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Behind The Bestsellers By:Jenny Bond Published on 2010-05-01 by Random House Australia Behind the Bestsellers is a collection of fifty fascinating stories about the lives, loves and literature that inspired the world's greatest books. Full of literary history, dinner party trivia and lore of all kinds, this is a revealing journey through the minds of writers and the events that influenced the creation of our favourite works, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood via Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Behind these famous titles are compelling and often moving tales of the authors' powerful and rich life experiences, from love to loss, from adversity to opportunity and from failure to success.J. K. Rowling, for instance, had the character of Harry Potter in her mind's eye from a young age, but it was the tragic death of her mother that gave the character a spectacular will to live. And when C...

Hard-Core Romance By:Eva Illouz Published on 2014-05-22 by University of Chicago Press From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness. But why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty? In this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates wit...

Hard-Core Romance By:Eva Illouz Published on 2014-05-22 by University of Chicago Press From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness. But why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty? In this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates wit...

China Pop By:Jianying Zha Published on 2011-07-26 by The New Press China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as |incisive, witty and eloquent all at once--a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence.| From her constant contact (and, in many cases, friendships) with a dynamic group of young novelists, filmmakers, and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful planning of television soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tianamen, the growth of the sex tabloid and pornographic industries, the new generation of entrepreneurs successfully bringing to the mainland techniques of Hong Kong and the West, and the politics behind the censorship and commercial success of the film director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern). Praise for China Pop: |One of the twenty-five best books o...

Best Sellers and Our Times By:Bernette Jaffe,Bertram Zheutlin Published on 2004-10-20 by Author House One day as we sat philosophizing, we discussed the rapid increase in numbers of books published and their influence on the reading public. Since the best sellers reflected those books most read, we thought it would be interesting to try to discover if the books primarily mirrored our times and/or impacted our future. To effect a somewhat unbiased view, we decided to think of ourselves as Martians with no preconceived notions of American society who could relate impartially. This was a difficult task for us and we soon realized that our biases took over. This book which gives some insight into the past fifty years of a sampling of best sellers was researched through the reviews written about the books and compiled in the Book Review Digests. From these we were able to subjectively infer what was happening at the time and what might be implications for the future, giving full reign to ou...

Do You Know the Best Sellers in Gay & Lesbian Books? By:Taner Perman Published on 2014-04-22 by CreateSpace Do You Know The Best Sellers in Gay & Lesbian Books? Do you love reading about Gay & Lesbian subjects? Do you wonder their relationships, problems, friendship? Do you have any friend who is gay or lesbian? Do you want to learn something about theirs world? So if you want to learn anything about the world of gay & lesbian, You can read the Best Sellers in Gay & Lesbian Books. This Book was ranked at 36 by Google Books for keyword Best Sellers. Book ID of Do You Know the Best Sellers in Gay & Lesbian Books?'s Books is ce_noAEACAAJ, Book which was written byTaner Permanhave ETAG "7S6RAB54tLs" Book which was published by CreateSpace since 2014-04-22 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781499225808 and ISBN 10 Code is 1499225806 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false Book which have "36 Pages" is Printe...

Hillbilly Elegy By:J. D. Vance Published on 2018-05-01 by HarperCollins #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF |6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN| AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD |You will not read a more important book about America this year.|—The Economist |A riveting book.|—The Wall Street Journal |Essential reading.|—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in l...

Chasing the Scream By:Johann Hari Published on 2015-01-20 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA The New York Times Bestseller The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting. What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, unable to know what to do, he set out on a three-year, 30,000-mile journey to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended the...