Lessons In Taxidermy A Compendium Of Safety And Danger Punk Planet Books

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750522
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger (Punk Planet Books) written by Bee Lavender and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting tale of sickness and survival from the first female author on the Punk Planet Books imprint that brought you the indie hit Hairstyles of the Damned. “[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender.” —Time Magazine Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417693917
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Taxidermy written by Bee Lavender and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavender retells the events of her tumultuous life--from battling a rare genetic disorder and childhood cancer to young motherhood--in fearless, unapologetic prose and gut-wrenching, yet darkly comic detail.

Author : Bee Lavender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Taxidermy written by Bee Lavender and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lavender Bee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Taxidermy written by Lavender Bee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This zine is the fourth issue of the literary zine A Beautiful Final Tribute. Lessons in Taxidermy tells the story of the HipMama editor and childhood cancer survivor as she and her partner traverse the hallways of La Specola, a zoological museum in Italy. Sprinkled between the musings on children and perseverance, are images and descriptions of novelty taxidermy (the process of posing animals in unrealistic positions for artistic effect). The zine has a yellow cardstock cover and is bound with staples.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070499
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Detective Fails written by Joe Meno and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “charming” and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth “investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence” (Entertainment Weekly). A Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist Book of the Year In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus’ Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes. Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy befriends two lonely, extraordinary children—one a science fair genius, the other a charming, silent bully. With a nearly forgotten bravery, he experiences the unendurable boredom of a telemarketing job; encounters a beautiful, desperate pickpocket; and confronts the nearly impossible solution to his sister’s case. Along a path laden with hidden clues and codes, the boy detective may learn the greatest secret of all: the necessity of the unknown. “Haunted by the mystery of his sister’s death and feeling that a lapse in his sleuthing may be to blame, Billy is determined to find out the reason for her suicide and to punish those responsible . . . The story of Billy’s search for truth, love and redemption is surprising and absorbing. Swaddled in melancholy and gentle humor, it builds in power as the clues pile up.” —Publishers Weekly “The author gives Billy a gallery of rogues to combat and even sends him to investigate the Convocation of Evil at a local hotel (‘Featured Panel: To Wear a Mask?’). Meno sets himself a complicated task, marooning his straight-arrow, pulp-fiction protagonist in a world uglier than the Bobbsey Twins ever faced but refusing to go for satire. Instead, the author takes his compulsive investigator at face value.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Comedic, imaginative, empathic . . . investigates the precincts of grief [and] our longing to combat chaos with reason.” —Booklist

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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.