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Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head

Author : Lauren Oliver
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062270834
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head written by Lauren Oliver and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. But when a fourth child, Max, a knife-thrower, joins the group, it sets off an unforgettable chain of events. When the museum’s Amazonian shrunken head is stolen, the four are determined to get it back. But their search leads them to a series of murders and an explosive secret about their pasts. This sensational new series—a 2016 Edgar nominee for Best Juvenile book and New York Times bestseller—combines the unparalleled storytelling gifts of Lauren Oliver with the rich knowledge of the notorious relics collector H. C. Chester. What you will find in this book: A rather attractive bearded lady Several scandalous murders A deliciously disgusting Amazonian shrunken head Four extraordinary children with equally extraordinary abilities A quite loquacious talking bird What you will NOT find in this book: An accountant named Seymour A never-ending line at the post office Brussel sprouts (shudder) A lecture on finishing all your homework on time A sweet, gooey story for nice little girls and boys Learn more about the series online at www.thecuriosityhouse.com

Shrunken Heads

Author : James L. Castner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962515033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Shrunken Heads written by James L. Castner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of head shrinking as practiced by the Jivaro or Shuar Indians of Ecuador and Peru. Explains the process and cultural reasons behind it.

How I Got My Shrunken Head (Classic Goosebumps #10)

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545283655
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book How I Got My Shrunken Head (Classic Goosebumps #10) written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps now on Disney+! What has two eyes, a mouth, and wrinkly green skin? Mark's shrunken head! It's a present from his Aunt Benna. A gift from the jungle island of Baladora.And Mark can't wait to show the kids at school!But late one night the head starts to glow. Because it's actually no ordinary head. It gives Mark a strange power. A magical power. A dangerous power...Now with all-new bonuses including an author interview, gross-out facts, and more!

Ripley's Believe it Or Not!

Author : Robert Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741787573
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Ripley's Believe it Or Not! written by Robert Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating facsimile diary offers a first-hand account of Robert Ripley's travels to far-flung exotic corners of the globe in search of the weird and the wonderful during the 1930s. Inside, Ripley's own drawings, cartoons, and memorabilia evoke the strange and bizarre world that unfolded before his eyes ..."--P. [4] of cover.

Severed

Author : Frances Larson
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847088015
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Severed written by Frances Larson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

The Tar Heel Book

Author : Ron Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736281109
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Tar Heel Book written by Ron Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tar Heels -Volume I- is the first of a three volume work by Ron Smith. Ron's exhaustive research of over 30 years has uncovered details about the formation of UNC Basketball and every season beginning in 1911. Ron's research uncovered interesting details and unique images for every season, many have never been published. This comprehensive book includes rosters, schedules, results and stats for each season. Thousands of UNC fans know why they love Tar Heel Basketball. And now they can learn how the program became one of the most successful and respected in college basketball. This is likely the most comprehensive history book ever created for a sports program at any level. All Tar Heel fans will be proud to have a copy.You will learn about the beginnings of the UNC Basketball program with interesting stories about key people and events that formed the foundation of this great program. Volume I covers every season from 1911 - 1961. Volume II will cover the Dean Smith years, 1962-1997 and Volume III the Roy Williams years, 1998-Current.

My Private Property

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 195026825X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book My Private Property written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters

Author : Philip Eade
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474609651
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters written by Philip Eade and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'. 'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and the Brookes' The Times Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up as model rulers, but the spectacularly eccentric behaviour of Ranee Sylvia - self-styled Queen of the Headhunters - changed everything. This is the compelling story of her part in their downfall.

