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Meet Jimmy Strange
Ernest DudleyJimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected.
Charm and Strange
Stephanie KuehnThe pace, tension and raw emotion within this books for teens is almost palpable. Charm and Strange is a book that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page.
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Hunter S. ThompsonBrings together a selection of the legendary American journalist's articles on subjects ranging from the Super Bowl to Watergate, from Hemingway to Brando, and from sharks to drugs.
Cincinnati Magazine
Full viewLarry Carpenter, however, has put the cart before the horse. He began a profitable business in order to make a charitable contribution. It's an idea that's strange. Strange enough that he's had a hard time finding anyone to accept his goodwill.
Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and ...
Jerome ClarkDelivering the possible truths of more than 200 unexplained mysteries, this collection applies an authoritative, intelligent, and reasoned examination of strange artifacts and events that have perplexed scientists.
World of Reading This is Doctor Strange: Level 1
Alexandra West"Based on the Marvel comic book series Doctor Strange."
The Enchanted Typewriter: Bangs Classic Collection
John Kendrick BangsIt is a strange fact, for which I do not expect ever satisfactorily to account, and which will receive little credence even among those who know that I am not given to romancing—it is a strange fact, I say, that the substance of the ...
Lyme Stones
Richard NobleThere was noone close to them and so Victoria told Simon about the strange goings on at Jenny's the day before and the visits to the shop by Tom Shields and Bill Wilder. She found it strange to see Jenny using a safe. “But surely it is normal ...
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Christian CarylWeaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these upheavals marked a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around ...
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human ...
Carolyn SteedmanUsing the perspectives of social and cultural history, and the history of psychology and physiology, Strange Dislocations traces a search for the self, for a past that is lost and gone, and the ways in which, over the last hundred years, ...
Strange Heart Beating
Eli GoldstoneA darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender.
Collected Works of Guy Le Strange: The Medieval Islamic World
Guy le StrangeSpanish had indeed become important to him in his latter years, and his last major work was not a translation from Arabic or Persian but from Castilian: Ruy Gonz ́alez de Clavijo's fascinating Embassy to Tamerlane, which provides a vivid and ...
Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History
Kenneth CoatesIn Strange Things Done, Ken Coates and William Morrison investigate a series of murders in the pre-World War II era to determine the boundaries between myth and reality.
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of ...
Tanner ColbyWeaving together the personal, intimate stories of everyday people—black and white—Colby reveals the strange, sordid history of what was supposed to be the end of Jim Crow, but turned out to be more of the same with no name.
Ten Million Aliens: A journey through our strange planet
Simon BarnesThis is the momentous story of the millions of species - sometimes unimaginably strange - that make up the animal kingdom.Humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid ...
Strange Glory: A life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charles MarshYet none of this would matter if one did not want to turn the pages. Strange Glory tells Bonhoeffer's story with accuracy and insight but more than that, it is a joy to read.' Stephen J. Plant, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Almost Her: The Strange Dilemma of Being Nearly Famous
Caroline PaulThat was the life of Caroline Paul, who looked just like a celebrity - her own identical twin. With humor and insight, Paul explores the strange world of fame from the wry perspective of an ordinary person.
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
Rebecca WestIn this intellectually challenging collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art’s value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history “The Strange Necessity,” one of the twelve ...
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese ...
Judith T. ZeitlinThis is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical ...
Fat Girl in a Strange Land
Jennifer BrozekCrossed Genres Publications presents Fat Girl in a Strange Land, an anthology of fourteen stories of fat women protagonists traveling distant and undiscovered realms.
Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age ...
Andrew RossIntended as a contribution to a "green" cultural criticism, Strange Weather is a provocative investigation of the ways in which science is shaping the popular imagination of today, and delimiting the possibilities of tomorrow.
Proposals for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned
Michael SheehanIn his debut collection, Michael Sheehan's tales of obsession make the familiar strange and the strange familiar, recalling the staggering capacity of David Foster Wallace and presenting a fresh spin on the traditions of Barth and Barthelme ...
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. HeinleinThe original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The late C. Vann WoodwardThe Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v.
Strange Itineraries: The complete short fiction of Tim Powers
Tim PowersStrange Itineraries takes you down haunted byways into the heart of Tim Powers country, where you will find turbulent ghosts, secretive immortals and mysterious Ether Bunnies.
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of ...
Susan KoppelmanTHE STRANGE HISTORY OF SUZANNE LAFLESHE Ho His Seamon Fat women are twice as likely to enjoy sex and to reach orgasm, compared to thin women, according to a survey conducted by Weight Watchers magazine. (A full 85 percent ...
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis ...
Lynn Wood MollenauerIn Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King&’s capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel.
Selling Modernity: A Study of "All-Story Monthly" ("Yueyue ...
Yiting Ethan Zheng341-80 36 For studies of the genre, see Robert Campany, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996); Judith Zeitlin, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese ...
The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and ...
Guy Le StrangeThe Lands of the Eastern Caliphate is a complementary work to Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate, and includes some records from Palestine under the Moslems, making this work ideal for any student of Le Strange's translations.
Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John ...
Jennifer PotterJennifer Potter's book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
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