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Funny How?

Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

By: Alex Clayton

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Funny How?

Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

By: Alex Clayton

What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Aristotle's three forms of appeal—logos, the appeal to reason; ethos, the appeal to communality; and pathos, the appeal to emotion—can form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humor. Drawing on both popular and lesser-known examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere—Monty Python's Flying Circus, Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, Airplane!, and Smack the Pony—Clayton reveals the techniques and resonances of humor.

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SUNY Press

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1438478291

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9781438478296

Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963

By: Anthony Clayton,Donald Cockfield Savage

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Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963

By: Anthony Clayton,Donald Cockfield Savage

Published in the year 1974, Government and Labour in Kenya is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

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Routledge

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1136275061

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9781136275067

Reflection Behind the Rain

By: Robert Clayton Buick

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Reflection Behind the Rain

By: Robert Clayton Buick

ROBERT CLAYTON BUICK is described as a Soldier of Fortune and the most successful American bullfi ghter of his time, in Mexico, Central and South America. The writers, aficionados and bullfi ght critics called him “El Ciclon del Norte”, translated: “The Cyclone from the North”. Buick was fearless in the bullring, while adorning his style with spinning and floral passes, always in close proximity to the bull’s horns, thrilling the thousands of people who came to see him perform in his spectacular style.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450031226

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9781450031226

Moongather

By: Jo Clayton

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Moongather

By: Jo Clayton

A young warrior woman, Serroi fights to keep dark magic from destroying her world, in the first book of Jo Clayton’s acclaimed Duel of Sorcery fantasy trilogy. Serroi is unique in her world, and was nearly put to death in infancy as a result. A green-skinned “misborn,” small in stature with an unnatural connection to the natural world, she was nonetheless chosen and exceptionally trained as a meie warrior. As such, she fears nothing, except the cold and inscrutable Nor and their dark magic. Something in Serroi’s childhood awakened her to a shocking and terrible truth about these malevolent wizards, one of whom both saved and cursed her in her earliest years. It is her deep-seated terror that causes her to betray and abandon her shieldmate, Tayyan, during a rooftop battle with a magic-wielder, a craven act that threatens to haunt Serroi to the end of her days. However, it is not cowardice that makes her run, but rather her knowledge of a great evil in the offing. In that instant before flight, Serroi recognizes the coming of something monstrous, though she cannot yet put a name to it. Now it is up to the young warrior to somehow prevent the unthinkable: She must alter a grim destiny that is set to occur on the fateful and fearful night known as Moongather, when demons will be free to enter the world. Richly imaginative and stylistically inventive—told from the alternate viewpoints of the child Serroi just coming of age and of Serroi as a grown woman—author Jo Clayton’s epic fantasy is a magnificent reading experience, evoking wonder and terror in equal measure. Moongather details a complex world of magic and dark political intrigue where divine forces do secret battle, and where the foundations of a matriarchal society and of native life itself are threatened by the twisted desires of a jealous queen and a powerful wizard. Creator of the much loved Diadem Saga and Skeen Trilogy, Clayton’s engrossing, endlessly exciting Duel of Sorcery Trilogy firmly places her among the ranks of revered fantasists Jane Yolen, Mercedes Lackey, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

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Open Road Media

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1504038487

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9781504038485

Shakespeare's Englishes

Against Englishness

By: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

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Shakespeare's Englishes

Against Englishness

By: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108493734

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9781108493734

The Spirit's Knock

Stories, Lucid Dreams, and Out-of-Body Experiences from the Journey of an Apprentice Shaman

By: Clayton Forrester

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The Spirit's Knock

Stories, Lucid Dreams, and Out-of-Body Experiences from the Journey of an Apprentice Shaman

By: Clayton Forrester

The Spirit's Knock presents stories from Clayton Forrester's life as he awakens to embrace the call to become a shaman. His journey takes him from Ohio to Texas, Switzerland, and Central Mexico. It is a story of possibilities, of death and rebirth, and of the evolution of consciousness. Through a series of life-changing experiences, including challenges growing up, a major health crisis leading to a near-death encounter, divorce, lucid dreams, out-of-the-body experiences, and visions, Clayton Forrester enters the shamanic world. From these experiences he comes to understand the power of inner silence and the heart to engage the capacities for perception waiting to awaken within himself. His experiences also show him that every single human being who is willing to accept the challenge to evolve might also develop these hidden capacities for perception. In accepting the call to become a shaman, Clayton Forrester develops an intimate relationship with the earth. Through this relationship he learns important lessons about his own journey and about humanity's journey to survive and evolve as a species. Along the way, he discovers a companion that will never leave his side.

