Tim Miller
1) Phickshun
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phick·shun
/ˈfikSH(ə)n/
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1. a collection of short stories by Tim Miller
2. a smattering of lies designed to convince others of truthfulness
3. a class of literature that wants to have class, but not so much class that it's considered only for classy people; so like a class that's got class but not the too classy kind of class
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A collection of essays on pop culture topics ranging from literary criticism to Pearl Jam to fantasy football. There is also narrative nonfiction and travel writing that straddles the journalistic line between investigative and literary, with the common ingredient of humor.
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“American Home Cooking” provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.
Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience foods. Cooking, especially from scratch, is clearly on its way out. However, if this is true, why do we spend so much money on kitchen appliances both...
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The Lonely Young and the Lonely Old is a collection of quiet and brutal jewels. Told in the words of an unnamed narrator, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed: the lonely high school student, the elderly widower, the pining woman in her twenties, and the worn-down mother in her mid-thirties. Each speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging.And there are others: neglected children...
5) Spooves
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Spooves is Tim Miller's debut collection of short, humorous fiction. The subject matter includes a yoga studio on the Death Star, a cookbook for frazzled parents entitled, "Quick and Crappy," the pseudoscience of the TB12 method, a singing, lovelorn egg pan, and more. This book is like a tube of strange goo that will make you laugh, or, at the very least, ponder the plural of "spoof."
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Nine stories, sprawled out like nine holes. Always the same, but always different. As with the temperature, wind, and visibility, the leaves
and the grass. So it is with the golfer, the reader. Young and old. Happy and sad. Looking forward,
looking back... nine chances. Places to seek, alone or together, with friends, family, ghosts and strangers. Success and failure. Love and loneliness. Birdies and bogeys, lies and truth, but always ourselves....
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Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: they all encouraged the madness that has overtaken the party. The Trumpification of the American right was the inevitable result of a series of decisions made by people like Tim Miller over the past decade.
In a book that is part memoir, part anatomy of the Republican enablers, Tim Miller delivers the most honest insider assessment of the mindset of those...
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The chapter books your reluctant reader will actually want to read!
FART MONSTER AND ME is the hilarious series from bestselling duo Tim Miller and Matt Stanton -- sure to get kids laughing ... and reading!
A bindup of the four books in the series: The Crash Landing, The New School, The Birthday Party, The Class Excursion.
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University of Wisconsin Press
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[2002]
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Hailed for his humor and passion, the internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller has delighted, shocked, and emboldened audiences all over the world. Body Blows gathers six of Miller’s best-known performances that chart the sexual, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man: Some Golden States, Stretch Marks, My Queer Body, Naked Breath, Fruit Cocktail, and Glory Box. In Body Blows, Tim Miller leaps from the stage...
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Balzer + Bray, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A cow who wants to be a ballerina? Are you for real? This is a hilarious, one-of-a-kind friendship story between an adventurous cow named Moo Moo and a very loyal duck named Mr. Quackers that will have you quacking up all the way through and applauding for more.
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Sam and Hammie Rex discover a terrifying giant squirrel hiding in the woods behind Horace Hotwater Middle School. But nobody else believes Squirrel Kong is real. Then Hammie Rex takes the blame for Squirrel Kong's destructive rampages, and the principal threatens to send him away to home for dangerous, troubled small pets. To save his hamster friend, can Sam prove that Squirrel Kong is the true menace?
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"Things are calm at last in Maple Bluffs. The evil manufacturer SmilesCorp is out of business, Hammie Rex is a new dad to three tiny mutant offspring (Stompy, Chompy, and Hatshepsut), and Sam Gibbs feels that he can resume normal life. But soon enough, things get weird. When Sam visits a toy store to buy Beefer a bar mitzvah gift, one of the toys comes alive and attacks Hammie and the babies! Who could be behind this latest diabolical scheme? Funny,...
18) Izzy paints
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After Izzy visits an art museum in the big city, he becomes inspired to make his own art."--
20) Deadpool
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.--
