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An office affair Being hired to type up famous reclusive author
Alex Markoff's new manuscript is a dream come true for Kelsey
Albertelli. Until Kelsey meets her new boss! Alex doesn't want
Kelsey there and isn't afraid to tell her... except resentment
isn't the only emotion simmering between the two... * Dumped by her
cheating ex-fiance, Marissa Warren joins a dating website to find
Mr Ordinary and Safe. Instead she finds Mr Tall, Dark and Totally
Not Right For Her in her boss! He may everything she doesn't want
but as she gets to know her new boss Marissa can't stop falling for
Mr Imperfect! * When Aideen Ryan turns to her reclusive billionaire
neighbour for business help, Patrick Fitzsimon can't say no.
Working together to help save her business soon Aideen is swept
into a world she doesn't recognise with a man she finds herself
falling for...
Power Play The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle
Ages Jenny Adams The game of chess reached western Europe by the
year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the
most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests
played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated
prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, "chansons de
geste," and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries
also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or
sexual consummation. In "Power Play," Jenny Adams looks to medieval
literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about
the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and
about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form,
chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop
rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some
manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans,
farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. "Power Play" is
the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why
its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes
were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As
allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the
pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important
symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a
means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to
envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to
imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by
contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were
more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.
Jenny Adams teaches English at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. The Middle Ages Series 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 9 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-3944-7 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0104-8 Ebook
$59.95s 39.00 World Rights Literature Short copy: Reading through
influential texts of the later Middle Ages, Adams shows how
specific representations of chess encoded concerns about political
organization, civic community, and individual autonomy.
Flagler Beach Florida is quite the small town, eclectic and
quirky... and filled with many unique characters. Nerdz Comics And
More offers not only great comics and collectibles but great
characters as well The fifth book in the Flagler Beach Fiction
series. Contemporary Fiction and a fun beach read Includes 10 short
stories and Author Notes
Dying Days: Origins The prequel tale to Tosha Shorb, featured in
Dying Days 2 zombie novella as well as short stories set in the
Dying Days world. Includes two bonus stories: Dying Days: Randy
Jackson, featuring the main character from the Highway To Hell
zombie novella... and Dying Days: Eric White, the origins short for
the character featured in the Dying Days series and written by Lisa
McKinney 36,000 words in all With Author Notes...
Just when they thought they were out... The last survivors of the
zombie raid on European Village find out they have nowhere else to
go in this post apocalyptic world. Darlene Bobich must once again
team up with Ike in order to survive Dying Days: Siege 2 is the
sequel to the successful collaboration between authors Armand
Rosamilia (Dying Days, Keyport Cthulhu) and Tim Baker (Pump It Up,
Unfinished Business) and includes two bonus short stories, an
interview with the authors as well as samples of their latest work
Flagler Beach Florida is quite the small town, eclectic and
quirky... and filled with many unique characters. And JandJ Fitness
has more than its share of locals who are enjoying a perfect Sunday
in town with exercise and so much more The third book in the
Flagler Beach Fiction series. Contemporary Fiction and a fun beach
read Includes 10 short stories set in JandJ Fitness
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