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Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
by Nicole BauerThis book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today.
Trail Marked: A MidLife Paranormal Romance Thriller (Keeper of Magic Series #1)
by Rebecca Hamilton Heather Hambel CurleyAn ancient evil has already killed Scottie once, and is now stalking her along the Appalachian Trail, bent on destroying her soul for good. Scottie Walker’s fingertips burn when she gets upset, and when her stressful job and emotionally abusive boyfriend push her to the brink, her touch almost burns down her townhouse. So she starts over—and the first thing she’s doing is a six month thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail…one that will dredge up a dark past life far worse than the current one she’s running from. Something evil is stalking her…and the only person who can help save her is mysterious man on the trail who claims to know her from ‘before.’ The ‘before’ where they died together on this trail in 1959. And whatever this unknown, compelling force is, it’s not going to stop until it kills them again. If her fire-wielding powers aren’t enough to stop it, the only hope of survival is coming from beyond the grave. So, armed only with her burgeoning magical abilities and the help of a rag-tag group of hikers, Scottie tries to outrun the Vexing. But the closer she gets to the truth of what happened in 1959, the closer she gets to the dead. She knows them. She remembers them. And if she fails, she’ll become one of them. This time, for good. Fans of Stephen King, Nora Roberts, and Shannon Mayer will love this chilling, paranormal women’s fiction thriller with a hint of romance. Scroll up and one-click to start reading Trail Marked today!
Transcendental Mutilation
by Ryan HardingSIGILS INCISED, A COMMUNION WITH THE BLADEA trio of young people stranded on an uncharted island discover its sickening secrets. A man contracts a degenerative disease through a webcam encounter. An office worker follows the object of his affection into a mysterious club where life, death, and anatomy have no limits. A reforming necrophiliac struggles to maintain the illusion of normalcy in a new relationship. A woman awakens with other captives in the basement of a madman using them to attract impossible prey.UNLOCK THE GATES OF FLESH, WORLDS WITHIN FLAYEDA decade after the infamous Genital Grinder, Ryan Harding returns with ten more stories, collected for the first time— including the Splatterpunk Award-winning tales "The Seacretor" and "Angelbait"— which plunder the depths of depravity and obsession, yielding offenses and transformations of the flesh never before seen or carved. His first solo work in years dissects its themes and characters alike in a sublime autopsy worthy of the hardcore horror pantheon. Even the vomitorium has its philosophy, and the keys to revelation are all serrated.EVERY JOURNEY BEGINS WITH A SINGLE SLICE... TRANSCENDENTAL MUTILATION
Transfer: Deutsche Ausgabe
by Terry M. WestSeid darauf gefasst, gar nicht mehr aufzuhören zu schreien! Howie Payne und Nick Enlow arbeiten in der Nachtschicht bei Big Carl’s Video-Transfer- und Mediendiensten. Ein komischer AVI-Clip fängt an, jede Nacht in ihrem öffentlichen Laufwerk aufzutauchen. Zunächst gehen Howie und Nick davon aus, dass es sich hierbei um Teile eines Arthaus-Horrorfilms handelt, die ihnen jemand von der Tagesschicht heimlich schickt. Im Laufe der Zeit werden die beiden immer besessener davon, in den Videos etwas Tieferes und Dunkleres zu finden. Der Horrorautor Terry M. West möchte euch den grünen Raum und seinen Hauptbewohner vorstellen, den Schreier. Transfer ist eine neue Novelle absoluten Horrors von Terry M. West.
Transfert
by Terry M. WestPrépare-toi à hurler à jamais ! Howie Payne et Nick Enlow travaillent de nuit au Services médiatiques et transferts vidéo de Big Carl. Une étrange vidéo .avi se met à apparaître dans leur stockage public sur une base quotidienne. Au début, Howie et Nick croient à un film d’horreur du cinéma d’art et d’essai envoyé en secret par un collègue de jour. Alors que la vidéo avance, le duo à présent obsédé découvre un truc plus profond et plus sombre. L’auteur d’horreur Terry M. West aimerait vous présenter la salle verte et son occupant principal, le Hurleur. Transfert est une nouvelle d’horreur absolue par Terry M. West.
Transformation (Water Series #3)
by Kara Dalkeythrough the sea, they are shocked to discover that the sword is nowhere to be found. As Nia and Corwin search for the sword, they realize that the good people of Atlantis are now enslaved by Ma'el. Worse still, Ma'el plans the same for Corwin's native land of Wales. Nia and Corwin must find the sword and stop Ma'el -- before it's too late.
