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Author: Hans C. Owen
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 143446458X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSign up for the course conducted by Sergeant "Sally" Cusani and Professor Percival Trout at a famous Eastern university -- whose academic serenity is shattered by a series of exceedingly brutal killings!
Author: Victor L. Cahn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0573663971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThriller / 1m, 2f / Interior Fit to Kill is a thriller about strategy, deception, and betrayal. Adrian, a charming but self-indulgent chess master, enjoys a life of luxury thanks to his marriage to Janice, an older but still sexy and vibrant woman who has made her fortune as the CEO of an exercise empire. The arrival of Amy, a reporter with an agenda of her own, unleashes a whirlwind of deadly schemes that will keep audiences guessing until the final seconds. "Deliciously scary...an event wo
Author: Donnie Whetstone
Publisher: StoneCart Books
Published: 2012-02-08
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 146585794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Heneghan
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1554699096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brutal serial killer is murdering women in Vancouver's West End. On a seemingly insane rampage, he leaves their headless bodies to be found and writes taunting letters to the police. It soon becomes apparent that all his victims are members of the neighborhood fitness center. Sebastian Casey, a reporter with the weekly community newspaper, has just begun to work out at the center. As he gets to know some of the others who use the facility, Casey finds himself drawn into the search for the killer. His interest intensifies when he begins a tentative relationship with Emma Shaughnessy, a local schoolteacher, whose good looks and fitness regime makes her a prime candidate to be the killer's next victim.
Author: Glenda Carpio
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0195304705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the post-civil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up act and the outrageous comedy of Chappelle's Show to demonstrate how deeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenth-century fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by Kara Walker and Robert Colescott cleverly lampoons the iconography of slavery. Ultimately, Laughing Fit to Kill offers a unique look at the bold, complex, and just plain funny ways that African American artists have used laughter to critique slavery's dark legacy.
Author: Glenda Carpio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0199719543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the post-civil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up act and the outrageous comedy of Chappelle's Show to demonstrate how deeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenth-century fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by Kara Walker and Robert Colescott cleverly lampoons the iconography of slavery. Ultimately, Laughing Fit to Kill offers a unique look at the bold, complex, and just plain funny ways that African American artists have used laughter to critique slavery's dark legacy.
Author: Billy Joe Shaver
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780292706132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWillie Nelson says, "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." And legions of fans agree. "Honky Tonk Hero" is the story of a man who not only walked on the wild side and lived to tell about it, but also got it all down in songs that many people consider to be some of the finest country songs ever written.
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Published: 2024-02-17
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. “To Kill A Mockingbird” became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, “To Kill A Mockingbird” takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
Author: Christopher Sergel
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780871290861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatization of the story about the explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town as viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Author: Christine Ammer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 0547676581
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