Casey: 1173 books

In Hitchcock's Appetites, Casey McKittrick offers the first book-length study of the relationship between Hitchcock's body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colorful anecdotes of his private...

The "Young American" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers...

Charity can't trust anyone. Her and her son Zack have relied on nobody but themselves for a while now. Charity doesn't need anyone's help. People can't get close. It's just not safe. When she meets Lincoln McClain, she's screwed because sometimes life has to slap you upside the head. Only the secrets...

There are always three parts to a story. A beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. What do super human abilities get you? Super human problems, that's what. Lettie's journey has been hard, but she's learned a lot. Only will it be enough? Don't forget to start with Lettie's...

There are three sides to every story: 1)My side. 2)Your side. 3)My screenshots. You never loved me.  You loved the idea of me. You loved saying I belonged to you, and trying to enforce it. You loved controlling me. You loved manipulating me. You even loved hurting me. But you never loved me. You...

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been...

From the early days of Thomas Jefferson's "Garden Book" at Monticello to the hustle and bustle of the modern City Market on Water Street, Charlottesville has an illustrious culinary history. The city's cuisine is characterized by a delight in locally raised ingredients. The locavore mentality appears...

I am the poster child for what happens when you don’t heed the warning to get a colonoscopy done at age 50! I had all the usual excuses…I don’t have time; the prep drink is icky; the procedure is embarrassing; I’m afraid it will hurt, and I don’t want anything going up my backside. Trust...

‘She looked as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth but……’'Nelly had to make a living the best way she knew how’‘Respectable ladies still have to eat’Short story, set in 17th Century, Kingdom of England.

This book shows us how humility brings a basic happiness that is able to cope with difficulties and sorrows. Casey translates the ancient wisdom of Saint Benedict into the modern arena of capitalistic competition. He also demonstrates how people must stop regarding others as rivals and be content with...

Hidden in the shadows of an East Texas pine forest, a man and a woman watch worshippers file out of a church. The man lights a match, and flames erupt, climbing the thirsty clapboard walls, as the pastor trapped inside pleads for divine intervention and human help that never comes. Meanwhile Texas...

What happens when you take three men in their thirties and turn them loose together. The wives have gone on a seven day get-a-way vacation and left their husbands to fend for themselves. Can these grown "boys" behave and not get themselves into trouble? Follow them as they go on their outing which leads to an ordeal of survival in the bush.

Not all legends are make-believe… Three years ago, Jessie “the Berserker” Noble was at the top of the MMA fight game, a world-title contender with a brilliant future ahead of her. Then the visions started and her world came crashing down. Hard. Now Jessie’s a shadow of her former self,...

Destiny won’t be denied… All their lives, Dani and Perce Pellin have known they were different. Raised in the backwoods of Colorado by a paranoid mother who taught them to hunt and survive while filling their heads with haunting stories of a family curse involving a mythical Beast, escaping...