondage. House of Stone is an enemies to lovers thousand year age gap romance between two ice queens who want to love each other almost as much as they want to destroy each other. I'm an elder, a sister, a mother to my girls and there's nothing that I wouldn't do to keep them safe but my attempts at protecting...
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An action-packed sapphic vampire tale that spirals through spaces both physical and conceptual, disrupting the boundaries between masculinity and femininity, friend and lover, savior and oppressor. House of Iron features a genderqueer heroine running from their past, a found family experiencing growing pains, and a macabre dance of the dead that will leave you breathless and afraid to ask for more. I've always existed in the most liminal spaces: masculine...
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Excerpt: "For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands. But the name, The White Man's Grave, is especially attached to several of the oldest of the coast settlements. Notable among these is Gaboon, in the French Congo, almost exactly at the...
8) The Fall
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The first book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. Young Ben Casper lives in an old shopping mall with his family. He must contend with growing up, falling in love, and losing friends, as well as becoming embroiled in a plot to kill the gods that could put everyone he cares about in mortal danger... For fans of The Hunger Games and...
9) Voll Speed
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Voll Speed schlittern Ray und Rufus in die Unterwelt. Genauer gesagt: in die Kanalisation. Und mitten hinein in einen neuen Fall. Die Erdmännchenbrüder verfügen nämlich seit kurzem über ein Speedboot, mit dem sie durch die Kanäle unter der Stadt cruisen - und prompt an einer Wasserleiche hängen bleiben.
Inzwischen wird der Zoo von seltsamen Vorfällen erschüttert: Die Nashörner zertrümmern ihr Stahlgeländer. Die Antilopen springen lebensmüde...
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Children's parties are increasingly PROFITABLE nowadays. Most parents don't have enough time to be able to ORGANIZE a party for their children, and that's where YOU COME IN. If you have a small amount of capital to INVEST and want to make a living from the CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT industry, be SURE that setting up a CHILDREN'S PARTY DECORATION business is a GREAT investment idea. In the past, children's parties were just cake, some snacks and sweets....
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'He wasn't dead and gone to heaven. He was alive and still in Graceland. Cursed to live another year on god's earth as Elvis Presley. The man from yesterday trapped in a today of tomorrows…'
As 1968 dawns, the once King of Rock 'n' Roll faces cultural oblivion. While elsewhere the Sixties are swinging, for Elvis they're sinking – in terrible films, drug addiction, paranoia, religious mania and the mercenary wiles of his psychopathic manager....
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All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travelers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilizations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430-426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian I caught bubonic plague in 541 CE, contemporary historian Procopius described his symptoms: fever, delirium and buboes—large black swellings of the...
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Where are you, my love? There is not a single cell of my body that does not acclaim you, a single atom of my being that does not belong to you, a thought in which you are not. Come for me, mistress of my existence, my Goddess of the depths of the sea. Let me drink the honey from your lips, soak myself in the warmth of your chest, submerge myself in the depths of your seabed. Take me with you, reason for my existence, light of my darkness. Let me prostrate...
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Book Three in the Unbreakable SeriesUnbreakable Together: Young Adult RomanceDevonDevon's feelings for Erin became all too clear to him over the years. The little girl next door has blossomed into one of the most beautiful girls he has ever seen. Now he has to face his feelings for her once and for all.But confessing his love to Erin puts him on a collision course that jeopardizes his future. Will Devon destroy his own future and those around him...