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iUniverse

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0595376002

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9780595376001

Linguistics of American Sign Language

An Introduction

By: Clayton Valli,Ceil Lucas

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Linguistics of American Sign Language

An Introduction

By: Clayton Valli,Ceil Lucas

New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.

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Gallaudet University Press

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1563680971

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9781563680977

Like Anybody Would Know a Crow

By: Neal Clayton

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Like Anybody Would Know a Crow

By: Neal Clayton

As development overturns the landscape of North Carolina, tenth-grader Chris Fuller knows he'll end up fighting Brandon, a new kid who just moved into the housing development that destroyed Chris's beloved pine forest. Brandon turns out to be a real runner, far better than Chris, shows no respect for locals, and when it comes to a school project that has Chris baffled, slams his hand down and says, "It's as good as done!" Chris needs an idea for the project, but mostly he's trying to find a way to be talking to violinist Muriel. She makes the crazy suggestion he try talking to someone from the past, anyone who might give him an idea. But he's pretty sure he's already been spoken to, maybe by a mythological night sky jaguar, who asks, "Do you know how fire burns in water?" When Chris's first idea falters and he gets desperate, the jaguar makes a way for Brandon's troubled past and Chris's faithfulness as a friend to cross paths and carry them to a new place of standing and friendship.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666748382

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9781666748383

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Open-Topic

By: Carsten Madsen,Louis Bury,Barbara Clayton

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Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Open-Topic

By: Carsten Madsen,Louis Bury,Barbara Clayton

Volume 3 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. http: //glossator.org

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Glossator

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1453855815

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9781453855812

Loosely Based

A Novel

By: Storey Clayton

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Loosely Based

A Novel

By: Storey Clayton

Matt Norton, high school class of 2000, is tired of Kansas. His divorced parents barely know him, his distracted girlfriend barely cares, and he needs a change. College offers the promise of freedom from all he has known and grown to hate.Antigone Edgewood, college dropout, is fleeing Chicago. Her abusive boyfriend has gone too far, and now she will go as far as she can to get away. A late-night diner offers the chance to sit down and contemplate her future.Joe Ewing is investigating what he secretly suspects to be the biggest crime of his career."Loosely Based" is a story of interstates and intersections in modern American life.

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Virtualbookworm Publishing

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1589394097

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9781589394094

The Source

By: Clayton Stealback

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The Source

By: Clayton Stealback

Plagued by horrific reoccurring dreams, three unrelated people are chosen and pulled together against fate's will by a Guide not of this earth. Having had these dreams planted into their subconscious minds, the chosen have to conquer their deepest fears in order to obtain the elusive Elemental Orbs. But only the true Keepers are destined to succeed in obtaining the Orbs...Orbs that were created to serve the one and only purpose of quenching the insatiable appetite of The Source. And now The Source was back. It's presence causing all life to degenerate backward through evolution. And who does this Guide really serve? Are the chosen the true Keepers of the Orbs? If not, the World was doomed. If so, the Guide had bent fate's will pulling them together...and fate has a way of snapping back to its path.

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AuthorHouse

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1434373770

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9781434373779

A Theology of the Sublime

By: Clayton Crockett

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A Theology of the Sublime

By: Clayton Crockett

A Theology of the Sublime is the first major response to the influential and controversial Radical Orthodoxy movement. Clayton Crockett develops a constructive radical theology from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - a philosophy attacked by Radical Orthodoxy - to show Kant's relevance to postmodern philosophy and contemporary theology.

