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Baron of Coyote River, The
by L. Ron HubbardExperience the Old West. Lance Gordon killed his father's murderer in a fair fight, but now he's got a price on his head and has been running from the law ever since. Cornered by men of the US Cavalry in Santos, Lance gets rescued by a mystery man who convinces him to join forces and go after a notorious cattle rustler up the infamous Coyote River. Even together the pair stands barely a chance of bringing the gang of thieves to account, much less dealing with the soldiers still hot on their trail. ALSO INCLUDES THE WESTERN STORY "REIGN OF THE GILA MONSTER""Heart-racing plot charges at the speed of thrumming hooves."--Library Journal* An International Book Awards Finalist
Barone per tutte le stagioni (Le spose di North Barrows #3)
by Claire DelacroixRupert Haskell aveva sempre pensato che Anthea, la sorella minore del suo amico Alexander, sarebbe stata un'ottima scelta come sposa, ma perdere la sua eredità gli aveva reso impossibile corteggiarla con onore. L'unico servizio che potesse rendere alla donna che gli stava a cuore era cancellare completamente la macchia dal suo nome, anche se ciò avrebbe significato vederla sposare un altro uomo. In bilico tra i suoi principi e il suo amore, Rupert avrebbe rinnegato il suo dovere o il suo cuore? Anthea Armstrong aveva lasciato Londra proprio al momento del suo debutto in società perché, ingiustamente, accusata di furto. Quando il vero colpevole fu arrestato, fu entusiasta di tornare in città per organizzare il matrimonio del fratello. Ma, ancora meglio, avrebbe potuto incontrare di nuovo il misterioso pretendente che le aveva rubato il cuore con un bacio a un ballo in maschera...e avere un matrimonio tutto suo
Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel: A Publishing History (Ashgate Studies In Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital Ser.)
by Sally DuganSince its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in theatrical and film adaptations. Sally Dugan charts the history of Baroness Orczy's elusive hero, from the novel's origins through its continuing afterlife, including postmodern appropriations of the myth. Drawing on archival research in Britain, the United States and Australia, her study shows for the first time how Orczy's nationalistic superhero was originally conceived as an anarchist Pole plotting against Tsarist Russia, rather than a counter-revolutionary Englishman. Dugan explores the unique blend of anarchy, myth and magic that emerged from the story's astonishing and complex beginnings and analyses the enduring elements of the legend. To his creator, the Pimpernel was not simply a swashbuckling hero but an English gentleman spreading English values among benighted savages. Dugan investigates the mystery of why this imperialist crusader has not only survived the decline of the meta-narratives surrounding his birth, but also continues to enthrall a multinational audience. Offering readers insights into the Pimpernel's appearances in print, in film and on the stage, Dugan provides a nuanced picture of the trope of the Scarlet Pimpernel and an explanation of the phenomenon's durability.
Baroni: un viaje
by Sergio ChejfecComo en cada libro de Sergio Chejfec, el pensamiento representado ocupa un lugar central en el desarrollo de la escritura. Y una vez más, sus dudas y disquisiciones, unidas a los seres limítrofes que elige exhibir, son la marca de una literatura muy personal. En la precordillera venezolana vive una de las figuras artísticas más singulares del continente. Reconocida tallista y sanadora, necrófila y performancera, vidente y educadora, en Rafaela Baroni se conjuga la religiosidad popular con la tradición pictórica de vírgenes y santos.Y como ocurre con los grandes artistas, su personalidad parece demasiado simple si se tienen en cuenta los resultados complejos de su actividad. Baroni: un viaje es un relato cuyo objeto resulta a primera vista impreciso: por momentos es la artista, o el arte en general, o Venezuela, o las mismas ideas o asociaciones del texto. El tono novelesco se combina sugestivamente con el ensayo, las descripciones asumen una faceta caprichosa y el testimonio alcanza un matiz elegíaco. Como en cada libro de Sergio Chejfec, el pensamiento representado ocupa un lugar central en el desarrollo de la escritura. Y una vez más, sus dudas y disquisiciones, unidas a los seres limítrofes que elige exhibir, son la marca de una literatura muy personal.
Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities
by David R. Castillo"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, mutation, monstrosity, murder, and mayhem, and delivers them to us with an inimitable flair for the sensational that nonetheless rejects sensationalism because it remains so grounded in historical fact." ---William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University. Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and history, "reality" and "authenticity" may be experienced as spectator sports and staged attractions, as in the "real lives" captured by reality TV and the "authentic cadavers" displayed around the world in the Body Worlds exhibitions. Rather than thinking of virtual reality and staged authenticity as recent developments of the postmodern age, Castillo looks back to the Spanish baroque period in search for the roots of the commodification of nature and the horror vacui that accompanies it. Aimed at specialists, students, and readers of early modern literature and culture in the Spanish and Anglophone traditions as well as anyone interested in horror fantasy, Baroque Horrors offers ways to rethink broad questions of intellectual and political history and relate them to the modern age. David Castillo is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
by Andrés Pérez-SimónBaroque Lorca: An Arcaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque, in particular with Cervantes and Calderón, to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play, one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting, an altering, the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba).
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater (Hopkins Studies in Modernism)
by Joseph CermatoriA groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance.Winner, Helen Tartar First Book Subvention AwardBaroque style—with its emphasis on ostentation, adornment, and spectacle—might seem incompatible with the dominant forms of art since the Industrial Revolution, but between 1875 and 1935, European and American modernists connected to the theater became fascinated with it. In Baroque Modernity, Joseph Cermatori argues that the memory of seventeenth-century baroque stages helped produce new forms of theater, space, and experience around the turn of the twentieth century. In response, modern theater helped give rise to the development of the baroque as a modern philosophical idea. The book focuses on avant-gardists whose writing takes place between theory and performance: philosophical theater-makers and theatrical philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Stéphane Mallarmé, Walter Benjamin, and Gertrude Stein. Moving between page and stage, this study tracks the remnants of seventeenth-century theater through modernist aesthetics across an array of otherwise disparate materials, including modern opera, Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theater, poetic tragedies, and miracle plays. By reexamining the twentieth century's engagements with Gianlorenzo Bernini, William Shakespeare, Claudio Monteverdi, Calderón de la Barca, and other seventeenth-century predecessors, the book delineates an enduring tradition of baroque performance. Along the way, Cermatori expands our familiar narratives of "the modern" and traces a history of theatricality that reverberates into the twenty-first century. Baroque Modernity will appeal to readers in a wide array of disciplines, including comparative literature, theater and performance, art and music history, intellectual history, and aesthetic theory.
Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads (Studies in European Cultural Transition #23)
by Christopher BraiderIn his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static representations that depict an emblematic demigod who has already rejected the fallen path of worldly Pleasure for the upward road of heroic Virtue. Braider argues that, in breaking with tradition in order to portray a tragic soliloquist whose dominant trait is agonized indecision, Carracci joins other baroque artists, poets and philosophers in rehearsing the historical dilemma of choice itself. Carracci's picture thus becomes a framing device that illuminates phenomena as diverse as the construction of gender in baroque painting and science, the Pauline ontology of art in Caravaggio and Rembrandt, the metaphysics of baroque soliloquy and the dismantling of Cartesian dualism in Cyrano de Bergerac and Pascal.
Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico
by Anna MoreIn the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and Pacific trade routes and home to an ethnically diverse population, Mexico City produced a distinctive Baroque culture that combined local and European influences. In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants—or creoles, as they called themselves—began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Mathematician, antiquarian, poet, and secular priest, Sigüenza authored works on such topics as the 1680 comet, the defense of New Spain, pre-Columbian history, and the massive 1692 Mexico City riot. He wrote all of these, in his words, "out of love for my patria."Through readings of Sigüenza y Góngora's diverse works, Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite. In an analysis that contributes substantially to early modern colonial studies and theories of memory and knowledge, More posits the centrality of the creole archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism.
Baroque Visual Rhetoric
by Vernon Hyde MinorIntricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor's Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and - equally importantly - the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini's Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica, the statues in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Borromini's church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Baciccio's frescoes in the church of Il Gesù, the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, and the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano.
