Author: Andrea Louise
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440150761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Haunted by her hellish past as the school leper and the distraught daughter of a war-bitten Austrian mother, Andrea leaves home to find the happiness she knew as a young child in the flowering meadows of Iowa. She is confronted with people from drug dealers to escaped convicts to beggars, with the black of night as she huddles up against her car seat in abandoned campgrounds, with countless jobs working with the elder, the mentally ill, animals, and cancer patients. And along the way, she dives head first into the flip side of the physical realm. Did she really take a walk with her guardian angel? Its the world of trance channeling, psychic readings, and past lives as an unconventional woman seeks answers in an unconventional way. Still, the problem remains: she is trapped in a condemning world. She leaves again and again, each time angrier than the time before. Her head now fraught with endless dialogue, lucid memories, and smothered feelings, she begins to writehiding from bullies, leaving her body, talking to spirits, speaking out for animals, riding a motorcycle, traveling to Europe, getting married, singing in an opera, dancing in a ballet, smoking pot. Its a life extraordinaire as Andrea attempts to survive in world intolerant of misfits. Also woven into the story are a meek and mild father, a harassing grandfather, a loony brother who assumes the personality of Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and a psychic minister. Andreas story offers both laymen and mental health enthusiasts an intimate look into Aspergers, borderline personality traits, and serious attention issues. It depicts a very unusual yet understandable life. Who doesnt want to belong? To be loved? These are ordinary feelings magnified to the level of total despair by extraordinary situations. What stirs one, stirs us all.
Adventures of a Misfit
Author: Andrea Louise
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440150761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Haunted by her hellish past as the school leper and the distraught daughter of a war-bitten Austrian mother, Andrea leaves home to find the happiness she knew as a young child in the flowering meadows of Iowa. She is confronted with people from drug dealers to escaped convicts to beggars, with the black of night as she huddles up against her car seat in abandoned campgrounds, with countless jobs working with the elder, the mentally ill, animals, and cancer patients. And along the way, she dives head first into the flip side of the physical realm. Did she really take a walk with her guardian angel? Its the world of trance channeling, psychic readings, and past lives as an unconventional woman seeks answers in an unconventional way. Still, the problem remains: she is trapped in a condemning world. She leaves again and again, each time angrier than the time before. Her head now fraught with endless dialogue, lucid memories, and smothered feelings, she begins to writehiding from bullies, leaving her body, talking to spirits, speaking out for animals, riding a motorcycle, traveling to Europe, getting married, singing in an opera, dancing in a ballet, smoking pot. Its a life extraordinaire as Andrea attempts to survive in world intolerant of misfits. Also woven into the story are a meek and mild father, a harassing grandfather, a loony brother who assumes the personality of Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and a psychic minister. Andreas story offers both laymen and mental health enthusiasts an intimate look into Aspergers, borderline personality traits, and serious attention issues. It depicts a very unusual yet understandable life. Who doesnt want to belong? To be loved? These are ordinary feelings magnified to the level of total despair by extraordinary situations. What stirs one, stirs us all.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440150761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Haunted by her hellish past as the school leper and the distraught daughter of a war-bitten Austrian mother, Andrea leaves home to find the happiness she knew as a young child in the flowering meadows of Iowa. She is confronted with people from drug dealers to escaped convicts to beggars, with the black of night as she huddles up against her car seat in abandoned campgrounds, with countless jobs working with the elder, the mentally ill, animals, and cancer patients. And along the way, she dives head first into the flip side of the physical realm. Did she really take a walk with her guardian angel? Its the world of trance channeling, psychic readings, and past lives as an unconventional woman seeks answers in an unconventional way. Still, the problem remains: she is trapped in a condemning world. She leaves again and again, each time angrier than the time before. Her head now fraught with endless dialogue, lucid memories, and smothered feelings, she begins to writehiding from bullies, leaving her body, talking to spirits, speaking out for animals, riding a motorcycle, traveling to Europe, getting married, singing in an opera, dancing in a ballet, smoking pot. Its a life extraordinaire as Andrea attempts to survive in world intolerant of misfits. Also woven into the story are a meek and mild father, a harassing grandfather, a loony brother who assumes the personality of Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and a psychic minister. Andreas story offers both laymen and mental health enthusiasts an intimate look into Aspergers, borderline personality traits, and serious attention issues. It depicts a very unusual yet understandable life. Who doesnt want to belong? To be loved? These are ordinary feelings magnified to the level of total despair by extraordinary situations. What stirs one, stirs us all.