The Jealous Potter

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474823
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Jealous Potter written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. "Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us."—Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him."—Colin Thubron, Sunday Times "With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style."—Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist "[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read."—Choice "A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Bénédicte Chorier."—Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review

The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State

Author : J. W. Ocker
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581577729
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State written by J. W. Ocker and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The New England Grimpendium comes a new travelogue and insider’s guide to wicked, weird, wonderful New York. When J. W. Ocker’s first book, The New England Grimpendium, emerged on the scene, Max Weinstein of Fangoria.com called it “a travelogue for those who revel in the glory of their nightmares.” Rick Broussard at New Hampshire Magazine said of it, “I’ve read a dozen books about New England ghosties and weirdnesses, and this one is my favorite. It’s also one of the few that actually came up with stuff I didn’t already know about.” Now the author of that Lowell Thomas Award winner has unearthed hundreds of similarly creepy and colorful places in the Empire State that will make your skin crawl and your hair stand on end! Ocker’s essays on these places, some little known, some area landmarks, include directions and site information along with entertaining anecdotes delivered in his signature wry style. It’s definitely a wild ride from a jar full of the harvested brains of dead killers to horror movie filming sites around the state; from a ships’ graveyard to lake monster sightings. If it’s in New York and it’s bizarrely noteworthy or wonderfully wacky, you’ll find it in The New York Grimpendium.

The Shrunken Head

Author : Robert L. Fish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Shrunken Head written by Robert L. Fish and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mothman's Curse

Author : Christine Hayes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1626720274
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Mothman's Curse written by Christine Hayes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town."--

Our Best Bites

Author : Sara Smith Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606419311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Our Best Bites written by Sara Smith Wells and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes plastic insert with equivalent measurements and metric conversions.

Without Annette

Author : Jane B. Mason
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545819962
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Without Annette written by Jane B. Mason and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously written, witty, and poignant YA novel, about a girl who must forge her own path in the wake of a crumbling relationship. Josie Little has been looking forward to moving halfway across the country to attend Brookwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school, with her girlfriend, Annette, for ages. But underneath Brookwood's picture-perfect image lies a crippling sense of elitism that begins to tear the girls apart from the moment they arrive.While Josie struggles to navigate her new life, Annette seems to fit in perfectly. Yet that acceptance comes with more than a few strings. And consequently, Annette insists on keeping their relationship a secret. At first, Josie agrees. But as Annette pushes her further and further away, Josie grows closer to Penn, a boy whose friendship and romantic feelings for her tangle her already-unraveling relationship. When Annette's need for approval sets her on a devastating course for self-destruction, Josie isn't sure she can save her this time-or if Annette even wants her to try.

Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue

Author : Lauren Oliver
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780062270856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue written by Lauren Oliver and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book in the New York Times bestselling Curiosity House series by exceptional author Lauren Oliver and shadowy recluse H. C. Chester, four extraordinary children must avenge their friend’s death, try to save their home, and unravel the secrets of their past . . . before their past unravels them. Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max are happy to be out of harm’s way now that the notorious villain Nicholas Rattigan is halfway across the country in Chicago. But unfortunately their home, Dumfreys’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, is in danger of closing its doors forever. But their troubles only get worse. The four friends are shocked when their beloved friend, famous sculptor Siegfried Eckleberger, is murdered. As they investigate, they find clues that his death may be tied to the murder of a rich and powerful New York heiress, as well as to their own pasts. This is the second book in the series and so boasts many wondrous and mysterious things inside, such as: Howie, the “Human Owl,” whose head turns just about all the way around A mean but important house cat Some perfectly ghastly wax sculptures A very thin boy named Chubby An awful mechanical leg It continues not to have: A cautionary tale about running with scissors A list of time-consuming chores Nutritious and decidedly not delicious vegetables A perfectly sweet bedtime story about a wayward bunny Two wet kisses on the cheek from your aunt Mildred Learn more about the series online at www.thecuriosityhouse.com.

My Freaky Shrunken Head

Author : James Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814193214
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book My Freaky Shrunken Head written by James Lee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn off your lights, get ready for frights! When the clock strikes midnight and the moon's full and bright, it's time for dread and fear. For Mr. Midnight is here with two stories, double the danger and twice the terror! STORY ONE: What starts out as a fun school excursion turns into a dangerous island mission for young Naz Farihin. Can he fight the ghostly pirate, survive the scary lighthouse, and battle the mysterious voodoo spirits, to explain MY FREAKY SHRUNKEN HEAD STORY TWO: When computer-crazy Nicolette Ng checks her email, a strange message lures her into a terrifying cyberworld called Internever. Could EVIL BY EMAIL happen to you?

Curious Visions of Modernity

Author : David L. Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016060
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Curious Visions of Modernity written by David L. Martin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.