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Les Trois Épouses de Blake Nelson

Autor: Cate Quinn

Número de Páginas: 420

Blake Nelson est retrouvé mort dans le désert. La police soupçonne sa femme l'avoir tué. Mais laquelle ? RACHEL, PREMIÈRE ÉPOUSE " Pardonne-moi, Seigneur, j'ai menti à un policier aujourd'hui. Je lui ai dit que Blake n'avait jamais levé la main sur moi. " TINA, SŒUR-ÉPOUSE " Quand les flics m'ont embarquée, j'ai cru qu'ils nous arrêtaient pour polygamie. À Vegas, je me faisais arrêter pour racolage. Ici, c'est parce que je suis mariée. " EMILY, SŒUR-ÉPOUSE " " Tu peux être toi-même ici ', m'a dit Blake. Ce qu'il voulait dire, je pense, c'est que je pouvais être à lui. " Contre la volonté de sa famille et les règles de l'Église mormone, Blake Nelson a épousé trois femmes. Tous les quatre vivent dans un ranch miteux perdu au beau milieu de l'Utah, dans l'attente de la Fin des Temps. Personne ici ne les dérangera. Jusqu'à ce que le corps de Blake soit retrouvé dans un sale état. Bienvenue chez les mormons ! " Tout le monde aime Blake Nelson, sauf ses femmes. " –; The New York Times

Rainbow Boys

Autor: Alex Sanchez

Número de Páginas: 256

Jason juega en el equipo de baloncesto del instituto y tiene novia desde hace años, pero no deja de pensar en cómo sería el sexo... con otros chicos. Kyle sabe que es gay, pero aún no se lo ha dicho a sus padres y mucho menos a Jason, por quien suspira en secreto. Nelson, bromista y descarado, está fuera del armario para el mundo. Y tiene una cosa clara: su amistad con Kyle le importa mucho..., quizás demasiado. Las vidas de los tres chicos se entrelazan a medida que van resolviendo el puzle de sus miedos, traiciones y deseos. Y cuanto más averiguan acerca de ellos, más descubren la importancia de ser fieles a sí mismos. Rainbow Boys es el libro más conocido de Alex Sanchez y el primero de la saga Rainbow. Algunos premios de Rainbow Boys son: Mejor libro para jóvenes adultos (American Library Association, 2002) Nominado a los premios Lambda (2002) Young Adults' Choice (International Reading Association, 2002) "Esta novela valiente y directa habla el idioma de la vida real de los adolescentes gays. (...) Puede abrir ojos y cambiar vidas". (School Library Journal) "Creíble y conmovedora". (Publishers Weekly)

Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment

Autor: David Fallon

Número de Páginas: 348

This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.

Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film

Autor: Matthew Boswell

Número de Páginas: 216

Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.

Girl

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 304

An account of three years in a teenage girl's life as she forges an identity between two contrasting worlds -- her straight-laced school and Portland's underground music scene.

Blake

Autor: David V. Erdman

Número de Páginas: 628

DIVDefinitive study of strange symbolism Blake used to attack political tyranny of his time. "For our sense of Blake in his own times we are indebted to David Erdman more than anyone else."—Times Literary Supplement. Third revised edition. 32 black-and-white illus. /div

Annual Denver City Directory...

Autor: Ballenger & Richards, Denver

Número de Páginas: 682

Over the Rainbow

Autor: Michelle Ann Abate , Kenneth B. Kidd

Número de Páginas: 420

Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

Paranoid Park

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 193

now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Milk) It was an accident. He didn’t mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard—it was self-defense. But there’s no one to back up his story. No one even knows he was at Paranoid Park. Should he confess, or can he get away with it? It’s an ethical question no one should have to answer. Writing more intensely than ever before, Blake Nelson delivers a film noir in book form, complete with interior monologue and dark, psychological drama. This is a riveting look at one boy’s fall into a world of crime, guilt, and fear—and his desperate attempt to get out again.

Presenting Poetry

Autor: Howard Erskine-hill , Richard A. Mccabe

Número de Páginas: 300

The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Blake's Human Form Divine

Autor: Ann K. Mellor

Número de Páginas: 378

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Taming the Beast

Autor: Mark R. Sneed

Número de Páginas: 302

Leviathan, a manifestation of one of the oldest monsters in recorded history (3rd millennium BCE), and its sidekick, Behemoth, have been the object of centuries of suppression throughout the millennia. Originally cosmic, terrifying creatures who represented disorder and chaos, they have been converted into the more palatable crocodile and hippo by biblical scholars today. However, among the earliest Jews (and Muslims) and possibly Christians, these creatures occupied a significant place in creation and redemption history. Before that, they formed part of a backstory that connects the Bible with the wider ancient Near East. When examining the reception history of these fascinating beasts, several questions emerge. Why are Jewish children today familiar with these creatures, while Christian children know next to nothing about them? Why do many modern biblical scholars follow suit and view them as minor players in the grand scheme of things? Conversely, why has popular culture eagerly embraced them, assimilating the words as symbols for the enormous? More unexpectedly, why have fundamentalist Christians touted them as evidence for the cohabitation of dinosaurs and humans?