Baroque and Desperate
by Tamar MyersIn a Treasure-Laden Mansion Unflappable and resourceful, Abigail Timberlake, antique dealer and owner of Charlotte, North Carolina's Den of Antiquity, relies on her knowledge and savvy to authenitcate the facts from the fakes when it comes to either curios or people. Her expertise makes Abby invaluable to exceptionally handsome Tradd Maxwell Burton, wealthy scion of the renowned Latham family. He needs her to determine the most priceless item in the Latham mansion and then split the proceeds of it with her. A treasure hunt in an antique-filled manor? All Abby can say is "let the games begin." It's Tough to Keep Help Accompanied by her best girlfriend, C.J., Abby arrives at the estate and is met with cool reserve, if no downright rudeness, from the members of the Latham clan. Trying to carry out Tradd's request, Abby finds that she could cut the household tension with a knife. But someone has beaten her to it by stabbing a maid to death with an ancient kris. Suddenly all eyes are on C.J., whose fingerprints happen to be all over the murder weapon. it's up to Abby to use her knack for detecting forgeries to expose the fake alibi of the genuine killer.
Barra the Squirrel and the Spaceship
by Noreen A. HickeyThis story shows a great way to teach the environmental message of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’! Maisie, the Spacegirl, comes to Earth in a spaceship that works on kindness and joy, not fuel! She meets Barra, Cairn, and their insect friends and tells them how to help the planet and its people. It’s a lovely story that children will like a lot!
Barrack-Room Ballads
by Rudyard KiplingFirst collected in 1892, Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads relive the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation. An immediate success, they were unlike anything the public had seen before.
Barracks Bad Boys: Authentic Accounts of Sex in the Armed Forces
by Alex BuchmanUnmistakably original, utterly heartfelt, stranger than fiction, hotter than any off-the-rack gay fantasy! Building on the success of his extraordinary debut-the critically acclaimed, #1 "men&’s interest" bestseller A Night in the Barracks-former U.S. Marine Alex Buchman presents a spellbinding, startlingly unique collection of erotic memoirs by or about "bad boys" in the Armed Forces. Buchman&’s radical approach to an otherwise rigidly formulaic sub-genre: he does the legion of purportedly "true confessions" books with a military theme one better: the first-person narratives he has assembled actually are true. Boldly defying the conventions of gay male "one-handed reading," the unembellished chronicles Buchman brings us from the intensely homoerotic secret world of men in uniform are more erotically charged than any porn-by-numbers fantasy. The theme of Barracks Bad Boys is trouble. All-too-true stories of criminally sexy soldiers and sailors in trouble, who cause trouble, or who just plain are trouble. The unvarnished accounts of romance with baby-faced deserters bound for the brig make for riveting reading. Equally gripping is the disarmingly candid pillow talk of young military men whose trouble runs deeper than mere "unauthorized absence" or "indecent acts." Some of the surprises you&’ll encounter in Barracks Bad Boys include: a straight, married soldier&’s detailed description of his one and only sexual experience with another man a seasoned military chaser&’s review of his all-time favorite sailor-hustlers a dazed gay studies author&’s "I should have known better" journal documenting how young sailors half his age seduced him, gave him street drugs, and pressured him to videotape them performing lewd acts Editor Buchman&’s own offbeat and powerful story of being taken by surprise by the sexual advance of a Marine sergeant who began rubbing Buchman&’s chest and asking him if he felt an "urge to be evil . . ." By turns hair-raising and wrenching, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, these authentic accounts of sex in the Armed Forces are sure to elicit one universal reaction: no one could make this up! Barracks Bad Boys is compulsory reading for anyone interested in men in uniform; human sexuality in the military; and cutting-edge nonfiction literary erotica.
Barracuda
by Christos TsiolkasMan Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an "immensely moving" (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete's coming of age Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of this dream. But what happens when the talent that makes you special fails you? When the goal that you've been pursuing for as long as you can remember ends in humiliation and loss? Twenty years later, Dan is in Scotland, terrified to tell his partner about his past, afraid that revealing what he has done will make him unlovable. When he is called upon to return home to his family, the moment of violence in the wake of his defeat that changed his life forever comes back to him in terrifying detail, and he struggles to believe that he'll be able to make amends. Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he spent in prison, where the optimism of his childhood was completely foreign. Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person--and what it takes to become one. From the Hardcover edition.
Barracuda (The Seven Prequels #6)
by Sigmund BrouwerFishing for barracuda from a kayak in the Florida Keys. That's what Jim Webb thinks this resort vacation with his grandfather should be about. Except the dying resort owner holds the key to legend about a generations-old crime. A crime that is worth way too much to those who want the legend to be true. Webb soon discovers that what lurks in the sun, sand and shallow waters of the Keys is much more dangerous than a slashing game fish. And along the way, he learns an important truth about himself and his own past. In this exciting prequel to Devil's Pass and Tin Soldier, the musically gifted and tenacious Webb finds himself caught in a dangerous mystery.
