Driven by the experience of pleasure, Dorian Gray offers his soul for the chance to be forever young and beautiful. What he loses in the exchange is more than any pleasure on earth can replace.Elegantly perverse, Oscar Wilde's powerful Gothic tale was originally censored in England. Book reviewers called it mawkish and unclean. Wilde's response to his critics are found in the book's Preface: "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This ...

Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of “trash film” purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show.Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!...

Discover P48X: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Mind & Spirit—a powerful interactive journey inspired by Philippians 4:8. Rooted in the timeless biblical command to dwell on whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy, this audiobook guides listeners through life-changing virtues that anchor the soul and reflect God's character. Filled with rare revelations not heard anywhere else, unique perspectives from the author help shape the story,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Meet Stella — the cutest corgi in all of Hawaiʻi — in a warm, funny, fully-voiced island adventure the whole family will love.Stella is a real dog with a real story: hand-picked in New Zealand, given away, and finally rescued into a family that adores her. When the Schaefers set sail off the coast of Oʻahu, one little corgi can't resist the glowing reef below — and dives straight into the adventure of a lifetime.Guided b...

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls!

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the U.S. NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.

It is January 16th 1950, the time 6:28pm. A freight train just outside of a west Texas town gains speed and rolls through the gathering dust. Inside a gondola car a hobo crouches in the corner as the brakeman comes toward him. As the brakeman tries to throw him off a scuffle ensues and the hobo jumps off. At 2:55am on the morning following the freight train incident a rancher named Banker noticed a small coupe parked in the shoulder of the road with Okalahoma licence plates. Banker turned ...

It is 9.45 pm on a Saturday night in September 1937. The business district of central city Texas is dark except for the office of Harry Cashman’s used car lot. Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation as a man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks at the door. He is the blood father that was presumed dead of the daughter that Cashman and his wife have adopted and now he is threatening to take the child unless Cashman pays him more mon...

The two colleagues were delivering a cargo of car radios valued at $39,000 when their truck is sent on a detour to a dead end. The truck and its cargo is hijacked and Rover and Simms are both needlessly killed.

It is shortly after 9 am on the Tuesday after Labour Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank.

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy...

I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in Father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substance of the human spirit, had reached out and spoken to him and he had replied to it and had unlocked a part of himself to us. He was far off and unapproachable at times even when he was right there wit...