Now Museum, Now You Don't

Now Museum, Now You Don't
Author: Andres Miedoso
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534449531

Desmond Cole goes on a field trip to the museum in the ninth book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! Museums are great places to see really old stuff. The Kersville Museum has old paintings, old statues, and even old mummies that come with old curses. Sounds like a perfectly safe place to visit for family fun. Until the mummies start to disappear! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

Now You See Me, Now You Don't

Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Author: Diana Swanson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514412950

Recently widowed Toni MacArthur heads to a small Minnesota town to start a new life. She begins by accepting a position as the junior high principal. Life in this small town becomes complicated as she deals with the superintendents affectionate, hands-on management style, bullying parents, teen drug use, and a sense of unease about being watched. To further complicate matters, a mysterious corpse is found on the steps of the school. What further challenges confront Toni as she struggles to create her uncertain future?

Flourishing in Museums

Flourishing in Museums
Author: Kiersten F. Latham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-12-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 100382868X

This book Includes contributions from a wide range of scholar-practitioners working across the arts, humanities, sciences, education, business, and mental health disciplines. Uses abundance-thinking and takes a strengths-based appreciative approach to museum purpose, function and being. Demonstrates that, even within the most difficult climates, abundance-oriented methods and perspectives can inspire and elicit flourishing in visitors, staff and communities, thus positioning museums as places where people find meaningful and purposeful work and where visitors find satisfaction, meaning, inspiration, and motivation. Draws from the disciplines of positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship, contemplative studies, and museum studies, the book is unified and organized into six thematic areas that comprise the Flourishing Museum Framework: courage, transformation, care, optimism, gratitude, and delight. Will be essential reading for academics and students working in the museum and heritage fields, as well as the cognate disciplines of arts management and creative industries. It will also be useful to practitioners working in museums and heritage sites around the world.

Now You See Her

Now You See Her
Author: Anne Crémieux
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2023-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476648166

Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of representation in sports, music, photography, comics, television and cinema. Each chapter is complemented by an interview: soccer player and coach Saskia Webber, singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips, photographer Lola Flash, cartoonist Alison Bechdel and filmmakers Jamie Babbit and Anna Margarita Albelo discuss the societal transformations that shaped their careers. From the "riot grrrl" movement of the early 1990s punk scene to screen representations of queer culture (The L Word, Orange Is the New Black), this book discusses how lesbian presence successfully infiltrated several patriarchal strongholds, and was transformed in return.

Go Team Venture!: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros.

Go Team Venture!: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros.
Author: Cartoon Network
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1506704875

This oversized book is the comprehensive companion to the art and making of the The Venture Bros. and includes a foreword by Patton Oswalt! Ken Plume sits down with series creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer to have a conversation about the creation of every single episode through season six and much more. From the earliest sketches of Hank and Dean scribbled in a notebook, pitching the series to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, learning the ins and outs of animation, character designs for each season, storyboards, painted backgrounds, behind-the-scenes recollections of how the show came together, it's all here. Features behind-the-scenes info and art covering every episode of all six seasons. Written by Venture Bros. creators Jackson Publik and Doc Hammer, with an introduction by Patton Oswalt. An all-encompassing look at the characters, art, history and influences of the beloved series. Never before seen Venture Bros. artwork!

Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader

Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1607104598

Strategically placed near the best seat in your home, Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader is jam-packed with great bathroom reading. It’s the gift that keeps on giving...and giving...and giving.... The BRI’s 22nd all-new edition--Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader--is like reading several books all rolled into one: a history book, a weird news anthology, a science text, a dictionary, a how-to manual, a sports magazine, a joke book…and the list goes on and on. Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that matter). With more than 11 million books in print, the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series is the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the world. Where else could you learn about the lost cloud people of Peru, the world’s first detective, and the history of surfing? Uncle John rules the world of information and humor, so get ready to be thoroughly entertained. Read all about… * Soda pop flops * Spider farms * England’s Secret UFO Files * Real hillbilly recipes * Webster’s least-wanted words * Super-trains * And much more!

Alison Dare, The Heart of the Maiden

Alison Dare, The Heart of the Maiden
Author: J. Torres
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1770491139

Alison Dare: Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in fabulous, graphic adventures. Alison Dare is not your typical twelve-year-old. She's the daughter of an archaeologist/adventurer and the masked hero known as the Blue Scarab. To top it off, she's also the niece of an international super-spy; it's no surprise that a craving for danger is in her blood! Unfortunately, her parents have locked her away at the prestigious St. Joan's Academy for Girls, hoping that this would lead to a more "normal" life for their daughter. But despite all the strict rules at the school, Alison and her best pals - Wendy and Dot - somehow manage to find themselves involved in adventures that rival those of Alison's globetrotting, planet-saving relatives. Whether it's magic genies, super-powered bank robbers, or a dastardly baron bent on world domination, Alison Dare delivers the best thrills since Indiana Jones and more action than Lara Croft!

Uncle John's Weird Weird World

Uncle John's Weird Weird World
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1626861803

Beauty pageants, bad musicals, bizarre diseases, and more: it’s all covered in this collection of fascinating trivia and full-color pictures! It’s finally here: the book that Uncle John’s fans have been asking for: a full-color, illustrated edition featuring the most entertaining articles from the world’s bestselling bathroom trivia series! Hundreds of eye-popping photographs add a new dimension to Uncle John’s unique blend of trivia, humor, origins, history, science, and oddities. All the reader favorites are included—including dumb crooks, weird news, flubbed headlines, strange lawsuits, quirky quotations—and more. Now they pop off the pages like never before! So stimulate your visual cortexes as you read about . . . •Weird Beauty Pageants •40 Odd Uses for WD-40 •“Bagpiper’s Fungus” and other bizarre diseases •The Wild World of Weird Sports •The “putrified forest” at Tennessee’s Body Farm •The origins of Monopoly, the lava lamp, computer viruses, and B movies •World records that are so risky, Guinness won’t even report them •The all-time dumbest business decisions •Harrowing stories from history, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the Pilgrims’ uncomfortable ride on the Mayflower •The Toxic Travel Guide •How to cook with roadkill, get your TV show on the air, and more •Whatever happened to Nikola Tesla’s death ray? •Real-life superheroes . . . and much, much more!

The Curse of the Mummy's Tummy (The Spy Next Door #2)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tummy (The Spy Next Door #2)
Author: Jay Cooper
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545933412

A funny and fresh chapter book series with hilarious illustrations aimed squarely at fans of CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS and THE YETI FILES! Dexter's next mission? Catch a cat burglar!On a school field trip to the museum, Dexter puts his brand-new super-secret spy skills to the test. Someone has broken into the Egyptian exhibit to steal Pharaoh Hun-Ga-Re's greatest treasure...a sacred sandwich that can raise the dead! But who could be hungry enough to want a six-thousand-year-old snack? With an army of robot ninjas, a mustachioed mystery man, and a sneaky new classmate lurking around every corner, it's up to Dex to find the petrified hoagie first and save the world from a monstrous mummy's ancient curse...