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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint...
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the way in which women think brings together an understanding of the aspirations and contradictions that give women the advantage in a male-dominated world.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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From the publisher of B. Kliban's Cat, All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, and Bad Cat, comes a new book that answers the question all cat lovers ask: How do I make my cat like me?
97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You is the perfect interactive guide to these mysterious, fickle, seemingly aloof-yet really, just particular-pets. Paired with a full-color photograph of friendly, extroverted, happy cats (in case you've forgotten what a cat looks like...
27) Bed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a quiet, diligent younger brother whose eccentric and tyrannical older brother takes to his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday and resolves never to leave due to his disillusionment with the adult world.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A whimsically illustrated guide to the inner life of dogs shares lighthearted insights into dog evolution and behavior while profiling common breeds and explaining what a dog experiences while looking at a sunset and smelling the ground.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the mother of all kids' joke books-an all-encompassing, gut-busting, and bestselling collection of more than 1,700 jokes, tongue-twisters, riddles, and puns for all occasions.
Here are 61 elephant jokes, including: What did the elephant say when he walked into the post office? / Ouch! Dozens of knock-knock jokes, like: Knock-knock. / Who's there? / Doris. / Doris who? / Doris locked. That's why I knocked! Plus teacher jokes and creature jokes,...
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 257 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-died shirts because their hippie...
33) Rodrick Rules
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book!
Secrets have a way of getting out, especially when a diary is involved.
Whatever you do, don't ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn't want to talk about it.
As Greg enters the new school year, he's eager to put the past three months behind him . . . and one event in particular.
Unfortunately for Greg, his older brother,
...34) Sh*t my dad says
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 206 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An evaluation of the way discourteous behavior has become commonplace and even applauded in today's society is a humorous call to arms that challenges ill manners and the practices that support them.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER
In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man...
King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time—in bed
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Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Big Nate, who is always notoriously unprepared for class, turns to divine intervention to spare him!
Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip. As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad
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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
"Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately)...
39) No Brainer
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Author
Series
Knight and Moon novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of thrillers featuring charmingly eccentric Emerson Knight and professional go-getter Riley Moon"--
"A brand-new series introducing a fun and entertaining crime-solving team with great romantic chemistry--fiesty financial analyst Riley Moon and eccentric savant Emerson Knight. Riley Moon is a junior...
