Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula Series, Book 1)

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Latina Ivy League grad Milagro de Los Santos can't find her place in the world or a man to go with it. Then one night, at a book party for her pretentious ex-boyfriend, she meets an oddly attractive man. After she is bitten while kissing him, she falls ill and is squirreled away to his family's estate to recover. Vampires don't exist in this day and age -- or do they? As Milagro falls for a fabulously inappropriate man, she finds herself caught between a family who has accepted her as one of their own and a shady organization that refuses to let the undead live and love in peace.

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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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revised and updated edition

A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs

Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1--brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners.

Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.

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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror) (No.15)

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For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year's Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

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The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures (Contemporary Japanese Society)

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This is a lively discussion of Japanese popular culture from an anthropological perpective. An international team of authors considers a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics--many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars--the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalization and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity.

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Night Life (Vamps, Book 2)

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Fashion victim just got a whole new meaning.

When vampire heiress Lilith Todd decides she wants a modeling career, she won't let her father stop her—even if he does threaten to cut off her credit cards.

Lilith's rival, Cally Monture, is in a different kind of hot water. Her boyfriend, Peter, is a vampire hunter—a sexy, sensitive soul mate who just happens to be sworn to destroy her entire race.

With the Rauhnacht Grand Ball fast approaching, both girls need the same things: a handsome escort and a dress to die for. But in a sea of shifting and dangerous loyalties, there's no telling who will betray them next.

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Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide

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A new updated edition of the ultimate midnight movie guide...

With smash-hit films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, and The Phantom Menace breaking Hollywood records, it's obvious that sci-fi, fantasy and horror films are back--and bigger than ever before.

Updated to include the most recent movie mega-hits, Creature Features has it all--the shockers, schlockers, blockbusters, bombs, cult faves, rare gems, classics, groundbreakers, gorefests, space operas, sorcery, Euro-splatter, and everything in between. From features, made-for-televsion, and straight-to-video, here are all the films you love and hate; the films you forgot about and never knew existed. Horror and science fiction fans will find films that matter and films that splatter in one critical and humorous guide.

Featuring
Thousands of capsulized reviews
A five-star rating system
Hundreds of obscure and rare titles
Video distribution informaton (including mail order)
Cross-references to secondary titles, sequels and tricky retitlings
And more.

"I keep two reference works by my bed at all times. One is Eric Weber's How to Pick Up Girls. The other is John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide. Never has so much worthless information been gathered together in one place. I'm in awe of the man." --Joe Bob Briggs

"A Must." --Leonard Maltin

"The Leonard Maltin of horror." --Fangoria

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20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them

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This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact.

Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short story and novel.

Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples - that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction. Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then as an author of fiction and nonfiction books and finally as a writer and producer of documentaries for public television. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University and the author of The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

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Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs

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This book contains the broadest selection of Russian and other Slavic fairy tales and legends currently in print, with sixty-eight stories, ten newly translated. Even those who have read all of the Afanasiev collection of Russian Fairy Tales will find something new—four stories never before published in English. It includes a detailed glossary, an introduction, and a comprehensive bibliography.

What Critics and Readers Say about the Book:

“I have only praise for their choice of stories, and for their organization.” D. L. Ashliman, noted folklorist, author of Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook and many other volumes.

"Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs reminds us that the stories that inform our ideologies are old, insightful, and significant. It is the kind of book that anyone interested in Eastern European cultural traditions simply must have." Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, anthropologist, historian, editor of Star Trek as Myth, and other scholarly collections.

“The resources in the back show careful and sophisticated scholarship. As I look through the text, I keep thinking, ‘This is a book that was destined to be for these writers, a work of love and enjoyment.’ I look forward to more such collaborations from these authors.” Professor Ed Reber, English and Folklore, Dixie State College.

“I purchased this delightful book for a research paper. I enjoyed the stories so much that I read ‘Vassilissa the Beautiful’ to my daughters. They absolutely loved it, my seven-year old exclaimed, ‘It is like Cinderella, but better!’ We have nearly finished the book and dearly hope there will be a sequel. I am thrilled my daughters have discovered the joy of using their imaginations to experience grand adventures in new worlds. I am grateful for the book that was instrumental in that discovery. I just wish they would let me take it out of their room.” Jeremy Lister.

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The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Bigger and better! Our first edition rocked the anime world with its in-depth entries on anime famous and obscure and its superb index/film finder. Now this fantastic book is 40 percent larger—with all-new entries on hundreds of anime released after 2001, updates on older entries, and over fifty thousand words on anime creators (like Tezuka and Otomo) and genres (“Early Anime,” “Science Fiction and Robots,” etc.). An absolute must-have for every anime shelf!

"If I only had space on my overcrowded shelf for one book on anime, this would be it. If I had no space on my shelf I'd select two books at random and drop them into the bin, just to make room-- it's that indispensable."-- Paul Jacques, Anime on DVD

"While you may not agree with their opinons on a given anime, they are informative and entertaining, especially when skewering a really bad anime." -- Frames Per Second

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Through Darkness, Born

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I never knew vampires existed. I thought they were only in the minds of young gothic, emo girls like myself, but they are far too real, and I am one of them. Falling from a strong bloodline from my biological father, Ronin, I now must choose which brood to belong to or bloodlust will consume me and I will be hunted and killed by my own kind. Thanks Dad!! As if my life isn't screwed up enough!!

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