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Beyond Carousel (Carousel Ser.)
by Brendan RitchieWhat would you do if everyone you knew had disappeared? This is the thrilling sequel to the critically acclaimed young adult novel, Carousel.Nox, Taylor and Lizzy have just escaped a nightmare. After months of being trapped inside a shopping centre they are finally free. Free to roam the streets of Perth and free to solve the mystery of what happened outside the doors of Carousel. But the city is not like it once was, and the dangers are far from over. Looters lurk in the empty streets and packs of dogs are never far behind. Saving those they love will mean risking everything – and time is running out.
Beyond The Chandeleurs: Poems
by David MidddletonThis collection of poems celebrates the author's journey home to his native South, his beloved Louisiana, and his Anglican faith. The verse richly evokes the flora, fauna, geography, and history of the state.
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)
by Monika FludernikIn this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive metaphor theory and have developed independently of it. While the cognitive approach has become the leading paradigm in the English speaking world, elsewhere (in Europe) rhetorical, semantic, and logical models have remained in use and continue to be elaborated. These models have so far had little international exposure. Their inclusion in this study is meant to provide a balance to the cognitive paradigm and to open up a possible discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of cognitive metaphor theory for the analysis of literary texts. The second aim of the collection is to illustrate a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts. And, the third aim of the study is to provide an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.
Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)
by Cullen GoldblattBeyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Aaron KamugishaAgainst the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.
Beyond Compare
by Candace CampThough Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysterious circumstances, she is confronted with danger, murder and a handsome American whose destiny is entwined with hers....Rafe McIntyre has enough charm to seduce any woman, but his smooth facade hides a bitter past. Still, he has seen enough of the world to know Kyria is in danger, and he refuses to let her solve the riddle of this package alone. But even he is mesmerized by the events that unfold as Kyria begins to sort out the mystery put to her by the arrival of a priceless antiquity. Who sent her this treasure steeped in legend? And who is willing to murder to claim its secrets and its glory for themselves?
Beyond Compare: Mesmerized Beyond Compare Winterset (The Mad Morelands #2)
by Candace CampWhen a young lady receives an anonymous package, she faces a dangerous mystery with the help of a battle-scarred American in this Victorian romance.Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet “The Goddess” and rich enough to attract London’s most sought-after gentlemen, she has yet to find love. And she refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysterious circumstances, she is confronted with danger, murder and a handsome American whose destiny is entwined with hers. . . . Rafe McIntyre has enough charm to seduce any woman, but his smooth facade hides a bitter past. Still, he has seen enough of the world to know Kyria is in danger, and he refuses to let her solve the riddle of this package alone. Who sent her this priceless antiquity steeped in legend? And who is willing to murder to claim its secrets and its glory for themselves?
Beyond Control
by Bronwyn JamesonTEMPTEDThe moment Kree O'Sullivan's and Sebastian Sinclair's fortunes crossed, she knew one undeniable truth: the man had power. The power to commandeer her apartment, which he did. And the power to destroy her business. But, to Kree's shock, the control that cloaked Sebastian like some impregnable armor had the unlikeliest weakness.Her.Every time he looked at her, she saw the want burning in his eyes, followed by some secret inner struggle. And though she knew to play with Sebastian was to play with fire, she couldn't resist tempting him, couldn't resist turning the tables…just a little bit.But a little was too far…
Beyond Control (The Texas Trilogy #3)
by Kat MartinA woman on the run finds safe haven on a Texas ranch—and in the arms of sexy veteran—in this romantic thriller by the New York Times bestselling author. When Victoria Bradford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she's on the run from an abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go. Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch feels like nowhere—which is exactly what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he got back from Afghanistan: big skies, quiet nights, no trouble. One look tells Josh the pretty redhead with the adorable little girl will give him trouble of the most personal kind. Good thing he doesn't scare easily—not even when &“accidents&” start happening around the ranch, or even when Tory&’s best friend back in Phoenix is abducted. As the dangers escalate, Josh is only more determined to protect the innocent mother and daughter who&’ve entered his life. But if he gets too close to fierce, determined Tory, Josh knows his nights are going to be anything but quiet.
Beyond Control (Beyond #1)
by Rebecca YorkWhen journalist Jordan Walker asks Lindsay Fleming for help investigating a puzzling death, the two feel a connection to each other that is stronger than anything they've ever known. With each new discovery, more questions arise about their mysterious telepathic bond--along with more danger.
Beyond Control; Seven Stories of Science Fiction
by Robert SilverbergHere are seven stories--some somber, some light-hearted--dealing with the hidden dangers of technological miracles. Contains stories by Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr, Philip K. Dick and others.
