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Paper Ghosts

A Novel of Suspense

By: Julia Heaberlin

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A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong? FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • “Fast and furious . . . You’ll never see what’s coming.”—The Washington Post Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished. Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in the passenger seat beside her. He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist—or is she? You won’t see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile. Praise for Paper Ghosts “Paper Ghosts is a riveting summer read that shows Texas in a powerfully intimate light.” —The Austin Chronicle “[An] artful and elegiac psychological thriller . . . riveting.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Paper Ghosts] elevates the often tawdry genre of the serial killer novel to a work of art.”—Sunday Express (UK) “Texas has yet again bred a major American noir writer.”—D Magazine “[Heaberlin has] developed a distinctive literary voice, one that is on full display in Paper Ghosts.”—Houston Chronicle “Entertainingly unnerving.”—The Dallas Morning News “Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place, and some dark comedy make this travelogue-cum-psychological thriller well worth the read.”—The Guardian

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370

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Ballantine Books

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0804178046

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9780804178044

A Victorian Muse

The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature

By: Julia Straub

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A Victorian Muse

The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature

By: Julia Straub

New research into cultural afterlife of Dante in nineteenth-century literature, culture and the visual arts.

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188

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A&C Black

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0826445896

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9780826445896

Virginia Woolf

An Inner Life

By: Julia Briggs

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Virginia Woolf

An Inner Life

By: Julia Briggs

Julia Briggs has written a chronological exploration of Woolf's life that reads her life through her books, using the novels to create a new form of biography. Each chapter is illustrated with a sample of Woolf's original manuscript.

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548

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156032295

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9780156032292

Tandem Dances

Choreographing Immersive Performance

By: Julia M. Ritter

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Tandem Dances

Choreographing Immersive Performance

By: Julia M. Ritter

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling during the digital age, immersive performance is influenced by emerging computer technologies, such as virtual reality and advances in video-gaming, as well as increased interest in new forms of experiential entertainment. The idea of tandemness suggesting motion that is achieved by two bodies working together and acting in conjunction with one another is critical throughout the book. Author Julia M. Ritter persuasively argues that practitioners of immersive productions deploy choreography as a structural mechanism to mobilize the bodies of cast and audience members to perform together. Furthermore, choreography is contextualized as an effective tool for facilitating audience participation towards immersion as an affect. Through a focus on Western dance histories, theories, and practices, Ritter's close choreographic analysis of immersive productions, along with unique insights from choreographers, directors, performers, and spectators, enlivens discourse across dramaturgy, kinesthesia, affect, and co-authorship. By foregrounding the choreographic in order to examine its specific impact on the evolution of immersive theater, Tandem Dances explores choreography as a discursive domain that is fundamentally related to creative practice, agendas of power and control, and concomitant issues of freedom and agency.

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384

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Oxford University Press

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0190051329

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9780190051327

Patchwork Luxe

Quilts from Neckties, Kimonos & Sari Silks

By: Julia McLeod

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Patchwork Luxe

Quilts from Neckties, Kimonos & Sari Silks

By: Julia McLeod

Master the art of quilting with cherished silk fabrics! Learn techniques to tame silk's challenging qualities and create gorgeous silk quilts! From working with reclaiming materials like ties, scarves, and garments to exploring the history of sericulture and its use in historic quilts, you'll find the secrets to quilting with silks. Discover key techniques when working with silks, including traditional machine piecing with fusible interfacing, improv piecing, fabric foundation piecing, fussy cutting, appliqué, finishing, and more! From sarees to kimono, you'll explore ways to combine various silks in one project. Put newfound skills to work, breathing life into quilt projects that range from bed-sized quilts to home decor items. Perfect for quilters of all skill levels, whether you're a traditionalist or a modern enthusiast Work your way to zero waste and transform your sentimental attire and textiles into treasured heirlooms with confidence. Find inspiration in the projects and stunning photo gallery included, making this book the perfect guide for crafting memory quilts from your loved one's clothing.

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131

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1644034891

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9781644034897

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

Bodies, Voices, Words

By: Julia A. Walker

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Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

Bodies, Voices, Words

By: Julia A. Walker

Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.

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314

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Cambridge University Press

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1139446274

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9781139446273

Reading Virginia Woolf

By: Julia Briggs

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Reading Virginia Woolf

By: Julia Briggs

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work--from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels--from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally - and even numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and more meaningfully into Woolf's work

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256

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748626956

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9780748626953

Book's by Julia Rachel Barrett

Paper Ghosts

Paper Ghosts

A Victorian Muse

A Victorian Muse

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Tandem Dances

Tandem Dances

Patchwork Luxe

Patchwork Luxe

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

Reading Virginia Woolf

Reading Virginia Woolf

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