Transformation Year 2: An Academy Reversed Harem Paranormal Bully Romance (Fallen Fae Academy #2)
by Rachel Angel"At Fallen Fae Academy, the magic will either complete you or kill you." My name is Harley, as in Harlequin. Plucked from my home from Las Vegas, NV, and placed into an University on an arts scholarship, suddenly I am the girl the four hottest and most popular boys have decided to "initiate". This is no ordinary "hazing" ritual, and these boys are no ordinary boys. This mysterious University looks like any ivy league campus, but it isn't. Step in and you are transported beyond your wildest imagination. I should be ecstatic being here. Except surviving "Initiation" is going to take everything I've got. Don't let the beauty of the four fae boys fool you. They are as dangerous as they are beautiful. And underneath everything, runs a deep secret. One I need to find out before Initiation kills me. They think a human is weak. They think I shouldn't be at this university. I'm about to prove them wrong. **Transfomation Year 2 is the second book in the Fallen Fae Series with a badass heroine, four deadly, striking fae princes, heart-pounding action, super steamy love scenes, and great romance.
Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives
by Claire Nally Diego Saglia Ruth Heholt Andrew McInnes Lidia De Michelis Eleanor Beal Gino Roncaglia Claudia Gualtieri Federico Meschini Enrico Reggiani Daniele Pio Buenza Janet LarsonOn the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Transmutation: Stories
by Alex DiFrancescoTransgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives.Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces.DiFrancesco's first novel All City (Seven Stories 2019) was praised by Publishers Weekly as a "loving, grieving warning [that] thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice." All City was one of BookRiot's "Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2019," Entropy Mag's "Best of 2019," and Largehearted Boy's "Favorite Novels of 2019." It was a finalist for the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.
Transnational Horror Cinema
by Sophia Siddique Raphael RaphaelThis book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M. M. Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies' potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.
Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
by Tabish Khair Johan HöglundThroughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today.
Trap in Time
by Celia Rees"Davey's grandmother always told him he had 'the gift'--Second Sight, some call it. But it never seemed real. Until now." These three compelling ghost tales from Celia Rees, author of the highly praised Witch Child, are sure to fire the imagination.
Trapped (Fear Street #51)
by R. L. StineSome kids in the sixties used to party in the tunnels under Shadyside High, until something left a bunch of people dead. But that's just a story, right? Besides, exploring the tunnels is more fun than being stuck in Saturday detention. Too bad there's no turning back -- because in the tunnels there's no one around to hear your screams.
Trapped by Shadows (The Elijah Project #3)
by Bill Myers James RiordanWhen the forces of the evil Shadow Man kidnap six-year-old Elijah, his parents and siblings, Zach, aged sixteen, and Piper, aged thirteen, face their own weaknesses when they enter the Abyss to try and save him.
Trapped in Bat Wing Hall (Give Yourself Goosebumps #3)
by R. L. StineReaders are placed in the role of a lonely newcomer who is invited to join the Horror Club of Bat Wing Hall, and a scavenger hunt reveals that fellow members are really monsters, in a spooky adventure with twenty possible endings.
Trapped in Bat Wing Hall: Escape From The Carnival Of Horrors; Tick Tock You're Dead; Trapped In Bat Wing Hall; The Deadly Experiments Of Dr. Eeek (Give Yourself Goosebumps #3)
by R.L. StineChoose your fate on a wild scavenger hunt in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that’s packed with more than twenty super-spooky endings.Being the new kid in school is no picnic. At your old school you had tons of friends, but now you don’t even have one. Then you meet Nick. He asks you to join Horror Club. The Horror Club meets in an old mansion known as Bat Wing Hall. It’s dark. It’s spooky. And it’s where your adventure begins. The members of the Horror Club are going on a scavenger hunt. If you join the red team, you find out the truth about your new friends—they’re actually monsters! One is a green-skinned reptile. Another is a hulking giant! If you join the blue team, you get turned into a furry-faced vampire bat! The choice is yours . . . Reader beware—you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!
Trapped in the Circus of Fear (Give Yourself Goosebumps #3)
by R. L. StineIn the third special "Power Play" edition, readers must choose the right power objects to bring to the creepiest show on Earth -- or risk becoming a real sideshow freak!
Trapped in the Circus of Fear (Give Yourself Goosebumps, Special Edition #3)
by R. L. StineThe original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015!You did so well at Circus Camp, you're allowed to join a real circus for a week. But it turns out to be a Circus of Fear! Meet the Girl with Five Tongues and the Kid with Rotten Flesh. These sideshow freaks used to be normal kids-until the evil ringmistress got hold of them. And now she's after you. You'd better destroy her evil powers-before she turns you into the Kid Who Lives in a Jar! The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!
Trapped in the Horror Dome (Monsterious #5)
by Matt McMannThis series of terrifying standalone tales that combine monsters + mysteries is perfect for fans of Goosebumps.&“Spine-chilling and creepy!&” —Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Kids on Earth, on Escape From Grimstone Manor (Monsterious, Book 1)When their school wins a state science competition, Rowan, Tinker, and Amari earn a dream trip to Earth Two, a biodome research lab deep in the desert, which is sealed off from the outside world. What could be cooler?But soon, strange things begin to happen. In the dome&’s swamp ecosystem, the kids discover a creature unknown to science—though the adults don&’t believe them. Then a scientist is mysteriously attacked and Earth Two&’s security and life-support systems fail, trapping everyone inside.As oxygen runs low, a terrifying monster emerges from the shadows and begins to hunt. Now the kids must find a way to escape . . . before the biodome becomes their tomb.
