Charlie and the Great Maskarade
Charlie and the Great Maskarade

Author: Joy Barber

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-12

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780578895673

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A new school year can be overwhelming for children as it is, but the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a new adventure for students of all ages. Meet Charlie, a 7-year-old biracial student who is going to start her first day of school wearing a mask. Charlie and her twin brother Tye believe that they are superheroes, and they must fight the bad guys (the germs that are out there to harm) by wearing a mask. When they arrive to school they are a little nervous, but their teacher has a surprise for the class that will make wearing a mask a fun adventure. This book is for students returning to schools that will require them to wear masks, and for teachers, parents, and loved ones searching for a heartwarming, fun story that will provide peace. Charlie and the Great Maskarade is a confidence-building, back-to-school read that will help ease the apprehension of children adapting to a school year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Already Dead
Already Dead

Author: Charlie Huston

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307414515

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Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.

Syruptown
Syruptown

Author: Grant Fishtruck

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 0595482740

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His goal is to fall in love, but along the way, he starts cults, becomes a rapper, a true outdoorsman, a leader, a hero of his own time. How do I know all of this? I am the author, Grant H. Fishtruck, and I channel the experiences of this young man, alien, in my dreams. But, what is more important, the dream, or the dreamer? If you want to enjoy this book, go with both at the same time.

The Bedtrick
The Bedtrick

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 0226156443

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"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.

The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin

Author: Dan Kamin

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008-09-05

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0810877813

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From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion examines Chaplin's fusion of these arts in his films, providing new understanding of how movement communicates, how comedy routines are structured, and how stage skills can be translated to the screen. An acclaimed comic performing artist himself, Dan Kamin brings a unique insider's perspective to the subject. He explores how Chaplin's physical virtuosity led him to create the timeless visual comedy that brought silent films to their peak. Kamin uncovers the underlying principles behind the filmmaker's gags, illuminating how Chaplin conjured comedy from the fundamental physical laws of movement. He then presents provocative new interpretations of the comedian's sound films, showing how Chaplin remained faithful to his silent comedy roots even as he kept reinventing his art for changing times. Kamin also offers new insights into how Chaplin achieved rapport with audiences and demonstrates how comedy created nearly a century ago is still fresh today. Lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published images, The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin provides the only in-depth analysis of Chaplin as a movement artist and physical comedian. Revealing the inner working of Chaplin's mesmerizing art, this book will appeal not just to Chaplin fans but to anyone who loves comedy. This paperback edition features an annotated bibliography and a foreword by Scott Eyman, author of Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille and Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford.

We Boys
We Boys

Author: Bob Brown

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3385521386

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.