Nerd Camp 2.0

Nerd Camp 2.0
Author: Elissa Brent Weissman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144245296X

Gabe’s happily headed back to Nerd Camp—but can he handle a cool-kid invasion? For Gabe, the equation for summer bliss equals six glorious weeks of rigorous learning immersion at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment—aka, Nerd Camp. Last year was amazing, and this summer will be even better. At least, that’s what Gabe thinks…until a new variable is introduced. Zack, Gabe’s cool stepbrother, was supposed to attend a camp nearby, but in the aftermath of a recent wildfire, Zack’s camp and nerd camp will be sharing territory. As these two very different worlds collide, can both camps—and both stepbrothers—survive the summer?

Nerd Camp

Nerd Camp
Author: Elissa Brent Weissman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442417048

For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds."

Frenzy

Frenzy
Author: Robert Lettrick
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423187660

14-year-old Heath Lambert is spending his summer at Camp Harmony in the picturesque Cascade Mountain Valley. It's the perfect place to enjoy the soothing calm of nature as he weighs a heavy decision. The camp offers distractions: his friends, Cricket and Dunbar, always up for trouble; his reluctant crush on Emily, one half of the beautiful Em & Em Twins; and hulking bullies Thumper and Floaties, who are determined to make him their punching bag for the summer. But no one rattles Heath like his creepy cabin mate, Will Stringer. Brilliant, cold and calculating, Will views the world as one big chess game, and he's always three moves ahead of everyone else. Heath soon learns there's a much bigger threat to contend with. Something's wrong with the animals in the surrounding forest. A darkness is spreading, driving them mad with rage. Wolves, bears, mountain lions???even the chipmunks are infected, spurred on in droves by one horrific goal: hunt and kill every human they find. Heath and a ragtag band of campers are faced with a choice: follow Will's lead and possibly survive, or follow the camp staff and die. But how do you trust a leader when you suspect he's more dangerous than the animals you're running from? Heath came to Camp Harmony to be surrounded by nature. He's about to get his wish.

Assholes Finish First

Assholes Finish First
Author: Tucker Max
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439198691

Presents a new collection of alcohol-induced "fratire" adventures in hedonism that convey the author's experiences of being intoxicated at inappropriate times, seducing a large number of women, and otherwise living in complete disregard of social norms.

The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons

The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
Author: Jonathan P. Eburne
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253026873

Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America’s geeky subcultures. What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With recent years bringing us phenomena from #GamerGate to The Big Bang Theory, it’s clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today’s popular culture. The Year’s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual history to explore their influence on contemporary American intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt.

The Passion of the Christoph

The Passion of the Christoph
Author: Christoph Paul
Publisher: Only RX Incorporated
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989227827

"The Passion of the Christoph" doesn't fit into neat sub-categories, and that's just what (former porn store manager and military school survivor) Christoph Paul wants. "Passion" is literary in its style and references, yet is downright pornographic in its content, stretching the boundaries of what is acceptable to print. If this was the eighties, Christian groups might burn this book, despite Paul's affinity for Tim Tebow. Set up as a series of hilarious short stories, satirical essays, political opinions, and the occasional poem, "Passion" covers hard-hitting topics like how to choose the best adult titles (using "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace as inspiration) to fill porn store inventory and ways to judge the economy by evaluating strip club etiquette, which Paul coins "Strippernomics." In more light-hearted fare, Paul explores the pain of addiction during a misunderstood youth and highlights his time stuck in both military school and teenage rehab. Many "of the short stories are reminiscent of a memoir, but this is no Eat, Pray, Love," more of an "X, X, X" . . . Porn, not the bad Vin Diesel movie.

Being Young

Being Young
Author: Astrid Young
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Astrid Young offers a fresh perspective on her older brother Neil.

Letters from Summer Camp

Letters from Summer Camp
Author: Linda Rey
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949557077

Willa Shisbey, a self-professed nerdy girl, is off to science camp and couldn't be more excited. Armed with her clothing and enough stamps to write a letter to everyone she knows, she's ready for anything-anything except a residential sports camp for Olympic hopefuls.Now, she's stuck, but all is not lost. The resilient teen is determined to make the most of a sometimes difficult situation. With all that's going on in her life-from her adoptive parents' impending divorce to the physical challenges of camp, and her desire to be accepted for the wonderful girl she is-Willa's camp mix up just might be the best thing that could've happened this summer.Follow the fun, laughs, and a little homesickness through Willa's letters home to her friends and family and watch as she learns, grows, and discovers a hidden talent along the way!

Freak Show Legacies

Freak Show Legacies
Author: Gary S. Cross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350145149

Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.

The Final Girl Support Group

The Final Girl Support Group
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593201256

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.