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Pretend We're Dead

Author : Annalee Newitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387859
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Pretend We're Dead written by Annalee Newitz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the unfettered lust for profit, fictional monsters act out the problems with an economic system that seems designed to eat people whole. Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Whether considering the serial killer who turns murder into a kind of labor by mass producing dead bodies, or the hack writers and bloodthirsty actresses trapped inside Hollywood’s profit-mad storytelling machine, she reveals that each creature has its own tale to tell about how a freewheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. Newitz tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through b movies, Hollywood blockbusters, pulp fiction, and American literary classics, looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer’s “true life novel” The Executioner’s Song; the short stories of Isaac Asimov and H. P. Lovecraft; the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and Marge Piercy; true-crime books about the serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer; and movies including Modern Times (1936), Donovan’s Brain (1953), Night of the Living Dead (1968), RoboCop (1987), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Newitz shows that as literature and film tell it, the story of American capitalism since the late nineteenth century is a tale of body-mangling, soul-crushing horror.

Pretend I'm Dead

Author : Jen Beagin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810132087
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Pretend I'm Dead written by Jen Beagin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jen Beagin’s funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona—almost 24, cleaning houses to get by, emotionally adrift. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. She decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of seekers and cast-offs. But they all have one or two things to teach her—the pajama-wearing, blissed-out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic. Always just under the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she’s trying to disentangle herself. The story of her journey toward a comfortable place in the world and a measure of self-acceptance is psychologically acute, often surprising, and entirely human.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Author : Jenny Lawson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425261018
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Let's Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Justice Is Dead

Author : Jozef Demcak
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452050287
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Justice Is Dead written by Jozef Demcak and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GULAG OF SLOVAKIA They will kidnap you in police car. Lock you up in government jail. Fabricate false acquisitions against you. Blackmail money for your freedom. Torture you to persuade you to pay. And your government will not help you. That is what happened to Jozef Demcak, Canadian Citizen in Slovak jail. His health was destroyed by physical and mental torture. It took only 9 months to transfer Physical Education teacher from man in top shape to Mentally and Physically ruined person. Slovakia claims : You can not prove it. Canada claims: It never happened. Jozefs story is true and fully documented. It uncovers methods of most corrupted and cruel criminals, which are police and officials in justice. They are very active in all post communist and communist countries of the world. Be careful if you travel there. It can happen to you even now. Written to STOP ABUSE and to RESURRECT JUSTICE.

Pretend She's Here

Author : Luanne Rice
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338298518
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Pretend She's Here written by Luanne Rice and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mega-bestselling author Luanne Rice returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines story of a girl who is kidnapped by her friend's family. Emily Lonergan's best friend died last year.And Emily hasn't stopped grieving. Lizzie Porter was lively, loud, and fun -- Emily's better half. Emily can't accept that she's gone.When Lizzie's parents and her sister come back to town to visit, Emily's heartened to see them. The Porters understand her pain. They miss Lizzie desperately, too.Desperately enough to do something crazy.Something unthinkable.Suddenly, Emily's life is hurtling toward a very dark place -- and she's not sure she'll ever be able to return to what she once knew was real.From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a breathless, unputdownable story of suspense, secrets -- and the strength that love gives us to survive even the most shocking of circumstances.

Vacuum in the Dark

Author : Jen Beagin
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501182153
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Vacuum in the Dark written by Jen Beagin and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life. Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke. Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. Dark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth, Mona winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. The only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. Jen Beagin’s Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable, astonishing read, “by turns nutty and forlorn…Brash, deadpan, and achingly troubled” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Beagin is “a wonderfully funny writer who also happens to tackle serious subjects” (NPR).

