Hyperbole and a Half

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451666187
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyperbole and a Half by : Allie Brosh

Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

If You Find Me

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250021537
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis If You Find Me by : Emily Murdoch

Download or read book If You Find Me written by Emily Murdoch and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW INCLUDING A BRAND-NEW EPILOGUE! There are some things you can't leave behind... In If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch, a broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence; the one bright spot is Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won't let her go... a dark past that hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn't spoken a word in over a year. Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer, or risk watching her new life come crashing down.

Buyology

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Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385523890
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Buyology by : Martin Lindstrom

Download or read book Buyology written by Martin Lindstrom and published by Currency. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.

The Storyteller's Thesaurus

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Publisher : Troll Lord Games
ISBN 13 : 9781936822355
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Storyteller's Thesaurus written by Troll Lord Games and published by Troll Lord Games. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

Cold Mountain

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197175
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Cold Mountain by : Charles Frazier

Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

Vinyl Junkies

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466827211
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Vinyl Junkies by : Brett Milano

Download or read book Vinyl Junkies written by Brett Milano and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of record collecting. A vinyl junkie is not the person who has a few old 45s shoved in the cuboard from their days in high school. Vinyl Junkies are the people who will travel over 3,000 miles to hear a rare b-side by a German band that has only recorded two songs since 1962, vinyl junkies are the people who own every copy of every record produced by the favorite artist from every pressing and printing in existance, vinyl junkies are the people who may just love that black plastic more than anything else in their lives. Brett Milano traveled the U.S. seeking out the most die-hard and fanatical collectors to capture all that it means to be a vinyl junkie. Includes interviews with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Peter Buck from R.E.M and Robert Crumb, creator of Fritz the cat and many more underground comics.

Neil and Me

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Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780952954026
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Neil and Me by : Scott Young

Download or read book Neil and Me written by Scott Young and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted Canadian sportswriter Scott Young documents his relationship with his rock star song, Neil.

101 Dog Tricks

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ISBN 13 : 1592533256
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis 101 Dog Tricks by : Kyra Sundance

Download or read book 101 Dog Tricks written by Kyra Sundance and published by . This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Dog Tricks is the largest trick book on the market and the only one presenting full-color photos of each trick and its training steps.

Jenny Pox

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Publisher : JL Bryan
ISBN 13 : 146096523X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Jenny Pox by : J. L. Bryan

Download or read book Jenny Pox written by J. L. Bryan and published by JL Bryan. This book was released on 2010-07-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny has a secret: her touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague. She devotes her life to avoiding contact with people, until her senior year of high school, when she meets the one boy she can touch, and she falls in love. But there's a problem--he's under the spell of his devious girlfriend Ashleigh, who secretly wields the most dangerous power of all. Now Jenny must learn to use the "Jenny pox" she's struggled to hide, or be destroyed by Ashleigh's ruthless plans.

Angel on a Leash

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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 193704923X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Angel on a Leash by : David Frei

Download or read book Angel on a Leash written by David Frei and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Frei’s heartwarming collection of stories about the therapy dogs in his life and the people whom they touch, Angel on a Leash celebrates the “ministry” that Frei shares with his wife, Chaplain Cherilyn Frei, the director of spiritual care at the Ronald McDonald House of New York.Frei may be the most recognizable face and name in the dog sport, as “the Voice of Westminster,” the famous New York kennel club for which he has worked for the past two decades, but his true passion in dogs is therapy work. In the book’s eighteen chapters, Frei retells the stories of the everyday miracles he’s witnessed his therapy dogs perform over hundreds of trips to their favorite places. Currently in his second generation of therapy dogs, Frei gives his Cavalier King Charles Spaniel “Angel” and Brittany “Grace” all the credit for the life-altering work they do cheering up ailing children at Morgan Stanley’s Children’s Hospital, spending time with recovering patients at NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital, and placing a paw in the hand of world-weary veterans at the Washington DC VA Medical Center. Never sappy or sentimental, Frei’s writing style is straightforward and honest with a swiftness that keeps the reader turning pages (and wiping tears). Beyond the inspiring storytelling, the book also offers practical advice to potential therapy dog handlers about how to get a dog certified with a proper registry, the responsibilities that accompany therapy work, and the importance of community involvement. Frei’s association with Westminster yielded the formation of a nonprofit organization called Angel on a Leash (the book’s namesake), which Frei was the key founder. Although the organization is now a separate entity from its famous “parent,” Best in Show winners of Westminster have frequently retired from the show ring into the realm of therapy work, receiving Frei’s encouragement and guidance. Among the many exquisite moments captured in the book’s photography section are portraits of Rufus, the Colored Bull Terrier; James, the English Spring Spaniel; and Uno, the Beagle, all supreme victors of the famous show, spending time with children on therapy visits.

