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Adored (It Girl #8)
by Cecily Von ZiegesarBrett Messerchmidt is planning Waverly Academy's annual holiday ball and gift exchange. But when some enterprising students decide that playing Secret Satan is infinitely more fun, the entire school starts acting naughty. Now all Brett wants for Christmas is a quiet holiday--and a kiss from a certain someone under the mistletoe. Too bad Callie Vernon has the same idea. Ho ho no! Everybody at Waverly is getting into the giving spirit. The only present Tinsley Carmichael wants to unwrap this holiday is her new boyfriend, Julian McCafferty. But what happens when she uncovers a shady secret from his past instead? Santa knows when you've been bad or good ... but what's the point of being good when being bad is so much fun?
Adored: An It Girl Novel
by Cecily Von ZiegesarJenny Humphrey's time at Waverly Academy has had its ups and downs - from making enemies of the most popular girl at school to stealing her room mate's boyfriend. But now everything has changed - Jenny, Tinsley, Callie and Brett have put their differences behind them to jointly rule over Waverly Academy - but how long can peace last?
Adored: An It Girl Novel
by Cecily Von ZiegesarJenny Humphrey's time at Waverly Academy has had its ups and downs - from making enemies of the most popular girl at school to stealing her room mate's boyfriend. But now everything has changed - Jenny, Tinsley, Callie and Brett have put their differences behind them to jointly rule over Waverly Academy - but how long can peace last?
Adorkable
by Sarra ManningJeane Smith's a blogger, a dreamer, a dare-to-dreamer, jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand and has half a million followers on Twitter.Michael Lee's a star of school, stage and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie.They have nothing in common but a pair of cheating exes. So why can't they stop snogging?
Adorkable
by Sarra ManningJeane Smith's a blogger, a dreamer, a dare-to-dreamer, jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand and has half a million followers on Twitter.Michael Lee's a star of school, stage and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie.They have nothing in common but a pair of cheating exes. So why can't they stop snogging?
Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India: Aesthetic Form after the Twentieth-century Novel
by Tania RoyIn the postcolonial world, the claim to an emancipated national culture was bound to its aesthetic correlate, the unfolding time and experiments of the twentieth-century novel. Today, the constructs of both novel and a progressivist national project function, in all their closures, within global scales of economic disparity and violent exclusion. What is the fate of a literary canon when it is no longer capable of delineating a future – or otherwise, is bound to reproduce the failures of the past within its own inscriptions? How do we experience our current "globalist" moment, when lived inequities of gender, labour and ethnicity emerge in a text’s inability to speak on time? When does artistic or literary failure become the measure of a work's accomplishment? And what sort of liberation is envisioned by works that refuse the imperatives of "progress" and "independence" – which embrace the appearance of obsolescence by rejecting values of artistic freedom, originality and innovation? These are some of the provocations that arise from T.W. Adorno's idea of late style for our own conjuncture – a properly postcolonial context, in which every conceptual or expressive engagement is articulated through an awareness of eroded national promise. Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of literary and artistic modernity in India through Adorno’s category of late-style. In striking readings of Adorno and his interlocuters, the book extends a poetics of lateness toward a speculative history of the twentieth-century novel in India. Comprised of critically neglected selections from the oeuvres of canonical writers, Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India proposes that under conditions of advanced capitalism, logics of redundancy overtake the novel’s foundational reference point in the nation to produce altered frames of thought and sensibility – and therein, a reader who might encounter, anew, the figures of an unfulfilled twentieth century.
Adorno's Gamble: Harnessing German Ideology (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought)
by Mikko ImmanenAdorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic of enlightenment, and frailty of democracy: the intellectual underpinnings of Germany's "conservative revolutionary" movement of the 1920s.In a dramatic reappraisal of the leading light of the Frankfurt School, Immanen follows Adorno's path of philosophical development from the late Weimar era through years in exile to the postwar period, establishing his debt to thinkers of radical conservative bent. In particular, he focuses on Adorno's enduring, and daring, effort to harness two of the most infamous works from this tradition—Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and Ludwig Klages's The Spirit as Adversary of the Soul—and to repurpose their reactionary teachings for emancipatory ends.
Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)
by Owen HulattIn Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true.For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.
Adoro tu nombre (Los Centinelas #6)
by Mary Calmes Mae RodríguezUn libro de la saga Los CentinelasMalic Sunden está en el infierno... aunque no literalmente. Aún. Como Guardián, está acostumbrado a luchar contra demonios y enfrentarse a toda clase de criaturas del abismo, pero este año tiene que vérselas con una nueva y aterradora perspectiva: pasar las Navidades junto a su novio, mucho más joven que él, y la familia de este. Malic ama a Dylan, su Hogar, pero los padres de Dylan, los Shaw, son otra historia. Lo consideran un asaltacunas, entre otras cosas. Al menos a su vecino Brad parece gustarle; aunque, por otro lado, puede que no sea así. Cuando Malic es entregado a un demonio que borra de su memoria todo excepto el nombre de Dylan, deberá utilizar todos sus recursos para escapar de su nueva vida en una dimensión infernal y regresar con el hombre al que considera su Hogar.