Foundations

Author : Tom Holladay
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310240751
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Foundations written by Tom Holladay and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Purpose-Driven® Discipleship ResourceIdeal for Sunday Night or midweek series, Weekday Bible Studies, Sunday school classes and study groups of any size. The complete communicator's resource for teaching Saddleback Church's blockbuster Foundations course in your church or groupTeaching others the essential truths of Christianity will challenge you, but nothing can beat the rewards of seeing men and women gain a transforming, biblical perspective on God, the world around them, and their own lives and relationships. Foundations Teacher's Guide, Volume 2 greatly simplifies your job with its easy-to-follow format. Everything you need to teach lessons 11-22 and the wrap-up session of the 24-session Foundations curriculum is clearly and methodically laid out for you, with tools, tips, and options to help you meet the unique needs of your group.* Teaching notes--Extensive notes guide you through what you will say and include illustrations and applications of each doctrine under discussion.* Highlight sections--Four kinds of sidebars help your group connect with God's truths through key words, thought-provoking insights, personal implications, and personal applications.* Teaching tips--Proven tips help you strengthen your skills as a communicator.* Discussion questions--Questions at the end of each study can also be interspersed throughout the lesson.* Split-session plan--Each lesson has an optional cutoff point that allows you to break it into two sessions. Subdivide a single lesson, several lessons, or break the entire program into 46 lessons at your discretion.* Appendices--Additional, supporting material for some studies may be found at the end of those studies.* Memory cards--Reproducible cards contain a key theme and verse for each of the 11 doctrines covered.This teacher's guide also includes icons to guide your use of the PowerPoint® slides contained in the CD-ROM (included in the kit and also sold separately). Foundations will take your group for thought-provoking, life-changing explorations of 11 core Christian truths:1. The Bible 2. God 3. Jesus 4. The Holy Spirit 5. Creation6. Salvation7. Sanctification8. Good and Evil9. The Afterlife10. The Church11. The Second Coming From Saddleback ChurchThis is a proven, tested curriculum that has helped change thousands of lives!For the past ten years, Foundations has been used as the doctrinal course at Saddleback Church, one of America's largest and best-known churches. Thousands of Saddleback members have benefited from this life-transforming experience. This course is explained in detail in Rick Warren's groundbreaking book, The Purpose Driven Church. Currently, Purpose Driven churches all around the world are using Foundations to raise up an army of mature believers equipped for ministry in the church and prepared for mission in the world.The complete Foundations kit includes:* 2 Teacher's Guides (volumes 1 & 2)* 1 Participant's Guide * 1 CD-ROM with PowerPoint® presentations, programming resources, and additional handoutsAll materials also sold separately

If We Were Villains

Author : M. L. Rio
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250095301
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book If We Were Villains written by M. L. Rio and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."

Short Talks with the Dead and Others

Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Short Talks with the Dead and Others written by Hilaire Belloc and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Footnotes

Author : Ray Stickle
Publisher : FeetMustFollow Press
ISBN 13 : 1311712577
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Footnotes written by Ray Stickle and published by FeetMustFollow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was the thin man up the beach walking with a noticeable limp, pinched eyeglasses perched on his nose, a pair of white slacks and a billowing white shirt, his Korean face further hidden by a low-worn white sun hat. Galden had been following the man for more than a week. An easy job for a beach bum. But a trip to South Korea soon changes things. Because the thin man on the beach has a history steeped in the shadows of the country he served, the country he fled: North Korea. Galden soon finds himself involved with a sociopathic gangster hell-bent on uncertain ends, an ex-military elite on a mission of vengeance spurred on by his traumatized wife, a beautiful woman who hides her identity behind a slowly crumbling façade, and, perhaps most threatening of all, his own alcohol-addled conscience’s attempt to grapple with hard decisions. How Galden navigates the kidnappings, explosions, and betrayals will determine whether he has an impact on the outcome or becomes nothing more than just a footnote to the affair.

News of the Stupid

Author : Gremlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435724305
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book News of the Stupid written by Gremlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longawaited revision to 1999's News of the Stoopid [NotS]: 100% free of pipebombs...though there's plenty of new stuff for fragile people to whimper about. Now in Trade Paperback.