The Girl in the Blue Tie-Dye Shirt
Author: Brian O'Dell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732672307
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Liam's reality unravels when a freak bike accident leaves him with, not only stitches and a headache, but something far more unsettling-mysterious visions.Before the accident, Liam had his life all planned! He was going to be a famous bass player and had just been nominated to play with an elite group of musicians at Carnegie Hall. Then he touches his best friend, Connor's, vintage record album. Suddenly, he's seeing through someone else's eyes. He finds himself in a room hazy with smoke, carpeted in frayed red shag, and paneled in dark wood. He's holding the album cover, but Connor has vanished and a girl wearing a blue tie-dye t-shirt is sitting in front of him on the floor. She's sobbing, uncontrollably. Connor's album has opened a conduit to the girl in the tie-dye shirt and, now, she won't leave him alone. Each time Liam sees her, she's more upset and insistent; looming large in his vision, sobbing, and reaching out to him. She's preventing him from doing the things he loves and he can't get rid of her.Thinking he may be losing his mind, Liam confides in his sister and close group of misfit friends. With the help of a local shop owner, an expert in all things woo-woo, they soon discover that Liam has developed a psychic power - psychometry, the ability to pick up impressions of people or events by touching an object. The last thing Liam wants is a special power and he's desperate to get his life back. The group decides that the only solution is to figure out who the girl is and what she wants from him. They follow the one clue they have: the name Greg Ortman, neatly printed on the album cover. When they ultimately find the man they're seeking, the Misfits must risk their lives to save another and release Liam from the hold of the Girl in the Blue Tie-Dye Shirt.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732672307
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Liam's reality unravels when a freak bike accident leaves him with, not only stitches and a headache, but something far more unsettling-mysterious visions.Before the accident, Liam had his life all planned! He was going to be a famous bass player and had just been nominated to play with an elite group of musicians at Carnegie Hall. Then he touches his best friend, Connor's, vintage record album. Suddenly, he's seeing through someone else's eyes. He finds himself in a room hazy with smoke, carpeted in frayed red shag, and paneled in dark wood. He's holding the album cover, but Connor has vanished and a girl wearing a blue tie-dye t-shirt is sitting in front of him on the floor. She's sobbing, uncontrollably. Connor's album has opened a conduit to the girl in the tie-dye shirt and, now, she won't leave him alone. Each time Liam sees her, she's more upset and insistent; looming large in his vision, sobbing, and reaching out to him. She's preventing him from doing the things he loves and he can't get rid of her.Thinking he may be losing his mind, Liam confides in his sister and close group of misfit friends. With the help of a local shop owner, an expert in all things woo-woo, they soon discover that Liam has developed a psychic power - psychometry, the ability to pick up impressions of people or events by touching an object. The last thing Liam wants is a special power and he's desperate to get his life back. The group decides that the only solution is to figure out who the girl is and what she wants from him. They follow the one clue they have: the name Greg Ortman, neatly printed on the album cover. When they ultimately find the man they're seeking, the Misfits must risk their lives to save another and release Liam from the hold of the Girl in the Blue Tie-Dye Shirt.
Misfit City Vol. 1
Author: Kirsten Smith
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1613987048
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Smothered by her backwater hometown and frustrated by its 1980s cult-movie fame (The Gloomies...have you seen it? It's a real classic, y'know.), Wilder is pretty sure she's seen everything Cannon Cove has to offer. She's desperate to get away from home as soon as she can, and move on to bigger, better, and less annoying things...even if that might mean leaving her best friends behind. But when Wilder discovers a centuries-old pirate map, she may find out that REAL adventure was in their tiny town all along...and they need each other to get to the bottom of it! It's a rip-roaring adventure written by award-winning screenwriter Kiwi Smith (10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde) and Kurt Lustgarten, and illustrated by Naomi Franquiz.
