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Each cover, many reproduced from the original paintings, show the tongue in check humor employed in the creation these pop-culturally iconic covers. This book chronicles these covers and presents the first pictorial history of classic "nurse" paperback covers and features an in-depth essay about the genre and profiles many of the artists involved in creating the artwork for these tomes.Įach of these covers showcase a different aspect of the genre and were created by some of the finest illustrators of the era. Each of these covers are little gems that present images which reeled readers in. The 1960s and 1970s witnessed upheavals in American culture, an explosion of new ideas in cinema a renaissance in American abstract painting, and, yes, lots of semi-salacious, suggestive, and down right kitschy "Nurse Paperbacks" which boasted covers which were eye-catching and enticing. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. But Lore's decision to rejoin the hunt, binding her fate to Athena's, will come at a deadly cost - and it may not be enough to stop the rise of a new god with the power to bring humanity to its knees. The goddess offers an alliance against their mutual enemy and a way to leave the Agon behind forever. Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek her out: Castor, a childhood friend Lore believed to be dead, and Athena, one of the last of the original gods, now gravely wounded. For years she's pushed away any thought of revenge against the man - now a god - responsible for their deaths. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world, turning her back on the hunt’s promises of eternal glory after her family was murdered by a rival line. 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Obviously this book is not a romance, but enough is sad and uncertain at the end, my readerly brain struggled with the ending, though the major points of the story are resolved. Then I woke up around 3:30am the night after I finished it, my brain spinning and unhappy, similar to the way I woke up after seeing Wonder Woman, fixating on the scene after the mustard gas. I followed this book where it led me and was extremely content. Everything that I found so enthralling about the first book in this series, A Study in Scarlet Women, I found here: layers of meaning, thoughtful scenes and pieces of dialogue, multi-faceted examinations of simple but painful concepts, a wickedly sharp through-line of feminism and subversion, and the sense that each scene and word was placed deliberately, with additional meaning. 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He is also the author of the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the novel Legacy. He used to be the host of CBC Radio's Up North. Rice is an Anishinaabe author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a novel by Waubgeshig Rice. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?)īefore she can say iced mocha latte, Sunny's got a bar fight gone bad, a teenage daughter hunting a serial killer and, oh yes, the still unresolved mystery of her own abduction years prior. Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Sadly, full-time Sheriff-and even fuller-time coffee guzzler-Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo.Īll Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. 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