Beyond Corista (The Shadowside Trilogy)
by Robert ElmerThose who live in lush comfort on the bright side of the small planet Corista have plundered the water resources of Shadowside for centuries, ignoring the existence of Shadowside’s inhabitants, who are nothing more than animals. Or so the Brightsiders have been taught. It will take a special young woman to expose the truth—and to help avert the war that is sure to follow. A course they can’t choose, a warning no one will believe… Oriannon and her friends Margus and Wist hurtle through space on a dangerous mission, guided by the pilot stone. Their enemy, Sola, is on board as well, and Oriannon soon begins to regret rescuing the blind woman from battle. As the odd crew flies from way station to way station, Oriannon delivers the warning she received from Jesmet—a race called the Troikans is coming to destroy Corista. At each location, Oriannon is met with the same disbelief: no one has seen a Troikan in years. Soon, even Oriannon begins to wonder if the threat is real. Are her visits from Jesmet only a hallucination? Oriannon must find the faith to race toward a destination only she can see.
Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Literature Ser. #3)
by Graham J. MurphyThis book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpunk as defined in the Eighties and contribute to an ongoing discussion of how to negotiate exchanges among information technologies, global capitalism, and human social existence. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on cyberpunk’s diversity and how this sub-genre remains relevant amidst its transformation from a print fiction genre into a more generalized set of cultural practices, tackling the question of what it is that cyberpunk narratives continue to offer us in those intersections of literary, cultural, theoretical, academic, and technocultural environments.
Beyond Danger (The Texas Trilogy #2)
by Kat MartinThe New York Times bestselling author&’s fast-paced, sexy, and suspenseful high-octane series continues with a riveting Texas tale of secrets and passions turned deadly – for fans of Sandra Brown, Lisa Jackson, Julie Garwood, Linda Howard, and Heather Graham. Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. All six feet three obscenely wealthy, good-looking inches of him. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house . . . Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his father&’s mistress. At least she&’s of age. But those concerns take a sudden backseat when he finds Stewart in a pool of blood on the floor of his study—and Cassidy walks in to find Beau with his hand on the murder weapon. The shocks just keep coming. Someone was following Stewart, and Cassidy is the detective hired to find out who and why. Now she&’ll have to find his killer instead. Her gut tells her it wasn&’t Beau. And Beau&’s instincts tell him it wasn&’t Cassidy. Determined to track down the truth, they form an uneasy alliance—one that will bring them closer to each other—closer to danger and beyond . . .
Beyond The Dark
by Linda Winstead Jones Karen Whiddon Evelyn VaughnEvil looms but love conquers the darknessFOREVER MINE by Linda Winstead JonesMiranda Garner accidentally kills her obsessed ex-boyfriend, but he continues to stalk her...as a ghost. She turns to psychic John Stark for help-and triggers a deadly love triangle they've been caught in for centuries. Now John and Miranda must break the curse. Or lose each other forever...HAUNT ME by Evelyn VaughnDavid Fields is on life support when his spirit leaves his body-only to encounter an evil presence that's gripping the hospital...and heading straight for his estranged wife, Charis. Can David haunt the woman he still loves and protect her from a danger only he can see?SOUL OF THE WOLF by Karen WhiddonPolicewoman Amanda Riley is alone in believing a serial killer is targeting werewolves...until Nick Templeton joins the investigation. His seductive aura of darkness and danger makes Amanda suspect Nick is a shape-shifting werewolf himself. And she's not about to wait for the killer to prove it.
Beyond Death's Door
by Maurice RawlingsBeyond Death's Door catalogues the experiences of patients who suffered near-death experiences and strengthened their conviction about the existence of a deity and the afterlife.
Beyond The Desert Gate
by Mary RayPalestine, first century A.D.-the Jews have revolted against Roman occupation. The ten Greek cities of Palestine-the Decapolis-want only to continue their peaceful trading existence, but they find themselves caught in the middle of the uprisings. Apollodorus, a merchant of Philadelphia, takes a risk and rescues a man whom a Roman patrol has left to die in the desert. When Apollodorus is killed by robbers, his three sons are left almost penniless and must each find a way for themselves. Philo, the youngest, is befriended by Xenos, the man saved from the desert, who has lost his memory. From him the boy learns the art of the scribe, and together they try to find their identity-one from the past, the other for the future.br A serious story of an important time in history. Sequel to The Ides of April.
