Igor's adventures in the Purple Pork Animal Farm of Swimdom island
Igor's adventures in the Purple Pork Animal Farm of Swimdom island

Author: Laura Bernardeschi

Publisher: Laura Bernardeschi

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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The Adventures of Igor in the Purple Pork Animal Farm of Swimdom Island is a book to read in only one night to discover the animals talking like humans after a nuclear accident. You will meet Freespirit the diabolic baboon, Tor the pangolin, Matt the 007 warthog greedy for chicken ribs, the odd chicken turtle couple, and the boring Lovemeless thinking to be a sexy chicken. Sonosemprebella, the super fat goose, is ready to play with the old but rich purple pigs who pay lots of golden coins to Rio the farmer, to take pictures of the sexy and naked chickens with purple feathers. A strange world that will change forever for the weird and predator instinct of the old Igor. Whether this world is better or not, the reader will decide.

Raising Steam
Raising Steam

Author: Terry Pratchett

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0385538294

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The international bestselling author of the hilarious Discworld series—a writer who’s been compared to Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut—introduces the first steam engine into his complex, zany fantasy world. “Everything that makes Pratchett one of the world’s most delightful writers.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Boing Boing Mister Simnel has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements—earth, air, fire, and water—and it’s soon drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork’s formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. Who better to take the lead than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank? Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work—unless it is dependent on words, which are not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. He does enjoy being alive, however, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs, and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all from going off the rails.

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Author: Martin Amis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0307777790

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A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike

Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music
Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music

Author: William Phillips

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-03-20

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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It has been reviled, dismissed, attacked, and occasionally been the subject of Congressional hearings, but still, the genre of music known as heavy metal maintains not only its market share in the recording and downloading industry, but also as a cultural force that has united millions of young and old fans across the globe. Characterized by blaring distorted guitars, drum solos, and dramatic vibrato, the heavy metal movement headbanged its way to the popular culture landscape with bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath the 1970s. Motley Crue and Metallica made metal a music phenomenon in the 1980s. Heavy metal continues to evolve today with bands like Mastodon and Lamb of God. Providing an extensive overview of the music, fashion, films, and philosophies behind the movement, this inclusive encyclopedia chronicles the history and development of heavy metal, including sub-movements such as death metal, speed metal, grindcore, and hair metal. Essential and highly entertaining reading for high school and undergraduate courses in popular music studies, communications, media studies, and cultural studies, the Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music and Culture offers a guide to the ultimate underground music, exploring its rich cultural diversity, resilience, and adaptability. Entries for musicians include a discography for those wanting to start or develop their music collections.

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity
Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

Author: A. Guneratne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 023061373X

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This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Paradoxical Citizenship
Paradoxical Citizenship

Author: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780739132586

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In a collection of intriguing essays on the work of Edward Said, internationally-recognized scholars pay homage to the late critic by addressing many aspects of his oeuvre, including his breakthrough Orientalism, the role of the intellectual, the Question of Palestine, and finally his dramatic memoir, Out of Place. This volume is a useful contribution for classroom use, as well as recreational reading for those interested in the work of this controversial thinker.

Anagram Solver
Anagram Solver

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1408102579

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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

The View from Penthouse B
The View from Penthouse B

Author: Elinor Lipman

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0547576218

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Two newly-single sisters, one a divorce?, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.

The Romance of the Shoe
The Romance of the Shoe

Author: Thomas Wright

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781294990871

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

America's National Game
America's National Game

Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.