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

Autor: Roger Ebert

Número de Páginas: 794

A collection of reviews from the past 30 months by the influential Pulitzer Prize-winning critic includes such entries as an interview with Justin Timberlake, a tribute to Blake Edward and an essay on the Oscars. Original.

Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception

Autor: Stefanie Rauch

Número de Páginas: 229

Taking early 21st century Britain as a case study, Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: A British Case Study presents an intervention into the scholarship on the representation of the Holocaust on film. Based on a study of audience responses to select films, Stefanie Rauch demonstrates that the reception of films about the Holocaust is a complex process that we cannot understand through textual analysis alone, but by also paying attention to individual reception processes. This book restores the agency of viewers and takes seriously their diverse responses to representations of the Holocaust. It demonstrates that viewers’ interpretative resources play an important role in film reception. Viewers regard Holocaust films as a separate genre that they encounter with a set of expectations. The author highlights the implications of Britain’s lessons-focused approach to Holocaust education and commemoration and addresses debates around the supposed globalization of Holocaust memory by unpacking the peculiar Britishness of viewers’ responses to films about the Holocaust. A sense of emotional connection or its absence to the Holocaust and its memory speaks to divisions along ethnic,...

Life of William Blake

Número de Páginas: 362

Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus".

Autor: Alexander Gilchrist , Anne Burrows Gilchrist

Número de Páginas: 348

Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus": Selections. Poetical sketches ; Songs of innocence ; Songs of experience ; The book of Thel ; Poems hitherto unpublished ; Prose writings ; Appendix. Letters from Blake to Mr. Butts ; Annotated catalogue of Blake's pictures and drawings ; etc

Autor: Alexander Gilchrist

Número de Páginas: 366

The Life of William Blake

Autor: Alexander Gilchrist

Número de Páginas: 641

First full-length biography (1863) covers Blake's childhood, student years, trial for treason, "madness," neglect by the public, untimely death. Insightful commentary on the poet's works plus 40 of his illustrations.

The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia

Autor: Lynnea Chapman King

Número de Páginas: 229

Joel and Ethan Coen have written and directed some of the most celebrated American films of the last thirty years. The output of their work has embraced a wide range of genres, including the neo-noirs Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn’t There, theabsurdist comedy Raising Arizona, and the violent gangster film Miller’s Crossing. Whether producing original works like Fargo and Barton Fink or drawing on inspiration from literature, such as Charles Portis’ True Grit or Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, the brothers put their distinctive stamp on each film. In The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia, all aspects of these gifted siblings as writers, directors, producers, and even editors—in the guise of Roderick Jaynes—are discussed. Entries in this volume focus on creative personnel behind the camera, including costume designers, art directors, and frequent contributors like cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Carter Burwell. Recurring actors are also represented, such as Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, and John Turturro. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of published sources, both in print and online. ...

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Autor: Roger Ebert

Número de Páginas: 802

Reviews originally appeared in the Chicago sun-times.

Holocaust Cinema Complete

Autor: Rich Brownstein

Número de Páginas: 489

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated. Yet most Holocaust movies have fallen through the cracks and few have been commercially successful. This book explores these trends--and many others--with a comprehensive guide to hundreds of films and made-for-television movies. From Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo Rabbit, more than 400 films are examined from a range of perspectives--historical, chronological, thematic, sociological, geographical and individual. The filmmakers are contextualized, including Charlie Chaplin, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Roman Polanski. Recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films are included, along with an educational guide, a detailed listing of all films covered and a four-part index-glossary.

Los derechos humanos en el cine

Autor: Benjamín Rivaya

Número de Páginas: 575

Desde su origen, el cine ha sido un medio para transmitir importantes cuestiones de la humanidad, desde los asuntos más cotidianos hasta los temas sociales más complejos. La presente obra tiene la intención de demostrar cómo el tema de los derechos humanos ha estado presente en el mundo de la gran pantalla. Sus objetivos son, en primer lugar, analizar la presencia de los derechos humanos en la narración cinematográfica, haciendo inevitablemente una reflexión tanto sobre el cine como sobre los derechos humanos, y la manera en la que ambos se relacionan. El segundo objetivo es más bien 'pedagógico', pues busca enseñar al lector a ver cine, en el sentido de hacerlo consciente de los elementos ideológicos que se encuentran insertos en el discurso fílmico, sobre los cuales muchas veces no somos conscientes. El tercer objetivo, vinculado con el anterior, es la reivindicación del uso del cine en la enseñanza, siendo imprescindible que, en un mundo audiovisual como el nuestro, se eduque con y sobre el cine. Una obra que despertará una mirada distinta sobre el séptimo arte tanto en el lector curioso como en el lector jurista o cinéfilo.

