Books like Ardeur by Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita Blake, former monster hunter, becomes the human partner of vampire Master Jean Claude and shapeshifter Micah while confronting a centuries‑old vampire threatening St. Louis.

A New Mexico hit‑man who eliminates monsters comes into conflict with the supernatural detective Anita Blake in Santa Fe.

In New Orleans, independent Bride McTierney clashes with a wolf‑like were‑hunter, Vane Kattalakis, who must prove the supernatural to her before his enemies doom him.

Anita Blake confronts a rogue master vampire amid an undead turf war, while a mysterious, attractive science teacher enters her fraught world.

Anita Blake is hired to exhume 200‑year‑old graves, only to find herself entangled in a series of murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse, raising the possibility of a dark, supernatural menace in the town.

In a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves coexist as legal citizens, Anita Blake, a professional animator who raises the dead and moonlights as a vampire hunter, investigates a spate of murdered vampires in St. Louis.

Anita Blake, a necromancer and crime‑scene investigator, is hired to reanimate the dead, but learns that bringing back a loved one is more dangerous than she imagined.

Return to Anita Blake, the New York Times bestselling vampire hunter, as she confronts new, more deadly threats in the latest entry of the urban fantasy saga.

A first‑person account of Jeanne Wakatsuki’s childhood in the Manzanar internment camp, detailing her family’s experience and eventual healing.

"In The Art of Memory in Exile, Hana Pichova explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, Pichova argues, stress how personal and cultural memory serves as a creative means of overcoming the artist's and exile's loss of homeland. In their virtuoso displays of literary talent, Nabokov and Kundera showcase the strategies that allow their protagonists to succeed as emigres: a creative fusing of past and present through the prism of the imagination.". "Pichova closely analyzes two novels by each author: the first written in exile (Nabokov's Mary and Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) and a later, pivotal novel in each writer's career (Nabokov's The Gift and Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being). In all four texts, these authors explore how the kaleidoscope of personal and cultural memory confronts a fragmented and untenable present, contrasting the lives of fictional emigres who fail to bridge the gap between past and present with those emigres whose rich artistic vision allows them to transcend the trials of homelessness."--BOOK JACKET.

The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.

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