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1613987048
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Smothered by her backwater hometown and frustrated by its 1980s cult-movie fame (The Gloomies...have you seen it? It's a real classic, y'know.), Wilder is pretty sure she's seen everything Cannon Cove has to offer. She's desperate to get away from home as soon as she can, and move on to bigger, better, and less annoying things...even if that might mean leaving her best friends behind. But when Wilder discovers a centuries-old pirate map, she may find out that REAL adventure was in their tiny town all along...and they need each other to get to the bottom of it! It's a rip-roaring adventure written by award-winning screenwriter Kiwi Smith (10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde) and Kurt Lustgarten, and illustrated by Naomi Franquiz.
Special Characters
Author: Laurie Segall
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006301646X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"CNN's former senior tech correspondent shares her front-row seat on the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and other new-media empires—and the geeks turned entrepreneurs who founded them."—People An unflinching, era-defining story of self-discovery and breaking barriers by award-winning investigative reporter Laurie Segall. In 2008, 23-year-old Laurie Segall was a newly minted assistant at CNN and was living in an East Village walk-up apartment. As Wall Street was crashing down, Segall began discovering a group of scrappy misfits who were rising from the ashes of the recession to change the world: the tech entrepreneurs. A misfit herself, Segall gained entrance to New York’s burgeoning tech scene, with its limitless cash flow and parties populated by geeks-turned-billionaires. Back at the news desk, she rose through the ranks at CNN, while these entrepreneurs went from minnows to sharks, building companies that would become our democracy and our social fabric: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, Tinder. Over the course of a decade, Laurie Segall became one of the first reporters to give airtime to many of these founders—from Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) to Jack Dorsey (Twitter) to Kevin Systrom (Instagram) to Travis Kalanick (Uber)—while tracking their evolution and society’s cultural shift in the CNN startup beat she created. By the end of her tenure at CNN, she had become its on-air senior technology correspondent and had witnessed the rise of second-wave tech, from the boom to the “complicated years” to the backlash, as her misfits emerged as some of the world’s most influential leaders. A coming-of-age narrative chronicling an era transformed, Special Characters is, at its core, a young woman’s origin story—in love, in career, and in life—and an account of the humans behind the companies that have shaped our modern society. Filled with emotional heft and razor-sharp observations, Segall’s empowering memoir is a richly rendered backstage pass to the tech bubble that reimagined the ethos of our social, political, and cultural experience. “Fans of Brotopia or anyone who wants a backstage pass to Zuckerberg and some of the biggest co.’s of our time, you’ll devour this.” —The Skimm
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006301646X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"CNN's former senior tech correspondent shares her front-row seat on the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and other new-media empires—and the geeks turned entrepreneurs who founded them."—People An unflinching, era-defining story of self-discovery and breaking barriers by award-winning investigative reporter Laurie Segall. In 2008, 23-year-old Laurie Segall was a newly minted assistant at CNN and was living in an East Village walk-up apartment. As Wall Street was crashing down, Segall began discovering a group of scrappy misfits who were rising from the ashes of the recession to change the world: the tech entrepreneurs. A misfit herself, Segall gained entrance to New York’s burgeoning tech scene, with its limitless cash flow and parties populated by geeks-turned-billionaires. Back at the news desk, she rose through the ranks at CNN, while these entrepreneurs went from minnows to sharks, building companies that would become our democracy and our social fabric: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, Tinder. Over the course of a decade, Laurie Segall became one of the first reporters to give airtime to many of these founders—from Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) to Jack Dorsey (Twitter) to Kevin Systrom (Instagram) to Travis Kalanick (Uber)—while tracking their evolution and society’s cultural shift in the CNN startup beat she created. By the end of her tenure at CNN, she had become its on-air senior technology correspondent and had witnessed the rise of second-wave tech, from the boom to the “complicated years” to the backlash, as her misfits emerged as some of the world’s most influential leaders. A coming-of-age narrative chronicling an era transformed, Special Characters is, at its core, a young woman’s origin story—in love, in career, and in life—and an account of the humans behind the companies that have shaped our modern society. Filled with emotional heft and razor-sharp observations, Segall’s empowering memoir is a richly rendered backstage pass to the tech bubble that reimagined the ethos of our social, political, and cultural experience. “Fans of Brotopia or anyone who wants a backstage pass to Zuckerberg and some of the biggest co.’s of our time, you’ll devour this.” —The Skimm
Rockit Crew
Author: Shane Robitaille
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532094663
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
In the summer of 1984 four best friends become hip-hop outcasts and learn about the power of friendship, life, death, and how hard it is to be unique in a town that doesn’t always welcome those who are brave enough to be different.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532094663
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
In the summer of 1984 four best friends become hip-hop outcasts and learn about the power of friendship, life, death, and how hard it is to be unique in a town that doesn’t always welcome those who are brave enough to be different.
