Can you stomach the Fairgrounds? Based on nothing but a modern-day message in a bottle and a secret invention that can measure the ebb and flow of Karma itself, watch as three troubled strangers each takes a leap of faith to find fairness in an unfair world. But things get close and personal as a masked vigilante vows to take Karma into his own hands. But no matter what brought our band of less-than-merry men together, one thing is for certain, common enemies make for strange bedfellows! In book 2 (conclusion), join our three existential detectives at the point where they meet for the very first time at the precipice of the secret location alluded to in the mysterious message. But they will need to do more than just wax philosophical as they decide to employ their secret invention and start "Project Madcap" to study the very workings of Karma itself. Will they see beyond the Veil of the World's Great Curtain, past the Abyss, and into the very realms of the 6th dimension? Or are their ambitions too lofty, as they would be fortunate to simply get out alive? Things get more complicated when the serial killer Amrak gets involved and takes justice in his own hands. With all three beaten and broken "heroes" in one place and time, let's just hope the whole is greater than the sum of its parts!
The story takes place in two worlds: the real and the surreal. Set in Boston and New York City, the story follows the life of a young man who does not learn and grow wise from life’s experiences. Instead, he grasps at the price of everything, oblivious to their spiritual value, including love and friendship. On a job search in New York City, he rests on a bench in Central Park, where a scene is played out that portends the future. A clown comes down a path with puppet clowns in a red canvas bag. When balloons, carried by the clown, burst near a little girl, a puppet clown jumps out of the bag and does a dance with the girl. Clowns are to have an important role in the young man’s future, as well as a person with a bow tie who constantly stalks him. Another important image is that of the dancing couple in the Renoir painting Bal a Bougival, which exemplifies the magical essence and beauty of real love. He learns of the power-hungry leadership at a voluntary health agency, and he is repelled by it. He leaves to seek employment at an art gallery. The owner is an attractive older woman who he tries to seduce him, even though she encourages his dreams of himself as a writer. An inner voice urges him downward. He also sees a young man with a bow tie and a shopping bag, looking much like himself, who appears whenever his thoughts wander toward the darker side. The surreal figure appears throughout the story, inducing wrongful behavior and actions, such as deceiving the owner of the art gallery. She despises a movie comedian who tries to buy an oil painting of a clown from her gallery at lower than the advertised price. The comedian is a collector of clown figures in plaster, wood, and glass, but no oil painting as of yet. The young man plays chess on Saturdays with the artist of the clown paintings and tries to influence him to sell another clown painting privately to the comedian. If the plan succeeds, he will get a large sum of money from the comedian for arranging the deceit. The painter wants to tell the art gallery owner in person that he will not deal exclusively with her anymore. Therefore, he meets with her in a fairgrounds in Queens, and the comedian, with knowledge of the rendezvous, bursts in unexpectedly to gloat. The young man comes there too and finds that his scheme is successful. He leaves the squabbling group and moves to a distant bench to await his girlfriend. Seated beside him is the man with a bow tie who always seems to follow him. Since he is currently the guard at the gallery, he takes his gun and shoots bow tie twice. He blinks, and bow tie disappears—blood and all. His girlfriend arrives, and from their discussion, she realizes that his dark side has taken over and breaks off their relationship. The young man decides to leave New York City, go to Las Vegas, and work for the comedian to continue to carry out his despicable
Have you ever wondered what happens at a fairground once a state fair ends? Find out as you visit a fairground for a full year of exciting seasonal events and activities. As you explore the grounds, you will learn how to find volume using models, formulas, and repeated addition. You'll learn about rectangular prisms, dimensions, area, and cubic units, too. Attend the fairgrounds and see entertaining horse competitions, intricate ice carvings, beautiful garden shows, and much more! Have you ever wondered what happens at a fairground once a state fair ends? Find out as you visit a fairground for a full year of exciting seasonal events and activities. As you explore the grounds, you will learn how to find volume using models, formulas, and repeated addition. You'll learn about rectangular prisms, dimensions, area, and cubic units, too. Attend the fairgrounds and see entertaining horse competitions, intricate ice carvings, beautiful garden shows, and much more!
The gang is having fun at the country fair. Shaggy and Scooby get in the spirit by judging baing contests and chilli cook-offs. That's until a ghost from the Revolutionary War shows up and scares the appetitie out of them. Zoinks! It's Scooby against the phantom in a pie-eating showdown!.
Continuation of stories of Jimmy, growing up in Northern Idaho and Western Canada. Book 3 of the series "A Time Before Facebook", first in the series and "Ghosts and Skeletons", the second book in the series. Come join the adventure.
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played in the marketing of Harlem Renaissance literature, Henry James’s critique of materialism in The American Scene, and the commodification of racialized popular culture in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of anEx-Colored Man—as he argues that racial thinking was central to the emergence of U.S. consumerism and, conversely, that an emerging consumer culture was a key element in the development of racial thinking and the consolidation of racial identity in America. By urging a reassessment of the familiar rubrics of the “culture of consumption” and the “culture of segregation,” Dawson poses new and provocative questions about American culture and social history. Both an influential literary study and an absorbing historical read, Commerce in Color proves that—in America—advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race. “A welcome addition to existing scholarship, Davis’s study of the intersection of racial thinking and the emergence of consumer culture makes connections very few scholars have considered.” —James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts James C. Davis is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College.
The Toronto Neighbourhoods bundle presents a collection of titles that provide fascinating insight into the history and development of Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Beginning with histories of Canada’s longest street and the early days of what was once called York (The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860; A City in the Making; Opportunity Road), the titles in the bundle go on to examine the development of particular unique neighbourhoods that help give the city its character (Willowdale, Leaside). Finally, Mark Osbaldeston’s acclaimed, award-winning Unbuilt Toronto and Unbuilt Toronto 2 go beyond history and into the arena of speculation as the author details ambitious and possibly city-changing plans that never came to fruition. For lovers of Toronto, this collection is a bonanza of insights and facts. Includes A City in the Making Leaside Opportunity Road Unbuilt Toronto Unbuilt Toronto 2 Willowdale The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860
Focusing on Black Americans' participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, the book reveals why the Black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major Black historical museums rather than the nation's capital, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.
