Download or read book Misfit Monsters written by Will Patrick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of Halloween, a vegetarian vampire runs away from home and encounters an awkward teenage werewolf with a family of cats and an ancient mummy who is afraid of the dark. The three quickly become friends. Not all monsters are Monsters. A tale of being yourself and finding people who love you for who you are and not what you are. A celebration for all of us who choose to be different by being ourselves. A fun Halloween adventure for all children and all families!
Download or read book Misfit Monsters Redeemed written by Paizo Publishing and published by Pathfinder Campaign Setting. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the trepidation of an adventurer exploring a dungeon with a sweating forehead and a 10-foot pole, Paizo proudly presents Misfit Monsters Redeemed, an in-depth look at 10 of the lamest, most-hated, and flat-out goofiest monsters ever to haunt a fantasy roleplaying campaign. This soon-to-be legendary, 64-page, full-color volume includes all-new backgrounds, expansions, and tips for monstrous lovable losers like the Adherer, Delver, Dire Corby, Disenchanter, Flail Snail, Flumph, Lava Child, Lurker Above, Tojanida and, of course, the insidious Wolf-in-Sheep's Clothing!
Download or read book Monsters written by David Connor and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood soundstage tutor Otto Brennington has always felt invisible. Then he meets super hunk Shawn Slate. Hot sex on their first date leads to a marriage proposal. With their whole lives ahead of them, they wed in Hawaii, then celebrate with a skydive, where death does them part. Otto is in for the shock of his afterlife upon discovering where he’ll now spend eternity. Once there, a series of sweet yet unexplainable visions lead him to believe the life just lost wasn’t his first. Was it also possibly not his last? With the aid of several paranormal beings, Otto learns the ins and outs of his new existence, one he plans on making temporary. Will he make it back to the land of the living and the man of his dreams? Is that man Shawn? Or will Otto decide his newest acquaintances make the place he’s in not so bad after all?
Download or read book Monsters of the World Unite written by Charles Eugene Anderson and published by Mad Cow Press. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where magic and inequality intertwine, two unlikely heroes rise to challenge the status quo. Finnian Hooffellow, a witty faun philosopher, and John Everett, a dashing human revolutionary, embark on a quest to unite the oppressed magical beings of the Whisperwoods against their tyrannical elven overlords. With a band of misfits by their side—including a mischievous goblin, a fierce pixie, and a poetic troll—Finnian and John must navigate treacherous political landscapes, forge unlikely alliances, and confront their own doubts to ignite the flames of revolution. Blending whimsy and social commentary, "Monsters of the World, Unite!" is a genre-defying tale that will make you laugh, think, and believe in the power of unity. Join Finnian and John on a hilarious and heartwarming journey as they fight for a better world—one pun at a time. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and The Princess Bride, this delightful novel is a must-read for anyone who believes that even the most unlikely heroes can change the world.
Download or read book Dancing with Monsters written by Todd Dewett, PhD and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is fear limiting your leadership potential? Dancing with Monsters will inspire you to overcome your fears and optimize your key relationships by leveraging humility, authenticity, and kindness. Fears and discomfort slow us down and sometimes completely derail our personal progress. As leaders at work, we can similarly be knocked off course by the conflict, personality differences, motivational issues, and performance problems within our teams. These obstacles are the monsters in our lives. In Dancing with Monsters, globally recognized leadership educator, author, and speaker Todd Dewett, PhD, offers an enthralling, fast-paced fable that examines how to embrace those monsters in order to harness you and your team’s true power. Joe is a depressed vampire at risk of losing his monster status due to poor performance. He is tasked with leading a group of misfit monsters who lack confidence. Sheets, Mum, Wolfy, and Z have not yet learned to do the one thing all monsters do: scare kids. Dancing with Monsters tells the story of their collective efforts, missteps included, toward connecting with their authentic selves. This captivating story plus Dewett’s discussion and reflection prompts add up to a must-read guide to reclaiming your better self by learning to dance with your monsters.
Download or read book Motogalactic Monsters and the Astro Truck Jam written by Lona Mae Shaskan and published by A Bright Start Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Misfit Monsters written by Mike Sbarbaro and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of bullies, mocklers and stressoids we need someone to rise up and prove that inner courage can conquer all obstacles. We need a hero, but not all heroes are perfect. Every hero and every person has flaws. Thus, we need a misfit. We need the Misfit Monsters. The adventures of these Middle School mavericks will encourage all who join in their journey to harness their inner misfit and believe that being different is a gift. The thrilling series begins with Book One: Goob The Ghost Goob is a 7th grade misfit with anxiety and insecurity, who yearns to be popular. So, he decides to challenge the meanest and nastiest school bully, Blark to a scare contest. There is only one problem, Goob does not want to scare anyone-he wants to be different. With his misfit friends by his side, Goob will learn that his independent spirit and unique talent are far more valuable than popularity.
