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Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful full-color book tells the stories of rivalries that not only stimulated and benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but also help shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack"--
5) Inside man
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
K.J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper's Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men and demons on its head. An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the last forever of an eternity leading a perfectly tedious existence distracting monks from their liturgical devotions. It's interminable, but he prefers it that...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world's fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), who delves deeply into why witches have intrigued us for centuries and why they're more relevant now than ever.--
Grossman explores the cultural and historical impact of the world's most magical icon: the witch. From the idea of the femme fatale in league with the devil in early modern Europe and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home,...
14) Greatest hits
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
20) Shine a light
Author
Language
English
Description
A 2008 film directed by Martin Scorsese documenting two 2006 performances that took place during rock and roll band The Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang tour." It also includes archive footage from the band's career. The expanded, two-disc version of the soundtrack features every song seen in the film, plus four numbers not included: "Little T & A " "Shine a Light," "I'm Free," and "Paint It Black."
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