A swoon-worthy, grunge meets pop, Rockstar Romance! Jax Mesmerized by her beauty, I watched as she swayed to the music. Incomparable and exotic, her call to every cell in my body was louder than the 120 decibels of our last concert. Winning her should have been easy. But Aria Winters was unphased by stardom and looked at me with disdain. She was the only girl I’d ever met who didn’t like rock stars. Challenge accepted. Aria With his chiseled jawline, piercing black eyes and international fame, Jax Andersson had a voice that made women everywhere swoon. Except for me. I couldn’t have cared less about the alternative rock world. It wasn’t my jam—and neither were junkie rock stars with massive egos. I was only there to do my job and move on with my life. But when Jax offered me the one thing I was desperate for, I couldn’t refuse. I should have stood my ground. He should have kept his distance. Because now, I was going to have to beat him at his own game. "Fans of AL Jackson and Kristen Ashley will devour this! I love a good rockstar romance and Cassidy London didn't disappoint. She brought me back in time to those moments when I'd experienced ALL THE FEELS!" — Not Your Moms Romance Blog

Considered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar's Dirty Poem was written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands. Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao Luís do Maranhao during World War II and deals openly with the “dirty” shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.

Northwood College was home to a decades old, dark and twisted secret. A secret that could kill. LILAH They stole my innocence and my dignity, yet still I stayed. They had me by the throat, yet still I stayed. No matter how painful it was, they’d convinced me it was my choice and so I stayed. Until him. Until he gave me a reason to breathe again, to hope, to live and maybe…love. But he wanted it all. Not just the scraps that could go unnoticed. He wanted my body, my heart and ultimately my soul. Even if it would kill us both. DECLAN She’d been kept captive for too long. Her scars told a story, beautiful and tragic like a priceless canvas, ripped from its frame. Resigned to her fate, she took refuge in my arms but only for a moment. One moment was all it took. I couldn’t let her go. I’d turn my back on everything just to have her, hold her, keep her as my own. I’d risk it all... she wasn’t the only one who needed saving. *Shades of Lust is a dark romantic suspense, standalone novel with no cliffhanger. There are dark elements that may be sensitive for some readers. These include sexual abuse, kidnapping, forced confinement and more. Please keep this in mind if you have triggers.

A good girl who plays by the rules meets a bad boy who doesn’t believe in them. Seeing past their differences, might be more hassle than it’s worth. Toronto good girl Lexi Reynolds, has always followed the rules. But in the end... it was all for nothing. Ulterior motives are a bitch. A new city and a fresh start are just what Lexi needs. Independent and determined to find her own path, she sets out on an adventure. For the first time, without the help of a man by her side... or in her bed. A nasty betrayal left Frenchman Jean-Marc Dubois, permanently on the run from responsibility and commitment. For him, women are nothing more than a means to an end. ​​​​​JM's art is his release and his Montréal tattoo shop- his pride and joy. That is... until drop dead gorgeous Lexi Reynolds, unexpectedly walks into his life. If opposites attract, then Lexi and JM collide. But only if family secrets and heartbreaking misunderstandings, don’t permanently drive them apart. Different lives, different cities, different languages. Having nothing to lose is sometimes a good thing... until it isn't. Inked Love is an angsty enemies-to-lovers standalone romance that will leave you breathless for more. If you like spicy passion, sizzling chemistry and a bad boy with a heart of gold, then you'll love Cassidy London's enemies-to-lovers romance! Read Inked Love to escape into a world of off-the-charts passion today!

Following his groundbreaking explorations of the blues and American popular music in Escaping the Delta and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, Elijah Wald turns his attention to the tradition of African American street rhyming and verbal combat that ruled urban neighborhoods long before rap: the viciously funny, outrageously inventive insult game called "the dozens."At its simplest, the dozens is a comic concatenation of "yo' mama" jokes. At its most complex, it is a form of social interaction that reaches back to African ceremonial rituals. Whether considered vernacular poetry, verbal dueling, a test of street cool, or just a mess of dirty insults, the dozens has been a basic building block of African-American culture. A game which could inspire raucous laughter or escalate to violence, it provided a wellspring of rhymes, attitude, and raw humor that has influenced pop musicians from Jelly Roll Morton to Ice Cube. Wald explores the depth of the dozens' roots, looking at mother-insulting and verbal combat from Greenland to the sources of the Niger, and shows its breadth of influence in the seminal writings of Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston; the comedy of Richard Pryor and George Carlin; the dark humor of the blues; the hip slang and competitive jamming of jazz; and most recently in the improvisatory battling of rap. A forbidden language beneath the surface of American popular culture, the dozens links children's clapping rhymes to low-down juke joints and the most modern street verse to the earliest African American folklore.In tracing the form and its variations over more than a century of African American culture and music, The Dozens sheds fascinating new light on schoolyard games and rural work songs, serious literature and nightclub comedy, and pop hits from ragtime to rap.

For more than 200 years, the limerick has been loved for its mordant wit, breathtaking rhymes, swinging rhythm, groaning puns, and ability to paint outrageous mental pictures. This book analyzes the limerick's origin and evolution as the best-known humorous verse form in the English-speaking world. It also examines previous attempts to capture the history of the limerick, including those that used guesswork, presented flawed conclusions and even contradicted each other. Findings are laid out logically and chronologically, so readers can easily follow the thread of every claim.