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The Battling Bluestocking
by Amanda ScottWill Jessica Sutton-Drew win the argument, or will she win his heart?Strong-willed and intelligent, Miss Jessica Sutton-Drew enjoys championing worthy causes such as women&’s independence, much like her formidable aunt, Susan Peele, London&’s most daunting bluestocking, and regardless of other relatives&’ protests against such unladylike behavior. But Miss Sutton-Drew may have met her match in Sir Brian Gregory, a shockingly wealthy mine owner and local magistrate, who is also handsome, brilliant, and charming. Convinced that Sir Brian is guilty of any number of social injustices, Jessica resists his enticing flattery and flirtation. But can she cease her battling ways long enough to listen to her heart? Or will oncoming scandal ruin everything before she recognizes the truth?
Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature
by Kristen B. ProehlFrom Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the development of the tomboy figure from its origins in nineteenth-century sentimental novels to twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film.
Battling Pilot, the
by L. Ron HubbardRiveting, historical accounts of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen that inspire many of today's cinematic blockbusters. Pilot Peter England's humdrum airplane routine is unexpectedly disrupted when his company reassigns him to transport some special passengers. But when his aircraft gets attacked by a mysterious fighter plane, Peter realizes he's transporting dangerous cargo--a princess seeking to turn the tide of a war! "...these programs burst to life..." Library Journal
Battling the Best Man
by Elley ArdenOn the cusp of a brilliant Chicago medical career, Dr. Kory Flemming rarely gets a vacation from her demanding brain injury fellowship, but she can't say no to maid of honor duties in her best friend's wedding. Hometown or not, being in Harmony Falls, Pennsylvania, isn't easy, especially when the only man smart enough to trump Kory's high school academic achievements turns out to be a sexy, accomplished adult up to his old, flirtatious tricks.Will Mitchell has been destined for success since the day he was born. After spending his formative years racking up academic honors, it was only natural for him to be named the chief operating officer of his family's thriving company. He has it all - more or less - so when the target of his high school infatuation turns up hot and haughty at his brother's wedding, Will decides he wants her, too.An innocent dance at the wedding reception leads Kory and Will to an illicit tryst in the coat checkroom, and the game they've been playing since high school changes into something more serious. The new attraction takes Will and Kory by surprise, until a failed merger and family tragedy threaten both their professional goals.Now, Will's struggling to preserve his reputation as "the successful one" and Kory's stuck in Harmony Falls watching her illustrious medical career slip away. Worse yet, maybe the only way to get things back on track is to work together. Can they put aside their rocky past and ignore their titillating present in order to secure the future for the people they adore?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Battling the Best Man: A Harmony Falls Novel, Book 2
by Elley ArdenOn the cusp of a brilliant Chicago medical career, Dr. Kory Flemming rarely gets a vacation from her demanding brain injury fellowship, but she can’t say no to maid of honor duties in her best friend’s wedding. Hometown or not, being in Harmony Falls, Pennsylvania, isn’t easy, especially when the only man smart enough to trump Kory’s high school academic achievements turns out to be a sexy, accomplished adult up to his old, flirtatious tricks.Will Mitchell has been destined for success since the day he was born. After spending his formative years racking up academic honors, it was only natural for him to be named the chief operating officer of his family’s thriving company. He has it all - more or less - so when the target of his high school infatuation turns up hot and haughty at his brother’s wedding, Will decides he wants her, too.An innocent dance at the wedding reception leads Kory and Will to an illicit tryst in the coat checkroom, and the game they’ve been playing since high school changes into something more serious. The new attraction takes Will and Kory by surprise, until a failed merger and family tragedy threaten both their professional goals.Now, Will’s struggling to preserve his reputation as “the successful one” and Kory’s stuck in Harmony Falls watching her illustrious medical career slip away. Worse yet, maybe the only way to get things back on track is to work together. Can they put aside their rocky past and ignore their titillating present in order to secure the future for the people they adore?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Battling the Best Man: A Harmony Falls Novel, Book 2
by Elley ArdenOn the cusp of a brilliant Chicago medical career, Dr. Kory Flemming rarely gets a vacation from her demanding brain injury fellowship, but she can’t say no to maid of honor duties in her best friend’s wedding. Hometown or not, being in Harmony Falls, Pennsylvania, isn’t easy, especially when the only man smart enough to trump Kory’s high school academic achievements turns out to be a sexy, accomplished adult up to his old, flirtatious tricks.Will Mitchell has been destined for success since the day he was born. After spending his formative years racking up academic honors, it was only natural for him to be named the chief operating officer of his family’s thriving company. He has it all - more or less - so when the target of his high school infatuation turns up hot and haughty at his brother’s wedding, Will decides he wants her, too.An innocent dance at the wedding reception leads Kory and Will to an illicit tryst in the coat checkroom, and the game they’ve been playing since high school changes into something more serious. The new attraction takes Will and Kory by surprise, until a failed merger and family tragedy threaten both their professional goals.Now, Will’s struggling to preserve his reputation as “the successful one” and Kory’s stuck in Harmony Falls watching her illustrious medical career slip away. Worse yet, maybe the only way to get things back on track is to work together. Can they put aside their rocky past and ignore their titillating present in order to secure the future for the people they adore?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Battling the Commander (Left Behind: The Kids #15)
by Jerry B. Jenkins Tim Lahaye Chris FabryBook 15. the kids pray for their friends who remain in the clutches of the Global Community.
