Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.

SAVAGE STREET FIGHTING - IT'S BRUTALLY EFFECTIVE! Self-defense expert Sammy Franco reveals the science behind his most primal fighting method. Savage Street Fighting: Tactical Savagery as a Last Resort is a brutal self-defense system specifically designed to teach law-abiding citizens how to use “tactical savagery” when faced with the immediate threat of an unlawful deadly criminal attack. Savage Street Fighting is systematically engineered for the most dire circumstances - when there are no other self-defense options left! Learn How To: Win a street fight instantly Defeat any ground fighting system Bypass the time consuming grappling game Develop a true “Savage” mindset Inflict swift and severe pain at will Psych-out the toughest & meanest street thugs Quickly escape from all types of choke holds Destroy any attacker regardless of his size and strength Force your attacker to immediately retreat from the fight Defend against multiple attackers And much, much more A GROUND FIGHTER'S WORST NIGHTMARE! Savage Street Fighting is a ground fighter's worst nightmare! Unlike every submission fighting system taught today, Savage Street Fighting scientifically circumvents the laborious and time consuming grappling game and ends the ground fight instantly. But, when used in combination with any grappling and ground fighting system, Savage Street Fighting will make you unbeatable on the ground! Savage Street Fighting is the combat program mixed martial artists and grapplers don't want you to see! IT'S IDEAL FOR: Civilians Law enforcement Military personnel Security specialists Executive protection Martial artists Self-defense practitioners IT'S QUICK AND EASY TO LEARN! With over 300 photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions, Savage Street Fighting teaches you Franco’s most ferocious and barbaric street fighting techniques. They are simple to learn and easy to apply. As a matter of fact, you don't need any previous self-defense or martial arts training to apply these devastating combat techniques. But, if you do have previous training, Savage Street Fighting seamlessly integrates with any type of martial art style or self-defense system. IT'S PRIMAL AND FIERCE! Savage Street Fighting truly is the 800-pound gorilla of self-defense tactics. Savage Street Fighting is a must-have book for anyone concerned about real world self-defense and who wants the knowledge, skills and mindset required to dispense extreme punishment when faced with a deadly force self-defense situation. Now is the time to learn how to unleash your inner beast!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Hayley Chill descends even deeper into the dangerous political web of Washington, DC, in this thrilling sequel to the “propulsive, page-turning, compelling” (C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author) national bestseller Deep State. When a series of devastating cyber attacks rock the United States, Hayley Chill is tasked by the “deeper state” to track down their source. NSA analysts insist that Moscow is the culprit, but that accusation brings plenty of complications with Hayley directing the president as a double agent against the Russians. With increasing pressure on the president to steer him towards a devastating war, it’s up to Hayley to stop the mysterious computer hacker and prevent World War III—while also uncovering some shocking truths about her own life. Magnificently crafted and superbly unpredictable, Savage Road is an edge-of-your-seat political thriller ideal for our times.

A fascinating prize-winning novel about a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives of event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. And the tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and princesses to new waves of music, art, architecture and political ideas. Meanwhile, a few metres away in the river, another creature follows a different, slower rhythm. And beneath them all, the planet moves to its own immense geological time. With insight, wide-ranging knowledge and humour, this novel explores the same territory as its non-fiction twin, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire. Writing in a city devastated by major earthquakes, Fiona Farrell rebuilds a brilliant, compelling and imaginative structure from bits and pieces salvaged from one hundred years of history. A lot has happened. This is how it might have felt. 'It's a work of incredible research and incredible scope and incredible feeling . . . it's really wonderful. It think we will look back at these two books [Decline and Fall on Savage Street and The Villa at the Edge of Empire] and think of them as being very important in our local literary history as marking time and place and moment and feeling; it's a wonderful piece of art.' - Louise O'Brien, Radio NZ 'It's so vast, it shouldn't work; but it does. Primarily this is because, rather than anchoring her text to dry, historical minutiae, Farrell chooses to ground it to people, particularly family. So, as well as the impressive detail made especially graceful thanks to the author's poetic skill, the narrative follows one house settled upon the titular street and its inhabitants, particularly one family, extended and diverse. As such, chapter by chapter are, like a relay team, an exercise in passing the chronological story along. . . . Wide-ranging yet intimate, poetic yet simple, of the singular home yet speaking to the complexities of city and nation, Decline and Fall on Savage Street is a remarkable read.' - Siobhan Harvey, Waikato Times

Emersyn Sharpe doesn't belong in our worldIn fact, the very last place she should be is with us. But someone is hurting her. We've all seen it. We tried to ignore the warning signs. We tried to trust the people around her. We tried to believe in her world.Too late.When she nearly died in front of us, we had to act.We took her. She doesn't belong in our world, but I'll be damned if someone lays a finger on her under my watch.I'll kill them first.Now that she's here... I don't know if I can let her leave.I'm Jasper Horan, anyone who tries to take her will have to go through me and my boys. You've been warned.SAVAGE VANDAL is a full length mature college/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. This is a reverse harem novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. This is book one in the series.

I’m not the princess they think I am. I fell out of the sky and into a new world only to be attacked by a monster. The people here think I’m the daughter of the Nimali dragon king. When the king assigns me a healer, I learn the truth of this place. Bloody battles rage between the Nimali and the Fai as their war advances. The healer hates me for who he thinks I am. He’s a Fai captive in this land. But a string pulls me to him whenever he’s near. Every touch. Every look. Every stolen moment. The Nimali have no tolerance for outsiders. If they find out I’m not their princess, they will kill me. She is the daughter of my greatest enemy. I’m a Fai warrior, doing the bidding of the Nimali king to heal the princess. This is the penalty of war. Secretly, I work with the rebellion to free my people. Nimali are everything I hate. The princess is everything I despise. Cold. Aloof. Uncaring. Up close, she’s nothing like I thought. I don’t expect to crave her. I don’t expect the spark between us. Our souls calling to one another. I am a prisoner. She is a princess. Our lies are the only thing keeping us alive. Savage City is a dystopian, enemies-to-lovers, portal, shifter fantasy romance with intriguing worldbuilding and thrilling action.

Celebrated sex advice columnist and founder of the Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly) From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics—political or otherwise. In the height of his activism, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and health care. Among them: • Why straight people should have straight “pride” parades, too • Why Obamacare, as good as it is, is “still kinda evil” • Why what passes for sex-ed in America is more like “sex dread” • Why the Bible is “only as good and decent as the person reading it” Speaking to a broad range of subjects with brutal honesty and irreverent humor, American Savage is a pivotal piece that cements Dan Savage’s place as a provocative and insightful voice in American culture.