Misfit Tales
Author: Jason Olsan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998578620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998578620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Island of Misfit Toys
Author: Brendan Deneen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 194951420X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
When Charlie-in-the-Box gets swept out to sea two days before Christmas, King Moonracer puts together a band of misfit toys to rescue him.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 194951420X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
When Charlie-in-the-Box gets swept out to sea two days before Christmas, King Moonracer puts together a band of misfit toys to rescue him.
The Daring Escape of the Misfit Menagerie
Author: Jacqueline Resnick
Publisher: Razorbill
ISBN: 1595145893
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When Smalls and his friends are forced to join a traveling circus, they endure miserable conditions until Bertie Magnificence and Smalls devise an escape plan.
Publisher: Razorbill
ISBN: 1595145893
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When Smalls and his friends are forced to join a traveling circus, they endure miserable conditions until Bertie Magnificence and Smalls devise an escape plan.
Misfit
Author: Jonathan Yardley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780742511590
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jonathan Yardley portrays in full one of the most tormented, distinctive, and talented American writers of the 20th century.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780742511590
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jonathan Yardley portrays in full one of the most tormented, distinctive, and talented American writers of the 20th century.
Misfit in Love
Author: S. K. Ali
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534442774
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother’s wedding will be the perfect start to her own summer of love, but attractive new arrivals have her more confused than ever. Janna Yusuf is so excited for the weekend: her brother Muhammad’s getting married, and she’s reuniting with her mom, whom she’s missed the whole summer. And Nuah’s arriving for the weekend too. Sweet, constant Nuah. The last time she saw him, Janna wasn’t ready to reciprocate his feelings for her. But things are different now. She’s finished high school, ready for college…and ready for Nuah. It’s time for Janna’s (carefully planned) summer of love to begin—starting right at the wedding. But it wouldn’t be a wedding if everything went according to plan. Muhammad’s party choices aren’t in line with his fiancée’s taste at all, Janna’s dad is acting strange, and her mom is spending more time with an old friend (and maybe love interest?) than Janna. And Nuah’s treating her differently. Just when things couldn’t get more complicated, two newcomers—the dreamy Haytham and brooding Layth—have Janna more confused than ever about what her misfit heart really wants. Janna’s summer of love is turning out to be super crowded and painfully unpredictable.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534442774
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother’s wedding will be the perfect start to her own summer of love, but attractive new arrivals have her more confused than ever. Janna Yusuf is so excited for the weekend: her brother Muhammad’s getting married, and she’s reuniting with her mom, whom she’s missed the whole summer. And Nuah’s arriving for the weekend too. Sweet, constant Nuah. The last time she saw him, Janna wasn’t ready to reciprocate his feelings for her. But things are different now. She’s finished high school, ready for college…and ready for Nuah. It’s time for Janna’s (carefully planned) summer of love to begin—starting right at the wedding. But it wouldn’t be a wedding if everything went according to plan. Muhammad’s party choices aren’t in line with his fiancée’s taste at all, Janna’s dad is acting strange, and her mom is spending more time with an old friend (and maybe love interest?) than Janna. And Nuah’s treating her differently. Just when things couldn’t get more complicated, two newcomers—the dreamy Haytham and brooding Layth—have Janna more confused than ever about what her misfit heart really wants. Janna’s summer of love is turning out to be super crowded and painfully unpredictable.