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New Adult Titles February 2021 We can't fit them all - but here are a few of the titles arriving in February that we're excited to share! The Absolute Book Blink of an Eye The Burning Girls Calder Brand City of a Thousand by Elizabeth Knox by Iris Johansen by C.J. Tudor by Janet Dailey Gates Fantasy Mystery/Suspense Psychological/Thriller Historical Romance by Rebecca Sacks Literary/Cultural A Court of Silver Faithless in Death A Fatal Lie Flowers of Darkness The Four Winds Flames by J.D. Robb by Charles Todd by Tatiana De Rosnay by Kristin Hannah by Sarah J. Maas Thrillers/Suspense Historical Mystery Literary Thriller Historical Fiction Fantasy Girl A If I Disappear The Kitchen Front Make Up Break Up The Nature of by Abigail Dean by Eliza Jane by Jennifer Ryan by Lily Menon Fragile Things Thriller/Suspense Brazier Historical Fiction Romance by Susan Meissner Crime/Suspense Historical Fiction No One Is Talking The Power Couple The Russian Cage The Sanatorium A Simple Murder About This by Alex Berenson by Charlaine Harris by Sarah Pearse by Linda Castillo by Patricia Lockwood Suspense/Thriller Historical Thriller Psychological Amish Mystery Literary/Satire New Adult Titles February 2021 Serpentine Sorrow and Bliss Smoke The Survivors Spoils of the Dead by Jonathan by Meg Mason by Joe Ide by Jane Harper by Dana Stabenow Kellerman Contemporary Mystery/Thriller Mystery Mystery Mystery/Thriller The Treadstone Those Who Are Truly Like The Vineyard at The Witch's Heart Exile Saved Lightning Painted Moon by Genevieve by Joshua Hood by Alexis Landau by David Duchovny by Susan Mallery Gornichec Political Thriller Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Historical Fantasy ...as well as a few of the memoir & non-fiction titles arriving soon! American Serial The Case for Keto Do Better Four Hundred Souls How to Avoid a Killers by Gary Taubes by Rachel Ricketts by Ibram X. Kendi & Climate Disaster by Peter Vronsky Diet/Weight Loss Spiritual Self- Keisha N. Blain by Bill Gates Crime Help/Anti-Racism History Climate Change Very Good Things Queens of the Two Truths The Ratline Walk in My Combat by Martha Stewart Crusades and a Lie by Philippe Sands Books Household/How-To by Alison Weir by Ellen McGarrahan History by James Patterson History Crime Biography/Collection.

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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Dadun, University of Navarra Pablo Castrillo Towards a narrative definition of [email protected] PhD Candidate and Lecturer. the American political thriller film University of Navarra. Spain. Pablo Echart Abstract [email protected] Senior Lecturer in The Hollywood political thriller is a film genre of unique Screenwriting. University of relevance in the United States, often acting as a reflection of the Navarra. Spain. fears and anxieties of its historical times. At the same time, however, the definition of its identity and boundaries still leaves Submitted room for further specification, perhaps due to the frequent June 4, 2015 consideration of the political thriller as part of the broader Approved September 30, 2015 categories of either thriller narratives or political films. By revising the available literature and filmography and analyzing the narrative features of the classical political thriller, this © 2015 Communication & Society article proposes a deeper definition of the genre that takes into ISSN 0214-0039 account the nature of the broader ‘thriller’ category of films E ISSN 2386-7876 springing from a specific mode of crime fiction that focuses on a doi: 10.15581/003.28.4. 109-123 www.communication-society.com victim or threatened individual as its protagonist, depicts and conveys intense emotional states, portrays an unbalanced and highly existentialist worldview, and travels into the 2015 – Vol. 28(4), pp. 109-123 extraordinary while at the same time holding on to very concrete expectations of verisimilitude. The political thriller How to cite this article: specifies this broader form of narration and links it to dramatic Castrillo, P.
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