Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools

Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools
Author: W.T. Kosmos
Publisher: Wise Wit Press, LLC
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:
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ABSURDITY WARNING Dear Courageous Reader, Warning: this story contains dangerous amounts of satire, political rivalries, and human stupidity! Expect delusional leaders, brainwashed followers, spoon fights, head butting (with and without spoon helmets), the infamous large-hand rules, and in general, an entire nation of schools in complete chaos. If you are hoping for a cozy, heart warming or sappy romance, this is definitely not the story for you. But for the brave and curious, dive in—you might just discover some hidden truths buried in the madness. Beware, though: side effects may include uncontrollable laughter, confusion, outrage, or an overwhelming urge to question everything you thought you knew about wildly dysfunctional schools. And don’t forget your spoon helmet—you’ll need it. Spoons up! Heigi hooga! W.T. Kosmos Paradox, USA, Earth, Milky Way Finalist of the 2023 Mark Twain Book Award for Humor / Satire. "Gloriously absurd... delightfully funny." — Kirkus Reviews

Puddinhead & the Chalkboard

Puddinhead & the Chalkboard
Author: Marilyn Foote
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1616630930
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Miriam Foote, fondly known as Puddinhead, and her siblings were taught by their parents to love learning and imagination. When a local school announces it will be closing, their father knows this is the perfect opportunity to feed his children's imagination, and he surprises them with a full-size chalkboard! Puddinhead and the Chalkboard throws you into the imaginary world of Denney Williams Puddinhead creates using the chalkboard in the back room of her house. The creative and humorous adventures Puddinhead and her sisters invent will leave you laughing until your sides hurt. Join author Marilyn Foote in Puddinhead and the Chalkboard-a story of imagination and play and the second installment in the Puddinhead series.

Puddinhead's Daddy

Puddinhead's Daddy
Author: Marilyn Foote
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 161346097X
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Follow Puddinhead and her siblings as they bicycle around the neighborhood, play in the backyard with Daddy, and venture into the luscious farmer's market! Tonight is Mommy and Daddy's wedding anniversary, and Puddinhead can't wait to see them all dressed up ready for their date. But will Puddinhead's disastrous attempt to ride an older boy's bicycle leave Daddy too upset for his big night? Children and parents alike will adore this installment ofPuddinhead's Daddyas they learn about why Daddy is so important to the family!

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1922
Genre: Conjoined twins
ISBN:
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This is a story of a sober kind, picturing life in a little town of Missouri, half a century ago. The principal incidents relate to a slave of mixed blood and her almost pure white son, whom she substitutes for her master's baby. The slave by birth grows up in wealth and luxury, but turns out a peculiarly mean scoundrel, and perpetrating a crime, meets with due justice. The science of fingerprints is practically illustrated in detecting the fraud. The title character is the village atheist, whose maxims doubtless express much of the author's own disillusion.

Dead Stars

Dead Stars
Author: Bruce Wagner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0142196878
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“Dead Stars is the London Fields of Los Angeles, the Ulysses of TMZ culture—an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.”—Tom Bissell, GQ At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who’s just undergone a mastectomy…. Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West…. Jackie, a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter, is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique…. And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on Glee. Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic.

Baseball's Most Bizarre Plays

Baseball's Most Bizarre Plays
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476687072
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Baseball has produced some notably strange plays--like Randy Johnson's fastball dismantling a bird--yet there have been many that defy belief. Beginning with Todd Frazier tricking umpires into calling an out with a rubber ball and culminating in Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky pitching into a scrum of two batters and a manager at home plate, this book describes the 150 most bizarre plays in the history of the game. Baserunners going in the wrong direction, outfielders kicking the ball, three runners meeting at one base, two balls in play, players ejected for dancing and many other anomalies are presented with detailed commentary.