Edgelands

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409028429
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Edgelands by : Michael Symmons Roberts

Download or read book Edgelands written by Michael Symmons Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.

Light of the Northern Dancers

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Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1945447117
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Light of the Northern Dancers by : Robin F. Gainey

Download or read book Light of the Northern Dancers written by Robin F. Gainey and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiery aristocrat, Eden Rose, uprooted from her native Scotland, has tended a foundering marriage and failing ranch at the corner of Crazy Woman Creek and the Powder River for a decade. Best friend, backwoods spitfire Maddie True, has her own woes a few miles away: widowed with a passel of young children, and caretaker to her addled father. Abandoned by her husband during the height of Wyoming Territory’s worst drought in history, Eden depends on her inept brother, Aiden, to see her through the coming winter. But when he disappears into the wild Bighorn mountains, she shuns Maddie’s fearful cautions, teaming with enigmatic Lakota holy man, Intah, to find her brother before the wicked snow holds them all hostage. “Light of the Northern Dancers is a powerful novel of a woman’s journey, thought-provoking and unsettling in its authenticity and unflinching honesty.” — Susan Wiggs, NYT Bestselling Romance Author “Half of what happens to us may have reason, the rest is chaos. Robin F. Gainey’s second novel, Light of the Northern Dancers, has this brand of existentialism. It’ real and it doesn’t let go!” — Tom Skerritt, Award Winning Actor, Writer, Director

The Greyhound Stud Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greyhound Stud Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies on Inbreeding

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies on Inbreeding by : Helen Dean King

Download or read book Studies on Inbreeding written by Helen Dean King and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bubble Head One Slick Chick

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Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1681819813
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis Bubble Head One Slick Chick by : Cari D. Elmore

Download or read book Bubble Head One Slick Chick written by Cari D. Elmore and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bubble Head is a Crested Polish Banty – One Slick Chick – and a strange-looking chicken that takes on a crafty fox in the first part of this children’s adventure book. “I happen to be a stunning chicken. I allow these humans to pet my lovely feathers and tell me I’m one hot chicken, but of course I know this. It’s obvious I’m a chicken worth pick-en.” Whether she’s strange-looking or lovely, this hip chick will delight young readers as she takes on some worthy adversaries, including a killer fox, and a large snapping spider that appears on Halloween (and if it bites, you become the spider). Does Bubble Head come out on top?

Eco-Dementia

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343821
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Eco-Dementia by : Janet Kauffman

Download or read book Eco-Dementia written by Janet Kauffman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us. Janet Kauffman describes "eco-dementia" as a paradoxical condition of humanity—possessing a love of the living world while simultaneously causing and suffering from its destruction. Like other dementias, losses are profound. We lose touch, we forget. We don't recognize our own home—the habitat that sustains us. What has driven us to exploit more and more resources, even when risking self-annihilation? Eco-dementia is not nature poetry but an immersive language in the tangle of the living world that asks the question: can we survive this relationship? The poems in Eco-dementia took shape in one decade of the author's life. In three sections, Kauffman reflects on insanities and devastations, from the personal to the global. From her father's Alzheimer's and the ravaged world of his mind to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, Hurricane Katrina, and toxins in Lake Erie, as well as the planetary-wide ecological catastrophe of climate change. Yet despite this devastation, it is possible to surround ourselves in light and air, to touch the tall grasses we love, to step into water and shade and feel an intense, momentary joy. Kauffman's poems show the bliss within the elemental richness of the natural world and also the violent distortions and grief at its devastation. Like learning a new language, we can see and hear words, sometimes understanding so clearly and other times not at all. Or as Kauffman's father puts it, "I know where you live, but I don't know who you are." The language of these poems is the physical material of a damaged world. Readers of modern and experimental poetry will treasure this collection.

Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth

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Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556437544
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Book Synopsis Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth by : Gerrit Lansing

Download or read book Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth written by Gerrit Lansing and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved. A distinguished figure of American letters, whose work and spirit have bridged five decades of creativity, Gerrit Lansing provides a perfect launch for the series with this collected edition of his poetry, which astonishes by the variety of its poetic forms and concerns, lyrical and cosmological. It cannot easily be fitted into niches currently fashionable. Like a "seed growing secretly" (to quote a favorite poet of his, Henry Vaughan), it has influenced the American cultural underground since the late 1950s. Lansing was a friend and associate of generations of creative minds as diverse as the poet Charles Olson and the legendary filmmaker Harry Smith. Poet Robert Kelly notes that "he is the most learned among us, and the most fun." Lansing has patiently fashioned a body of work that ranges from short poems such as "The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward" and "In Northern Earth," from which this collection takes its title, to longer cycles like the alchemical serial poem "The Soluble Forest." With themes at once personal and social, erotic and esoteric, Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth manifests the creative spirit of one of the important unheralded masters of modern poetry.