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Routledge

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1134550103

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9781134550104

Personation Plots

Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Clayton Carlyle Tarr

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Personation Plots

Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Clayton Carlyle Tarr

The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation genre, which enjoyed remarkable popularity in the 1860s and 1870s, at once reflected and challenged this discourse. In their frequent representations of identity fraud, sensation writers demonstrated that the body could never guarantee a person's identity. The body is malleable and untrustworthy, and the identity it is supposed to signify is governed by the caprices of the human mind and the growing authority of paper matter. Both a wide-ranging literary analysis and a portrait of the age, Personation Plots reads canonical texts by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens alongside several lesser-known sensation novels. The study, which anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time, also features brief criminal biographies of two of the nineteenth century's greatest impostors, Alice Grey and Mary Jane Furneaux, and concludes with an afterword on imposture in the late-Victorian Gothic.

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State University of New York Press

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1438490852

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9781438490854

The Clean Slate

By: Jim Clayton

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The Clean Slate

By: Jim Clayton

Author covers many topics including his life in rural Taradale.

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Balboa Press

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1452512043

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9781452512044

Praying for Base Hits

An American Boyhood

By: Bruce Clayton

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Praying for Base Hits

An American Boyhood

By: Bruce Clayton

From his vivid memories, Clayton gathers a quirky cast of characters: Minnie, his zealously religious maternal grandmother, who refers to Kansas City as Sodom and Gomorrah; Buck, his paternal grandfather, a cold but handsome devil who commits suicide before Clayton's birth; Old Man Pierce, the callous, greedy pharmacist who cringes at the sight of Clayton and the rest of the "drugstore cowboys"; and Ed, the cabbie, who reads and quotes Spinoza while hanging out at the Home Plate, an all-night eatery and favorite haunt of Clayton's.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211895

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9780826211897

Of Ice and Steel

By: D. Clayton Meadows

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Of Ice and Steel

By: D. Clayton Meadows

D. Clayton Meadows takes you on an edge of your seat jouney into the world of the submariner. This is a nerve-racking tale of how men and machines would react to a mysterious threat that the major powers fear but cannot understand. In an intriguing science fiction twist, Meadows puts a World War II German U-boat in suspended animation in the frozen Arctic ice. Waking some sixty years later, the thoughts of the Captain and crew are to get home. Unaware the war they fought so long ago is over the U-boat encounters ships of Russia, Britain, and the United States. The result is a frighteningly realistic yarn of three men who must overcome their own demons to save the world.

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iUniverse

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1475970161

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9781475970166

The Soul of Lichien

By: T. S. Clayton

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The Soul of Lichien

By: T. S. Clayton

Sennovia - A new prophecy uttered from the dead lips of a Seer starts Shailen on a journey into the unknown. What should be a routine mission becomes shrouded in secrecy, as he finds himself thrust into the middle of a deadly mystery. He discovers the hard way that his mixed heritage is the least of his problems as he is offered a choice. A simple choice that could change the course of history. With Sasheer, he ventures into the darkness of the past and discovers that there is a power even more insidious, and dangerous, than all the shattered fragments of Lichiens divided soul.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462826784

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9781462826780

Sermons

By: Charles Clayton

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Sermons

By: Charles Clayton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382322757

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9783382322755

The Very Big, the Very Fast, and the Very Small: The new physics simplified

By: Clayton Lagerquist

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The Very Big, the Very Fast, and the Very Small: The new physics simplified

By: Clayton Lagerquist

Clayton Lagerquist is an amateur physicist with a degree in physics from Minnesota State University and a graduate degree in engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is now retired from an active career in health physics while maintaining his readings in cosmology, relativity, and quantum mechanics. He hopes to bring some of his knowledge of the latest findings in physics to those who are discovering some of these wonders for the first time. His candor about his lack of knowledge in some areas may spur others to investigate these areas in more detail for themselves.