Adrastea-Némesis, diosa de la aflicción
by Patrice Martinez Rania Chaui LudieDescubre la Tebas de las cien puertas y conviértete en el avatar del jóven Lisicles. Hijo de senador, te llevará consigo a su increíble aventura: ¡el indómito Lysicles se convierte en testigo de una violación recurrente, fomentada por el mayor oligarca de la fortaleza tebana! ¿Cómo detener el ciclo infernal, puesto que la antigua ciudad de Cadmos está gobernada por un déspota, violador y asesino? Adrastea-Némesis, diosa de la aflicción, es una libre adaptación del mito de Procné.
Adrenaline
by Bill EidsonAdrenaline explores the hunger for adventure that is as basic a need for some people as food, drink, or love . . . some people crave an adrenaline rush the way a heroin addict craves a fix. Two corporate opponents: One, Steve Dern, becomes CEO; the other, Geoff Mann, ends up on the street, where his taste for extreme sports and a chance encounter with a desperate young prostitute show him that murder delivers the best rush of all. Then, Geoff thrusts Steve into a dangerous game with Steve&’s wife, Lisa, as the prize. To save her, Steve must find a way to make Geoff feel pain. To experience fear. He must scare a man who has just discovered how much he likes to kill.Adrenaline is a no-holds-barred thriller that lives up to its name.
Adrenaline (Sam Capra #1)
by Jeff AbbottSam Capra is living the life of his dreams. A young American in London, he has a perfect flat, a perfect job with the CIA and a perfect wife, Lucy - who is seven months pregnant with their first child.But one sunny day, it all goes up in flames. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately, which he does - just before it explodes, killing those inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell.Why did Lucy call him? Was she a loving spouse or an enemy operative? Is Sam's unborn child safe? Adrenaline coursing through his veins, Sam enters a frantic race to save his life and discover the truth about those he thought he knew so well...
Adrenaline (Sam Capra #1)
by Jeff AbbottSam Capra is living the life of his dreams. A young American in London, he has a perfect flat, a perfect job with the CIA and a perfect wife, Lucy - who is seven months pregnant with their first child.But one sunny day, it all goes up in flames. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately, which he does - just before it explodes, killing those inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell.Why did Lucy call him? Was she a loving spouse or an enemy operative? Is Sam's unborn child safe? Adrenaline coursing through his veins, Sam enters a frantic race to save his life and discover the truth about those he thought he knew so well...
Adrenaline (Sam Capra #1)
by Jeff AbbottSam Capra - brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father - loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who stole his family and to save his kidnapped wife and child. But the destruction of Sam's life was only step one in an extraordinary plot - and now Sam Capra must become a new kind of hero.
Adrenaline (The Sam Capra Series #1)
by Jeff Abbott"If you knew this was our final day together, what would you say to me?""Anything but good-bye. I can't ever say good-bye to you."ADRENALINESam Capra is living the life of his dreams. He's a brilliant young CIA agent, stationed in London. His wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. They have a wonderful home, and are deeply in love. They have everything they could hope for...until they lose it all in one horrifying moment.On a bright, sunny day, Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately. He does...just before it explodes, killing everyone inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell. As the lone survivor of the attack, he is branded by the CIA as a murderer and a traitor. Escaping from the agency, Sam launches into a desperate hunt to save his kidnapped wife and child, and to reveal the unknown enemy who has set him up and stolen his family. But the destruction of Sam's life was only step on in an extraordinary plot-and now Sam must become a new kind of hero.
Adrenaline High
by C. A. ForsythD'Arcy is a 16-year-old overachiever and a budding newshound. When her classmate Zania's mother goes missing, D'Arcy thinks she's found the mother of all scoops. She's determined to solve the mystery and capture it all on film. But Zania's troubles are no game. She suspects her mother's drug-dealing boyfriend may be behind her sudden disappearance and Zania's too scared to go home. It's not long before the girls realize that they're in over their heads. Adrenalin High is a gripping, fast-paced story for mystery lovers.
Adrenaline Rush (The Capes #2)
by Rebecca RoyceAce Hudson has worked for his brother, Draco, at Powers, Inc. since it opened. Spending his days trying to balance his job with taking care of his teenage brother, Lael, he uses his nights to overcome the overabundance of adrenaline in his body that makes him lose control. He also happens to have a secret crush on a celebrity chef who makes home-cooked meals look sexier than they have a right to be.Alice Styles runs an empire based on her ability to make people want to eat what she cooks. When she’s nearly killed on live television in a situation straight out of one of her childhood nightmares, she reluctantly asks Ace Hudson to help keep her safe. Starting out with instant dislike and finding their way to mutual pleasure, Ace and Alice do not have an easy path to love. But their egos and personal barriers are nothing compared to the looming threat just waiting for a moment to possess Alice. This title has been previously published and has been re-edited for your enjoyment.
