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Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.
Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through...
62) Mine Every Night
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For months, I've planned my escape from my family and the arranged marriage they're forcing me into.
I'm ready to do anything to escape their shady lives and their manipulation over mine. I didn't expect what happened.
Out on my weekly forced "date" with my husband-to-be, I'm kidnapped from the restroom at the bar. All my careful plotting is turned upside down. And this stranger, my completely obsessive kidnapper, is determined to plunder all my...
63) Puppet Maker
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One circus. Three shifters fighting all odds. And one woman desperate to be real.I'm a puppet. My entire life has been at the hands of my puppet master. He is the one who created me, who keeps me bound.All I want is freedom and that is exactly what I discover at the circus, training to be a lion tamer.Three intoxicatingly powerful shifter men; a lion, a tiger, and a bear. Oh, my. They are each so very, very alive, and they stir something inside me...
64) The Collector
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A frightening dystopian horror novel in which grief is forbidden and purged from the mind.
Sorrow is inefficient. It's also inescapable.
Lieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the memories of people who, struck with incurable depression, will soon have their minds erased in order to be more productive members of society.
At night though, hidden in the dark, Dev remembers and writes in his secret journal the special moments shared...
65) His Dancer
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I don't know how it happened.
One moment I was standing outside the diner fumbling with my car keys, and the next a bag was placed over my head and I was put in the back of a car.
Who would want to kidnap me? I'm a nobody, a good girl, just doing my best to make ends meet.
Afraid for my life, I beg and plead until I come face-to-face with my captor.
Ace is a brute of a man with strong hands, green eyes, and a dark smile that makes me weak in the...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which follows Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, as he reflects on his situation and career. Stevens takes great pride in his professionalism and service to the owner of the Hall, and constantly puts his sense of duty above his own needs and feelings. However, the world he lives in is changing rapidly, and in the course of the novel he reflects on his past...
67) Stolen Bride
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My husband isn't a man to steal from. But someone has decided to anyway.Someone wanted Viktor to pay. Enough to take his wife from his own home. Enough to risk his wrath.When I wake up in a cabin in the Russian forest, broken and traumatized, Viktor is there, a different man from the one I married.Caring. Nurturing. Even, dare I say, loving. He brings me back to life, one kindness at a time, and for a few brief days, I think that maybe I've gotten...
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Branded by my pack Alpha.
Betrayed by my mother.
Raised on lies and falsehoods.
The betrayal just as twisted and hideous as the deep scars I now carry.
My one chance for freedom is to run to the only other wolf who escaped the San Francisco pack.
I leave my past behind, hoping for protection, a new home, a new pack and a chance to live free. The last thing I ever dream of finding is a mate.
But falling into Gunner Bodolf's arms is as simple...
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Pantheon Books
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[2021]
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"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature - chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age - a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual profession, Josh Cohen illuminates a new way to understand ourselves. He helps us see what...
70) Body Parts
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An orphan gets caught up in an evil corporation's deadly conspiracy in this YA science fiction thriller perfect for fans of Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young.
Raised in an elite foster center off the California coast, sixteen-year-old Tabitha has been protected from the outside world. Her trainers at the center have told her she'll need to be in top physical condition to be matched with a loving family. So she swims laps and shaves
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2017
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Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers — chosen male descendants of the...
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers — chosen male descendants of the...
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"A rogue virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose in the world, and nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake. Some blame the scientists, others see the hand of God, and still others claim that human arrogance and destructiveness are reaping the punishment they deserve. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl living in extraordinary times. As her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate...
73) Vagabonds
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A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award—winning author Hao Jingfang.
This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
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Wyatt
I'm no hero. Don't much care that the Navy disagrees with me. My years as a SEAL left me with a ledger full of blood, a permanent limp, and a complete inability to function in polite society. Up in the mountains, no one bothers me. Hell, no one even knows I exist. It's better that way.
So why did I bring the beaten and bloodied woman back to my cabin?
Because when I found her trapped in an SUV hanging upside down at the edge of the cliff, she...
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"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers...
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"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
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A genetically-altered clone. A college graduate. And it's a long way to Canada…
Harper Rawls struggles to come to grips with her parents' deaths - but it's not going well. Accompanying her guilt and inadequacy, she's somehow gained the attention of an anti-cloning extremist organization. Out of "respect for her father", they now watch her every move.
Ordell Bentley, a genetically-altered clone, flees violence at the hands of the same group. Death...
79) Mariposa
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Mariposa is a personal testimony of how there is hope even for the most lost person to find forgiveness, acceptance, and redemption. From childhood to adulthood, my life has been filled with domestic violence, alcohol, drugs, and gangs. The road I have traveled has been paved by rejection, selfishness, disobedience, and various forms of heartache and sorrow. The choices I have made led me to live a hard and lonely life.
All along the way, Christ accompanied...
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