Download or read book I Want to Marry Godzilla and Have His Children written by Melle Shipwash Starsen and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2001-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey decides that marrying a fictional movie monster is less painful than getting involved with any more men. Using humor, controversy, and an evocative story, this novel depicts Zoey's pilgrimage to discover why she keeps getting involved with men who steal part of her soul and hurt her physically and how she lost herself in anything that might add to her fantasy world in the process.
Download or read book My Real Children written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War-those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles? Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history; each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. Jo Walton's My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives...and of how every life means the entire world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Zombie in Love enhanced eBook edition written by Kelly DiPucchio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone’s favorite zombie romance picture book is now available as an enhanced eBook with animation and audio narration! Mortimer is looking for love. And he’s looking everywhere! He’s worked out at the gym (if only his arm wouldn't keep falling off). He’s tried ballroom dancing lessons (but the ladies found him to be a bit stiff). He’s even been on stalemate.com. How’s a guy supposed to find a ghoul? When it seems all hope has died, could the girl of Mortimer's dreams be just one horrifying shriek away?
Download or read book Killing Monsters written by Gerard Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokemon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even violent and trashy entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way. Drawing on a wealth of true stories, many gleaned from the fascinating workshops he conducts, and basing his claims on extensive research, including interviews with psychologists and educators, Gerard Jones explains why validating our children's fantasies teaches them to trust their own emotions, helps them build stronger selves, leaves them less at the mercy of the pop-culture industry, and strengthens parent-child bonds. Jones has written for the Spider-Man, Superman, and X-Men comic books and created the Haunted Man series for the Web. He has also explored the cultural meanings of comic books and sitcoms in two well-received books. In Killing Monsters he presents a fresh look at children's fantasies, the entertainment industry, and violence in the modern imagination. This reassuring book, as entertaining as it is provocative, offers all of us-parents, teachers, policymakers, media critics-new ways to understand the challenges and rewards of explosive material. News From Killing Monsters: Packing a toy gun can be good for your son-or daughter. Contrary to public opinion, research shows that make-believe violence actually helps kids cope with fears. Explosive entertainment should be a family affair. Scary TV shows can have a bad effect when children have no chance to discuss them openly with adults. It's crucial to trust kids' desires. What excites them is usually a sign of what they need emotionally. Violent fantasy is one of the best ways for kids to deal with the violence they see in real life.
Download or read book The Substitute Book II Hardcover written by Tionne Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constantin Repin is well dead but Alexander Kuragin lives for you, my angel. I clearly said that you were closing a part of your life and I was opening another. I love you too much to deny you this opportunity. A fresh new start, away from Lintorff and all the others." Frustrated and disgusted with his life as Lord Consort of one of the most terrifying secret societies known to mankind, a new world opened for artist Guntram de Lisle, away from the man he loved but had hurt him like no one else before. Would he take the opportunity to raise a family on his own? Would Konrad von Lintorff let him go? Would Alexander Kuragin keep his word? Book trailer can be found at: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzABI7CdMlc&feature=plcp
Download or read book My Lesbian Husband written by Barrie Jean Borich and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich asks a fascinating question: do the names we give our relationships change their meanings? Each chapter entertains an aspect of this question with prose that is spirited, artful, anything but pat. Here is an author who takes neither love nor the power of language for granted, and her book is as provocative and lively as the love it evokes. An extraordinary performance by a writer who renews our wonder at the complexity of human connection."—Bernard Cooper "Barrie Jean Borich wins my respect with her ingenious and original description of feelings which, for many, need translating into a familiar language. She writes about her lover and their life together with a rare deftness, clarity, and antic sense of humor, never strident or defensive, rather self-confident and as if she herself were curious to discover what she is thinking about their relationship."—Rosellen Brown
Download or read book Small in the City written by Sydney Smith and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first picture book that the award-winning Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated is a story about feeling small in the city — and finding your way home. On a snowy day in a big city, a little boy hops off a streetcar and walks through downtown, between office buildings, through parks and down busy streets. Along the way, he provides helpful tips about which alleys make good shortcuts, which trees to climb and where to find a friendly face. All the while, the boy searches for what he has lost ... The first book that award-winning illustrator Sydney Smith has written tells a story of what it means to get lost in the city, travel the wrong path and get caught in bad weather — and to ultimately find your way back home. His beautiful watercolour illustrations alternate between full spreads and small panels, evoking the sometimes overwhelming cacophony of urban sights and sounds, as well as the quiet moments that make all of us feel less small in the city. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
Download or read book Bambi vs Godzilla written by David Mamet and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with Mamet’s signature style and wit.
Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.
Download or read book Finding God Beyond Harvard written by Kelly Monroe Kullberg and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging narrative and provocative content come together in this mind-stretching and heart-challenging journey. Come with Kelly Monroe Kullberg on an intellectual road trip as The Veritas Forum explores the deepest questions of the university world and the culture at large. Discover that Veritas transcends philosophy or religion and instead brings us to true life.
Download or read book Pandora s Garden written by Clinton Crockett Peters and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandora's Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora's Garden are like the biospheres of the globe; as the successive chapters unfold, they blend together like ecotones, creating a microcosm of the world in which we sustain nonhuman lives but also contain them. There are many reasons particular flora and fauna may be unwanted, from the physical to the psychological. Sometimes they may possess inherent qualities that when revealed help us to interrogate human perception and our relationship to an unwanted other. Pandora's Garden is primarily about creatures that humans don't get along with, such as rattlesnakes and sharks, but the chapters also take on a range of other subjects, including stolen children in Australia, the treatment of illegal immigrants in Texas, and the disgust function of the human limbic system. Peters interweaves these diverse subjects into a whole that mirrors the evolving and interrelated world whose surprises and oddities he delights in revealing.
Download or read book Marriage a History written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is - and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today's marital debate.
Download or read book The Last Taboo written by Rosemary Agonito and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Taboo' makes the case against having babies despite fierce, centuries old pressure on women to legitimate themselves through motherhood. Motherhood is the most important issue for a woman since it impacts everything in her life and exerts incredible pressure. This alternative, saying no to babies, will be welcome to women who are considering having babies, who are not sure about children, who don't want to have children but feel they must, who resent pressure to become pregnant, and who feel stigmatized for not having had children. Feminists, environmentalists, progressives will also benefit, as will academic programs in women's studies and family.
Download or read book Wicked But Sometimes I Call Her Mama written by Brenda; Angel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950’s and 60’s, dark skin was an unacceptable stigma, especially in the South. Planting seeds and giving birth to ignorance among blacks; evolving into vicious racism against each other. This book depicts the mind of an abrasive woman that became increasingly worse as her life progressed. Honey Mae didn’t give a damn what people thought, black, white or otherwise. Honey Mae does what she wants to do, no matter whom she hurts; not even her only grandchild, Rheese, who just so happens to have dark skin. With Honey Mae, you will love her or hate her but you have to choose, there is no room for being indecisive. If it is left up to her, she will make you hate her.
Download or read book Mama Peavy Says Women It s OK to Marry an Ugly Man written by Mary R. Butler and published by Green Olive Tree Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama Peavy is a not-so called minister that delivers a message that is needed among the single women population. That message is that it's OK to marry an ugly man. This book talks about the idea of marrying an ugly man and gives five hilarious reasons why a woman should consider marrying one. And if you are already married, you will still find this book very funny and a perfect gift for your single friend.
Download or read book In Godzilla s Footsteps written by W. Tsutsui and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.
Download or read book Frankenstein Takes the Cake written by Adam Rex and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen funny poems look at the secret lives of Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, Bigfoot, Godzilla, etc.
