Wenn dein Leben Gefühle verbietet und das Herz doch triumphiert! Army-Veteran Malachi Coulter ist nicht gerade der typische Baseball-Manager. Noch dazu hält der waschechte Biker nicht viel von Cheerleadern auf dem Baseballfeld. Allerdings findet er durchaus Gefallen an der toughen Raina Easton, die die Truppe seit neuestem leitet. Raina hätte sich niemals vorstellen können, dass sie einmal Cheerleader trainieren würde. Schon gar nicht für ein Baseballteam wie die New York Saints. Aber als Besitzerin eines Burlesqueclubs kann sie nicht nur den Mädels den einen oder anderen Move beibringen. Es scheint, dass Bad Boy Malachi in ihr eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin gefunden hat. Denn in der Liebe und im Baseball ist (fast) alles erlaubt ...

Farewell to Conflict provides nonstop action in a crime novel that takes place in balmy Jamaica. Larry Lawless was born and raised in the ghetto. In high school he became a track star and met his girlfriend, Karen la Beach, who had a middle class upbringing. After graduating from university, Larry moves to Ocho Rios to set up a woodworking business. There he hopes to locate his mother’s relatives, since he never knew any other family than his mother. As he grapples with building his business, he is diverted by the murder of Karen’s uncle, as well as a woman found naked and spread-eagled with her wrists and ankles bound to the bedposts in her uncle’s home. Karen wants Larry to help her conduct their own investigation of the crime. Besides murder, extortionists target Larry’s business, wanting a share of the profits. Will the couple be able to solve the murders, stop the extortion and bid Farewell to Conflict? Or will there be a bloody closure?

"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--

Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won’t believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of their sensational content and topicality. While a few of these movies have since become canonized by film fans and critics, a number of the era’s biggest fads have now faded into obscurity. The Cool and the Crazy examines seven of these film cycles, including short-lived trends like boxing movies, war pictures, and social problem films detailing the sordid and violent life of teenagers, as well as uniquely 1950s takes on established genres like the gangster picture. Peter Stanfield reveals how Hollywood sought to capitalize upon current events, moral panics, and popular fads, making movies that were “ripped from the headlines” on everything from the Korean War to rock and roll. As he offers careful readings of several key films, he also considers the broader historical and commercial contexts in which these films were produced, marketed, and exhibited. In the process, Stanfield uncovers surprising synergies between Hollywood and other arenas of popular culture, like the ways that the fashion trend for blue jeans influenced the 1950s Western. Delivering sharp critical insights in jazzy, accessible prose, The Cool and the Crazy offers an appreciation of cinema as a “pop” medium, unabashedly derivative, faddish, and ephemeral. By studying these long-burst bubbles of 1950s “pop,” Stanfield reveals something new about what films do and the pleasures they provide.