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Killed on the Rocks (The Matt Cobb Mysteries #6)
by William L. DeAndreaAt a snowed-in retreat, a corporate takeover turns deadlyA remote mansion, a blizzard, and lack of phone service: It&’s an opportunity a killer can&’t pass up. Matt Cobb, the in-house troubleshooter for a television conglomerate, is summoned to an executive meeting at the Adirondack home of billionaire G. B. Dost. Dost plans to acquire the TV network, and the shareholders are anxious about the rich man&’s intentions. One of the bigwigs might even prefer murder to a takeover. Sure enough, the morning before negotiations would start, Dost is discovered dead outside his lodge—surrounded by forty feet of smooth, unbroken snow—and Cobb is faced with the task of interrogating guests. And matters are only complicated by Dost&’s psychic wife, his off-kilter son, and a haunting message somehow relayed on a television found to be unplugged.
Killed with a Passion (The Matt Cobb Mysteries #3)
by William L. DeAndreaMatt Cobb goes to bat for a friend accused of murderMatt Cobb, an executive who is tasked with smoothing over sensitive situations for a major television network, is used to looking disaster in the eye. But while traveling upstate to look into rising corruption in the sale of cable broadcasting licenses, and mixing with some old college friends, he doesn&’t expect murder rears its ugly head. Cobb&’s former roommate, Dan Morris, is still pining over his ex-girlfriend Debbie Whitten, who&’s about to marry another man. But on the night before her wedding, Debbie is killed with a crushing karate blow to her throat, and Dan is accused of murder. Cobb has to prove his friend&’s innocence—no mean feat given that Morris was a martial arts expert and publicly vowed to put a stop to the marriage—and also that a shady DA has an agenda in locking him up. Meanwhile, the cable corruption issue won&’t die down, and Cobb becomes the target of a goon dubbed &“The Organic Hit Man,&” who kills with whatever&’s handy.
The Lunatic Fringe: A Novel Wherein Theodore Roosevelt Meets the Pink Angel
by William L. DeAndreaIn Old New York, Teddy Roosevelt seeks answers to a cartoonist&’s killing, a missing woman, and an impending bomb plot As a newspaper war flares between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, noted cartoonist Evan Crandall is murdered in his apartment. When police officer Dennis Muldoon finds the body, he also discovers a naked, sultry beauty blindfolded and tied to the bed. She pleads with him to free her, but after he unties this mysterious &“Pink Angel,&” she steals his gun and escapes. Meanwhile, anarchists are planning to blow up the Croton Reservoir during a millionaire&’s nearby wedding reception. Enter the police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt. With the help of Officer Muldoon, Roosevelt is on a mission to set the city in order, and that will mean putting a stop to escalating crime, and locating the mysterious Pink Angel.
The Manx Murders: A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery (The Niccolo Benedetti Mysteries #3)
by William L. DeAndreaNiccolo Benedetti takes on the mysterious case of two battling industrialist twinsIn Harville, Pennsylvania, two brothers are sparring. A common enough occurrence, but these ones happen to be elderly, twins, and industrialist millionaires. The two have feuded for years over all sorts of issues, including a woman they both loved. Now Henry Pembroke has built a bird sanctuary, while his twin brother, Clyde, has decided to breed Manx cats. Henry argues that Clyde&’s cats will kill his birds, and in an attempt for revenge, he blocks a new air-cleaning device that Clyde wants to produce. After nearly a lifetime of fighting, the brothers call on renowned Italian detective—and larger-than-life artist-philosopher—Niccolo Benedetti, together with private investigator partner Ron Gentry, to help solve their differences. But what begins as a property dispute takes a lethal turn when one of the brothers is kidnapped and a secretary is murdered. In this quiet town, Benedetti, a lifelong student of evil, suddenly has more than enough to study.
