Palahniuk, Chuck
Summary: "In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Summary: "A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more . . . Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Palahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Palahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned , Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Palahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "Palahniuk's fashion-model protagonist has it all, boyfriend, career, loyal best friend-- until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book 's characters."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
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Summary: A full-frontal triple-X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before. A porn star intends to cap her career by breaking the record for on-screen fornication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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Summary: The author takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals, scenes of ghostly hauntings, and strange local customs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2003
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Summary: The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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Summary: The protagonist is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, a larger-than-life star who has survived multiple marriages, career comebacks, cosmetic surgeries, and emotional dramas. But danger lurks with the arrival of a gentleman caller named Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and boudoir. Hazie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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Summary: "A novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more . . . Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Random House 2014
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Summary: Tender Branson--last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Summary: Investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, journalist Carl Streator finds the same anthology of poems and rhymes at each child's bedside. The book is always opened to a specific African chant-- a culling song that kills when recited, whether silently or aloud. Suddenly, Carl's knowledge of the chant makes him an involuntary serial murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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Summary: Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated killer, in this satire of American xenophobia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2010
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Summary: As the politicians bring the nation to the brink of war, a mysterious book appears offering directives and carrying wisdom to prepare people for Adjustment Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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Summary: "Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Summary: "From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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Summary: As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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Summary: A high school rebel who always wins--and possibly a childhood murderer, Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by designated car markings and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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Summary: The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, the author's first novel in four years, Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: "Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather... and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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Summary: "The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013