Double Jinx

Author : Nancy Reddy
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319387
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Jinx written by Nancy Reddy and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark narratives about femininity . . . Reddy channels the vibe and energy of Plath and Sexton, but it’s her arresting language that’s the real draw here.” —Publishers Weekly Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations—both figurative and literal—that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton’s Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgänger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of Grey’s Anatomy in which she finds a “pink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection. Could she / be pink inside like that? No decent girl / would go around the world like that, uncooked.” The collection culminates in an understanding of the ways we construct ourselves, whether it be by way of imitation, performance, and/or transformation. And it looks forward as well, for in coming to understand our identities as essentially malleable, we are liberated. Or as the author writes, “we’ll be our own gods now.” “Exquisitely crafted poems . . . an exploration of woman’s manifold selves.” —Rebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077514
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nancy Drew 50: The Double Jinx Mystery written by Carolyn Keene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1973-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drews’ front lawn. Did the person who put it there do so with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father? This strange incident involves Nancy in her famous father’s case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. People who are opposed to the ruthless take-over of the farm are being made the victims of jinxing by bad luck symbols and other threats to their safety. Even Nancy and her friend Ned Nickerson become targets! Nancy soon realizes that helping honest people to overcome their superstitions and fears can be as challenging as tracking down criminals. The young detective’s thrilling adventures will keep the reader in breathless suspense from the first page to the last.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Jinx Mystery written by Carolyn Keene and published by . This book was released on 1974-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy and her friends find they have to overcome people's superstitions and fears in solving the case of a "jinxed" and threatened bird farm.

Author : Laura Wood
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407170287
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poppy Pym 2: Poppy Pym and the Double Jinx written by Laura Wood and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing It's Halloween at Saint Smithen's. When the Brimwell town hall burns down, the amateur production of Macbeth is moved to the school and it's all hands on deck. But when the play is struck by a series of mysterious attacks, it's up to Poppy, her friends and her circus family to save the play and unmask the culprit.

Author : Nova Spinks
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148090130X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spinks Jinx written by Nova Spinks and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spinks Jinx By Nova Malikah Spinks This book tells of the trials, tribulations and heartbreak from loving a man with all her being, a man who didn’t deserve the love that she offered so freely and deeply only to be disrespected, abused and totally abandoned. This book chronicles Nova’s life as heavy weight champion Leon Spinks’ wife and her dealings with the downs, the lies and the devastation from the many women he cheated on her with, being treated worse than a second-class citizen by his mother, brother, managers and attorneys and her triumph over all.

Author : Stephen Brocklehurst
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785074326
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifeaholic written by Stephen Brocklehurst and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one year a man from England lost his AGBP100,000 a year job, got arrested, turned 30, worked as an escort, went to Ibiza, sang "e;Ding Dong Merrily on High"e; on National TV, kissed another man, hit a sex-doll of a 19th floor balcony, slept with a celebrity, wrote a book, starred in three feature films, lost the love of his life, took over the top two floors of a building, watched the world's best DJ at the world's best club, ended up in court, paid AGBP200 so an international smuggler could find his daughter, became a soldier, converted to Islam, turned gay, became a psychopath, applied for 825 jobs, got sacked, had a 4 day party, traveled the World, fled from 80 cavalry, lost his home, had a threesome, worked with the world's greatest living film director, became a Jehovah's Witness, hired 30 people, climbed up a hotel, hospitalised himself, and died on the streets of London. This is his story.

Author : Priscilla Way Yun
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482831953
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undercover Mission Spies written by Priscilla Way Yun and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to my fathers new job, Dean and I, two regular thirteen-year-old teenager twins, move to Dashtille to start our new lives. Leaving everything behind, we meet Cassidy, Jake, and Dylan, who have apparently been waiting for our arrival. Through them, we meet Mr. Coronel, gaining the knowledge of the secret agency Undercover Mission Spies (a.k.a. UMS), learning about secret entrances, crazy rides, undercover missions, wacky gadgets, and many mysteries. Solving situational problems during the missions is a real challenge to the team. But as the five of us work together with our special inborn abilities in a united spirit, we make a great team. With the brains, the energy, the skills, and our combined talents, everything works out great as we try to defeat Bane, the escaped prisoner. But will we succeed? What will come out of this? Will this mission change our destinies? Why dont you read and find out? An interesting plot twist!

Author : N. G. N. Kelsey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030029107
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games, Rhymes, and Wordplay of London Children written by N. G. N. Kelsey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children. It charts continuity and development in childlore at a time of major social and cultural change and offers a detailed snapshot of changes in the traditions and language of young people. Topics include: starting a game; counting-out rhymes; games (without songs); singing and chanting games; clapping, skipping, and ball bouncing games; school rhymes and parodies; teasing and taunting; traditional belief and practice; traditional wordplay; and a concluding miscellany. Recorded mainly in the 1980s by primary schoolteacher Nigel Kelsey, transcribed verbatim from the children’s own words, and accompanied by extensive commentaries and annotation, the book sets a wealth of new information in the wider historical and contemporary context of existing studies in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the English-speaking world. This valuable new resource will open new avenues for research and be of particular interest to folklorists and linguists, as well as to those working across the full spectrum of social, cultural, and educational studies.

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578043459
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Author : Devin Hobbes
Publisher : Kidneymountain Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0983754004
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Rejects written by Devin Hobbes and published by Kidneymountain Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger hates the third grade. Dealing with bullies, incompetent teachers, and tyrannical administrators is bad enough. Worse still he loses his parents. All Roger wants is some stability and a place to call home. He gets his wish when his best friend Tommy's family takes him in. His relief is temporary, however, as the family has problems of its own. Led by an angry Pomeranian and by a former professor obsessed with conspiracy theories and shopping, the family is always in trouble. Repo men lurk around every corner. Notices from the government clog the mailbox and court summonses decorate the front door. There is never enough money for anything--except for the weekly, circuitous tour of the outer boroughs, a shopping spree, and a quick stop at a fancy restaurant. Now the family might lose its house with no place to go. Determined to save their home, Roger and Tommy hatch a number of schemes. There's the candy selling scheme, the organic lemonade stand, and the bank robbery. Will they succeed?