Snark (The Clifford Driscoll Novels #1)
by William L. DeAndreaIn the follow-up to Cronus, an American spy travels to London to locate a high-profile missing person, and is faced with terror from the pastIf they&’re going to take you, let them take you with your eyes open. That&’s the credo of Clifford Driscoll, the American spy at the center of Snark, the follow-up to William DeAndrea&’s Edgar Award–winning Cronus. Driscoll has gone by many names in his short, eventful life, and he&’s just borrowed another: that of Jeffrey Bellman, an agent his Russian enemies at Cronus consider dead. As the son of a formidable secret intelligence director, Driscoll/Bellman is used to all kinds of existential ducking and weaving. The new Bellman is sent to England to find Sir Lewis Alfot, a missing former British intelligence chief. He hasn&’t even left the London airport, though, before assassins target him. They come courtesy of Leo Calvin, a terrorist Bellman&’s dealt with in the past—and Calvin has just kidnapped Alfot as bait. Can Bellman stop Calvin in his tracks, and is Alfot, for his part, as respectable and law-abiding as he seems?
The Werewolf Murders (The Niccolo Benedetti Mysteries #2)
by William L. DeandreaMaster detective Niccolo Benedetti hunts down a killer in the French AlpsNiccolo Benedetti is many things: a professor, philosopher, painter, charmer, and a sterling, world-class detective, too. For Benedetti, a murder is not just a crime, but also a means of dissecting the nature of evil. It's a problem demanding as much art as it does science. In this second installment in the Benedetti series, the detective travels to a ski resort in the French Alps, where a conference of international scientists is rocked by a series of killings. To make matters worse the prefect of police is also targeted, endangering the whole future of the conference, and the scientists claim that the perpetrator is nothing less than an honest-to-God, full moon-intoxicated werewolf. Together with sidekicks Ron Gentry and Janet Higgins, Benedetti will have to dive headfirst into this supposedly supernatural case.
The Werewolf Murders (The Niccolo Benedetti Mysteries #2)
by William L. DeAndreaMaster detective Niccolo Benedetti hunts down a killer in the French AlpsNiccolo Benedetti is many things: a professor, philosopher, painter, charmer, and a sterling, world-class detective, too. For Benedetti, a murder is not just a crime, but also a means of dissecting the nature of evil. It&’s a problem demanding as much art as it does science. In this second installment in the Benedetti series, the detective travels to a ski resort in the French Alps, where a conference of international scientists is rocked by a series of killings. To make matters worse the prefect of police is also targeted, endangering the whole future of the conference, and the scientists claim that the perpetrator is nothing less than an honest-to-God, full moon–intoxicated werewolf. Together with sidekicks Ron Gentry and Janet Higgins, Benedetti will have to dive headfirst into this supposedly supernatural case.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Basement
by William L. DeAndrea Matthew DeAndreaDiscovering a real baby dinosaur running around in their basement, twelve-year-old Jon and his little brother, Michael, step through a time warp to gather evidence and become lost in a world full of prehistoric monsters.
Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Bradley DeaneFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Masculinity and the New Imperialism
by Bradley DeaneAt the end of the nineteenth century, the zenith of its imperial chauvinism and jingoistic fervour, Britain's empire was bolstered by a surprising new ideal of manliness, one that seemed less English than foreign, less concerned with moral development than perpetual competition, less civilized than savage. This study examines the revision of manly ideals in relation to an ideological upheaval whereby the liberal imperialism of Gladstone was eclipsed by the New Imperialism of Disraeli and his successors. Analyzing such popular genres as lost world novels, school stories, and early science fiction, it charts the decline of mid-century ideals of manly self-control and the rise of new dreams of gamesmanship and frank brutality. It reveals, moreover, the dependence of imperial masculinity on real and imagined exchanges between men of different nations and races, so that visions of hybrid masculinities and honorable rivalries energized Britain's sense of its New Imperialist destiny.