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Lulu.com

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1430311061

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9781430311065

Eva Thorne

Books 1-4

By: Lorel Clayton

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Eva Thorne

Books 1-4

By: Lorel Clayton

Fun, clever fantasy with an epic ending! “I hated the late shift. I hated the morning shift too. If only I could make a living doing something I enjoyed, like yelling and intimidating people.” The surly Eva Thorne is a born detective when she’s not playing the femme fatale, but it takes her brother’s murder to set her on a hunt for clues. What she discovers brings her up against a powerful slave-trading cartel, dark gods, and worst of all her twin sister. In a city of elvish masters and matriarchal dwarves where humans have no rights, the only people on her side are an illegally freed slave, a senile nanny, and an ex-almost-boyfriend. But even when she nearly loses her job and almost loses her head in a sword fight on the same night, she isn’t deterred. It’s when the nanny goes missing that she really starts to worry. For the first time, the first 4 books of the Eva Thorne series are available in a digital box set - at the best price ever! The Eva Thorne series begins with a murder and culminates in the war that will end the world. Twisting the norms of high fantasy, mystery, and steampunk into a witty mixture of humor and romance, this series is an action-packed adventure worth taking. Magic and machines can't stand against the God of Death, and humans are on the run from the god's invasion. Highcrowne is the only refuge, but that means living in the Outskirts of an ancient city ruled by Avian mages, indifferent dwarves, and elves who'd prefer to see humans as their slaves. Eva is a relentless, kick-ass heroine unafraid of confronting kings, monsters, or gods, but she is a Thorne—the worst of the hated Solhan race. Her family summoned the Dead God into the world to grant them ultimate power, and secret parts of her desire power as well. The battle between her dark, Solhan nature and her desire to leave behind her family’s legacy of necromancy and tyranny is what drives her. Never one to meet others’ expectations, she fights fate at every turn. But as she is forced to make one difficult decision after another, she wonders if anyone can escape their destiny. "A fantastical twist on mystery, brimming with action-packed adventure and a sense of clever fun." -Elizabeth Spann Craig, Bestselling Mystery Author “I picked this up and just could not put it down until I finished! …If you like Mystery, Romance, and Fantasy this book has it all!” – Terry’s Book Addiction “An enjoyable, fantastic read!” – Pearl, #1 Best Goodreads Reviewer

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Lorel Clayton

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0648676099

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9780648676096

Debating Southern History

Ideas and Action in the Twentieth Century

By: Bruce Clayton,John A. Salmond

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Debating Southern History

Ideas and Action in the Twentieth Century

By: Bruce Clayton,John A. Salmond

Noted historians Bruce Clayton and John Salmond explore the mind of the "new South", from the pivotal 1920s to the tempestuous '60s.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847694143

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9780847694143

A Federal Tattoo

By: Clayton Farley

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A Federal Tattoo

By: Clayton Farley

Eighty years from now, a stranger named Sam wanders onto the Stahl family farm and meets Clara Stahl, a beautiful young medical student. Although it is clear that underneath Sam's calm manner lies a tortured soul, Clara is immediately drawn to the handsome visitor. But is Sam's amnesia the result of a trauma, or is he merely trying to forget a past filled with regrets? As Clara and her family help Sam unravel the mysteries of his memory, a fierce U.S. Air Force colonel in a secret federal facility fears his career may be on the line after a prisoner escapes-and that prisoner is Sam. The residents of the quiet family farm soon find themselves threatened by authority at the highest levels. The resulting confrontation could ultimately endanger the entire United States government. In A Federal Tattoo, Clayton Farley takes us into a world at once sophisticated and archaic. As the lines between right and wrong become shockingly twisted, the ancient story of right versus might is dramatically played once again against the backdrop of a cold and unfeeling future.

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iUniverse

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059544511X

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9780595445110

A Thorne for a Crown

By: Lorel Clayton

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A Thorne for a Crown

By: Lorel Clayton

The first real case femme fatale turned private eye, Eva Thorne, has had in months may be more than she can handle. King Rutgard has been kidnapped, only he's not entirely alive, which makes finding him difficult. What's more, dwarf men are joining the suffragist movement in droves to win freedom from the matriarchy, and there's a werewolf terrorist in town causing chaos. Eva needs a case like this to make her reputation, but she has problems of her own. Dark magic is rising in her, the Thorne legacy, and she can't control it. She has to find a way or risk imprisonment by the jackbooted elf soldiers who are cracking down on illegal necromancy and worship of the Dead God. Worse, the God of Death wants her soul, as does her twin sister, so Eva denies her magic and hides from her family. But some things are impossible to hide from, like the tax collector … and love.

