The Lure

Author: Felice Picano
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602824177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471

Book Description
Noel Cummings's life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan's gay life that stirs his own secret desiresÑuntil he forgets he is only playing a role.

The Lure

Author: Lynne Ewing
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062206907
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
From bestselling author Lynne Ewing comes a gritty, sexy novel perfect for fans of books like Perfect Chemistry—about a teen forced to become a "lure," a beautiful girl used by her street gang to seduce and entrap rival gang members. The Lure tells the story of fifteen-year-old Blaise Montgomery, who lives on the dangerous outskirts of Washington, DC, where a stray bullet can steal a life on the way to school and death lurks around every corner. Drugs and violence are the only ways to survive, so Blaise and her friends turn to gangs for safety, money, and love. And when Blaise is accepted into one of the toughest gangs in the city, she's finally part of a crew. A family. But as Blaise is put in increasingly dangerous situations, particularly as her gang's newest lure, she begins to see there's more to lose than she ever realized. Should Blaise continue to follow the only path she's ever known, or cut and run?

The Lure of the Vampire

Author: Milly Williamson
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781904764403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

The Logic of the Lure

Author: John Paul Ricco
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226711013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot—such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With The Logic of the Lure, John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic, and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics, one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to taking place, Ricco considers a variety of issues, including the work of Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways.

The Lure

Author: Bill Napier
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788630432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

Book Description
In this thriller from an author who “deftly mix[es] history, science and science fiction,” researchers discover alien life and global conspiracy (Publishers Weekly). A signal from space, a conspiracy on Earth. An underground research station in Eastern Europe is suddenly bombarded with rhythmic bursts of subnuclear particles from beyond Earth—a pattern so complex it can only come from a highly evolved intelligence. As the messages are decoded, the scientists are amazed by the information they reveal: secrets of a technology far in advance of our own, suggesting that a benign civilization wishes to share knowledge with humankind. Surely, the scientists argue, the signal should be acknowledged? But the world’s superpowers have other ideas, and suddenly the scientists find themselves at the heart of a global conspiracy . . . The Lure is an extraordinary and original thriller, perfect for fans of Scott Mariani, Dan Brown and Clive Cussler. Praise for the writing of Bill Napier: “Fans of Dan Brown take note.” —Jack DuBrul, New York Times–bestselling author of the Philip Mercer series “The most exciting book I have ever read.” —Arthur C. Clarke, New York Times–bestselling author of 2001: A Space Odyssey “Fans of Michael Crichton will find a kindred spirit in Napier.” –Publishers Weekly

The Lure of the Exotic

Author: Colta Feller Ives
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390624
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
He believed firmly in his difference, often referring to himself as a "savage," and once he discovered his passion for art he had to create forms that were original and unique. "What does it matter that I set myself apart from other people? For most I shall be an enigina, but for a few I shall be a poet...," he wrote.".

The Lure of the Local

Author: Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565842489
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Explores the multiple senses of place in society through cultural studies, history, geography, photography, and contemporary public art

The Lure of the Sea

Author: Alain Corbin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052053
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

The Lure of Greatness

Author: Anthony Barnett
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783524545
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit and paved the way for Trump’s presidency of the United States. On both sides of the Atlantic, proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts. But in the name of self-government, Brexit and Trump will intensify the authoritarian traditions of their outdated political systems. The Lure of Greatness is a blistering account of how and why this happened. The shadow of Iraq, the great financial crash, campaigns of poison and intrigue, the filleting of David Cameron with the cold fury of a Remain voter... these are just the start. At the book’s heart is the story of the institutional and constitutional implosion of the United Kingdom, the farce of ‘the sovereignty of parliament’, a passionate account of English nationalism and the absurdity of the ever-increasing and insidious influence of the Daily Mail. What emerges is a compelling summary of an EU in crisis, the fateful absence of a viable left alternative, the normality of immigration – all of which frame the reasons for the triumph of Leave. Anthony Barnett, co-founder of openDemocracy, applies a lifetime of observing, reporting and sedition in this searing analysis of the two great democratic disasters of our time.