The Routledge Companion to Drag offers a comprehensive academic exploration of drag as a global, historical, and cultural phenomenon.This volume examines drag beyond its popularised media image, tracing its diverse practices across time and geography. Chapters address key themes such as the history, herstory, and theirstory of drag, its representation on television, activism, and performance traditions from the Victorian and Elizabethan stage to contemporary contexts. With...

A chance meeting at a cathedral's demolition site between a suffering young woman and a stranger morphs from unsettling to terrifying when you discover the stranger's true identity. He is simultaneously more and less than he appears: An injured man lost in the wilderness is haunted by a demon that he might or might not recognize from his past: Is John Lennon still alive? Deb Stiles thinks so, and when she convinces a young reporter to investigate, nothing in their lives will ever be the sa...

The “so clever and fresh” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) author of The Wasp Trap returns with a novel best described as Succession set in the Scottish Highlands where a plot to murder the patriarch’s younger fiancée entangles an innocent outsider in a nest of deadly secrets.A week in paradise—with the family from hell.When Patrick is invited by his girlfriend to join her and her famil...

Danny Wolf, a gifted rock musician with alcohol problems is witnessing brutal murder in his dreams. Newly released from prison for a crime he did not commit, Wolf is having trouble adjusting to civilian life. He believes the dreams are a symptom of his adjustment until he discovers that they are real and that the victims are his own groupies. He soon begins to doubt his sanity. Could he be a homicidal madman?Wolf has no memory of his early childhood but discovers that he spent his ...

In 1925, three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later, there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphinsAfter losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal. When Rachel discovers that Great Woods Timber is planning to clear-cut this beautiful wilderness, she enlists the help of Lilly Bowman and her mysterious father, chief and sh...

Dancing with Grace: 3 Classic Books on Ballet Artistry gathers three distinct reflections on ballet's demanding synthesis of discipline, musicality, theatrical illusion, and embodied expression. Moving between critical appreciation, practical insight, and the broader cultural life of performance, the volume illuminates ballet not merely as a repertory of steps but as an art of interpretation. Its varied prose modes—descriptive, evaluative, and anecdotal—make room for both the intimacy of t...

This cookbook is absolutely not for people who rise early to visit the French market off Boulevard St. Germain, pick out the plumpest chicken, take it home, kill it and strip off all the feathers. It's for workaday people who come home after a long day at the office or are staring down a holiday weekend with guests coming and having nary an idea what to bring to the table which can impress without stress. My simple premise is that if you have a well provisioned pantry, an appetite for adve...

"The Art of Ballet" by Mark Edward Perugini is a captivating exploration of the world of ballet, delving into its rich history, techniques, and the artistry that defines this elegant dance form. Perugini, with his profound understanding of ballet, takes readers on a journey through the evolution of ballet, highlighting its cultural significance and the dedication of the dancers who bring it to life. The book is not just a guide but a celebration of the beauty and discipline that ballet emb...

God is an enumeration of His attributes. God is spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. The spirit of God silently moves through space and time, and the very first thing God speaks into existence is Light. Fast forward along the timeline, and we read in John 1:1, almost in the same respect as Genesis, 'In the beginning was the Word,' and it continues until John says something very fascinating: Jesus is the Light of me...

There may be some who could not agree that Ballet is an “art,” or even that it has, or ever had, any special charm or historic interest. The charm—as in the case of any other art—will probably always remain rather a matter of individual opinion; the historic interest is merely a matter of fact. No man can hope for agreement with his fellows in all things. The world were flat if it could be so. He may hector, and not convince; he may cajole and not convert; he may tell the simple truth in s...

- if Thinking was a genreI write to push the reader off each word that is mine.

The Progress Trilogy, no matter the number of books, is an ongoing saga. A saga of a statement on the state of things and it feels like it will never end because, you know, the state, things, that keep being stated.