Victoria Pitts

In the Flesh : The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

Boxed Set of 4 Sweet Romances! Bundle Deal Includes Family Matters, The Gingerbread House, Autumn Blessing, & Like a Lily

Save big on this bundle set of four sweet/inspirational romances!FAMILY MATTERS BY GEORGINA SELLWOODAfter spending years in foster care, Bonnie Blakley starts her bid for independence only to find herself attracted to single dad Morgan Masterson. Morgan finds his attraction to Bonnie as a betrayal t...

The Tempering Agent

Dr. Priscilla Hackling finds herself thrown back into the murder investigation of her fiancé, Trey Whittington. While she was a suspect three years ago, she’s now working with the police to find the murderer, Egyptian artifact trafficker, Zarka El-Din.During a sting operation in Siwa, she and Agent ...

Alvarado Gold

As the hot, oppressive Texas heat takes the breath from her lungs, Addie Brown stands at her grandfather's grave. Deep within her, she senses her anchor to family is gone. She looks across the freshly dug chasm at three of her four cousins. Nothing more than smiling faces on Christmas cards and vaca...

Not Bound By Time

Time cannot imprison love nor hold it in place. At Balmoral, a two-hundred-year-old estate in old Northampton, love calls and only the heart can answer.When five-year-old Albert Farraday first sets foot on the grounds of Balmoral, he senses its magic. After he returns from the Korean War and is empl...

Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture

"Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health a...

Like a Lily

She decided long ago to be called Susan, not exactly the name her parents had given her, but the one she’d chosen...When she first opens her dream shop, Susie’s Flowers, on a cold February morning, a new chapter in her life begins. She doesn’t anticipate it will include meeting the most eligible bac...

Cairo

Liz McCran and Donnie Barnes travel to Cairo, Egypt, in search of Addie and Gary Wright, who were asked to deliver a mysterious envelope. Within days of their arrival, the couple has vanished. When Liz locates the Wright's contact, Mr. Moustafa, she receives the first of several riddles. Rayhan Shen...

In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

TThe 1990s saw the dramatic rise of spectacular forms of body modification, which included the tattoo renaissance and the rise in body piercing, the emergence of neo-tribal practices like scarification and flesh hanging, and the invention of new, high-tech forms of body art like subdermal implants. ...