Wild Wise Weird

Wild Wise Weird
Author: Quan-Hoang Vuong
Publisher: AISDL
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2024-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Wild Wise Weird represents the latest updated version of The Kingfisher Story Collection, first published in 2022. When first released on September 21, 2022, The Kingfisher Story Collection had a total of 21 stories. Today, Wild Wise Weird has grown to house 42 stories in total. Although The Kingfisher Story Collection has been updated to include all the new stories, I still want to post this version with a shorter title Wild Wise Weird, to mark its second anniversary. Quan-Hoang Vuong September 28, 2024. Hanoi, Vietnam.

Weird Is Beautiful: The Wisdom of Octopuses

Weird Is Beautiful: The Wisdom of Octopuses
Author: Liz Marvin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2022-04-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0008517886

Think like you’ve got nine brains, feel like you’ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms.

EarthBound

EarthBound
Author: Ken Baumann
Publisher: Boss Fight Books
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 194053500X

An RPG for the Super NES that flopped when it first arrived in the U.S., EarthBound grew in fan support and critical acclaim over the years, eventually becoming the All-Time Favorite Game of thousands, among them author Ken Baumann. Featuring a heartfelt foreword from the game's North American localization director, Marcus Lindblom, Baumann's EarthBound is a joyful tornado of history, criticism, and memoir. Baumann explores the game's unlikely origins, its brilliant creator, its madcap plot, its marketing failure, its cult rise from the ashes, and its intersections with Japanese and American culture, all the while reflecting back on the author's own journey into the terrifying and hilarious world of adults.

Weird, Wild, Wonderful & Wise

Weird, Wild, Wonderful & Wise
Author: Gaylen K. Bunker
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2014-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781484887479

This is a book about the First Class of Baby Boomers who graduated in 1964 from South High School in Salt Lake City and what they have been up to in the past 50 years.

Wise Blood

Wise Blood
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.

Ultimate Weird But True

Ultimate Weird But True
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011
Genre: Braille books
ISBN: 1426308647

Presents facts, brief stories, photos, and illustrations showing that fact can be as weird as fiction.

Wise, Strange and Holy

Wise, Strange and Holy
Author: Claudia V. Camp
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1841271667

The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon. >

The Kingfisher Story Collection

The Kingfisher Story Collection
Author: Quan-Hoang Vuong
Publisher: AISDL
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

(Third edition with additions) This is a collection of short stories centering around the protagonist character, Kingfisher, originally written in Vietnamese. The book aims to introduce international readers to snippets of Vietnamese culture through the ordinary yet humorous life of the bird village. The first 15 of these short stories were published in the Khoảng Lặng (Quiet Moment) column of the Vietnamese magazine Kinh Tế và Dự Báo (Economy and Forecast Review) from 2017 to 2019. However, this is the first time that the collection of all the Kingfisher stories has been published in its entirety, covering stories that have not been published elsewhere, including new stories written during 2023-2024. The stories of Kingfisher are full of humor and satire while also deep in social commentary. I hope that the book brings readers joy and some food for thought, for beyond satire is genuine contemplation of the humanistic values in life. Hanoi, August 21, 2024 Quan-Hoang Vuong (Incld. Artworks by Bui Quang Khiem and Dam Thi Thu Ha)