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Queen of Mystery

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The Queen of Mystery takes readers deep into San Francisco’s Castro District during the mid-1980s, a time of glittering nightlife shadowed by danger and loss.UltraSheen, the radiant drag performer and beloved community icon, finds herself at the center of a storm when a series of shocking murders shakes the queer community. As Casey Johnson, the cab driver turned reluctant investigator, navigates ... Read more

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The Queen of Mystery takes readers deep into San Francisco’s Castro District during the mid-1980s, a time of glittering nightlife shadowed by danger and loss.UltraSheen, the radiant drag performer and beloved community icon, finds herself at the center of a storm when a series of shocking murders shakes the queer community. As Casey Johnson, the cab driver turned reluctant investigator, navigates
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The Queen of the Mission

by John Jason Phillips ...

Queen of the Mission transports readers to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1984, where a community of drag performers, cab drivers, and lovers fight to keep their dreams alive against a backdrop of prejudice, murder, and the looming AIDS crisis.At the heart of the story is UltraSheen—the dazzling star of a new drag revue—whose rise to fame collides with the twisted schemes of Dr. Lindstrom, a ... Read more

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Queen of the Mission transports readers to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1984, where a community of drag performers, cab drivers, and lovers fight to keep their dreams alive against a backdrop of prejudice, murder, and the looming AIDS crisis.At the heart of the story is UltraSheen—the dazzling star of a new drag revue—whose rise to fame collides with the twisted schemes of Dr. Lindstrom, a
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The Crimson Divide

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Isis Sadler is a women who has faced many obstacles in life, the death of her parents at an early age, her mean spirited grand parents. Numerous chances for romance had somehow slipped between her fingers....life at this point seemed rather bleak.So when the chance to go to mars arrived, Isis saw this as an opportunity for change, a chance for a new life....Even if it was 55 million kilometres ... Read more

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Isis Sadler is a women who has faced many obstacles in life, the death of her parents at an early age, her mean spirited grand parents. Numerous chances for romance had somehow slipped between her fingers....life at this point seemed rather bleak.So when the chance to go to mars arrived, Isis saw this as an opportunity for change, a chance for a new life....Even if it was 55 million kilometres
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The Last Days of the Barbary Coast: Volume One of the Ultrasheen Mysteries

by John Jason Phillips ...

The Last Days of the Barbary Coast plunges readers into the gritty, intoxicating world of San Francisco in the early 1980s—a city teetering between freedom and destruction. Through the eyes of Casey Johnson, a cab driver turned reluctant chronicler, we witness a community alive with drag shows, drugs, danger, and desire.From the glitz of UltraSheen, the city’s dazzling drag queen star, to the ... Read more

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The Last Days of the Barbary Coast plunges readers into the gritty, intoxicating world of San Francisco in the early 1980s—a city teetering between freedom and destruction. Through the eyes of Casey Johnson, a cab driver turned reluctant chronicler, we witness a community alive with drag shows, drugs, danger, and desire.From the glitz of UltraSheen, the city’s dazzling drag queen star, to the
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Paradigm

by Jason Phillips ...

Childlike in nature, Kero Mayes is an antisocial teenage man/child with savant-like tendencies, and he is about to be uprooted from his comfort zone and forced out into the world. During a string of unfortunate events, Kero abruptly meets a mysterious young girl named Xuoy and her not-so-little dog, Kibbble, and they bring with them a strange new power for Kero to wrap his mind around. With his ... Read more

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Childlike in nature, Kero Mayes is an antisocial teenage man/child with savant-like tendencies, and he is about to be uprooted from his comfort zone and forced out into the world. During a string of unfortunate events, Kero abruptly meets a mysterious young girl named Xuoy and her not-so-little dog, Kibbble, and they bring with them a strange new power for Kero to wrap his mind around. With his
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Back to Font

Behind the Typefaces You Thought You Knew

by Anitra Nottingham, Jason Phillips ...

Warning: this book may cause you to rethink your default typeface settings.Back to Font uncovers the secrets and lives behind 16 of the most famous typefaces. It answers all sorts of questions you might never have thought to ask before. Like: who were their 'parents' and where were they 'born'? What's pretty and interesting about them, and what isn't? How are the typefaces used (and abused), and ... Read more

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Warning: this book may cause you to rethink your default typeface settings.Back to Font uncovers the secrets and lives behind 16 of the most famous typefaces. It answers all sorts of questions you might never have thought to ask before. Like: who were their 'parents' and where were they 'born'? What's pretty and interesting about them, and what isn't? How are the typefaces used (and abused), and
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Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era

A Critical Examination of Disney+

by Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Timothy Pollard ...

Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace.Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox positioned the company to launch the Disney+ streaming service, the chapters look ... Read more

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Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace.Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox positioned the company to launch the Disney+ streaming service, the chapters look
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Reclaiming Adoption

Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father

by John Piper, Scotty Smith, Richard Phillips, Jason Kovacs ...

One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets out to change this situation by providing breathtaking views of Gods love for and delight in His ... Read more

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One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets out to change this situation by providing breathtaking views of Gods love for and delight in His
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Triaging the Streaming Wars

Edited by Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Tim Pollard ...

Series series Electronic Media Research Series
This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the significant disruption caused to the entertainment industries by the rise of these streaming services, a team of international scholars examine changes to labor issues and compensation, which were central to the conflict between the ... Read more

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This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the significant disruption caused to the entertainment industries by the rise of these streaming services, a team of international scholars examine changes to labor issues and compensation, which were central to the conflict between the
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Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

by Jason Phillips ...

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their ... Read more

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How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their
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Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South

Edited by Jason Phillips ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie," insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing, not criticizing, the inherent power of ... Read more

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In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie," insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing, not criticizing, the inherent power of
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Martial Culture, Silver Screen

War Movies and the Construction of American Identity

by Kylie A. Hulbert, Brian Matthew Jordan, Andrew Graybill, Jason Phillips, James "Trae" Welborn III, Liz Clarke, Jessica Chapman, David Kieran, Meredith Lair, Andrew C. McKevitt, Richard N. Grippaldi, Calvin Fagan ...

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction ... Read more

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Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction
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