Romance en la nieve

Autor: Donna Alward

Número de Páginas: 99

Copos de nieve y sombreros vaqueros Hope McKinnon, toda una chica de ciudad, se encontró atrapada por la nieve en el rancho del duro y filantrópico Blake Nelson. Era el último sitio del mundo donde quería estar, pero había algo en aquel hombre atractivo y generoso que le aceleraba el pulso y le hacía hervir la sangre. Por su parte, Blake era consciente de que ella se encontraba a disgusto en el rancho, pero se sentía tan bien cuando estaban juntos que, por primera vez en mucho tiempo, empezó a considerar la posibilidad de mantener una relación amorosa. Por desgracia, la estancia de Hope iba a ser breve. Por suerte, iba a tener más de una noche para seducirla.

Reel Views 2

Autor: James Berardinelli

Número de Páginas: 627

Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1786

Journal of the Senate

Autor: Minnesota. Legislature. Senate

Número de Páginas: 596

Includes extra and special sessions.

The New Rules of High School

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 241

Max is the consummate high school overachiever. Straight-A student, debate team captain, future editor of the school paper, dutiful Max does what's expected, until the day he inexplicably breaks up with Cindy, his perfect girlfriend. Is their relationship too much to handle on top of everything else? Or is Max just tired of doing everything he's supposed to? As Max begins to question his life, all of the old rules dissolve—and he searches in some very unlikely places for new ones. "Nelson, it seems, possesses that peculiar and particular ability, granted to only a few—the Judy Blumes and J. D. Salingers of this world—to accurately portray the mysterious inner life of the American teenager." —Time Out New York "Fiercely real and really fierce." —Daniel Handler (aka "Lemony Snicket")

Gender Blender

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 194

Perfect for fans of classic teen comedies like She’s All That and Freaky Friday, this is the story of two tweens who can’t imagine problems bigger than their own until they wake up one morning…and realize they’ve switched bodies. All Emma wants is for Jeff Matthews to notice her, to avoid sexist boys, and to finally get her period. All Tom wants is to not look like a wuss at school, to figure out his new blended family, and to get a chance with Kelly A. Neither thinks about much else. That is until something freaky happens. Emma and Tom wake up one morning in each other’s bodies. Now all Emma can think about is how to dodge the mean girls who torment her and all Tom can think about is how to avoid being alone with Jeff Matthews. This hilarious and thought-provoking read will have tweens wondering what high school is really like for the classmates they consider their opposites--and have them second-guessing the pre-conceived notions they may have about each other.

Boy

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 316

In the style of Blake Nelson’s cult favorite, Girl comes a story about the moments in life that change how you see everything and everyone you always thought you knew—including yourself. Every school has them: the cool kids. The insiders. Gavin Meeks is one of them. He lives an easy life of parties, girls, snowboarding adventures and whatever else comes his way. But when dark, dramatic Antoinette crash-lands at Evergreen High, the entire school feels the impact. Antoinette has seen things, been places, experienced deep tragedy first-hand. She’s not just a rebel, she’s a force of nature. Gavin, for one, is captivated and is soon pursuing interests he never knew he had. With a camera in hand, he finds a way to express his own truth, including his feelings for his favorite subject: Antoinette. It all leads to one passionate, life-altering night in this achingly authentic story from bestselling author Blake Nelson.

Rock Star Superstar

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 164

Music is Pete's life. From playing in a jazz band to jamming at 2 AM with his guitar-playing dad, Pete is almost never without his bass. He's sure his treasured Fender Precision bass, along with his vow never to be a sell-out, will lead him to a record deal one day. Then he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely play their instruments, but somehow they have a following. And they desperately need a bass player. Pete can play circles around these amateurs, but there's a raw power to their sound that's surprisingly appealing. He can't resist, and he joins The Tiny Masters of Today. When the band gets a chance at real superstardom, Pete wonders if he's ready for the big leagues. He knows the quality of the music should come first... but who knew selling out could be so much fun? Blake Nelson's riveting novel shows the realities of life in a band, and all the temptations that come with it.

Prom Anonymous

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 239

Chloe Thomas is going to the prom. Of course, she doesn't have a date, she needs a dress, and she's the last person anyone expects to see there. But her two oldest friends asked her to go, and she said yes. Right away things start to fall apart. Laura and Jace are too busy with their own preparations to help Chloe, her “real” friends think she's insane, and her parents are so excited that she can't even be in the same room with them. Why on earth did she agree to do this? With drama, humor, and a touch of prom magic, Blake Nelson delivers a story as memorable as prom itself.

