Kid Lobotomy, Vol. 1: A Lad Insane

Kid Lobotomy, Vol. 1: A Lad Insane
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781684052448
ISBN-13 : 1684052440
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Kid Lobotomy, Vol. 1: A Lad Insane by : Peter Milligan

Come as you are, leave as someone else. In the winding hallways of The Suites, anything can happen--whether you like it or not! Join Kid, the proprietor of this fine hotel, as he tries to hold on to his father's business--and his own sanity. Kid, as he's affectionately referred to, is the youngest child of Big Daddy, an aging hotelier with more than his fair share of dark secrets tucked into the corners of the crown jewel of his empire: The Suites, where the guests are in danger of losing much more than their luggage. See, Kid has shed a few (okay, more than a few) brain cells in his day, which naturally makes him qualified to perform a lobotomy or two. And why let those brain bits go to waste when he can use them to help--or unwittingly harm--his patients? Ultimately, Kid hopes to restore some of his sanity. But can he navigate his sister's devious plotting, vivid hallucinations, and his own crumbling mental state to uncover the truth about his cursed lineage and face what runs rampant throughout the torturous hotel hallways? Simply put, you've never read anything like this. You won't be able to look away. Collects issues #1-6 of the ongoing series.

Vengeance Of The Moon Knight Vol. 1

Vengeance Of The Moon Knight Vol. 1
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Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9781302488765
ISBN-13 : 1302488767
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Vengeance Of The Moon Knight Vol. 1 by : Marvel Comics

Collects Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1-6. Moon Knight is back in the Big Apple and looking to pick a fight with the man who chased him out of town in the first place: Norman Osborn. Freed of his demons and armed with an arsenal of incredible new weapons, Moon Knight is finally the hero he always aspired to be – taking out criminals with massive flair and throwing down the gauntlet to his old nemesis. Is Osborn ready for Round Two?

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9780941028776
ISBN-13 : 0941028771
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2 by : R. Reginald

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume Two of Two, contains Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II.

Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish

Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781684055388
ISBN-13 : 1684055385
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish by : B. Dave Walters

An all-new tale of epic scope and flair that combines the elements of story telling and action that make every adventure so fun! When war threatens the Moonshae Isles, legendary heroes return to defeat the forces of an unthinkable foe. The Forgotten Realms are changed forever as young wizard Helene and her friends grow from raw recruits on the streets of Mintarn into powerful warriors.

City of Saints and Madmen

City of Saints and Madmen
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Publisher : Picador
Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : 9780374721152
ISBN-13 : 0374721157
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis City of Saints and Madmen by : Jeff VanderMeer

From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.

Invisible Man

Invisible Man
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Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0241970563
ISBN-13 : 9780241970560
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Invisible Man by : Ralph Ellison

The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.

Permanent Present Tense

Permanent Present Tense
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780465033492
ISBN-13 : 0465033490
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Permanent Present Tense by : Suzanne Corkin

In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected -- when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment. But Henry's tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin explains in Permanent Present Tense, she and her colleagues brought to light the sharp contrast between Henry's crippling memory impairment and his preserved intellect. This new insight that the capacity for remembering is housed in a specific brain area revolutionized the science of memory. The case of Henry -- known only by his initials H. M. until his death in 2008 -- stands as one of the most consequential and widely referenced in the spiraling field of neuroscience. Corkin and her collaborators worked closely with Henry for nearly fifty years, and in Permanent Present Tense she tells the incredible story of the life and legacy of this intelligent, quiet, and remarkably good-humored man. Henry never remembered Corkin from one meeting to the next and had only a dim conception of the importance of the work they were doing together, yet he was consistently happy to see her and always willing to participate in her research. His case afforded untold advances in the study of memory, including the discovery that even profound amnesia spares some kinds of learning, and that different memory processes are localized to separate circuits in the human brain. Henry taught us that learning can occur without conscious awareness, that short-term and long-term memory are distinct capacities, and that the effects of aging-related disease are detectable in an already damaged brain. Undergirded by rich details about the functions of the human brain, Permanent Present Tense pulls back the curtain on the man whose misfortune propelled a half-century of exciting research. With great clarity, sensitivity, and grace, Corkin brings readers to the cutting edge of neuroscience in this deeply felt elegy for her patient and friend.

Escape from Asylum

Escape from Asylum
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9780062424440
ISBN-13 : 0062424440
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Escape from Asylum by : Madeleine Roux

In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out—before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The nightmare is just beginning. Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program—a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him—Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now. Set long before Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever walked the hallways of the Brookline asylum—back when it was still a functioning psych ward and not a dorm—Escape from Asylum is a mind-bending and scary installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide missing puzzle pieces for series fans.

Schwann Spectrum

Schwann Spectrum
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1134
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105111062795
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Schwann Spectrum by :

Chouette

Chouette
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780063066694
ISBN-13 : 0063066696
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Chouette by : Claire Oshetsky

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.” When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter’s needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette’s behaviors grow violent and strange, Tiny’s loving commitment to her daughter is unwavering. When she discovers that her husband is on an obsessive and increasingly dangerous quest to find a “cure” for their daughter, Tiny must decide whether Chouette should be raised to fit in or to be herself—and learn what it truly means to be a mother. Arresting, darkly funny, and unsettling, Chouette is a brilliant exploration of ambition, sacrifice, perceptions of ability, and the ferocity of motherly love.