Wrath Goddess Sing: A Novel
by Maya DeaneDrawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy.The gods wanted blood. She fought for love. Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance. But the gods—a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries—have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine. At the center of it all is the cruel, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and emptiness. In love with her newfound nemesis, Helen sets out to destroy everything and everyone Achilles cherishes, seeking a battle to the death. An innovative spin on a familiar tale, this is the Trojan War unlike anything ever told, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the people she chooses to fight…and chooses to trust.
Reading in the Dark
by Seamus DeaneThis Guardian Fiction Prize winner, Seamus Deane's first novel, is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.
Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018
by Seamus DeaneSeamus Deane is one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. His new book presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical and trenchant, it addresses the political, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island's past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke's political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce's and of Elizabeth Bowen's relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns's fiction – these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature's most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.
The Year of the French (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy)
by Seamus Deane Thomas FlanaganIn 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack.Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel.Named the most distinguished work of fiction in 1979 by the National Book Critics' Circle.
Até aos ossos
by Camille DeAngelisO romance que inspirou o novo filme ansiosamente aguardado de Timothée Chalamet é uma história fascinante sobre o primeiro amor e encontrar o nosso lugar no mundo. Esta rapariga não parte corações, ela devora-os. Maren Yearly quer o mesmo que qualquer rapariga da sua idade. Tornar-se alguém que os outros admirem e respeitem. Ser amada. Mas Maren tem um segredo que a torna diferente, impulsos que não consegue controlar. E odeia-se pelas coisas más que o seu instinto a pressiona a fazer, por aquilo que causa a si e à sua família. Porque Maren não se limita a partir corações, ela devora-os. Desde o dia em que a sua mãe encontrou um osso da orelha da ama na sua boca, quando ela tinha apenas dois anos, soube que a vida não seria normal para nenhuma das duas. Quando, no seu décimo sexto aniversário, a mãe a abandona com apenas algum dinheiro e a sua certidão de nascimento, Maren decide partir em busca do pai, que nunca conheceu, determinada a encontrar as suas origens e a razão para ser como é. Confrontada com um mundo onde, pela primeira vez, conhece outros comedores e inimigos, mas também a possibilidade inesperada do amor, Maren percebe que não está apenas à procura do pai, está à procura de si própria. A verdadeira questão é: será que vai gostarda rapariga que encontrar? Os elogios da crítica: «Um romance único, ousado e imperdível.»RT Book Reviews «Camille DeAngelis mistura metáfora com o macabro com grande sucesso… Deliciosamente divertido.»Publishers Weekly «A solidão de Maren faz dela uma protagonista vulnerável e totalmente credível…. Camille DeAngelis não se afasta da natureza sombria de Maren, mas consegue mantê-la doce, dando-nos um retrato de uma rapariga que quer apenas encaixar-se.»Library Journal «A habilidade de DeAngelis para contar uma história envolvente que cativa o leitor faz com que esta leitura peculiar seja impossível de largar.»New York Journal of Books
Bones And All
by Camille DeangelisMaren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way. Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car. But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself. Camille DeAngelis'Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality. <p> <b>Winner of the 2016 Alex Award (10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences)</b>
Bones and All. Hasta los huesos