Destroy All Cars

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 164

From Blake Nelson, a fantastic and topical novel about idealism and finding the ideal girl.James Hoff likes to rant against America's consumerist culture. He also likes to rant against his ex-girlfriend, Sadie, who he feels isn't doing enough to change the world. But just like he can't avoid buying things, he also can't avoid Sadie for long. This is a fantastic, funny, sexy, cool masterpiece from one of the best YA writers at work today, an anti-consumerist love story that's all about idealism, in both James's relationship with the world and his relationships with the people around him.

Phoebe Will Destroy You

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 272

From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place. The summer I was seventeen I met this girl… Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she’s a distinguished professor and bestselling author. On the downside, she’s a serious alcoholic, with no clue how to relate to her son or husband. Nick, meanwhile, has finished his junior year and needs a break from his stressful home life. What better place to spend the summer than Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work at his Uncle’s car wash. Enter local legend, Phoebe Garnet. She’s funny, sexy, but dangerously self-destructive. Suddenly Nick is more in love, more obsessed, more heartsick than he’s ever been in his life. Why does Nick love her so much? Will he survive this obsession? And who can he turn to for help? From the author of the classic novels Girl and Paranoid Park comes a story of the joy, the pain, and the madness of growing up.

Exile

Autor: Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 296

A downtown Baudelaire of the ‘90s: that’s what New York poet Mark West used to be. Now, at thirty-one, locked in a perpetual adolescence, he’s slipping. Even when he takes an artist-in-residence position at a small Oregon college, he finds himself still sleeping with strange women and seeking momentary oblivion in drugs. But when he returns to Manhattan with a new book idea and renewed energy, an emotional train wreck awaits him, and he discovers that he must take his first steps into his new life alone.

Judging 'Privileged' Jews

Autor: Adam Brown

Número de Páginas: 234

The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi’s concept of the “grey zone,” this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on “privileged” Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of “representing the unrepresentable,” this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.

Eye of God

Autor: Tim Blake Nelson

Número de Páginas: 56

THE STORY: In a small Oklahoma town, an innocent girl, Ainsley, marries a just-released convict with whom she's corresponded for three years. Jack's never told her why he went to jail, and with his newfound religion he says it doesn't matter: Provi

Adak

Autor: Burke Toliver

Número de Páginas: 293

Kuwait City, 1991. The city lies largely in ruin, a primeval, derelict place, where civilization nearly ceased to exist. In the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, bomb disposal teams are tasked to clear the thousands of unexploded munitions scattered throughout Kuwait City. U.S. Army Captain Brick Revloc is a bomb disposal officer in charge of coordinating Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations. He's a savvy, scrappy little guy whose mouth lands him in as much trouble as the exotic places to which he travels. The threatening news that a weapon of mass destruction may be planted somewhere in the city by stay-behind Iraqi forces finds Brick Revloc in a race against the clock to locate and neutralize an improvised nuclear device that could contaminate the entire Persian Gulf region. Later, suffering disillusionment from his experience and failure to get promoted, Revloc leaves the Army and joins an agency whose mission is to investigate former military bases for the presence of unexploded bombs. He's sent to Adak, a small, inhospitable island in the Aleutian chain. During World War II, it was the scene of fierce fighting between U.S. troops and Japanese forces. Now, North...

Black Widows

Autor: Cate Quinn

Número de Páginas: 420

The only thing the three women had in common was their husband. And, as of this morning, that they're each accused of his murder. Blake Nelson moved into a hidden stretch of land - a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah - where he lived with his three wives: Rachel, the chief wife, obedient and doting to a fault. Tina, the other wife, who's everything Rachel isn't. And Emily, the youngest wife, who knows almost nothing else. When their husband is found dead under the desert sun, the questions pile up. What are these women to each other now that their husband is dead? Will the police uncover the secrets each woman has spent her life hiding? And is one of them capable of murder...?

Shakespeare and Music

Autor: Julie Sanders

Número de Páginas: 254

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife discussing opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folk music and hip-hop traditions. Taking as its starting point ideas of creativity and improvisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and the more recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, this volume explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poems have been re-worked by musical composers. It also places these cultural productions in their own historical moment and context. Adaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship and as a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings: develops theories and practices from adaptation studies to think about musical responses to Shakespeare across the centuries brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre...

The Persistence of Whiteness

Autor: Daniel Bernardi

Número de Páginas: 417

The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles. Bringing together essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide range of important films, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez. Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction, comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus providing students with an accessible and topical collection on race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.