From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers.The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spe...

In an age marked by enforced orthodoxy, religious wars and threats of burning hellfire, Bruegel the Elder reflected on the powers as well as limitations of religion, deriding the sanctimonious and ridiculing the righteous. At the heart of this book stands Bruegels ironic yet highly tender picture of The Land of Cockaigne, where we encounter a vision not of heaven above, but on earth. A parody of paradise, Bruegels heaven is consumptive, empty, idle and irresponsible; made of wholl...

Jade and Larkin are getting married!…with 12 other dragons in attendance. What could possibly go wrong?On the other hand, when Larkin gets new ideas of what he can try out with Jade, how many things can go right?Spoiler alert: dragons are huge in dragon form. In all ways.Note: This is a sequel novella to The Dragon and His Prince. It should be read after Dragon to be understood and properly enjoyed. Warnings for xeno with some very interesting and creative... experi...

Lana: I didn't expect him. I didn't want to fall in love. But I can't let him go.Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place. He's brilliant. He's a hero. He locks away the sick and depraved. But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Now I'm taking from them. One name at a time.Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. H...

I once fell in love with two people. I was lucky enough they fell in love with me too.Chance Kellerman was the broken boy whose father convinced him he was worthless, and needed to hide his shameful desires. We became friends first, then brothers when we played hockey for the same team.But it was Presley King who brought us even closer. With her we became more. She set us on fire, and we had everything we'd ever wanted. Then she left us.Four years later, Chance and ...

A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and tears, and twists and turns sure to leave anyone reeling!

To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me . . . I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case. I don't even know what side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town ca...

To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul . . .Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more . . . one day.But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well?He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits o...

He's the smoking-hot football star. I'm the nerd just trying to graduate. So why does he keep staring at me?I've always been the girl guys ignore until they need my class notes. But being invisible suits me. I'm at college to keep my head down, get accepted to grad school and hopefully save my dysfunctional family.Simple enough—until Cam Forrester looks my way.I'm not about to get sidetracked by some sexy wide receiver. The last time I trusted a man...

Skull is a walking red flag.He's an enforcer for the Serpents of Chaos Motorcycle Club.He has a newborn daughter with a messy ex.And he comes as a package with his identical twin brother, Bones.But what can I say? I'm a nurse. I like fixing people.It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.And there's an X marked on my heart.

They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable. Or at least I was . . . until her.LOGAN: I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can...

Hush, little baby, don't say a word . . .Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?It's time to fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red . . .Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.Contains mature themes.