The Fun House

Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618871713

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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Pdf

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425250648

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The Funhouse by Dean Koontz Pdf

Evil comes in frightening and familiar forms in this terrifying novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate—and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands... Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children—Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins, because the carnival is coming back to town...

Author : Diane Hoh
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453248119

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Funhouse by Diane Hoh Pdf

DIVA high schooler suspects that a tragic roller coaster crash wasn’t an accident/div DIVIf it weren’t for the Boardwalk, the small town of Santa Luisa might disappear altogether. The amusement park employs half the town’s workers, pulls in tourists, and gives teenagers like Tess Landers someplace to hang out on the weekends. Tess is eating a hot dog when the Boardwalk’s roller coaster—the Devil’s Elbow—jumps the track, hangs for a moment in the air, and then plummets to the ground. One of Tess’s classmates is dead on impact, two are forever maimed, and over twenty others are taken to the hospital. It’s the worst tragedy Santa Luisa has ever seen, but it’s only the beginning./divDIV /divDIVAs people rush to help, Tess spies a black-suited figure running away from the crowd. The crash was no accident. Five more teens will suffer before the killer is through, and Tess may be about to put herself on the list of victims./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804152501

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Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.

Author : Brittany Canasi
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683425090

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Phantom at the Funhouse by Brittany Canasi Pdf

Something creepy is lurking in the funhouse at the annual school carnival. Can the G.H.O.S.T. Squad solve the case in time so their school can raise the money it badly needs?

Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439684277

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I Spy, Mystery by Jean Marzollo Pdf

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.

Author : Bill Zehme
Publisher : Delta
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307428462

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Lost in the Funhouse by Bill Zehme Pdf

From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished, never-before-seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and key players in Andy's endless charades, many of whom have become icons in their own right, Lost in the Funhouse takes us through the maze of Kaufman's mind and lets us sit deep behind his mad, dazzling blue eyes to see, firsthand, the fanciful landscape that was his life. Controversial, chaotic, splendidly surreal, and tragically brief--what a life it was. Andy Kaufman was often a mystery even to his closest friends. Remote, aloof, impossible to know, his internal world was a kaleidoscope of characters fighting for time on the outside. He was as much Andy Kaufman as he was Foreign Man (dank you veddy much), who became the lovably bashful Latka on the hit TV series Taxi. He was as much Elvis Presley as he was the repugnant Tony Clifton, a lounge singer from Vegas who hated any audience that came to see him and who seemed to hate Andy Kaufman even more. He was a contradiction, a paradox on every level, an artist in every sense of the word. During the comic boom of the seventies, when the world had begun to discover the prodigious talents of Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and so many others, Andy was simply doing what he had always done in his boyhood reveries. On the debut of Saturday Night Live, he stood nervously next to a phonograph that scratchily played the theme from Mighty Mouse. He fussed and fidgeted, waiting for his moment. When it came, he raised his hand and moved his mouth to the words "Here I come to save the day!" In that beautiful deliverance of pantomime before the millions of people for whom he had always dreamed about performing, Andy triumphed. He changed the face of comedy forever by lurching across boundaries that no one knew existed. He was the boy who made life his playground and never stopped playing, even when the games proved too dangerous for others. And in the end he would play alone, just as he had when it was all only beginning. In Lost in the Funhouse, Bill Zehme sorts through a life of disinformation put forth by a master of deception to uncover the motivation behind the manipulation. Magically entertaining, it is a singular biography matched only by its singular subject.

Author : Jean Marzollo,Walter Wick
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439787300

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I Spy Fun House by Jean Marzollo,Walter Wick Pdf

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the phohotographs.

Author : Jack C. Harris
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0307000974

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Lost in the Fun House by Jack C. Harris Pdf

Author : Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain
Publisher : inchworm Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Haunted houses
ISBN : 1577192567

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Berenstain Bears in the Spooky Fun House by Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain Pdf

When the Bear family visits the haunted house, Papa discovers that sometimes it's the biggest bear who gets the biggest scare! The book is popping with fun for the entire family. Full color.

Author : Susan Hill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064443035

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Stuart at the Library by Susan Hill Pdf

What could be more peaceful than spending an afternoon at the library? For Stuart Little, the library turns out to be anything but that after he meets Bookworm, the library's owl. Bookworm has plans to make Stuart his next meal -- unless Stuart can think fast! Inspired by the hit movie Stuart Little, this new story will have Stuart's many fans on the edge of their seats!

Author : Lynda Barry
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015056463592

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The Fun House by Lynda Barry Pdf

Comic strips from "Ernie Pook's Comique" on the humorous but often perilous joys of childhood.

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780749386696

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Pdf

Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers.

Author : Robert Ellis Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106011268684

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The Funhouse Mirror by Robert Ellis Gordon Pdf

"Prisons are hard places to get into and harder yet to get out of," writes Robert Ellis Gordon as he takes you on a remarkable eight-year journey into the Washington State corrections system. As a writing teacher in the state¿s prisons from 1989 until 1998, Gordon had the unique experience of gaining access to the system¿s darkest realms while still being free to walk away from penitentiary confines at the end of the day. His account is aided by essays and stories contributed by six extraordinary inmates--works that give this book an unforgettable edge. Together, Gordon and his students provide revealing glimpses of this vast secret-laden subculture of incarcerated individuals, which nationwide comprises more than two million U.S. citizens. Here is a gallery of portraits of prison life, from the female guard who tantalizes male inmates with her sexuality to the terrified young fish trying to stave off other prisoners. The stories are jarring, harsh, compelling. A surprising--and frequently searing--examination of the prison experience, seen from both inside and out¿ memorable and gripping."--Kirkus Reviews

Author : Disney Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368066488

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Mickey Mouse Funhouse Get Ready for Fun! by Disney Books Pdf

Based on the new Disney Junior animated series, this board book is perfect for the Mickey Mouse fan in your life. Includes simple text and colorful illustrations! Every page is a Funhouse adventure! This sturdy board book shaped like Funny the Funhouse is a hands-on reading experience for little ones. Funny the Funhouse is the imagination station--if you can dream it, Funny can do it! Take a tour and see all the amazing places Funny can go. Geared towards kids ages 2-7, this book will encourage imaginative play and focus on themes of friendship and creativity. For more Mickey fun, check out: Mickey Mouse Funhouse Homesick! Mickey Mouse Funhouse Dino Doggies Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Easter Hunt Disney Junior Mickey: Box of Mickey Fun World of Reading: Disney Junior Mickey: Friendship Tales World of Reading: Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures Campy Camper Day