Adrenaline Rush: Book 5 (Codename Quicksilver #5)
by Allan Frewin JonesZak is undercover as a stunt double on a movie set in Hollywood. His mission is to investigate multi-millionaire Elton Dean who has ties to a terrorist called Raging Moon. But as Zak gets closer to uncovering the truth, it becomes clear his cover has been compromised. Can he find out what's going on before he is captured, or killed?The fifth in this gripping new series. Perfect for young fans of 24.
Adreça desconeguda
by Kressmann TaylorUna història escrita sense complaença ni demagògia que descriu la tragèdia íntima i col·lectiva de l’Alemanya nazi. 1932 L’alemany Martin Schulse i el jueu nord-americà Max Eisnestein s’estimen com a germans i han obert plegats una galeria d’art a Califòrnia. Però Martin decideix tornar a casa, de manera que Max es queda sol per ocupar-se del negoci. Es cartegen amb freqüència des del primer dia, però quan Hitler accedeix al poder el 1933 la complicitat de la primera correspondència va derivant cap a l’horror. Adreça desconeguda va publicar-se per primera vegada el 1938, i en poc temps va ser considerada una obra mestra. Visionària, incisiva, i de desenllaç imprevisible, aquest llibre va ser tot un esdeveniment literari, el senyal d’alarma més estremidor contra el nazisme. Ressenyes:«Una història absolutament perfecta.»The New York Times «Una lliçó de literatura.»El País
Adrian (Brotherhood of Fallen Angels #2)
by Heather GrothausIn the medieval Holy Land, four brave Crusaders fight tyranny and betrayal. They are the Brotherhood of Fallen Angels--and one by one, they may discover that love is the greatest adventure of all... From palaces and cathedrals to fortresses, Adrian Hailsworth's engineering genius is evident across the land--including the castle of Chastellet. But a bloody siege has left the stronghold, and Adrian, in ruins. Now a wanted man, he is forced into hiding at The Brotherhood of Fallen Angels Abbey, his brilliant mind plagued with nightmares, his spirit broken--until Father Victor presents him with a fiery redhead in need of help only Adrian can give... Maisie Lindsay is the lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Wyldonna, a small kingdom off the Scottish coast that is being blackmailed--by none other than the Brotherhood's most treacherous enemy. The only chance of saving Wyldonna lies in unearthing its vast fortune, hidden within a labyrinth of deadly traps and secret passages. The challenge enlivens Adrian--as does the passion Maisie ignites. But she is far more than she appears, and the truth may force Adrian to sacrifice his heart's longing to save her, before it's too late for them all...
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole Ser. #7)
by Sue TownsendAdrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win over her voluptuous sister Daisyhellip; Adrian still yearns for a better, more meaningful world. and he's not ready to surrender his pen yet.
Adrian Mole, The Early Years: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (The Adrian Mole Series)
by Sue TownsendBritish adolescent angst has never been so &“laugh-out-loud funny&” (The New York Times)—the journey begins with these first two books in the heartbreakingly hilarious series. Commiserate with &“one of literature&’s most endearing figures&” (The Observer)—a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog of great expectations and dwindling patience who knows all (or believes he does) and tells all. First published in 1982, Adrian Mole&’s chronicle of angst has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, spawned seven sequels, been adapted for television, and staged as a musical—truly &“a phenomenon&” (The Washington Post). The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13and ¾: Adrian Mole must amass his grievances—his acne vulgaris is grotesque; his crush, Pandora, has received seventeen Valentine&’s Day cards (seventeen!); his PE teacher is a sadist; he fears his parents&’ marriage is over since they no longer smoke together; his dog has gone AWOL; no one appreciates his poetry; and Animal Farm has set him off pork for good. If everyone were as appalled as Adrian Mole, it would be a better world. For now, for us, it&’s just &“screamingly funny&” (The Sunday Times). The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole: Growing up among inferiors in Great Britain isn&’t easy for a sensitive &“poet of the Midlands&” like Adrian, considering everything in the world is conspiring to scar him for life—his hormones are in a maelstrom; his mother is pregnant (at her age!); his girlfriend is in shut down; and he&’s become allergic to non-precious metals. As his &“crisply hilarious saga&” (Booklist) continues, the changes Adrian undergoes will surely be profound. &“Townsend&’s wit is razor sharp&” (Daily Mirror) as she shows us the world through the haunted eyes of her luckless teenage diarist and self-proclaimed &“undiscovered intellectual,&” proving again and again why she&’s been called &“a national treasure&” (The New York Times Book Review).
