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To fight for
Before he became an assassin in London's underworld, Joe was a bare-knuckle boxer. Before that he was a soldier in the British army. But nothing prepared him for this. Revenge drives him forward. On the streets of East London, a turf war is raging. And Joe has no choice but to join the fight. It's the only way he can find out what happened to the woman he loved - the only way he can bring her killers to justice.
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Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes
Written by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary
critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful
exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's
fictional and autobiographical writings.
The volume opens with a close reading of Tender Is the
Night , in which Donaldson argues that the key theme of the
novel is warfare-the struggle between the sexes for dominance in a
marriage or relationship. Other essays expand on this theme,
examining Fitzgerald's assessment of love and the American dream in
The Great Gatsby , Zelda Fitzgerald's alleged affair with
the French aviator Edouard Jozan, the writer's relationship with
his fellow author Dorothy Parker, and Fitzgerald's autobiographical
writings, in which he recounts his fast, extravagant life during
the Jazz Age.
Engagingly written and based on a deep understanding of
Fitzgerald's life and career, Fitzgerald and the War Between
the Sexes will inform and influence fans and students of
Fitzgerald's work for many years to come.
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True believer : a thriller
\"Former Navy SEAL James Reece's skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and [has] set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe's underground. The United States government has an asset who can turn the Iraqi against his masters: James Reece, the most-wanted domestic terrorist alive. After avenging the deaths of his family and team members, Reece emerges deep in the wilds of Mozambique, protected by the family of his estranged best friend and former SEAL Team member. When a series of events uncovers his whereabouts, the CIA recruits him, using a Presidential pardon for Reece and immunity for the friends who helped him in his mission of vengeance. Now a reluctant tool of the United States government, Reece travels the globe, targeting terrorist leaders and unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy that exposes a traitorous CIA officer and uncovers a sinister assassination plot with worldwide repercussions.\"--Publisher's description.
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King of thorns
The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them. A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. Every omen says he will. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. But King Jorg is not a good king. Faced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But playing fair was never part of Jorg's game plan.
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‘MY FATHER HAD A DAUGHTER’ OR THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE
Grace Tiffany’s debut novel, My Father Had a Daughter, is a vibrant tale of uninhibited desire, revenge and loss in the shape of a fictionalized ‘memoir’ of Judith, Shakespeare’s youngest daughter. The present paper will focus on the diegetic narrator’s trajectory of becoming; the theoretical framework will be informed by some of Deleuze and Guattari’s most important concepts, such as lines of flight, desiring machine, nomad and body without organs.
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Mountain made : a western story
Winsor Glanvil and Louise Carney plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman, but Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival, decides to prevent Glanvil from marrying any woman by disfiguring him permanently, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur.
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Mediating Neo-Feudalism
This essay discusses contemporary film and media in relation to the political economic concept of neo-feudalism. Questioning the application of a science-fiction dialectics to these media and the tendency to see them as symptoms of the rise of neofascism, the essay rather connects their themes, narratives, and visual styles to Marxist (Dean) and classical (Hudson) discussions of capitalism's transition to neo-feudalism, as well as to the affect of ressentiment as a means of \"governing by debt\" (Lazzarato). It then turns to the films of Bong Joon-ho, including Parasite (2019) and Okja (2017), to show how they critique neo-feudalism while also remaining limited by ressentiment and individual acts of revenge. The final part reads the more complex treatments of identity and performance in Jordan Peele's Us (2019) and Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (2018) through the connections they make between neo-feudalism and racial capitalism (Robinson).
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The plague stones
Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan move to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. In the village, there are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers. No plague-sufferer was allowed to pass the stones and enter the village. The plague diminished, and the village survived unscathed. An ancient ceremony is performed each year to renew the village boundaries. A miguided act by the Feenans' son then reminds the village there's a reason traditions have been rigidly stuck to.
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