Author: Eric MacDicken Publisher: ISBN: 9780997314120 Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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Every town has myths, but not every town has monsters. Reston, Virginia could be the most monstered town in all the world! At least according to the recently unearthed journal, Myths & Monsters of the Lower Potowmack and Greater Falls, Virginia, 1819, by the scholarly yet skittish Dr. Padraigin W. Thalmeus, PDS. Join us and discover the supernatural creatures he faced on his perilous quest for a legendary hidden treasure!
Author: Eric MacDicken Publisher: Eric MacDicken ISBN: 9780997314137 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Every town has myths, but not every town has monsters. Reston, Virginia could be the most monstered town in all the world! At least according to the recently unearthed journal of the scholarly yet skittish Dr. Padraigin W. Thalmeus, PDS. Join us and discover the supernatural creatures he faced on his perilous quest for a legendary hidden treasure!
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0375420525 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 738
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“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Author: Watt Hamlett Publisher: Mascot Books ISBN: 9781631779534 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
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Reston A to Z takes young readers on a tour of America's first modern planned community. Your tour guide is Robert E. "Bob" Squirrel, a delightful character who perhaps bears more than a passing resemblance to Reston's beloved founder Robert E. Simon. Told in whimsical rhyming verse, each stop on this alphabetical journey features Bob Squirrel interacting with photos of the places, activities, and nature that make Reston a treasure to kids of all ages.
Author: George Lunsford Publisher: Don't Read in the Dark Publishing ISBN: 9781939670359 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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The stories in this book are stories born in the history and people of the states they are from. Each story tells of events, creatures and/or ghost unique to the area from which they were born. There are things that go bump in the night and these stories are the result of that. Inside each of us is a desire to seek out the unknown and explain it. I researched each of these tales and in some cases I found many variations of the same story. After reading this book, you can decide if you believe or not! George Lunsford has seen some things over the years that can not be explained. Some of his encounters range from his great grand mother to being in the Navy and a personal experience in the Bermuda Triangle. George has always been very interested in the things that most people only wonder about. Lunsford's show will cover everything from myths, monsters, legends, ghost, ufos, and anything else you can think of. George will let you know what really goes bump in the night. George is the host of Creepy Tales From The Caretaker. - Tuesday nights at 7PM CST.
Author: Grant Hill Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593297407 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 401
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The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace—made possible above all by a family’s love Grant Hill always had game. His choice of college was a subject of national interest, and his arrival at Duke University cemented the program’s arrival at the top. In his freshman year, he led the team to its first NCAA championship, and three championship appearances in four years. His Duke career produced some of the most iconic moments in college basketball history, and Coach K proved to be a lifelong mentor. Later, as one of the NBA’s best players and a new face of the Detroit Pistons franchise, Hill was the first person with the potential to give Michael Jordan a run for his money, not just as a player but as a brand. His $45 million rookie contract was almost the least of it. He turned down Nike for Fila, and soon Method Man and Tupac Shakur were wearing his shoes. Hill writes candidly about all of it, including the transactional impermanence of life in the league and the isolation caused by his growing fame. His parents and friends helped ground him, and eventually he met a gifted musician named Tamia. The love he found with her and the arrival of their two beautiful daughters would be his rock as a brutal and mysterious injury sidelined him, coinciding with his wife’s own serious health struggles. With openness and insight, Hill relates his entire path, including post-career highlights like his Hall of Fame induction, co-ownership of the Atlanta Hawks, the directorship of the USA Basketball Men’s National Team, and even a yearly gig calling the Final Four. Hill’s father, Calvin, used to tell him that there were always a lot of reasons but never any excuses, and Game is a distillation of a lifetime’s effort to understand the reasons—the good and the bad. At his hardest moments, Hill sought out wisdom from others, stories of inspiration and overcoming obstacles. Now, with Game, he has returned the favor.
Author: Lisa Regan Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing ISBN: 9781433950117 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Its a very rare claim that a person can makethe claim to have seen Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or a Yeti. Readers are treated to such rare experiences through amazing drawings and incredible stories. From the lakes of Africa to the farms of the United States, strange monsters have always lurked just outside human discovery, and this thrilling book sheds light on these and other mysterious creatures.
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452954496 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 709
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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
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