A Batuu Adventure! (Little Golden Book)
by Jeneanne DeBoisExplore a galaxy far, far away in this Little Golden Book based on the Disney Parks&’ Galaxy&’s Edge Star Wars attraction!When a young, curious boy and his family stop on Batuu to refuel their ship, he quickly gets swept into a rebel adventure! Follow his journey as he explores the streets of Black Spire Outpost in this Little Golden Book that features locations, characters, and creatures from the Disney Parks&’ Star Wars-themed Galaxy&’s Edge attraction. This exciting book is perfect for kids 5 and up and Star Wars fans and collectors of all ages.Little Golden Books enjoy nearly 100% consumer recognition. They feature beloved classics, hot licenses, and new original stories. . . the classics of tomorrow.
Batwheels Save the Day! (DC Batman: Batwheels)
by Random HouseBam the Batmobile comes to life in this full-color board book inspired by the hit pre-school animated series DC Batwheels!Bam the Batmobile roars onto the streets to fight crime—and maybe learn a few everyday lessons along the way—in the hit preschool TV animated series DC Batwheels. This sturdy full-color board board book, based on the Cartoon Network/HBOmax series, is a great way for young fans who love vehicle and super hero action to enjoy Bam and the Batwheels' adventures again and again.
Bauble for Baby
by E. P. ConkleComedy / 1m, 3f / Interior / A delightful sequel to the popular Sparkin' with the same delightful characters: Lessie, Orry, Susan, and Granny Painsberry. Takes place a year or so after Sparkin' and centers around Lessie and Orry's new baby and a Christmas present Orry has just made for the little one.
Baudelaire
by Mario CampañaLa leyenda y el mito se han apoderado del autor de Las flores del mal . Convertido en uno de los iconos de la cultura moderna, en el poeta maldito por excelencia, la figura de Charles Baudelaire ha sufrido todo tipo de manipulaciones, que han pretendido convertirlo en dandy frívolo o en mártir y héroe inmaculado, en audaz parricida o en contumaz consumidor de drogas, simplificando así la verdadera magnitud de su figura, su vida y su trabajo. Ateniéndose a la ingente documentación existente y sorteando los peligros de la hagiografía y el anecdotario, esta biografía, escrita con rigor y fluidez, es la obra de un poeta que prefiere ceñirse a los hechos y a la complejidad de la vida del que fuera el fundador de la poesía contemporánea, reconociéndolo en sus grandezas y miserias, su arrojo, sus contradicciones y sus dobleces hasta llenar un inexplicable vacío en la bibliografía en lengua castellana. Con un profundo conocimiento de la sociedad francesa y los avances del mercantilismo en la época, Mario Campaña sitúa a Baudelaire en su contexto social y político, al tiempo que destaca cómo influyó esta convulsa situación en su vida y obra. Siendo revolucionario en 1848, el poeta terminó repudiando toda la civilización occidental y proponiendo fórmulas políticas que lo situaron en el espectro más conservador de su época. Santo al revés, con la santidad de la cólera y la destrucción, tuvo en su madurez una vida de marginalidad en que el dolor se abrazaba al gozo para acabar convertido, con el paso del tiempo, en emblema de la rebelión y la contracultura en el siglo XX, por la fidelidad a sí mismo y porque estuvo dispuesto a pagar por ello el más alto precio.
Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History
by Bernard Howells"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle, Joseph de Maistre, Giuseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chevreul."
Baudelaire
by Jean-Paul Sartre Martin TurnellThe abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature are turned into a theory of psychoanalysis, stuck in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. This theory is put into practice in this book on Baudelaire.
Baudelaire and Freud (Quantum Books)
by Leo BersaniThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912 (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
by Alessandro CabiatiThis book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry, I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaire’s influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde. This monograph also investigates Baudelaire’s and the Scapigliatura’s interrelated impacts on early Futurist poetry, demonstrating that Futurist poets turned to the works of Baudelaire and the Scapigliatura for inspiration on themes that were considered as distinctly unpoetic – and therefore modern – such as medical-anatomical examination, technological transformation, and abnormal sensuality.
The Baudelaire Fractal
by Lisa RobertsonThe debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel. "Robertson, with feminist wit, a dash of kink, and a generous brain, has written an urtext that tenders there can be, in fact, or in fiction, no such thing. Hers is a boon for readers and writers, now and in the future."—Jennifer Krasinski, Bookforum "It’s brilliant, strange, and unlike anything I’ve read before."—Rebecca Hussey, BOOKRIOT
Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
by Frank HiltonAn acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular--something that constantly tormented him--his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light.
Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers
by Charles Baudelaire Lois And Hyslop Jr.Renowned poet Charles Baudelaire played a significant role in introducing Edgar Allan Poe to French readers by publishing widely read criticisms and translations of Poe's writings. The two writers shared an appreciation for the exotic, a taste for morbid subjects, and a devotion to artistic purity. Baudelaire immersed himself in the study of English for the express purpose of doing justice to Poe's works, and his translations established his reputation in the French literary world well before the publication of his most famous book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal.In the first part of this study, "Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works," Baudelaire sketches his subject's biography and discusses several representative writings. Two additional essays analyze Poe's literary theories and offer intriguing reflections of Baudelaire's own sense of aesthetics. The compilation concludes with a critical miscellany of several other prefaces and notes on the American author and his works.
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives
by MariaC. ScottMaria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century, was naturally very keenly aware of the growing dominance of the bourgeoisie in France, not least as a market for art and literature. Despite being dependent on this market for his own writing, the poet was highly critical of bourgeois values and attitudes. Scott builds on existing criticism of the collection to argue that these are indirectly mocked in Le Spleen de Paris, often in the person of the poet's supposed textual alter ego. The contention is that the prose poems betray the trust of readers by way of an apparent transparency of meaning that functions to blind us to their embedded irony. Though focused on Le Spleen de Paris, Scott's study engages with the full range of Baudelaire's writings, including his art and literary criticism. Her book will be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars but also to those engaged more generally with nineteenth-century French culture.
Baudelaire's Revenge: A Novel
by Bob Van LaerhovenWinner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Crime Novel It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefevre, a lover of poetry and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his investigation is a thrilling, intoxicating journey into the sinister side of human nature, bringing to mind the brooding and tense atmosphere of Patrick Susskind's Perfume. Did Baudelaire rise from the grave? Did he truly die in the first place? The plot dramatically appears to extend as far as the court of the Emperor Napoleon III. A vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry.
Baudolino (Booket/columna Ser. #Vol. 28)
by Umberto EcoAventura picaresca, novela histórica, relato de un delito imposible, teatro de invenciones lingüísticas hilarantes, Umberto Eco traza una gigantesca crónica novelada de la Europa de los siglos XII y XIII. En una zona del bajo Piamonte, un pequeño campesino fantasioso y embustero llamado Baudolino conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo. Casi milagrosamente, todo aquello que Baudolino imagina genera Historia. Entre otras cosas, crea la mítica carta del Preste Juan, que prometía a Occidente un reino fabuloso en el lejano Oriente, gobernado por un rey cristiano. Empujado por la invención de Baudolino, Federico emprende una cruzada para restituir al Preste Juan la más preciosa reliquia de la cristiandad, el Santo Grial. Federico morirá durante el viaje, en circunstancias misteriosas, pero su ahijado continuará hacia aquel reino lejano, entre monstruos de los bestiarios del medioevo y vicisitudes llenas de magia y hechizo. Reseña:«Baudolino es la novela más lúdica, rebosante de humor, fantasía y libertad absoluta escrita hasta el momento por Eco.»Mercedes Monmany, ABC
Baudolino: A Novel (Booket/columna Ser. #Vol. 28)
by Umberto EcoA self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this &“comic and brilliantly baffling&” historical novel by the author of The Name of the Rose (The Guardian, UK). Constantinople, 1204. The Byzantine capital is under siege by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors—and proceeds to regale him with the fantastical story of his life. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts: a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. As a boy he meets a foreign commander who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, they decide to go in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John who is said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East. The kingdom they seek is a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs; of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age, Baudolino is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
by John KesselStories intersecting imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Includes Kessel's modern classic story sequence about life on the moon.
Baumgartner's Bombay
by Anita DesaiDesai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
Baustelle – Betreten auf eigene Gefahr! (Belladonna Arms (Deutsch) #2)
by John InmanGerade erst von seinem Liebhaber verlassen, sucht Harlie Rose Zuflucht im Belladonna Arms, einem schäbigen Mietshaus, hoch auf einem der Hügel in der Innenstadt von San Diego gelegen. Harlie ahnt nicht, dass sein neues Domizil dafür berüchtigt ist, Romanzen zu schmieden. Noch weniger ahnt er, dass er selbst das nächste Opfer sein wird. Er findet Arbeit in einem nahegelegenen Restaurant, wo er den Bäcker Milan kennenlernt, einen umwerfend attraktiven, aber etwas barschen und abweisenden Mann. Harlie weiß nicht, dass auch Milan unter einem gebrochenen Herzen leidet. Und so kommt es, wie es kommen muss – die beiden Männer belauern sich und errichten ihre Barrikaden. Keiner von ihnen ist bereit, sich einer neuen Liebe zu öffnen. Doch selbst das störrischste Herz kann erobert werden. Mit der Unterstützung seiner neuen Freunde – Sylvia, die nur noch auf ihre letzte Operation wartet, um endlich eine Frau zu werden; Arthur, die alternde Dragqueen, die ihre eigene Liebe findet; Stanley und Roger, das liebenswerte Paar aus 5C, das Harlie zum Vorbild wird – lernt er bald, dass im Belladonna Arms die Liebe hinter jeder Ecke lauert und nur darauf wartet, ein neues Opfer zu finden. Ob willig oder nicht. Doch die nächste Tragödie schwebt schon über ihnen.