by Camille DeAngelisEsta chica no rompe corazones, los devora. La novela que ha inspirado la nueva y esperada película de Timothée Chalamet es una fascinante historia sobre el primer amor y encontrar tu lugar en el mundo. Maren Yearly quiere lo mismo que cualquier chica de su edad. Quiere convertirse en alguien a quien los demás admiren y respeten. Y quiere que la quieran. Pero Maren tiene un secreto que la hace diferente, impulsos que no puede controlar. Y se odia por las cosas malas que le ha empujado a hacer, por lo que ha causado en ella y en su familia. Porque Maren no solo rompe corazones, los devora. Desde el día en que su madre le encontró en la boca un hueso del oído de la niñera cuando apenas tenía dos años, supo que la vida no sería normal para ninguna de las dos. Y cuando, el día de su decimosexto cumpleaños, su madre la abandona con un poco de dinero, una mochila y su partida de nacimiento, Maren decide lanzarse a la búsqueda del padre que nunca conoció, determinada a averiguar la clave de su origen y de por qué hace lo que hace. Enfrentada a un mundo que quizá encierre otras personas como ella, pero también la inesperada posibilidad del amor, Maren pronto se da cuenta de que a quien busca es a sí misma. Sobre la novela han dicho...«Genuinamente entretenida... Deliciosa diversión».Publishers Weekly «¡Una novela única, atrevida y que no hay que perderse!».RT Book Reviews «Desde un primer párrafo que te deja sin aliento a su perfecto y estremecedor final, me cautivó. Bones & All es fascinante, increíblemente original e inesperadamente tierna».Elizabeth Little, autora de Dear Daughter «Una mirada a la sorprendente primera página de esta novela y ya no habrá marcha atrás. Este es unviaje de iniciación con revelaciones impactantes, perturbadora pasión y profundas verdades sobre lo que significa ser una chica en este mundo».Nova Ren Suma, autora de Los mundos que nos encierran «La soledad de Maren la convierte en una protagonista vulnerable y completamente creíble... DeAngelis no huye de la naturaleza oscura de Maren pero se las arregla para que siga siendo dulce, ofreciéndonos un retrato de una chica que solo quiere encajar».Library Journal «Una visión oscura y fascinante del deseo adolescente. Este libro te devorará».Robin Wasserman, autora de The Waking Dark «Un cuento oscuro y delicioso de inesperados giros».John Searles, autor de Help for the Haunted
The Boy from Tomorrow
by Camille DeAngelisDiscover the middle-grade debut Kirkus Reviews calls “spellbinding” by an award-winning author Booklist says “has crafted a definite winner.”Josie and Alec both live at 444 Sparrow Street. They sleep in the same room, but they’ve never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart.The children meet through a hand-painted talking board—Josie in 1915, Alec in 2015—and form a friendship across the century that separates them. But a chain of events leave Josie and her little sister Cass trapped in the house and afraid for their safety, and Alec must find out what’s going to happen to them. Can he help them change their future when it’s already past?
Mary Modern
by Camille DeangelisLucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, Lucy and Gray's home life is strangely out of touch with the modern world--except for Lucy's high-tech lab in the basement. Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to attain motherhood or tenure, Lucy takes drastic measures to achieve both. Using a bloodstained scrap of an apron found in the attic, Lucy successfully clones her grandmother Mary. But rather than conjuring a new baby, Lucy brings to life a twenty-two-year-old Mary, who is confused and disoriented when she finds herself trapped in the strangest sort of déjà vu: alive in a home that is no longer her own, surrounded by reminders of a life she has already lived but doesn't remember. Turns an unflinching eye on the joyous, heartbreaking, and utterly unexpected consequences of human desire.
Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker
by Camille DeangelisEvelyn Harbinger is a heck of a lot older than she looks. At 149 years of age, Eve can still iron out the wrinkles on a Saturday night, turning heads and taking more than phone numbers as the foxy, dark-haired girl she used to be. She and her sisters have spent the better part of their lives using their powers for only the highest good--Eve herself spied for the Allies in Paris and Berlin--but in their golden years, the beldames are free to enjoy themselves however they please. When Eve meets Justin at her favorite curiosity shop, though, her games are over. Justin looks and acts uncannily like Jonah, her partner on the most dangerous mission of her career--and the great love of her life. Experts in espionage, Eve and Jonah gave up their one chance at happiness to advance the Allied cause, and no man has measured up ever since. Justin is unsuspecting but equally smitten, and Eve is much too headstrong to listen to the common-sense warnings of her coven. Meanwhile, another beldame has accused Eve's sister Helena of killing her own husband sixty years before, and Eve, disguised as her younger self, spends more and more time with Justin to take her mind off the growing pile of evidence that suggests her sister isn't the pure-hearted matriarch she appears to be. Eve knows her family has every reason to disapprove and that falling in love with an ordinary man can only end in despair, but she can't give up the boy who might be Jonah--because this time, she just might be able to keep him. A delightfully romantic adventure set between a supernatural version of present-day New York City and the epic backdrop of World War II, Petty Magic proves that the real fun starts when beldames and mortal men dare to fall in love.
