Sara Martin

When Chloe Gibson accepts an English teaching job in Korea, the last thing she expects is to end up broke and alone, wandering the streets of Seoul with nowhere to go. But just as she's ready to give up and go home, a twist of fate lands her a role in a new K-drama. Rising star Shin Jinseung seeks to catapult his career to the next level with his first lead role. When he lays eyes upon Chloe, it's a blast from the past he won't soon forget. Sparks fly between the pair, especially when they find out their characters will share a kiss. But real-life kissing is forbidden. Shin Jinseung has a set of rules to follow: no dating, no relationships, and no falling in love. Consider it career suicide. As Chloe's attraction grows, will Jinseung be prepared to risk everything to give her the love she craves?

The Practice Kiss

Dating a celebrity isn't for the faint-hearted... Chloe has agreed to one year of dating in secret before taking her relationship with her hot K-drama actor boyfriend public. That's the plan, anyway. What could possibly go wrong? As it turns out-a lot: An acting role which tears Chloe's boyfriend away to another city. His drop-dead gorgeous girl K-pop idol costar. Freaky anonymous messages from a suspected sasaeng fan. A concerning new binge-eating habit. Will Chloe's relationship make it through the year intact? Korean drama fans will adore this celebrity romance novel set in Seoul, South Korea.

The Dating Drama

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Chloe always knew this day would come, but the notice still came as a shock. Flung apart from her love once again, Chloe must learn to navigate Seoul as the girlfriend of a famous K-drama actor, all by herself, and while recovering from trauma. Coping won't be easy, and it's made even more difficult when a dark plot at KAM Entertainment unfolds around her, threatening to destroy everything she holds dear. To get to the truth, Chloe's going to have to leave her comfort zone and venture into murky territory. She promised Jinseung she'd stay out of danger, but can she keep her promise?

The Superstar Scandal

Escape to the wonderful world of Labrador Nell through her conversations with owner Sara. In between special times with the family, Nell faces kidnappings, haunted hotels, shy flamingos and singing corgis as well as meeting handsome German Shepherd Charlie, the love of her life. Nell lives in a cottage near the sea in beautiful Devon, England with Sara and Kev and four other dogs. Elderly Patterdale Mutley, a retired entrepreneur owning chains such as Pizza Mutt and Walbarks. Feisty little Maltese cross Poppy, a talented chef who carries a sword and is famous for her scones. Dave, a gentle giant black Lab who loves surfing, singing and sausages and his twin sister Harriet, a delicate little chocolate lab who is always there to pick up the pieces. But what about The Cat? Is Charlie really a spy? How come Nell is always right? Why is Pomeranian Gladys sleeping in Nell's handbag? Come in and find out. You won't want to leave.

The Discerning World of a Wise and Witty Labrador

Conversations with Nell

Michele Guerra

Stefania Rimini

Libro-inchiesta di Saviano da oltre 2.250.000 copie vendute soltanto in Italia, film di Garrone da 10.175.000 euro d’incassi, serie televisiva di culto trasmessa in oltre cinquanta Paesi. Gomorra è stato ed è il fenomeno. Per comprendere i motivi di un successo planetario e addentrarsi nella complessità narrativa di un’opera transmediale, questo libro analizza il fenomeno sotto diverse prospettive che si spingono ben al di là dei television studies. Una raccolta ragionata di saggi che rintraccia da una parte le caratteristiche stilistiche dell’opera audiovisiva, dall’altra l’impatto che la “costellazione Gomorra” ha avuto sul sistema di comunicazione, sul territorio, sulla rete e anche sulla produzione cinematografica e televisiva in Italia.

