Seduced by Story

Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376636
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from The Girl on the Train to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.

Seduced by Story

Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Seduced by Evil

Author: Michael Fleeman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429990171
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage, Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men. Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them. Then one spring morning in 1996, one man, Kent Leppink, was found in the snow, shot in the head... Days before his death, Kent had removed Mechele's name from his million-dollar life insurance policy. He wrote a letter to his family stating that, should he meet foul play, Mechele would likely be among those involved. But she wasn't charged with Kent's death. She married a doctor, moved to Olympia, Washington, and began a new life. For years, Mechele's suburban friends never suspected a thing. She went to school meetings, hosted backyard barbeques, and was beloved by her neighbors. But authorities eventually found enough evidence to mount a case against her and an alleged accomplice. Did Mechele conspire to kill her ex-fiancé? Or is she the innocent victim as she claims? Seduced by Evil is the shocking true story about a love triangle that ended in mystery—and murder...

Seduced

Author: Virginia Henley
Publisher: Island Books
ISBN: 0440211352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
Shorn of her glorious raven tresses and dressed as a man, Lady Antonia Lamb became Lord Anthony Lamb, desperate to keep the property entailed to her twin brother, who is missing at sea. Trapped—and liberated—by her masquerade, Tony meets her new guardian, the devastatingly dangerous Adam Savage, who has returned from his plantation in Ceylon, determined to turn the innocent “boy” into a worldly man. A rake whose scarred face and ice-blue eyes made strong women weak, Adam Savage, legendary adventurer, vowed to take young Tony to the fleshpots of London; to teach him everything a young heir should know. But not even Savage guesses Tony's deepest secret, a masquerade destined to erupt in passionate abandon on one scorching, unforgettable night.

Bossa Nova

Author: Ruy Castro
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745745
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.

Reading for the Plot

Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307962822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453

Book Description
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.

Seduced by the Highlander

Author: Julianne MacLean
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781250016287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
War, Lachlan MacDonald has conquered so many men on the battlefield—and so many women in the bedroom—that he is virtually undefeated. But one unlucky tryst with a seductive witch has cursed him forever. Now, any women he makes love to will be doomed for eternity… Lady Catherine is a beautiful lass of elite origin—or so she is told. Suffering from amnesia, she is desperate to find the truth about who she really is…or, at the very least, meet someone who inspires an intense memory or emotion. When she first lays eyes on Lachlan MacDonald, Catherine has a sixth sense that he holds the key that will unlock her past—and maybe even her heart. But how could she know that the passion she ignites in this lusty warrior’s heart could consume—and destroy—them both?

Seduced

Author: Hope Ford
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
All that's ever mattered to me is football. Until I meet the woman that makes me question everything.She thinks I care that she's older than me.She thinks I'll just give up and forget the one night we had together.But that's not going to happen.We may have drunk too much.We may have gotten married in a drive-thru wedding chapel, But there's no way I'm just going to let her run from me.After months of trying to track her down, I finally find her.From that point on, I don't give her an option.She's going to be by my side until I know she's going to stay there willingly.She has a secret, But I have one too.None of that matters because she's mine now...And I'm not letting her g

Seduced by the Wolf

Author: Terry Spear
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402256620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Book 4 in Terry Spear's Heart of the Wolf Series His first priority is to protect his pack Werewolf pack leader Leidolf Wildhaven has just taken over a demoralized pack. With rogue wolves on the loose causing havoc and the authorities from the zoo suddenly zeroing in on the local wolf population, the last thing he needs in his territory is a do-gooder female, no matter how beautiful and enticing she is... She'll do anything to help wolves Biologist Cassie Roux has dedicated her life to protecting wolves in the wild. On a desperate mission to help a she-wolf with newborn pups, the last thing Cassie needs right now is a nosy and entirely too attractive werewolf pack leader trying to track her down... With rogue wolves and hunters threatening at every turn, Cassie and Leidolf may find their attraction the most dangerous force of all. Heart of the Wolf Series: Heart of the Wolf (Book 1) To Tempt the Wolf (Book 2) Legend of the White Wolf (Book 3) Seduced by the Wolf (Book 4) Praise for Terry Spear: "The vulpine couple's chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength... lies in Spear's depiction of pack power dynamics as well as in the details of human-wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible."—Publishers Weekly "Chilling suspense and sizzling romance... The dark, sexy alpha hero will capture you—body, mind, and soul."—Nicole North, author of Devil in a Kilt "If action, romance, and suspense are what you are looking for in a story, then look no further."—Night Owl Romance

Empire of Deception

Author: Dean Jobb
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616204966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
“A rollicking tale that is one part The Sting, one part The Great Gatsby, and one part The Devil in the White City.” —Karen Abbott, author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In a time of unregulated madness, nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. It was the perfect place for a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz to entice hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. It was an ingenious deceit, one that out-Ponzied Charles Ponzi himself. In this rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town and then on the lam, Empire of Deception proves that the American dream of easy wealth is truly a timeless commodity. “Captivating . . . Dean Jobb tells the story of Leo Koretz, a legendary con artist of Madoffian audacity, with terrific energy and narrative brio.” —Gary Krist, author of Empire of Sin “A brilliantly researched tale of greed, ambition, and our desperate need to believe in magic, it’s history that captures America as it really was--and always will be. A great read.” —Douglas Perry, author of Eliot Ness “Reads like a Gatsby-Ponzi mashup . . . Kudos to Jobb for unearthing this overlooked story and bringing to life a charming, witty, naughty, iconic American crook.” —Neal Thompson, author of A Curious Man “The granddaddy of all con men, Leo Koretz gives Jobb the opportunity to exhibit his impressive research and storytelling skills . . . A highly readable, entertaining story.” —Kirkus Reviews