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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
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Evil Children in the Popular ImaginationEvil Children in the Popular Imagination

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity.
 
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Tags: childhood, innocence, faith, declining, desire, Children, Imagination, Popular, demonstrates
Tenacious by Julian Stockwin
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Tenacious by Julian Stockwin

Thomas Kydd is in Halifax, enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson's taskforce on an urgent reconnaissance mission. Intelligence suggests the French Revolution is about the set the Mediterranean ablaze, but Bonaparte's fleet is nowhere to be found. Nelson and his Band of Brothers begin a desperate search for him. Kydd's newfound ambition fuels his desire to be at the forefront of the hunt. But with power comes responsibility, with responsibility, accountability. Kydd will face his greatest challenge ever amidst bloodstained seas.

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Tags: Nelson, responsibility, Tenacious, fuels, desire, ambition, forefront
Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
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Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime.
 
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Tags: family, Philosophy, Breaking, because, desire
Assassin's Creed. Black Flag [audiobook EN][mp3@64]
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Assassin's Creed. Black Flag [audiobook EN][mp3@64Assassin's Creed. Black Flag [audiobook EN][mp3@64The Golden Age of Piracy. Daredevil lures New World. Edward Kenway - arrogant youngster, the son of English cloth dealer, whose obsession is gold - can not resist the temptation to spend the rest of my life the high seas. After his family's farm victims of the attack, Edward follows his desire and soon gained a reputation as one of the most dangerous buccaneers of his time.

 
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Tags: Edward, desire, Assassin, Kenway, conspiracy, audiobook, Creed, Black
The Stars' Tennis Balls
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The Stars' Tennis BallsThe Stars' Tennis Balls

Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school results in a prank that goes badly wrong and suddenly he's incarcerated - without chance of release. So begins a year long process of torment and hopelessness, which will destroy his very identity, until almost nothing remains of him but this unquenchable desire for revenge.

Inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, Stephen Fry's psychological thriller is written with the pace, wit and shrewd insight that we have come to expect from one of our finest novelists.

 
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Tags: which, desire, unquenchable, revenge, Inspired, Balls, Stars, Tennis, remains