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  1. Midwestern strange
    hunting monsters, Martians, and the weird in flyover country
    Author: Hollars, B. J.
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

    Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds. Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might... more

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    001.940977 HOL
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    Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds. Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives. By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities, we challenge ourselves to look beyond our presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird, doesn't mean it is wrong

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781496215604; 1496215605
    Subjects: Außerirdische Intelligenz; UFO; UFO <Motiv>; Moderne Sage; Sagengestalt; Unerklärliches Phänomen; Unidentified flying objects; Extraterrestrial beings; Ovnis; Extraterrestres; Extraterrestrial beings; Unidentified flying objects
    Scope: xiii, 208 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm
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    Selected bibliography Seite 201-208
  2. Sightings
    stories
    Author: Hollars, B. J.
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0253008387; 0253008468; 1299319211; 9780253008381; 9780253008466; 9781299319219
    Series: Break away books
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Bildungsromans; Manners and customs; Outcasts; Social isolation; Outcasts; Social isolation; Bildungsromans
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Indian village -- Schooners -- Sightings -- Westward expansion -- The clowns -- Line of scrimmage -- Dixie land -- Loose lips sink ships -- Robotics -- Missing Mary

    B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion
  3. This is only a test
    Author: Hollars, B. J.
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

    On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B.J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With... more

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    Location:
    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    E-Book EBSCO
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    E-Book Ebsco
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B.J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began recounting the experience, and would continue to do so in the following years, writing his way out of one disaster only to find himself caught up in another. Tornadoes, drownings, and nuclear catastrophes force him to acknowledge the inexplicable, while he attempts to overcome his greatest fear-the impossibility of protecting his newborn son from the world's cruelties. Hollars creates a constellation of grief, tapping into the rarely acknowledged intersection between fatherhood and fear, sacrifice and safety, and the humbling effect of losing control of our lives

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780253018212; 0253018218
    Series: Break away books
    Subjects: Short stories, American; Short stories, American; FICTION ; General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Personal Memoirs; Short stories, American
    Scope: Online Ressource
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  4. Sightings
    stories
    Author: Hollars, B. J.
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis

    B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780253008381
    Series: Break away books
    Subjects: Social isolation; Outcasts; Bildungsromans
    Scope: Online-Ressource (161 p)
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    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Indian Village; Schooners; Sightings; Westward Expansion; The Clowns; Line of Scrimmage; Dixie Land; Loose Lips Sink Ships; Robotics; Missing Mary; Credits
  5. You Must Be This Tall to Ride
    Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story
    Author: Hollars, B. J.
    Published: 2009; ©2009
    Publisher:  Penguin Publishing Group, Cincinnati

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781599633633
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (224 pages)
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