Author: Clint Brown
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466917768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Clint Browns short stories have appeared in Reminisce magazine and two other periodicals published by Northfield Press. This is his first semiautobiographical novel about a man about to retire and looks back at that journey called life. He cant understand the physical changes he has gone through since his teenage years in the 50s and 60s. He wonders what is in store for him next.
Author: Mona Awad
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133831873X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Goosebumps now on Disney+! PUMPKIN POWER!Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker.Yes, this year Drew and Walker have a plan. A plan for revenge. It involves two scary pumpkin heads.But something's gone wrong. Way wrong. Because the pumpkin heads are a little too scary. A little too real. With strange hissing voices. And flames shooting out of their faces...
Author: Mark Meister
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313013144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental issues, and politics and environmental issues, no book has yet focused on the relationship between popular culture and environmental issues. This collection of essays provides a rigorous and multifaceted rhetorical and critical perspective on the ways in which the language and imagery of nature is incorporated strategically into various popular culture texts—ranging from greeting cards to advertisements to supermarket tabloids. As a distinguished group of scholars reveals, our notions about the environment and environmentalism are both reflected in and shaped by our popular culture in fascinating ways never previously examined in an academic context. The consumptive vision of nature presented in these texts represents a wholly American view, one promoting leisure and comfort, and nature as the place to experience them. This good life attitude toward the environment often serves to commodify it, to render it little more than space in which to pursue conventional notions of the American dream. As such, the volume represents a bold and striking vision both of popular culture and of popular notions of an environment that can be either protected or just simply consumed.
Author: Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534449949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times “One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge). In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives—both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in “The Visible Filth” to the search for the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Table,” Ballingrud’s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.
Author: Makala Thomas
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0955990912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Colette hits stardom in this hit sequel, making a decision to leave her home island because of the way she is being treated by the people she thought were friends.Hard though it was to leave her children, she joins her mother abroad along with her best friends, Roxy and Debbie.One lucky day she is heard singing on a train, therefore being signed to one of the biggest record labels. Colette enjoys being rich and famous, but there is a downside to all of this: her family, and the sly Matthew James.Cursed though they both are, Colette and Matthew do not seem able to resist each other when the charm lifts…
Author: Jeanne Tompkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524662275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 987
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Georgina Sophia Bailey is a determined young woman who is working towards making her mark in the world of finance. All is going according to plan both in her personal and professional life, where she can look forward to a glittering future. However, it all turns to ashes. She is caught up in a dreadful scandal, and the man she thought she could spend the rest of her life with turns his back on her and runs away to America. Her future appears to be in tatters, but she picks herself up and, with the help of her landladys disabled son, starts afresh. This is her story, together with all the varied characters that are part of the rich and colourful tapestry of this tale. The story moves from Bedford, England, to Northumberland, the great city of York, then over the water to New York and Washington DC, and finally returns to York, UK.
Author: Andy du Feu
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725251833
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work? Perhaps it would breathe a fresh sense of purpose. Maybe the primary response would be relief that backup had arrived. They would certainly pull a crowd for a few weeks at least. Looking for a superhero might be a good idea. But there is a better one. It’s called the church. Boring? Irrelevant? All dressed up but nowhere to go? Looking Good Naked strips off the ill-fitting outfits and recovers a biblical theology of the church as the body of Christ, drawing on the narratives of youth work and ministry. Written for the student of youth ministry, full-timer, part-timer or extra-timer, it is an engaging, practical, and deep book, seeking to renew our confidence in who we are in light of whose we are, so we can better engage with young people.
Author: J.R. Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501195115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A sinner’s only hope is true love in this passionate new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Syn has kept his side hustle as a mercenary a secret from the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When he takes another hit job, he not only crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy, but also that of a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Jo Early has no idea what her true nature is, and when a mysterious man appears out of the darkness, she is torn between their erotic connection and the sense that something is very wrong. Fate anointed Butch O’Neal as the Dhestroyer, the fulfiller of the prophecy that foresees the end of the Omega. As the war with the Lessening Society comes to a head, Butch gets an unexpected ally in Syn. But can he trust the male—or is the warrior with the bad past a deadly complication? With time running out, Jo gets swept up in the fighting and must join with Syn and the Brotherhood against ultimate evil. In the end, will love true prevail...or was the prophecy wrong all along?
Author: Luis Eduardo Pradal
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457506114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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