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Lorel Clayton

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0994229003

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9780994229007

Gothic Stories Within Stories

Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900

By: Clayton Carlyle Tarr

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Gothic Stories Within Stories

Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900

By: Clayton Carlyle Tarr

Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of the genre, frame narratives in fact function as a dynamic basis for imaginative variation and are vital to evaluating the diverse Gothic tradition. The juxtaposition between the everyday "frame world" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experience the reassurance of the ordinary alongside the horror of the uncanny.

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McFarland

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1476667489

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9781476667485

Screwdrivered

By: Alice Clayton

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Screwdrivered

By: Alice Clayton

Screwdrivered, the third book in USA Today bestselling indie author Alice Clayton's Cocktail series of sexy romances, follows Viv, a romantic at heart hell bent on not falling for the egineer next door"--

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Simon and Schuster

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147676672X

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9781476766720

Wulf

By: Hamish Clayton

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Wulf

By: Hamish Clayton

Early nineteenth century New Zealand – the great chief Te Rauparaha has conquered tiny Kapiti Island, from where Ngati Toa launches brutal attacks on its southern enemies. Off the coast of Kapiti, English trader John Stewart seeks to trade with Te Rauparaha, setting off a train of events that forever change the course of New Zealand history. Narrated by two English sailors on board Stewart's ship, these events are also eerily resonant of a more distant memory, stretching back into mythology, of the charismatic leader Wulf and an ancient lament. History, it seems, may be repeating itself. Wulf, Hamish Clayton's inventive, brilliant first novel, explores a subject little covered in New Zealand fiction, and marks the emergence of a startlingly assured, exciting new voice. 'I was blown away by Wulf's imaginative derring-do. It is easily the most impressive debut I've read in a long time.' —Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip 'A powerfully imagined novel – assured, crisply poetic and spellbinding in its unfurling narrative. . . . Clayton [is] a gifted writer for a new generation.' —Murray Bramwell, NZ Books Also available as an eBook

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1742287727

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9781742287720

The Pale North

By: Hamish Clayton

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The Pale North

By: Hamish Clayton

The new novel from Hamish Clayton, award-winning author of Wulf, The Pale North is a disarming, exquisitely written work with a haunting love story at its heart. 1998, Wellington. A series of catastrophic earthquakes has left the city destroyed. Returning to the ruin from London, a New Zealand writer explores the devastation, compelled to find out for himself what has become of the city he left years ago. As he drifts through the desolate streets, home now to the shell-shocked and dispossessed, he finds among the survivors a woman and a child. And although they are haunted, hostile and broken, the strangers feel eerily familiar to him: as if they promise the answers to the mysteries he once swore to leave behind. A layered meditation on love, history, creativity and loss, The Pale North is an audacious and disarming novel, a forensic journey into one writer's short but singularly brilliant body of work. Invoking W. G. Sebald, Julian Barnes and Lloyd Jones, Hamish Clayton's new novel is every bit as visionary and intrepid as its award-winning predecessor, Wulf.

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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174253919X

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9781742539195

Islands of Truth

The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island

By: Daniel Clayton

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Islands of Truth

The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island

By: Daniel Clayton

In Islands of Truth, Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status. Between the 1770s and 1850s, the Native people of Vancouver Island were engaged by three sets of forces that were of general importance in the history of Western overseas expansion: the West's scientific exploration of the world in the Age of Enlightenment; capitalist practices of exchange; and the geopolitics of nation-state rivalry. Islands of Truth discusses these developments, the geographies they worked through, and the stories about land, identity, and empire stemming from this period that have shaped understanding of British Columbia's past and present. Clayton questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences. Islands of Truth is a timely, provocative, and vital contribution to post-colonial studies.

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UBC Press

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0774841575

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9780774841573

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