Street Freak
Author: Jared Dillian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1439181276
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Author: Jared Dillian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1439181276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErroneously states "1st Touchstone hardcover edition" in paperback copy.
Author: Terry Brooks
Publisher: Grim Oak Press
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1944145214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt begins with a dire call-right before his father disappears and his skyscraper home's doors explode inward. Street Freaks is the kind of thrilling futuristic story only New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks can tell. "Go into the Red Zone. Go to Street Freaks." his father directs Ashton Collins before the vid feed goes suddenly silent. The Red Zone is the dangerous heart of mega-city Los Angeles; it is a world Ash is forbidden from and one he knows little about. But if he can find Street Freaks, the strangest of aid awaits―human and barely human alike. As Ash is hunted, he must unravel the mystery left behind by his father and discover his role in this new world. Brooks has long been the grandmaster of fantasy. Now he turns his hand to science fiction filled with what his readers love best: complex characters, extraordinary settings, exciting action, and a page-turning story. Through it, Brooks reimagines his bestselling career yet again.
Author: Gregory Gibson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780156033084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he's made the find of a lifetime--never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus as well as about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited. Bob's ensuing adventure--a roller-coaster ride filled with bizarre characters and coincidences--takes him from the fringes of the rare book business to Sotheby's, and from the exhibits of a run-down Times Square freak show to the curator's office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Will the photos be authenticated? How will Arbus's notoriously protective daughter react? Most importantly, can Bob, who always manages to screw up his most promising deals, finally make just one big score?
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0545600278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreak the Mighty joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!It has been over twenty years -- and more than two million copies, eight foreign editions, and a popular Miramax feature film -- since the world was introduced to this powerful story of a unique friendship between a troubled, oversized boy and the tiny, physically challenged genius who proves that courage comes in all sizes. This simple yet timeless story explores many themes, including bullying -- an important topic in today's schools. Freak the Mighty is sure to remain fresh, dramatic, and memorable for the next twenty years and beyond!
Author: Playboi Nitty
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781502479372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCamille Le'Gres, is definitely wifey material. She's sophisticated, eloquent and drop dead gorgeous. Her only flaw is that she's celibate, because she's married to her career. But that doesn't stop men from challenging her innocence, or making her their imaginary playmate. Ms. Le'Gres is “Irresistible!”Devon Sinclaire is a femme fatale at its finest. One you wouldn't bring home to momma. Her mysterious, seductive appearance is breath taking but deceiving. She's promptly promiscuous and whatever her heart and greedy pussy desires, she gets at any cost.Ms. Sinclaire is the epitome of “Devious!”
Author: Max Brallier
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0698181417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGET FIRED UP about Benson’s Big Book of Freak-Outs! See the trouble Mordecai and Rigby have been getting into in this compilation of Benson’s funniest freak-out moments. Shaped like Benson’s head, this novelty book will have you laughing your own head off for hours.
Author: Knife
Publisher:
Published: 2009-09-21
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781741695205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aliensons, the Humansons, the Wizardsons and the Zombiesons are just your average, everyday families ... The Aliensons' robot housekeeper-the Butloid 8000-is completely out of control, the Humansons are busy trying to buy a new pet ... from the zoo, the Wizardsons are looking for a new dragon to fire-up their annual BBQ, and Granny Zombieson' s brain has gone missing! But that's nothing out of the ordinary, right? Meet all four Freak Street families in this freaky-funny collection! Includes: Meet the Aliensons Meet the Wizardsons Meet the Zombiesons Meet the Humansons.
Author: Steve Almond
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1565124219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA self-proclaimed candy fanatic and lifelong chocoholic traces the history of some of the much-loved candies from his youth, describing the business practices and creative candy-making techniques of some of the small companies.
Author: Stefan Fatsis
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2001-07-07
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0547524315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 022622743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.