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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret identities of certain important peculiars, and other information that could aid a peculiar's survival in this hostile world. The stories are annotated with historical and contextual insights that Nullings himself found...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A darkly humorous exploration of how a complete devotion to food can have unforeseen and shocking consequences When a group of food-obsessed academics at Oxford University form a secret dining society, they happily devote themselves to investigating exotic and forgotten culinary treasures, until a dish is suggested that takes them all by surprise. Professor Arthur Plantagenet has been told he has a serious heart problem and decides that his death...
Author
Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
'Every dish in this very unique cookbook has one thing in common: the main ingredient is children! Many famous culinary witches have contributed-- from Barfa Stew-Wart to India's favorite Kideeta Skingh and Janie Groviller from Britain-- and each of their recipes is introduced by the general editor Esmelia Sniff. Recipes range from such tangy delights as Seared Tina in Boy Sauce on a Bed of Fragrant Lice to the more filling Bratwurst and Upset Cabbage...
8) Husk
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Charlie is a Husker, on the prowl in the New Hampshire wilderness, when he falls in love with one of "them": a girl named Jill. Loving Jill means leaving the Husk clan, with its gruesome cannibalistic rituals, and that will be far more difficult -- and dangerous -- than Charlie could have foreseen. It's only in New York City that the secret to ending his terrible cravings may reveal itself -- if it doesn't kill him and everything he has grown to love...
Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient--a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.
Author
Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21-22 cm
Language
English
Description
The dean of a museum in England has been murdered and his body served as a series of dishes, ranging from roast dean to fried dean. Suspicion falls on the ethnology department whose members are rumored to have been dabbling in cannibalism. Norman de Ratour of the registrar's office investigates.
Series
Publisher
The University of Arkansas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609-1610 - one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history - cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples?...
13) Unreconciled
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes the question when Ashanti appears in Donovan's skies. She was designed for no more than four years in space. It's taken ten. The crew has sealed the transportees onto a single deck--and over the years, the few survivors down there have become monsters. Lead by the messiah, Batuhan, they call themselves the Unreconciled. Supervisor Kalico Aguila settles them at remote Tyson...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 398, 16 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness in which over half of the forty-five passengers died, discussing the challenges the men faced during their ten weeks in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without supplies and with little hope of rescue.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
16) Bones & All
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking...
17) Vacation
Author
Series
Vacation volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Matrtin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear, something even more deadly happens. Masses around the world suddenly became predators, feeding off their own kind. These 'Can Heads' grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary to live. And after one attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded and his partner dead, Jack takes his wife and kids on a vacation. Far...
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages : 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Absurdist fictional account of foodie-culture, about a well-traveled female food critic who strikes back against the male-dominated magazine world in which she operates."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
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