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As Nasty as they Wanna Be
This is the third album by Miami bass group, 2 Live Crew. It was their best selling album but was later declared legally obscene in the United States, and was the first album to ever be declared so. The group later released the album "As Clean as…
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
The first in a series of three books, Schwartz has gathered pieces of folklore and urban legends, and has adapted them. The book contains 29 total stories.
It has been challenged due to its violence and surreal/ nightmarish illustrations.
It has been challenged due to its violence and surreal/ nightmarish illustrations.
The Book of Bunny Suicides
This dark comedy book includes cartoon drawings of bunnies who are trying to commit suicide. The drawings are made in such a way that their exact method is not immediately obvious. The book includes pop-culture references including a reference to The…
The Hate U Give
"Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two very different worlds: one is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends and the white boy she dates there. Her bifurcated life changes dramatically when…
Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s
"Hacking the Future" tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to "feel" again in…
Easton Ellis, Bret. American Psycho
Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…
Gossip Girl
This book in the first in a series that revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on the best…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This book is about Constance Chatterly, a young, married, upperclass woman, whose husband has become paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury. After becoming sexually frustrated, Constance starts an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver…
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
This book follows the mischievous activities of fourth graders, George and Harold, as they pull numerous pranks at their school. They write a comic book about Captain Underpants and pull a series of practical jokes on the school's football team.…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.