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The Mystery Silhouette: The 50 Best Thrilling Mystery Novels

Fifty Classic Tales of Detection, Espionage, Gothic Suspense, and Criminal Intrigue

by Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Lily A. Long, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Fred M. White, Victor Bridges, Bennet Copplestone, Marion Harvey, Maurice Leblanc, Richard Dallas, John R. Watson, Arthur J. Rees, Donald McGibeny, Jacques Futrelle, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, George Mrs. Corbett, Nicholas Carter, James Anderson Peddie, Inspector Stark, A. Frank Pinkerton, Francis Worcester Doughty, Franklin W. Dixon, Emile Gaboriau, William MacLeod Raine, Israel Zangwill, Chester K. Steele, Roland Ashford Phillips, Fergus Hume, Sax Rohmer, William Le Queux, Francis Perry Elliott, Hulbert Footner, John Ironside, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Max Pemberton, F. Marion Crawford ...

The Mystery Silhouette gathers fifty examples of popular mystery fiction at a moment when detection, espionage, sensation, and adventure repeatedly crossed generic boundaries. Its range extends from urban crime narratives and procedural inquiry to international intrigue, hidden identities, scientific puzzles, and melodramatic peril. Ratiocination shares the page with atmosphere; the puzzle plot ... Read more

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The Mystery Silhouette gathers fifty examples of popular mystery fiction at a moment when detection, espionage, sensation, and adventure repeatedly crossed generic boundaries. Its range extends from urban crime narratives and procedural inquiry to international intrigue, hidden identities, scientific puzzles, and melodramatic peril. Ratiocination shares the page with atmosphere; the puzzle plot
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Love, Etc.

Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture

by Anna L. Poletti, Hannah Stark, Timothy Laurie, Jonathan Flatley, John Plotz, Jessica Pressman, Bish Sen, Carolina Bandinelli, Angus Brown, Kevin Ohi, Hanna Meretoja, Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Mette Blok, Stephanie Burt, Lily Gurton-Wachter ...

The look of love . . . through an analytic lensLong treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to literature and culture. How are our attitudes to love changing ... Read more

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The look of love . . . through an analytic lensLong treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to literature and culture. How are our attitudes to love changing
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Anything You Can Do

by Lily Danes ...

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Series Audiobook 2 - Camp Firefly Falls
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3 hours 47 min

After months of hard work, Emma is ready to launch her new cosmetics line. To celebrate, she’s treating herself to a spa week at Camp Firefly Falls. One problem: when she arrives, she learns she signed up for something very different—Scout Wars, a heated battle between former Girl and Boy Scouts. Instead of seaweed wraps and mud baths, Emma's looking at a week of merit badges and cookouts. She ... Read more

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After months of hard work, Emma is ready to launch her new cosmetics line. To celebrate, she’s treating herself to a spa week at Camp Firefly Falls. One problem: when she arrives, she learns she signed up for something very different—Scout Wars, a heated battle between former Girl and Boy Scouts. Instead of seaweed wraps and mud baths, Emma's looking at a week of merit badges and cookouts. She
... Read more

The Queer Art of Failure

by Jack Halberstam ...

Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and
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Classic Mystery Collection: Illustrated - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works) including Sherlock Holmes, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Sax Rohmer & more Mobi Collected Works

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Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af... ... Read more

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Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af...
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Stylish Academic Writing

by Helen Sword ...

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

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Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write.
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Immediacy

Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

by Anna Kornbluh ...

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... Read more

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Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that
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50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (Book Center)

by Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, G.K Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Golden Deer Classics, Wilkie Collins ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Innocence of Father Brown [G.K Chesterton] The ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Innocence of Father Brown [G.K Chesterton] The
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The Elements of Academic Style

Writing for the Humanities

by Eric Hayot ...

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D ... Read more

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Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D
... Read more
A Sentimental Education

by Hannah McGregor ...

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the ... Read more

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How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the
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50 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces (Active TOC) (ABCD Classics) vol: 2

by Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, G.K Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Smith Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, Maurice Leblanc, Sax Rohmer, ABCD Classics ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The
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On the Inconvenience of Other People

by Lauren Berlant ...

Series series Writing Matters!
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

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In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine,
... Read more

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