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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
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 ofterrorism 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar?the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops?first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine?s Peculiar Children series. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history,...
8) The colony
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A savage and unrelenting thriller about mankind's greatest enemy: himself. As an endless winter engulfs Earth, humans struggle to survive in remote underground outposts. When Colony 7 receives a distress call from a nearby settlement, Sam and Briggs race through the snow on a dangerous rescue mission. What they find at the desolate base could mean mankind's salvation-or its total annihilation. Terrifying discoveries will unfold that will change the...
12) Honeydew
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young couple is forced to seek shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son, when they suddenly begin having strange cravings and hallucinations taking them down a rabbit hole of the bizarre.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973, four teenagers - Erin, Morgan, Kemper, and Andy - are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker who is on her way to Mexico to score some dope. But when they pass through a small town, they see a bloody and distraught girl wandering by the roadside. After stopping to help her, they realize she's been involved in something horribly traumatic. As they piece together the story, the 5 teens are drawn into...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The electrifying, award-winning, internationally bestselling novel about a dystopian world in which animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten"--
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus...
15) Into the woods
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Six friends take the deadliest challenges of their life where a hunter of human lives lurk in the bushes and trees on a mountain top far in the woods of Los Angeles. His playground of death becomes their final resting place as they go through his lair. Many have come in, but few have made it out when they go Into The Woods.
17) Tooth and nail
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world take refuge in an empty hospital with plans on rebuilding society. They rescue a young girl who is the victim of a brutal attack, but soon discover that they were followed by a savage band of cannibals known as Rovers. The Rovers begin to kill them one by one, and the trapped survivors must find a way to outwit their stalkers.
18) The colony
Publisher
Colony Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A savage and unrelenting thriller about mankind's greatest enemy: himself. As an endless winter engulfs Earth, humans struggle to survive in remote underground outposts. When Colony 7 receives a distress call from a nearby settlement, Sam and Briggs race through the snow on a dangerous rescue mission. What they find at the desolate base could mean mankind's salvation-or its total annihilation. Terrifying discoveries will unfold that will change the...
20) The bad batch
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland and set in a community of cannibals.
