Linda Williams: 50 books

For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the...

For all those times when your house feels like a mini-war zone--when siblings are so restless they pick on one another mercilessly or are so angry they can hardly speak--101 Activities for Siblings Who Squabble is a dynamic, creative handbook, full of games kids can play together plus peace-keeping...

Many television critics, legions of fans, even the president of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay...

July Snow is a dark novel dealing with an old asylum now a geriatric center. Strange things happen in the center as witnessed by Jessica Stewart, a new nurse at the facility. She steps into the past at the old asylum while going about her duties on the floor and has no idea when or how the scenes occur. Demons walk the halls and people and patients from the past keep appearing.

Four women in a small Southern town try to help each other get through life. Divorce, spouse abuse, health issues and loneliness are obstacles to second chances.

In All Grown Up, Laney Devereux has too many men in her life—a surly ex-husband, an egocentric fiancé, and a next door neighbor from her childhood who is back in town and all grown up. She’s trying to make a home for her son, her old friend Maggie, and Maggie's nephew, but the budget is...

Do Not Unto Others is the convoluted story of the devil, his dark dog, the doctor marked by a family secret, and the unsuspecting teacher who walks into the middle of a nightmare of vengeance for a terrible mistake made years ago. In the beginning, the grisly deaths in the small southern town of Sinclair...

The Thin Edge of Time is the story of children born a century ago and children of today who join their efforts to fight the evil spirit that rules Five Oaks, a passage to the wrinkles in Time. The children visit back and forth through time, seeing nothing unusual about their strange friendship. Love...

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection! It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But for now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American...

Die Überwindung von autoritären Formen der Kindererziehung und monogamen, eheähnlichen Zweierbeziehungen war immer wieder integraler Bestandteil utopischer Gesellschaftsentwürfe auf Seiten der politischen Linken. Ebenso waren viele AktivistInnen der 1968er-Bewegung der Überzeugung, soziale Revolution...

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...

After the murder of Emmett Till, thirteen-year-old Rose is struggling with her decision to stay in Mississippi. Torn between the opinions of Shorty, a boy who wants to meet violence with violence, and Hallelujah, her best friend who believes in the power of peaceful protests, Rose is scared of the...

Get up to speed on nanotechnology and the many biological, chemical, physical, environmental, and political aspects of this developing science.

Clean Eating Diet Your One-Stop Clean Eating Cookbook with Clean Eating Recipes for Every Meal This Clean Eating Diet cookbook is packed with information on clean eating, how to eat a clean diet and other information that will help you pursue a clean eating lifestyle. This how-to guide offers plenty...