Scary Beautiful

Author : Niki Burnham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439120706
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scary Beautiful written by Niki Burnham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe Rand's life is great. She has a serious boyfriend, she's about to start her junior year of high school, and she has a tight group of girlfriends. But when her boyfriend moves across the country and decides the long-distance-relationship thing just isn't for him, Chloe's devastated. Worse, she soon learns that when you're the prettiest girl in school and totally unattached, everyone starts treating you differently. Girls don't trust you, guys aren't sure what to make of you, and everyone assumes you're either spoiled, dumb, or both. Chloe realizes that she's been living the last few years in a bubble and decides to do something about it. But when she falls for Billy, a total geek, will it make her situation better...or worse? Scary Beautiful A Romantic Comedy for every girl who has fallen for the wrong guy

Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847354
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Beauty and Being Just written by Elaine Scarry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.

Author : Luanne Rice
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338111086
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Lost written by Luanne Rice and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NY Times bestselling author Luanne Rice, a sweeping story of a girl and boy, both troubled in different ways, who take off on a whirlwind road trip. Here are three things to know about Maia:1. Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression -- which once got so bad, she had to go to an institution for a while. She doesn't want to go back.2. Maia's sure that if she finds her mother, if the two of them can talk about whale songs and constellations, then everything will be okay again.3. She's in love with Billy, the handsome, brooding boy who lives in the group home in town. He doesn't seem to know that Maia exists... until now.When Maia sets off on a road trip in search of her mom, Billy unexpectedly comes along. They drive up the East Coast, stopping along the way for lobster rolls and lighthouses. Maia learns that Billy has dark secrets of his own -- and wants to outrun his past, too. But what will the future hold if they reach their destination?From internationally bestselling author Luanne Rice, this is a sweeping, stunning story about the surprising directions our hearts can take.

Author : Cindy Lou Johnson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822214434
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bedtime Zone written by Cindy Lou Johnson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bedtime Zone is a collection of twenty more short plays from the One-on-one Program. Some of the authors included in this volume are Cindy Lou Johnson, Willie Reale, Donald Margulies, Richard Dresser, Nancy Giles and James McDaniel. These plays

Author : Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385322399
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Beautiful written by Sharon Dennis Wyeth and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1998 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

Author : Veronica Farmer
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504303024
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made Beautiful by Scars written by Veronica Farmer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica Farmer was diagnosed with extensive cancer just days before her wedding, and it was a powerful life scar for her. Made Beautiful by Scars started with the idea of Farmer sharing how cancer made her more beautiful. She then realized hosts of other womens lives are molded by their own scars. In this collection, she shares her story and the stories of twenty-two other women who have lived through trauma that did not break them. The narratives show how the tragedies they encountered grew them, expanded their beauty into a whole new realm, and touched many others. From Nicky who suffered the pain of infertility, to Kate who battled melanoma, and to Amanda who became a paraplegic, Made Beautiful by Scars captures raw stories from Farmer and other women who have faced all types of life scars and been made stronger. Farmer shines a light on the unimaginable strength of women, survivors who have been empowered by adversity and challenge.

Author : Kristen Lacefield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016653
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scary Screen written by Kristen Lacefield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Just as the subject of the book is the deadly viral reproduction of a VHS tape, so, too, is the vast proliferation of text and cinematic productions suggestive of an airborne contagion with a life of its own. Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, The Scary Screen locates much of its power in the ways in which the books and films astutely graft contemporary cultural preoccupations onto the generic elements of the ghost story”in particular, the Japanese ghost story. At the same time, the contributors demonstrate, these cultural concerns are themselves underwritten by a range of anxieties triggered by the advent of new communications and media technologies, perhaps most significantly, the shift from analog to digital. Mimicking the phenomenon it seeks to understand, the collection's power comes from its commitment to the full range of Ring-related output and its embrace of a wide variety of interpretive approaches, as the contributors chart the mutations of the Ring narrative from author to author, from medium to medium, and from Japan to Korea to the United States.

Author : Nicholas Grabowsky
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scary Stuff & Things written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration and horror from Black Bed Sheet Books' 15th Anniversary Halloween Party 2023. This is the first commemorative anthology from participating authors on Halloween night 2023 to sign free copies given to trick-or-treaters along with candy at Black Bed Sheet Studios in Antelope, CA, (near Sacramento), otherwise known as Antelope's Halloween House throughout the region. By popular demand, we decided to make it available to sell. Features stories by Age Scott (Tales of Hip Hop Horror), Edward Martin III (The Blood-red Night of Hatchet Valley), Fred Wiehe (Fright House), and founder of Black Bed Sheet Books, Nicholas Grabowsky (Halloween IV, The Everborn).

Author : Dr. Tianying Zang
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426976739
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D.H.Lawrence's Philosophy of Nature written by Dr. Tianying Zang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of D. H. Lawrences view of nature, his ecological consciousness contributes to his unique place within modern aesthetics. An affinity has been examined between Lawrences ideology of man-nature relationship and the classic oriental philosophies concerning nature, particularly the ancient Taoism. In Lawrences novels and essays one finds that virtually all aspects of his religious vision are anticipated in Eastern literature. His almighty Holy Ghost, for example, who is responsible for the sacred underlying unity, is named Brahman by Hindus, Dharmakaya by Buddhists, and Tao by Taoists. His duality, with its stress on the dynamic balance between complementary life-principles, is fully worked out in the Yin-Yang philosophy of Taoism.

Author : Kerascoët
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 9781770463363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Darkness written by Kerascoët and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of little people find themselves without a home in this horror fantasy classic Newly homeless, a group of fairies find themselves trying to adapt to their new life in the forest. As they dodge dangers from both without and within, optimistic Aurora steps forward to organize and help build a new community. Slowly, the world around them becomes more treacherous as petty rivalries and factions form. Beautiful Darkness became a bestseller and an instant classic when it was released in 2014. This paperback edition of the modern horror classic contains added material, preparatory sketches, and unused art. While Kerascoët mix gorgeous watercolors and spritely cartoon characters, Fabien Vehlmann takes the story into bleaker territory as the seasons change and the darkness descends. As with any great horror, there are moments of calm and jarring shocks while a looming dread hangs over the forest.