Beyond Deserving: A Novel
by Sandra ScofieldGully Fisher's twin sons will soon be 45, and are the push and pull of their clan. Michael is almost too good; immune to consternation, he is the family rock, while Fish is the family maverick, acting out what the others cannot bring themselves to do. Michael's wife, Ursula, spends her days rearranging the lives of failed families, and craves a deeper intimacy with her taciturn husband and her two children. Katie, still seduced by Fish's tales of Vietnam and jail, has a new job and a boyfriend, and thinks of breaking away. The elder Fishers, celebrating 50 years of marriage, teeter on the line between suppressed anger and fierce loyalty. When Katie and Fish's 9-year-old daughter, Rebecca, appears from Texas (where she is being raised by Katie's mother), she lurches across this landscape and the entire family is beset by a summer of little squalls. By the fall, a few secrets are out, and they're all better for it. This is a novel full of the telling: poignant details that illustrate the fabric of domestic life, allowing the reader a shock of recognition. It is often funny, sometimes sad, always wise. All the Fishers are emotionally complex characters who reveal fresh insights into human nature and relationships. At a time when groups are springing up all over the country in order to provide instant intimacy and support for people lost in their selfhood and history, this is a novel demonstrating that love can be messy, silly, painful, and utterly idiosyncratic--that marriage and family can be uniquely defined. The Fishers are such a family, loving because they are bound, because they have the habit, and because the larger world can't understand them. They love more than they know how to say, and they love beyond deserving.
Beyond Deserving
by Sandra J. ScofieldA deep look into the marriages of 45-year old twins, Fish and Michael.
Beyond Desire
by Gwynne ForsterAmanda Ross is thrilled when she is appointed junior high school principal in Caution Point, N. C. But her promotion will only be a pipe dream if the board of education discovers that she's pregnant--and single. She never expected her baby's father to desert her, but explanations won't satisfy a small town's rumor mill. A husband is what she needs, and handsome music engineer Marcus Hickson looks like the answer to her problem. Embittered by his ex-wife's selfish and cruel behavior, Marcus told himself he'd never marry again. That is, until doctors inform him that his injured daughter needs immediate surgery, and Amanda--financially independent because of her inheritance--offers to pay the medical bills if he'll be her husband. Desperate, Marcus agrees, as long as their arrangement" is strictly business. But days and nights under the same roof soon ignite mutual desire. Now Marcus and Amanda's marriage of convenience has become an affair of the heart. . . and a deception that endangers everything they hold dear.
Beyond Desire
by Emma HollyTogether for the first time in a special single trade volume-two complete erotic historical romance novels from Emma Holly, the USA Today bestselling author hailed by Susan Johnson as "one of the best writers of erotic fiction around." In Beyond Innocence a naive young woman in Victorian London goes from nubile bride to gorgeous pawn in a devious scheme-one with a passionately unexpected twist-between two brothers. And in Beyond Seduction a scandalously clever Victorian beauty agrees to pose nude for a notorious artist in order to discourage her overly- respectable suitor from a proposal of marriage.
Beyond Dreams (True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High)
by Marilyn ReynoldsIncludes six short stories that deal with crisis situations faced by teenagers, including racism, abuse, sense of failure, aging relatives, drunk driving, and abortion.
Beyond Earth's Gates
by C.L. MooreUnder Eddie Burton's management the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway's glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished - through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality. In that weird twin city to New York, Eddie became a hunted fugitive while his girl friend turned up as an ever-present face and all-pervading voice that awed and mystified the inhabitants. And Eddie learned that between him and return to his natural home stood her new manager, a mysterious figure who ruled by a tyrannical combination of super-scientific miracle and brute force.
Beyond East and West: A Story of Civilization through the Great Epics
by Suchethana SwaroopThis volume is a cross-cultural study of the evolution of civilisation. Drawing its material and inspiration from literature and culture, it looks at the achievements of humankind as a single imaginative experience. The book examines how traditions of poetry and literature have shaped cultures, societies and civilisations, and their inter-relatedness. Analysing stereotypes in Asia and Europe, the author raises questions fundamental to our perceptions of culture, democracy, and language. He throws light on dominant languages and languages cast aside by the tides of history, and attributes the status of English as a 'world language' to ideas propagated in the great epics of the West — particularly Roman — and the poetic heritage shaped by them. Discussing the fallout of that dream on other cultures and ‘non-technical’ languages of the world, this book investigates questions of legitimacy and desirability of a single language or culture becoming universal. A sensitive and nuanced work, it promises a good read for general readers as well as researchers interested in world literature, comparative literature, sociology and cultural studies, in the interaction between science and art, and in the forces that shape the world order.
Beyond Eden
by Catherine CoulterCoulter at her romantic suspense best! First published in 1992, Beyond Eden is the heart-stopping story of a successful New York City model who must face her deadly past when she meets a tough ex-cop turned private investigator.