Traque à l’aéroport: Le Jeu de Jack
by Blair LondonBlair London a donné une nouvelle tournure aux graves problèmes auxquels la société américaine est confrontée dans ses livres. J’espère qu’elle continuera à travailler dans ses prochains livres. Ces livres sont de grandes œuvres de fiction mais abordent des questions qui dominent l’actualité quotidiennement. Excellent travail Blair! » - Megan Kelly (Fox News) « Blair London est une nouvelle auteure avec un zeste pour la narration qui aborde des problèmes de la vie réelle dans ses romans. Ces livres sont de belles histoires ainsi que des problèmes auxquels la société est confrontée et je recommande vivement ses livres et j’attends avec impatience son prochain livre. » - Patricia Heaton (The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond)
Trashed!
by Martha FreemanFrom Edgar Award–nominated author Martha Freeman comes a compelling middle grade mystery following a young boy working at his family&’s secondhand store that is a steal-your-heart story about family and friendship.Arthur Popper helps out in his family&’s Boulder, Colorado, junk store, Universal Trash, a place so full of cool stuff it inspires awe in first-time shoppers. When it comes to ukuleles, peppermills, and rhinestones, Arthur knows what&’s what. But unlike his motorcycle-riding grandma and his namesake, King Arthur, he&’s not brave or adventurous. Then Arthur finds a chipped teacup, of all things, and realizes it&’s the key to solving the perfect crime—a crime only he knows about. With help from a supernatural sidekick, his best friend, his annoying little sister, and a sad-faced police officer, Arthur embarks on the hard work of detecting. Everyone knows Arthur is good at customer service. Does he have what it takes to solve a mystery and confront a thief?
Travelers Rest: A Novel
by Keith Lee Morris'ALICE IN WONDERLAND MEETS THE SHINING' Kirkus'A FINE ADDITION TO THE CREEPY HOTEL THRILLER GENRE' Independent'SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO STAY A WHILE IN GOOD NIGHT, IDAHO, THEN - UNLIKE THE ADDISONS - YOU WON'T REGRET IT' GuardianThe Addisons - Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey, and Uncle Robbie - are driving home after collecting Robbie from yet another trip to rehab. When a terrifying blizzard strikes outside the town of Good Night, Idaho, they seek refuge at the Travelers Rest, a formerly opulent but now crumbling hotel.With nowhere else to go, they decide to stay the night. But once inside, the family becomes separated and the hotel begins to work its eerie magic. As Julia and Tonio drift through the maze of the hotel's spectral interiors, Dewey ventures outside. Meanwhile, a desperate Robbie quickly succumbs to his old vices. As they desperately try to reach each other, they relive the same day over and over again. The mother, Julia, holds the key to their release - but can she save her family from the fate of becoming Souvenirs - those citizens trapped forever in Good Night-or, worse, from disappearing entirely?
Travelers Rest: A Novel
by Keith Lee MorrisA FAMILY MAROONED. ONLY ONE HOTEL IN TOWN. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG. Imagine GROUNDHOG DAY rewritten by Stephen King or David Lynch.A young family is driving home one night but is forced off the highway by a blizzard.They arrive in the former mining town of Good Night, Idaho and take shelter in a grand, but dilapidated old hotel.When they become separated, they enter a nightmare in which they relive the same day over and over, each caught in their own separate time loop. But what are the mysterious images that haunt them, and can they change what is past?(p) 2016 Hachette Audio
Treacherous: The Beginning (Treacherous: The Beginning Ser.)
by Enjil WashingtonA traumatized young girl goes on the run from powerful assassins in this supernatural Cajun thriller full of criminal corruption and voodoo magic. When the Piper family finds a beaten and bloodied young girl near their rural Louisiana home, they don&’t think twice about taking her in. But their act of charity is about to change their lives in ways they never expected. The Pipers couldn&’t possibly imagine the horrors that Madria has experienced—or the secrets she carries with her. When vicious men came to her home and murdered her family, Madria managed to escape—though how she survived their brutal attack is a mystery. Now those men are out to finish the job. But while they present a deadly threat, Madria possesses powers of her own.
Treading the Maze
by Lisa TuttleIn this exclusive short story from the award-winning author of The Mysteries, inexplicable fear of a maze leads to unexpected consequences . . .Amy and Phil are charmed by the Old Vicarage, a beautiful Glastonbury guest house surrounded by peaceful countryside. But when they look from their window and see a group of strange figures performing a ritual dance around a turf-maze, Amy feels far from peaceful. Phil insists on treading the maze, but Amy is gripped by inexplicable fear - fear that turns out to be well-founded. Dark forces are at work, and unbeknownst to them, Amy and Phil's holiday will be the last time they enjoy happiness together . . .