Download or read book Crazy Days written by James Howerton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her favorite color was black. She dressed in black jeans and black blouses, and wore a strange black veil cape that seemed to swirl a shadow mist behind her as she passed. Her form was never still; even when she rested, the darkness swam around her. She had a dangerous need to fl aunt herself in front of the cameras to draw attention to herself, though her face was nearly always hidden behind the fluttering black veil. She wore black fingerless gloves and black eye shadow and a spider ring. Her visible body was covered in tattoos and piercings. The cameras called her Pin Cushion, and she sneered at them. The cameras called her Goth Girl, and she sneered at them. She was attractive, and her face and expressions fascinated men. But she made herself too scary and bitchy to find some stupid romance. She was not attracted to men or women; she was attracted to no one. She seemed determined to despise life; and sometimes she got a plummeting sense in her stomach that it was quickly coming to an end. She wanted no human to know her or any part of her lonely and uneventful existence. She wanted no one to know her secret, but those who worked with her suspected: She could read the cameras. Like her veil-cape, Cassandra fl owed through life in a dark mist. She had enrolled at San Diego State, but the superficial syrup of academia had soon turned her off. It was a place where professors taught knowing they were in the cameras. Where classmates laughed at her and chittered in the eyes of the cameras. She lived in an efficiency apartment just off El Cajon Boulevard, and most of her money went to the rent. She ate simple and cheap Paleofood: raw fruits and vegetables, unsalted mixed nuts. She did not want to, nor could she use her kitchen. She ate tuna out of the can after straining it. One day she talked about the curse; she didnt know why.
Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Download or read book Itsy Bitsy Spider written by Richard Egielski and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you already know the story of the itsy-bitsy spider, think again. From a Caldecott medalist comes a dynamic pop-up interpretation of a classic song. Every child learns the song as a toddler, but they’ve never seen it this way before! Caldecott medalist Richard Egielski brings “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” vividly to life with intricate paper constructions on every page: the baseball-cap-wearing spider literally climbs up the water spout, and is deluged by raindrops for “down came the rain.” And when the sun magnificently reappears, the spider happily resumes his climb—up to Mama! Ideal for fans of Robert Sabuda, this pop-up creation brilliantly captures the resilient spirit of a timeless tune and belongs in every child’s collection. Even Miss Muffet would welcome this spider into her library.
Download or read book The Spider s Lair written by Guy Bass and published by Tiger Tales. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth book in the Stitch Head series, Stitch Head and fellow creation Ivo set out to rescue Arabella from the orphanage where she was taken--but they'll have to get past the creepy spider monster first! When Arabella's grandmother dies, Arabella is taken to a local orphanage against her will. Stitch Head and Ivo, a fellow creation of Mad Professor Erasmus, set out to rescue her by pretending to be newcomers at the orphanage. But in order to save their friend, they'll have to get past the creepy spider monster first! Features black-and-white gothic-inspired illustrations throughout. Welcome to Castle Grotteskew, where Mad Professor Erasmus makes creatures out of spare parts and then casts them aside, looking to make bigger and better. Stitch Head, his first creation, has a heart of gold and is always willing to show the other monsters the ropes—and bail them out of trouble! Join Stitch Head and the other occupants of the castle in this exciting series, full of adventures of an almost-lifetime!
Download or read book Spider Verse written by Jed Mackay and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spider-Verse (2019) #1-6. Miles Morales falls through a dimensional portal into a new multiversal adventure! Wait, wasn’t the Web of Life and Destiny destroyed? Maybe not, True Believer! But who spun this new web? And why? Whatever the answers, the entire Spider-Verse is in big trouble — and it’s time to come together once again! Featuring wall-crawlers familiar and new, including a world where Aunt May became the super-powered Spider-Ma’am! Fan-favorite Peni Parker, A.K.A. SP//dr! The beyond-the-grave return of Spider-Man Noir! Sheriff Stacy vs. the Sinister Sextet! And who is…Spider-Zero?! Can Miles and his friends repair the Web and return balance to the multiverse? Thrill to bombastic battles against some of the scariest villains in Marvel history — and #SPIDERSONAS from some of the biggest Spidey fans and creators out there!
Download or read book This Book Is Full of Spiders written by David Wong and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fan favorite Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation "John Dies at the End," soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti.
Download or read book The Spider s Web written by Sophia Beaumont and published by Torquere Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being released from a Toronto psych ward, Evie decides that her life needs a drastic change. Moving 500 miles east to stay with her aunt in Montreal, however, is not turning out as expected. Though she loves the city, she can’t outrun the problems that drove her to the edge in the first place. Recovery might be a little easier if not for Micha. Handsome, kind, always willing to help Evie or cheer her on--and completely invisible to everyone else. He seems to think he’s some kind of guardian angel, and she might need one now that things have gone from bad to just plain weird. It started with the spiders--ghostly spiders that showed up out of nowhere, swarming over Evie while she was home alone. Then the owls started following her. Her search of answers dredges up past lives, secret societies, and one very angry goddess. She’s going to need help from some very powerful friends if she wants to make it to her next birthday, but when one of those friends is the goddess of the underworld, she might need more help than a guardian angel can provide.
Download or read book The Very Busy Spider written by Eric Carle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand--not by the horse, cow, sheep, goat, or dog. But when the rooster asks if she wants to catch a pesky fly, the busy spider is able to catch it in her web immediately!