Download or read book From the Grave written by Cynthia Reeg and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monster is as monster does, but Frankenstein Frightface Gordon is more concerned with keeping tidy than scaring victims. A new law puts Frank and other misfit monsters on notice, forcing Frank to prove if he is truly monster enough.
Download or read book Religion and Its Monsters written by Timothy Beal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters that lurk in our religious texts, and about how monsters and religion are deeply entwined. Horror and faith are inextricable. Ans as monsters are part of religious texts and traditions, so religion lurks in the modern horror genre, from its birth in Dante's Inferno to the contemporary spookiness of H.P. Lovecraft and the Hellraiser films. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students of religion and popular culture, as well as any readers with an interest in horror.
Download or read book Comics and Stuff written by Henry Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre. While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today’s graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary culture is awash with stuff. They give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings. Because comics take place in a completely fabricated world, everything is there intentionally. Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff. When we use the phrase “and stuff” in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like “etcetera.” In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimental attachments, and nostalgic longings that we express—or hold at bay—through our relationships with stuff. In Comics and Stuff, his first solo authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Comics and Stuff presents an innovative new way of thinking about comics and graphic novels that will change how we think about our stuff and ourselves.
Download or read book Saints and Misfits written by S. K. Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Vampires written by Jay Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are the hottest topic in popular culture today. From the now classic novels of Anne Rice, to the mega-selling series by Stephanie Meyer to the hit HBO series True Blood based on the bestselling novels of Charlaine Harris, the undead are certainly not dead in terms of books sales. Now, those curious about the history and lore of these creatures can get up to speed in the refreshed edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Vampires. It provides a detailed explanation of the origins of vampires and insight into the fascination they hold in literature and belief. • Complete history and origins of this mythic creature • An explanation of the various rules that vampires exist by • A lively and exhaustive literary discussion of vampires and their importance in fiction
Download or read book Monster Island written by Christopher Golden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffy and her gang of Scoobies head to Los Angeles to face a pure demon army that is set on destroying Angel as revenge for the death of Doyle.
Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity written by Daniela Carpi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation, composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in- or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social norms and values. The monster-evoking transgression is most often indistinguishable from reactions to the experience of otherness, merging the limits of humanity with the limits of a given culture. The topic entails a large intersection among the cultural domains of law, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and technology. Monstrosity has indeed become a necessary condition of our existence in the 21st century: it serves as a representation of change itself. In the process of analysis there are three theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, representational, ontological. The volume therefore aims at examining the concept of monstrosity from three main perspectives: technophobic, xenophobic, superdiversity. Today’s globalized world is shaped in the unprecedented phenomenon of international migration. The resistance to this phenomenon causes the demonization of the Other, seen as the antagonist and the monster. The monster becomes therefore the ethnic Other, the alien. To reach this new perspective on monstrosity we must start by examining the many facets of monstrosity, also diachronically: from the philological origin of the term to the Roman and classical viewpoint, from the Renaissance medical perspective to the religious background, from the new filmic exploitations in the 20th and 21st centuries to the very recent ethnological and anthropological points of view, to the latest technological perspective , dealing with artificial intelligence.
Download or read book The Truths of Monsters written by Ildikó Limpár and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols, guarding the borders that society creates to protect its values and norms. Adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at crossing borders to learn the rules of the culture that one will fit into as an adult. Exploring the roles of monsters in coming-of-age narratives and the need to confront and understand the monstrous, this work explores recent developments in the presentation of monsters--such as the vampire, the zombie, and the man-made monster--in maturation narratives, then moves on to discuss monsters inhabiting the psychic landscapes of child characters. Finally, it touches on monsters in science fiction, in which facing the monstrous is a variation of the New World narrative. Discussions of novels by M. R. Carey, Suzanne Collins, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Sarah Maria Griffin, Seanan McGuire, Stephenie Meyer, Patrick Ness, and Jon Skovron are complemented by analysis of television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Westworld.
Download or read book The Adventures of Tamisin written by Madeline Reynolds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine, one moment, you are living a perfectly normal life in a perfectly normal place with perfectly normal people. Next thing you know, you've been dropped in an alternate universe! This is what happens to a girl named Tamisin who, while searching for her father who's been missing for six months, falls into the world of Biblique. There, with her new friends, Carter and Frank, she goes on loads of whimsical adventures on her mission to get home. And as she explores more of this unique place, she finds herself solving a mystery that may cost her the people she loves most.
Download or read book Disney PIXAR Monsters Inc and Monsters University the Story of the Movies in Comics written by Charles Bazaldua and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mike Wazowski and hotshot James P. Sullivan--Sulley--are in for a wild ride as their competitive spirit gets them in trouble at both the university and at Monsters Inc. Along the way they'll learn the value of working together and just how powerful laughter really is in this ... journey that brings Disney Pixar's Monsters Inc. and Monsters University from the screen to your fingertips"--