Accidents Happen
by J. Michael Deangelis John P. Dowgin Pete BarryCollection of short playsComedyWinner! 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play Seven of The Porch Room's best short plays collected together into an evening of comedy that proves that no matter what you plan for - accidents happen.Shorts include: Accidents Happen - Please beware of all safety procedures and take note of the emergency exits. Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second - Balthazar Kent, ejected from an airplane, tries to regain control of his life through his cellphone. Reunion Special - A desperate former child actor reunites with his now adult co-stars at a funeral. The Clive Way - A motivational speaker mistakenly tries to empower a group of newly rehabilitated anger-management patients. Hangman - A budding teenage philosopher-scientist searches for the truth by experimenting on his friend with a hallucinogenic cocktail. Tricks of the Trade - Ralph teaches Eddie how to sell your soul for success. The Banderscott - An infomercial marketer is pitched an astonishing product. The shorts can be performed together as a full-length show or on their own as one acts.
Soldier’s Salvation/The Golden Box
by Koa De'AngeloThis novel contains two stories: Soldier’s Salvation and The Golden Box. The first story, Soldier’s Salvation, is about “a year-long adventure that completely changed the lives of two young brothers. Set in the first century AD 29 to AD 30. It is a chronology of events, starting with their induction into the Imperial Roman army and continuing to some days after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” The second story, The Golden Box, is a tale about “a secret heirloom that has been handed down through the millennia of time from grandmother to granddaughter.” The author conveys, through this story, that “not all that someone deems wonderous can be appreciated in the same way by others. The beautiful part is, God lets us as individuals, decide what is precious to us.” For the author, what is important is not the gift but the Gift Giver. When reading these stories, the author wants his readers to remember that “some chapters in these two books share instances from the four New Testament gospels of the Bible. What is imaginative in the narrative is largely detail of what has been left open in the biblical and historical accounts. Nothing has been included that did not seem to be a reasonable assumption.”
Kind Poverty Kills Too! (Kind Poverty Kills Too! Ser. #1)
by Jessica DeannaKind is a young teenage girl. Who wants to live a life for christ but struggles with the temptation of the world. Kind wants to wear nice fashionable clothes just like other kids. but life comes with a cost. Kind sells her soul and realizes the devil gives out blessings but with his blessing come consequences. Kind's become like the other teenagers in the project no conscience only difference is Kind fears the lord and she knows consequences are coming. Kind life started to turn for the worst she has no one.
Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature: Engaging Difference and Identity (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Rachel Dean-RuzickaWhat, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive reading of this literature. Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature contests the modern discourse of tolerance, encouraging educators and readers to more deeply engage with difference and identity when studying Holocaust texts. Young adult Holocaust literature is an important nexus for examining issues of identity and difference because it directly confronts systems of power, privilege, and personhood. The text delves into the wealth of material available and examines over forty books written for young readers on the Holocaust and, in the last chapter, neo-Nazism. The book also looks at representations of non-Jewish victims, such as the Romani, the disabled, and homosexuals. In addition to critical analysis of the texts, each chapter reads the discourses of tolerance and cosmopolitanism against present-day cultural contexts: ongoing debates regarding multicultural education, gay and lesbian rights, and neo-Nazi activities. The book addresses essential questions of tolerance and toleration that have not been otherwise considered in Holocaust studies or cultural studies of children’s literature.
The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III
by David DeansFor fans of Nicholson Baker's "Vox" and Mark Dunn's "Ella Minnow Pea" comes this dazzling and absurd comedic send-up of the English language, corporate culture, and perfect suburban lives.