Download or read book Chick written by Christopher Blankley and published by Five Bob Book Mob. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their words are like music to his ears. But not in a good way. The doctors call it Harmonic Dissociative Aphasia. Chick calls it hell. To him, everyone, everywhere sounds, as if they’’re talk-singing every word. It’’s enough to drive a guy insane, but it explains the headphones. Chick always wears the headphones, blocking out the noise of the world. They play nothing but silence, keeping the music out, not in. Seven years ago, Chick’’s wife, Beth, vanished. Gone. Some say she left him, moved to Seattle, to manage grunge bands, but Chick knows she was the last victim of the Wild Side Killer, one of half-a-dozen women killedd, up and down the I-5 corridor in the late 80’sEighties. But the Wild Side case has gone cold. The killer stopped in his rampage as suddenly as he began, leaving no clues behind. That’’s why Chick took the job at the county morgue. Forever vigilant. It doesn’’t hurt that his coworkers aren’’t too chatty. Dead silent, even. When the body of a young nurse is brought in, strangled, Chick is the first to realize she’’s a new, fresh victim of the Wild Side Killer. But the police have long since stopped listening to Chick’’s wild theories. Everyone has. Everyone except the young, college dropout, working at the local computer store. She’’s the first person to listen to Chick’’s wild theories in a long time.
Download or read book The Door in the Sky written by Eric M. Hunter and published by Eric M. Hunter. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric M Hunter’s popular writing podcast #flashfiction takes you through the writing process from inspiration to narration. Now all of those stories and writing insights are bound in a single book with brand new author notes, amusing stories, and thoughts on the writing process edited for maximum enjoyment and education. Come for the fun flash fiction stories and stay for a look behind the creative curtain.
Download or read book Grammar Works 1 Student s Book written by Michael Gammidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar Works 1 provides contextualised grammar practice for young students (10 - 14 year olds). It will take learners from complete beginner level up to elementary. It is designed to supplement a course book to consolidate grammar content and can be used for homework or as revision material.
Download or read book The Way of Spider written by W. Michael Gear and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1989-01-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling sequel to Gear's groundbreaking sci-fi debut, The Warriors of Spider Rebellion on Sirius threatened to become the spark that would set the galaxy ablaze, bringing on the destruction of the Directorate-run empire—a tyranny powered by an elite corps of human, computer-linked brains. The Directorate’s only hope of overthrowing the Sirian rebels rested with three of its once-mighty but now battle-damaged Patrol ships, three backup warships, and a rate of primitive, long planet-bound warriors—the Romanans. For the Directorate had spent many centuries breeding initiative and the capability for violent action out of the human race. And only on the lost colony of World did true warriors of spider still exist. But would the Romanans willingly join the cause of the star men who had once attempted to destroy their world? And even if they did, could warriors so newly exposed to the weapons of deadly technology defeat a world and a leader ready to utilize legendary tools of destruction more lethal than any humankind had ever known?
Download or read book CAP Mot written by Barry L. Goodson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water buffalo dung to keep the mosquitoes away. Ordinary villagers like Mamasan Tou would set up a security network so the CAP marines could afford the occasional luxury of a nap or a few minutes to write a letter home. The only time a CAP marine left the jungle was when he was rotating home, wounded or dead. Goodson's thirteen-month tour of duty was almost over when he was wounded. He spent several weeks in various hospitals before going home, and facing a whole.
Download or read book In a Spider s Web written by C. F. Kinnaman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amazing Spider Man written by Jody Houser and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (2016) #19-23. The adventures continue for Marvels favorite radioactive-spider-powered nuclear family! And things kick off with a little trip for Peter and MJ! A 401(k), insurance and vacation days just arent part of the package when youre a super hero. But Mr. and Mrs. Parker have been saving up for a just the two of us vacation since Annie was born, and they arent going to let trouble no matter how catastrophic get in their way! But something sinister this way comes could this be the start of Annies very own clone saga?! Find out as an army of Spider-Doppelgangers attack! But thats just the beginning the master plan of the villain behind it all could threaten superhumans across the globe!
Download or read book Looking for True written by Tricia Springstubb and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two unlikely friends bond over shared compassion for a bereft but lovable dog, they learn what it truly means to find a sense of belonging and identity. Eleven-year-olds Gladys and Jude live in the same small rust belt town, and go to the same school, but they are definitely not friends. Gladys is a tiny, eccentric, walking dictionary who doesn’t hesitate to express herself, while Jude likes to keep his thoughts and feelings to himself. But they both agree that a new dog in the neighborhood is being mistreated by its owner. Gladys would like to do something to help, while Jude is more resigned to the situation— until the dog (who Gladys has named True Blue) disappears. They hatch a plan to find her, and once they do, realize they have a problem: Gladys’s father is allergic and Jude’s mother hates dogs. There is no way they can bring her home. They hide True Blue in an abandoned house on the edge of town, but as their ties to the dog—and to one another—deepen, so does the impossibility of keeping such a big secret. Yet giving True up will break all three of their hearts. Told in alternating voices set in a small, rust-belt town, Looking for True is a story about family, identity, and finding friends in unexpected places. A Horn Book Fanfare Title
Download or read book Where the Sea Takes Me written by Heidi R. Kling and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years later might as well be two lifetimes. Sienna’s in college, working hard to achieve her dreams, and trying to love another boy—and halfway succeeding. She’d be totally happy with her life if she could just stop dreaming about him. Deni. The boy she left behind on the shores of Banda Aceh. When she gets word Deni’s coming to America, Sea’s world shifts. And when he arrives on her doorstep, she's shaken to the core. Sparks don’t just fly, they soar—and threaten to burn down the new life she’s so patiently, persistently, built. When they’re both invited to join a relief mission in Cambodia, they jump at the chance to help...and be together. As the time and distance between them melts away in the sticky Cambodian heat, Sienna knows her heart can’t take losing him again. And that’s exactly what might happen. Each title in the Sea series is best enjoyed in order: Series order: Book 1 - Where I Found You Book 2 - Where the Sea Takes Me
