Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s . In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy Pete, goes up against the Dervishers, and outlaw clan that's been stirring up trouble for the peaceable folks of Triple Butte. In so doing, he encounters a beautiful blue-eyed girl-bandit who promptly throws a lasso around his heart. As the action heats up, the grandeur of magnificent western landscape does battle with the picturesqueness ...

This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and obj...

Un enfant disparu, une maison abandonnée, un mystère non résolu… Été 1933, en Cornouailles. La maison de campagne de la famille Edevane, Loeanneth, est impeccable et étincelante, prête pour la fête de la Saint-Jean. Alice Edevane, seize ans et écrivaine en herbe, est particulièrement excitée. Mais lorsque minuit sonne et que les feux d’artifice illuminent le ciel, un drame se produit. Le petit Théo, onze mois, a disparu. La police a beau remuer ciel et terre, l’enfant demeure introuvable. ...

En ouvrant l’enquête de sa vie, une jeune journaliste se questionne sur le poids des secrets et des mensonges. Et sur ses propres racines... Australie, 1959. La veille de Noël, un homme fait une terrible découverte au mystérieux domaine des Turner. La petite ville de Tambillia se retrouve alors au cœur de l’une des affaires de meurtre les plus choquantes de l’histoire de l’Australie. Soixante ans plus tard, Jess Turner-Bridges, journaliste à Londres, recherche désespérément un sujet qui lu...

When Oliver meets a really cute elf while out Live Action Role Playing, he thinks he's found the Sam to his Frodo. He tries to find out more about Oakenshire the Elf, but comes up with nothing. When summer vacation makes the LARPing group take a break, Oliver throws himself into his upcoming play, where he is one of the main leads. He soon meets a new person to captivate his attention: a young woman he runs into at the doctor's office and then at his best friend Lydia's party named Avery. ...

From the critically-acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry comes an epic fantasy novel of love, both courtly and forbidden, and two kingdoms endlessly opposed …Blaise of Gorhaut is a warrior. He fought for his king and country, until the king died with an arrow in his eye at the battle of Iersen Bridge, and a dishonorable treaty ceded a good part of his country to foreign hands. He has broken relations with his father, adviser to the king of Gorhaut, and abandoned the use of his...

**#1 New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbo's story "The Jealousy Man" is now a major motion picture Killer Heat starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden – from Amazon MGM Studios and streaming on Prime Video.From “the greatest contemporary writer of the thriller” (The New York Times), THE JEALOUSY MAN is a dark and chilling short story collection that takes us on a journey of twisted minds and vengeful hearts.**Jo N...