The Strange One

Author : Jeremy Jusay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781982101169

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The Strange Ones by Jeremy Jusay Pdf

Filled with visceral and engaging prose, this graphic novella offers a nostalgic look at two young misfits who manage to find belonging and heartbreak in each other’s friendship. Anjeline walks with an open heart, but alone, through a world that consistently rejects her; Franck, another loner, never smiles. After the hand of fate literally shoves them together in the roiling mosh pit at a Midtown rock concert, they bond over the long commute back to Staten Island, and begin a friendship that makes the world a little better for them both. Together, this strange pair turns the sharp-edged, gloomy New York City into their playground...even as pain and heartbreak await around the corner.

Author : Fred Bodsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0722117264

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The Strange One by Fred Bodsworth Pdf

Author : Jérôme Ruillier
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465848

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The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier Pdf

The Strange follows an unnamed, undocumented immigrant who tries to forge a new life in a Western country where he doesn’t speak the language. Jérôme Ruillier’s story is deftly told through myriad viewpoints, as each narrator recounts a situation in which they crossed paths with the newly-arrived foreigner. Many of the people he meets are suspicious of his unfamiliar background, or of the unusual language they do not understand. By employing this third-person narrative structure, Ruillier masterfully portrays the complex plight of immigrants and the vulnerability of being undocumented. The Strange shows one person’s struggle to adapt while dealing with the often brutal and unforgiving attitudes of the employers, neighbors, and strangers who populate this new land. Ruillier employs a bold visual approach of colored pencil drawings complemented by a stark, limited palette of red, orange and green backgrounds. Its beautiful simplicity represents the almost child-like hope and promise that is often associated with new beginnings. But as Ruillier implicitly suggests, it’s a promise that can shatter at a moment’s notice when the threat of being deported is a daily and terrifying reality. The Strange has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

Author : Fred Bodsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:gb60013384

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The Strange One by Fred Bodsworth Pdf

Author : Amy Alznauer
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592703432

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The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor by Amy Alznauer Pdf

“I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that, in the end, the last word will be theirs.” —Flannery O’Connor When she was young, the writer Flannery O’Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She’d watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk forwards and backwards were featured in the Pathé News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life. Written by Amy Alznauer with devotional attention to all things odd and illustrated in radiant paint by Ping Zhu, The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor explores the beginnings of one author’s lifelong obsession. Amy Alznauer lives in Chicago with her husband, two children, a dog, a parakeet, sometimes chicks, and a part-time fish, but, as of today, no elephants or peacocks. Ping Zhu is a freelance illustrator who has worked with clients big and small, won some awards based on the work she did for aforementioned clients, attracted new clients with shiny awards, and is hoping to maintain her livelihood in Brooklyn by repeating that cycle.

Author : Reza Farazmand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780735220119

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Comics for a Strange World by Reza Farazmand Pdf

Don’t Miss Poorly Drawn Lines on Cake, airing on FX and streaming on FX on Hulu! Absurd comics for our absurd times, from the artist behind the wildly popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines—the perfect gift for comic book fans! In his follow up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time, space, and alternate realities, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting them with even more bizarre scenarios. A child is arrested for plagiarism. A squirrel adapts to human society by purchasing a cell phone—and a gun. And an old man shares memories of the Internet with his granddaughter (“A vast network of millions of idiots. Together, the idiots created endless shitty ideas. It was a true renaissance of shit.”). In the world of Poorly Drawn Lines, nothing is too weird or too outlandish for parody.

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616142902

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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder Pdf

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780465008377

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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter Pdf

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called “I.” The “I” is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real—or is our “I” merely a convenient fiction? Does an “I” exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.

Author : Sarah Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Fire, London, England, 1666
ISBN : 1004023154

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The Strange Adventures of H by Sarah Burton Pdf

Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H's life is a happy one until her lecherous cousin robs her of her innocence, and the plague takes away the city and the people she loves. H is cast out - friendless, pregnant and destitute - into the rapidly emptying streets of London under quarantine.

Author : Leslye Walton
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763670344

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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton Pdf

A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava — in all other ways a normal girl — is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.

Author : Greg Mitchell
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616384142

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The Strange Man by Greg Mitchell Pdf

DIV Dras Weldon is a twenty-two-year-old unemployed washout. He lives in a world populated by horror movies and comic books, content to hide in the shadow of adolescence. /div

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224222

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The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner Pdf

Three early stories of myth, regime, and harlotry by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers. An explorer’s whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully — the three short fictions gathered in The Great Exception build into a vision of Cuba that is black-humored, brutal, and beautiful. Written prior to the publication of Rachel Kushner’s first acclaimed novel Telex From Cuba, these stories, like Roberto Bolano’s Antwerp, burst forth with the genesis of her fictional universe as though fired from a cannon. From the mythical title story, to the ominous “Debouchment” — originally published in her too short-lived journal Soft Targets — to the sexy and noirish “Strange Case of Rachel K,” this is Kushner saddling up for a journey into the wilds of the modern novel.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827661

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The Stranger by Albert Camus Pdf

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Author : Calder Willingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1310588991

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End as a Man by Calder Willingham Pdf

Author : Michael Atchison-Sprankle
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781644627808

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The Strange, Lethal Friend by Michael Atchison-Sprankle Pdf

Jim Standish, a certifiable tough guy, had been given a medical discharge by his government and was floating through life. While saving a co-worker's life, he lost his low-stress job and befriended a lethal AI robot who could and would quietly kill anyone it distrusted. . . including Jim, if he was careless. While helping his new friend, Jim got engaged to a beautiful, tough, no-nonsense attorney who had her own special talents . . . and problems, even an incredible inheritance that she told no one about. He set up his own sleuth agency to be near her. His first project was more dangerous than expected, and now his fiancée has been targeted for assassination by bad guys who are after Jim