Barracuda 945 (Arnold Morgan #6)
by Patrick RobinsonThe enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945. A sleek and silent Russian hunter-killer nuclear submarine that can fire land-attack guided missiles from below the ocean's surface, it is invisible to all pursuers and virtually impossible to track. Yet Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, must somehow marshal America's forces and hunt down this 8,000-ton nightmare of modern warfare before it unleashes its fire and death . . . or the first target to fall will be California.
Barracuda: Final Bearing
by Michael DimercurioIn DiMercurio's most harrowing thriller to date, Greater Manchuria, a new independent nation, threatens its Japanese neighbors with nuclear devastation. But Japan initiates a preemptive strike in the form of a devastating new weapon that will bring the world to the edge of all-out war. Now Admiral Michael Pacino must return to active service to face the deadliest threat the world has ever seen!
Barranco
by Iván BethencourtDeberás caer, llegar al fondo del abismo. Tal vez, morir. La vida del joven Tristán está a punto de sufrir un vuelco inesperado. Desde su nacimiento no ha conocido otra sensación que la de caída. <P><P>¿Quién es él realmente? ¿Qué hace del mundo un lugar tan brutal e inhabitable? Rechazado por cuantos lo rodean, ha aprendido a refugiarse en la soledad y el silencio, convirtiéndose de ese modo -y a su pesar- en un concienzudo observador de la realidad. Hasta que el hallazgo de unas cartas secretas de su abuelo, el inquietante y por veces críptico doctor Armario, lo ponen sobre la pista de un romance que mantuvo con una misteriosa mujer de La Palma. Muchos han oído contar el suceso, a veces en susurros, a veces integrado en las más alocadas leyendas, bordeando el relato épico, la verdad o la mentira. Pero Tristán se ha convencido de que las razones que lo explican como ser en el mundo se hallan ligadas a la resolución de los extraños interrogantes que rodean tan excepcional historia. Y, a pesar de que grandes peligros se suceden en el camino, adoptará la firme determinación de llegar hasta el final, cueste lo que cueste.
Barrayar (Cordelia Naismith #2)
by Lois Mcmaster BujoldSequel to Shards of Honor, chronicling the events leading up to Miles Naismith Vorkosigan's birth.<P><P> Cordelia Vorkosigan's plans for a peaceful married life (after all the bloodshed and trials recounted in SHARDS OF HONOR) are shattered when a poison gas attack, intended for her husband Aral, leaves her ill and her unborn child damaged. Resisting enormous pressure to abort her son, Cordelia struggles to keep her unborn child--transferred to a uterine replicator--alive while thwarting plans by a ruthless opponent to murder the young emperor and assume absolute power over all of Barrayar. Once again Cordelia displays her courage and her remarkable combat and leadership skills.<P> Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Barrayar (Las aventuras de Miles Vorkosigan #Volumen 2)
by Lois Mcmaster BujoldUna de las mejores sagas de aventuras de ciencia ficción. Galardonada con cuatro premios Hugo, dos Nebula, dos Locus y un Analog. Aun en bandos diferentes, Cordelia Naismith, capitana de Betana, y Aral Vorkosigan, contraen matrimonio y viven entre la aristocracia de Barrayar, el planeta de origen de Aral. Poco antes de fallecer, Ezrar, emperador de Barrayar, nombra regente a Aral Vorkosigan hasta que Gregor, su sucesor, alcance la mayoría de edad. Aral deberá enfrentarse a diversos complots, contra el futuro emperador y contra su propia regencia, protagonizados por disidentes de la nobleza de Vor. Reseña:«Acción e ingenio... divertida y satisfactoria.»Publishers Weekly
Barrefondo
by Felix BruzzoneUn limpiador de piletas termina involucrado con una banda que asalta casas. Tavo limpia piletas hasta que una tarde cree ser testigo de un crimen. Desde entonces, todo para él gira alrededor de ese episodio. El sol agobiante, su pasado, su matrimonio, su porvenir, las contradicciones de una vida al límite que se acerca a un punto final, se entrecruzan en un relato vertiginoso e insolado, por momentos cortado por la electricidad de las herramientas con las que Tavo trabaja a pocos centímetros del agua.
Barrel Fever
by David SedarisIn David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.
Barrel Fever: Stories And Essays
by David SedarisIn David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.