Adrian Mole, The Later Years: True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, and Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (The Adrian Mole Series)
by Sue TownsendAs his laugh-out-loud secret diary extends into his later teens and young adulthood, everyone&’s favorite angsty Brit remains &“a brilliant comic creation&” (The Times, London). Continue to commiserate with &“one of literature&’s most endearing figures&”—a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog of great expectations and dwindling patience who knows all (or believes he does) and tells all (The Observer). Having endured the agony of adolescence (just), Adrian now careens into his later teens, torturous twenties, and utterly disappointing thirties in these three hilarious sequels by &“one of Britain&’s most celebrated comic writers&” (The Guardian). From the not-so-humble origins of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and ¾, Adrian&’s chronicle of angst has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, spawned seven sequels, been adapted for television, and staged as a musical—truly &“a phenomenon&” (The Washington Post). The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole: What&’s happening to Adrian Mole? On the one hand, he&’s entering the cusp of adulthood and burgeoning success as a published poet. On the other, he still lives at home, refuses to part with his threadbare stuffed rabbit, and has lost his job at the library for a shocking act of impudence: He shelved Jane Austen under Light Romance. Even worse, someone named Sue Townsend stole his diaries and published them under her own name. Of course they were bestsellers. Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years: At 23¾ years old, Adrian is now technically an adult and almost prepared. On the upside: He&’s fallen for a perfectly lovely Nigerian waitress; he&’s seeing a therapist so as to talk about himself without interruption; and he&’s added vowels to his experimental novel-in-progress (so much more accessible to the masses!). The downside? Pandora is probably history; a pea-brained rival has been published before him to great acclaim; and worse—Adrian has come to the devastating realization that he may not be uncommon after all. Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years: At 34¾, impotent intellectual Adrian Mole is soon to be divorced; he hasn&’t a clue what to do with his semi-stardom as a celebrity chef; his parents have become swingers (with whom is too shocking to go into now); his epic novel is still unpublished; his ex-flame Pandora is running for political office; and his younger sister has rebelled in the most distressingly common ways. There is one upside: Adrian&’s son has inherited his mother&’s unblemished skin. &“Townsend&’s wit is razor sharp&” (Daily Mirror) as she shows us the world through the older and (possibly?) wiser eyes of her &“achingly funny anti-hero&” (Daily Mail), proving again and again why she&’s been called &“a national treasure&” (The New York Times Book Review).
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (The Adrian Mole Series #8)
by Sue TownsendThe final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ is &“a tour de force by a comic genius&” (Daily Mail). Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent music since Abba? Hard to believe! Adrian Mole is pushing forty, a beleaguered bookseller looking back through the wistful eyes of an unrecognized intellectual and, admittedly, pretty much of an Everyman. But he&’s also looking forward, despite a few things: His five-year-old daughter is showing alarming Stalinist traits; his son is fighting the Taliban and he&’s worried sick; his unfaithful wife is keeping a diary of her own and it&’s all rather heartbreaking; frequent urination has made him fear trouble &“down there;&” and his mother is penning a misery memoir that is one gross slog of a lie (born an aristocrat in a Norfolk potato field, indeed!). Then one day he receives a phone call out of the blue from the great and only love his life: Pandora Braithwaite. &“Do you think of me?&” she asks. Only ever since he was 13¾ . . . Adrian Mole&’s epic and hilarious chronicle of angst over a quarter century has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly &“a phenomenon&” (The Washington Post). This final volume is &“like rediscovering an old school friend on Facebook&” (Time Out), and &“if [it] isn&’t the best book published this year, I&’ll eat my bookshelf&” (Daily Mail).
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (The Adrian Mole Series #4)
by Sue TownsendCan an adult still have a secret diary? Everyone’s favorite angsty adolescent Brit is now a tormented twentysomething and still “a brilliant comic creation” (The Times). Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing. At 23¾ years old, Adrian Mole is now an adult and almost prepared. On the upside: He’s fallen for a perfectly lovely Nigerian waitress; he’s seeing a therapist so as to talk about himself without interruption; and he’s added vowels to his experimental novel-in-progress (so much more accessible to the masses!). The downside? Pandora is probably history; a pea-brained rival has been published before him to great acclaim; and worse, Adrian realizes he may not be uncommon after all. In fact, he may fall somewhere within the range of normalcy. How can an intellectual be expected to live with that? “Thank God for Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole” (The Observer). Her “achingly funny anti-hero” (Daily Mail) returns to take the world by storm—or least weather it—in the beloved bestselling series from “one of Britain’s most celebrated comic writers” (The Guardian). Adrian’s continuing chronicle of angst has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical—truly “a phenomenon” (The Washington Post).