The Pugilist's Wife

The Pugilist's Wife
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781933896670
ISBN-13 : 1933896671
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pugilist's Wife by : David Armand

The Pugilist's Wife tells the story of Magdalene Tucker, a jilted woman who takes in a drifter during one of Sun, Louisiana's worst recorded droughts. When the townspeople find out about this, they decide to lead a sort of crusade to Magdalene's farm in order to put an end to Magdalene's and this man's sins, thinking them the sole cause of the town's plight. But no one can predict that this convergence upon Magdalene's land will turn violent, resulting in a brutal and bloody climax, where chance and coincidence take a back seat to love, honor, revenge, and pride.

The Woman Inside

The Woman Inside
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781524744533
ISBN-13 : 1524744530
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Woman Inside by : E. G. Scott

“A marital saga so pitch-black it makes Gone Girl look like the romance of the decade . . . [The Woman Inside] resembles past smashes like Big Little Lies and The Woman in the Window.”—Entertainment Weekly An impossible-to-put-down domestic thriller about secrets and revenge, told from the perspectives of a husband and wife who are the most perfect, and the most dangerous, match for each other Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the passion that first ignited their love has morphed into duplicitous secrecy, threatening to end their marriage, freedom, and sanity. Rebecca, in the throes of opioid addiction, uncovers not only her husband’s affair but also his plan to build a new life with another woman. Spiraling desperately, she concocts a devious plot of her own--one that could destroy absolutely everything. The Woman Inside is a shockingly twisty story of deceit, an unforgettable portrait of a marriage imploding from within, and a cautionary tale about how love can morph into something far more sinister. It’s a novel about how people grow apart and how those closest to us can be harboring the most shocking of secrets.

Two Lives: a Novel

Two Lives: a Novel
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600021751
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Lives: a Novel by : William Blanchard Jerrold

Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959

Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 735
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ISBN-10 : 9781476639260
ISBN-13 : 1476639264
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 by : Graham Webb

Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Irish Masculinity on Screen

Irish Masculinity on Screen
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781476602455
ISBN-13 : 147660245X
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Irish Masculinity on Screen by : Joseph Paul Moser

Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass--whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts, and in the process upset conventional notions of masculine authority. Furthermore, Ford's later films interestingly depart from the egalitarian ideals that distinguish his pre-World War II films.

Vocabulum

Vocabulum
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 9783752444797
ISBN-13 : 3752444797
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Vocabulum by : George W. Matsell

Reproduction of the original: Vocabulum by George W. Matsell

A Martial Odyssey

A Martial Odyssey
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9781304991874
ISBN-13 : 1304991873
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis A Martial Odyssey by : Edmund Shen

Synopsis ""It is said that when a martial exponent reached the highest state of divinity of their arts, they be able to transcend into Celestials, overcoming the limitation of life and death. And as Celestials, they have to overcome seven celestial divinity, Genesis, Enlighten, Emotion, Transverse, Seventh Sense, Crisis and Ascend in order to transcend to the Heavens."" A Martial Odyssey is an epic quasi-fantasy/wuxia fiction spanning three books. The powerful Honor Manor rules the Orthodox Martial Fraternity, yet there are other equally mysterious martial clans that are outside the influence of the orthodox fraternity; like the Eternal Ice Palace, the Virtuous Palace and the Celestial Palace. When the Celestial Fairy of the Eternal Ice Palace is rumored to pass away, it immediately attracted the attention of numerous exponents that undertake the perilous journey to the Heavenly Mountains for the martial secrets of the Eternal Ice Palace.