Research Literature

The CliffsNotes study guide on Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

In this suspense-charged, touching novel Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a US genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee, who's promised payment by a Chinese general. The general wants to profit from selling the company’s technologies in the military region of China he commands.

This dazzling short book plunges the listener into the world of acclaimed novelist, memoirist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Award-winning writer Erik Jensen explores the crisp, pungent prose of the novel Snake, as well as the painful history behind it. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into a work of art that depicts rural Australia in a funny, cutting and unforgettable way.

This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.

One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work writers do as they sift through experience and work to cultivate rich interior lives. For authors, this often involves performing triage, a constant assessment of events that helps determine what’s useful for a story and potentially enduring.

A soldier struggles with the emptiness left behind by amnesia until he learns he is more than the world would have him remember. The Earth is desolate, and only one ship of humans remains. An assassin plays god, dealing out justice and mercy as he sees fit. Explore the outer reaches of the imagination through these and other short stories. From brainwashed clones to winged aliens of destruction, the stories in Stellar Cloud will pull in any lover of science fiction and fantasy.

This is the story of publishing as you've never heard it before, told by one of the most provocative and informed voices building its future. It's the tale of prophets and storytellers, of entrepreneurs and shop-owners, of those who fashioned the world of book publishing as we know it.

Katherine built a size machine. After letting her friends abuse it, she is captured by the US military, but it isn't because she's in trouble. A scientist in the secret lab wants to use size manipulation to further her orgasm drug. Now, Katherine is given full reign of the lab, so she calls over a few friends. Tom, Brice, Angel, Haley, and Kristen all join her and Melanie for the biggest smallest orgy ever!

Step into a world of enchanting melodies and boundless imagination! Introducing The Magical Music Box–the captivating children's book that will transport your little ones on an extraordinary musical journey like no other! Join Lucy, a curious and passionate music lover, as she stumbles upon a hidden treasure: a mysterious music box that holds the key to a realm brimming with harmonious wonders. Watch in awe as Lucy embarks on an unforgettable adventure!

Stephanie had grown bored with writing typical love stories. After careful consideration, she decided to try her hand at writing an erotic lesbian romance. She didn't have any experience to build on for the story so she posted an ad on a dating site to hook up with another woman. After her experience, she detailed it in a story. Steve, her boyfriend, loved the idea of her and this other woman and encouraged her to do a little more research for more stories.

When my editor told me I had to write a story about anal sex, I didn't know what to do! I'd never done it, so how the hell was I supposed to be realistic. Fortunately, I had a friend who was willing to help me research. In this case, research meant I'd be bent over and have my first anal sex experience ever!

In the first book, one shiny, red apple and his friends learn their alphabets, numbers, nouns, adjectives, and activities. In this book, the Apple introduces us to more new friends from different parts of the world, while exploring their countries with the wonderful art of rhyming.

These carefully-picked inspirational quotes will give you the fuel you need to transform your life.

In this fascinating audiobook, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden. Alice writes: 'I keep coming back to John Marsden. What makes him so fascinating to me is that as a young adult writer, he comes at it with a whole philosophy of what it means to be a teenager - it is embedded in his two schools, but also his early experiences with mental illness and hospitalisation.'

Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own pleasure, and to exercise and increase her creative talents. Very few of her poems were published during her own lifetime, yet we know that she wrote consistently - perhaps every day - over several decades. Poetry was her way of knowing herself and understanding the world.

This book is designed to give you the tools you need in order to effectively communicate with others through influence and persuasion. Whether it be in a business setting, an interview, in front of an audience or even your friends and family, this how-to guide gives in depth knowledge on how to get others to think like you.

Charlize used to be a man, but then, she met her future wife Gwen, a sexy futa. Gwen transformed Charlize into a woman, and the pair have enjoyed all their fun. Now scientists, the pair are researching Gwen's fertility with sexy experiments. But they need money. The futa billionaire Madam Deumont is willing to fund them, but the pair need to seduce the vivacious futa. With all her sexy wiles, Charlize and Gwen put on a show, but Madam Deumont is a dominatrix, and Charlize is about to learn the joys of being dominated.

How can you find out things you don't know? What is a just-right question? What are sources? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this book about how to find, gather, and present information.

Take a deep look into some of the most mysterious objects in the universe - black holes. Listeners will explore the most up-to-date information available and be encouraged think critically about space discoveries in this STEM-focused title!

Cv/VAR no.100 publishes an interview with the American artist Jim Dine, recorded by cell phone from Wales to the artists Paris studio on May 11th, 2010. In this, he discusses his beginnings as an artist, his work with Claes Oldenburg and the Happenings, the Pinocchio series, 52 Books at Pace Gallery, New York, and the relationship of drawing to his graphic work.