O' Artful Death

Author : Sarah Stewart Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312307640
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book O' Artful Death written by Sarah Stewart Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston art historian Sweeney St. George investigates the gravestone of a girl who drowned under mysterious circumstances one hundred years earlier, setting in motion a series of events that places Sweeney in the path of a present-day killer.

The Steal Like an Artist Journal

Author : Austin Kleon
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761185682
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Steal Like an Artist Journal written by Austin Kleon and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! comes an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries. The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in your artistic journey. It combines Austin Kleon’s unique and compelling ideas with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. There are lists to fill in—Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Challenges to take. Illustrated creative exercises—Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. Pro and con charts—What Excites You?/What Drains You? The journal has an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back—a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.

The Lure of the Honey Bird

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905813
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Honey Bird written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tanker across the Danakil Desert, and was arrested for a murder she had not committed. Back in Britain, Laird established herself as a major author of fiction for children and young adults, but she always wanted to return to Ethiopia. Her chance came in the late 1990s, when the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to collect folk stories from every region of the country. Encountering ex-guerrilla fighters, camel traders, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en route, Laird has written a remarkable account of her journey interwoven with a treasure trove of stories featuring princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.

Sometimes I Lie

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250144833
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sometimes I Lie written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

The Toledo Fake

Author : Gerhard Behrens
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475964633
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Toledo Fake written by Gerhard Behrens and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare eleventh-century astrolabe from Toledoan astronomical instrument fetches a record price of 2.8 million pounds sterling in a London auction. A few days later, Dr Martin McKenna, an eccentric British expert of Islamic art and science, is murdered in his modest London flat. Only his former teacher, Professor Rietberg, is aware of a connection between McKenna and the astrolabein fact he was not only the owner of the alleged medieval instrument, but also its maker. Together with his Iranian friend, Daryoush, he had been in the forgery business for years, producing medieval Islamic artifacts to near-perfection in Isfahan. This astrolabe, their latest and ultimate forgery, was not only made for money, however. McKenna wanted to leave their imprint on historical research?even research based on a fake! Unaware of McKennas complex motives and his shady business, the police limit their investigation to angry neighbours and male prostitutes. Professor Rietberg, who is proud of his detective talents already proven in the case of The Janissary File (published by Universe in 2007), suspects the murderer to be among McKennas forgery victims. He embarks on a long but ultimately rewarding journey to fi nd the killer, which takes him through the London art market, to Iran and the Arab Gulf States.

A Pretend Betrothal

Author : Lana Williams
Publisher : Lana Williams
ISBN 13 : 0991314255
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book A Pretend Betrothal written by Lana Williams and published by Lana Williams. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded by books and united by a purpose, The Mayfair Literary League has taken on a new mission—For Better or Worse. The bachelors of London won’t know what hit them when these bookish ladies set their sights on the men in their lives who don’t see them for who they truly are—yet. Can she reclaim her childhood best friend AND convince him to love her? Lady Tabitha Malton spends her days caring for her mother who feigns illness to keep Tibby at her side. Tibby can’t bring herself to protest until The Mayfair Literary League proposes a new agenda—perform a bold act to catch the notice of their secret crush. Michael Shaw isn’t the same man who left England’s shores a decade ago to serve in the military, but his well-meaning mother doesn’t seem to understand. Her insistence that he take a wife is driving him mad. How can he consider marriage when he feels broken and battered inside? A pretend betrothal might be the perfect solution for them both. Tibby isn’t the same person either. She’s grown into a beautiful woman whose intelligence and grace intrigues him at every turn. A “pretend” kiss upends his world until he’s no longer certain what he wants with one exception—her. Tibby knows she’s in over her head and has already lost her heart to the handsome captain. Will her bold move lead to love or heartache? Join the ladies of the Mayfair Literary League as they pursue their happily ever afters: A Matter of Convenience, Book 1 A Pretend Betrothal, Book 2 A Mistaken Identity, Book 3