Da libro a film, da film a serie

Universo Gomorra

Culture survives today by means of a constant recycling, optimistically trying to overcome its own decadence in the 21st century. Recycling Culture(s) addresses from a variety of perspectives this strategy, analyzing not only a wide range of texts but also of cultural practices. As the volume shows, culture thrives on a permanent state of flux, borrowing materials for its own survival wherever they are found and always favouring hybridity. This refers not only to how texts cross genre and medium boundaries but also to how identities and the very idea of culture grow out of recycling what is at hand both synchronically and diachronically. Divided in two sections, ‘Part I: Recycling the Book and the Screen’ and ‘Part II: Recycling Identity, Consumption and History,’ the twenty essays offered here are the work of an international group of scholars dealing with different linguistic and geographical environments. A primary aim of the volume is breaking away with the compartmentalisation of Cultural Studies into non-communicating linguistic domains to offer an eclectic, engaging mixture of approaches. This is the twelfth monographic volume of the series Culture & Power edited by members of the permanent seminar on Cultural Studies ‘Culture & Power,’ which has organised an international yearly conference since 1995. "Recycling Culture(s)/ is the latest in the series of Culture and Power books to come out of Spain. It features essays not only from many of the most distinguished cultural studies scholars on the Iberian Peninsular but many from beyond its borders. What makes this volume so stimulating, relevant and exiting is that the contributors range across an impressive assortment of contexts of (and for) recycling. The book’s thematic base is impressive taking in, as it does, the relevance of recycling history, identity and a multitude of popular texts (written and audio-visual). All contributions are theoretically informed and the authors consider subjects from comic-book heroes, James Bond and /Clockwork Orange/ to African-Carribbean women, Australian national myth and mobile phones. The contributors and editor should be congratulated on producing a theoretically coherent, challenging and important intervention into contemporary cultural studies. " Dr David Walton, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Univerisity of Murcia, Spain, author Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning Through Practice /(Sage, 2008)

Recycling Culture(s)

Valentina Re

Capace di coniugare la solidità dei tradizionali indici di ascolto all’intensità meno “quantificabile” ma non per questo meno determinante del coinvolgimento del fandom, pluripremiata e apprezzata dalla critica, Game of Thrones rappresenta, tra i recenti successi targati HBO e nel più ampio panorama seriale contemporaneo, un caso paradigmatico. In un’ottica apertamente transdisciplinare, il volume propone un’introduzione al mondo (o ai mondi) della serie, che trova nel tema della complessità spaziale e narrativa il filo rosso lungo il quale si dispongono i saggi raccolti, che affrontano: le forme di rielaborazione finzionale di un ricco e profondo orizzonte storico (Bonaccorsi), l’impatto sull’industria audiovisiva locale e la sovrapposizione tra spazi reali e spazi del racconto nella promozione del territorio nordirlandese (Baschiera), le sofisticate strategie “architetturali” che gestiscono il coinvolgimento del pubblico (Casoli), il rilievo dei costumi nella costruzione e nello sviluppo dei personaggi (Martin), la circolazione e il ruolo degli storyboard sul Web (Stefani), le configurazioni urbanistiche che caratterizzano l’universo della saga (Poli) e il rilievo della mappa inaugurale dei titoli di testa per la comprensione di più ampi processi di world-building, orientamento e appropriazione “dal basso” tipici delle narrazioni seriali contemporanee (Boni e Re).

Una mappa per immaginare mondi

Game of Thrones

Good girl Ivy Beckett has her life mapped out in a neat checklist: Graduate high school, study law at a top university, secure a lucrative career. So far everything's going to plan, so why does her future leave her feeling vaguely nauseous? When an autumn storm sends the seventeen-year-old running for cover inside an old antique store, Ivy is transported to another world. A world that includes an eccentric shop owner and her enigmatic nephew Julian, a gifted artist. If Julian's talent is to see beauty, Ivy was born to capture it in words, and her new friends trigger a wave of creative inspiration that leaves her heart humming like never before. Her parents, however, are not so enamoured. Ivy's dreams are finally starting to crystallise, but she will be forced to make an impossible choice-between the past she's always known, and a future that might only be an illusion.

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