Strange Attractions

Strange Attractions

Author: Emma Holly

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1448133440

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Behind closed doors, the wicked play... Charity Wills is a heartbreaker, and she is determined to fund her education by any means necessary. B. G. Grantham is obsessed with the unattainable – the thrill of being refused the one thing he craves. Invited to stay with the erotic-minded recluse in his mansion, Charity provides the challenge he so desires. And with the arrival of Eric Berne, her sexy ‘keeper’, she finds herself tempted by both men...


Weird Illinois

Weird Illinois

Author: Troy Taylor

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 076075943X

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Explores bizarre sights and stories found in Illinois.


America's Oddest Landmarks

America's Oddest Landmarks

Author: Sarah Machajewski

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1482440253

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The American landscape is dotted with sites important to our nation’s history. This book is not about those landmarks, but those that are truly odd and unusual. Most readers know about Stonehenge in Europe, but what about Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska? Amazing photographs put readers up close and personal with incredibly odd feats of engineering, such as the world’s largest beagle and the world’s largest ball of twine. Engaging material straight from the wackiest interstate billboards fill the pages of this wild and wonderful book.


125 Wacky Roadside Attractions

125 Wacky Roadside Attractions

Author: National Geographic Kids

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1426324073

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Going on a road trip? See the silly side of travel as you explore the wackiest landmarks from around the world -- a place where you can walk in real dinosaur tracks, a hotel where you sleep in an igloo, a crazy beard festival, a UFO museum, and so much more. You won't believe our world is full of so many bizarre and wonderful places!


Little Man of Disneyland (Disney Classic)

Little Man of Disneyland (Disney Classic)

Author: RH Disney

Publisher: Golden/Disney

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 0736436189

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This imaginative Little Golden Book, originally published in 1955, tells the story of the creation of Disneyland and the little man who lives there. Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love joining Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as they meet little Patrick Begorra. Great for Disney fans, theme park enthusiasts, and Little Golden Book collectors of all ages!


Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Author: Matt Lake

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781402766862

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A illustrated collection of tales about weird places and folk traditions in Pennsylvania to be used as a travel guide.


The Un-Americans

The Un-Americans

Author: Joseph Litvak

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2009-11-25

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0822390841

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In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.


The New Metaphysicals

The New Metaphysicals

Author: Courtney Bender

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0226043177

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American spirituality—with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration—is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as The New Metaphysicals makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with traditional religious movements. To explore this world, Courtney Bender combines research into the history of the movement with fieldwork in Cambridge, Massachusetts—a key site of alternative religious inquiry from Emerson and William James to today. Through her ethnographic analysis, Bender discovers that a focus on the new, on progress, and on the way spiritual beliefs intersect with science obscures the historical roots of spirituality from its practitioners and those who study it alike—and shape an enduring set of modern religious possibilities in the process.


The New Roadside America

The New Roadside America

Author: Doug Kirby

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780671769314

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There are wacky, one-of-a-kind treasures lurking among the Gaps and Burger Kings alongside our highways and byways, and The New Roadside America hightlights them all--covering every interest and organized for easy reference. 250 photographs; line drawings.