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Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist on their first session when she was well into her 30s--she'd been following orders from this mean taskmaster for 20 years, without understanding why. Initially the tapping and counting and cleaning and ordering brought her comfort and structure, two things lacking in her family life....
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Je mappelle, meenya zavoot, me llamo, MY NAME IS MONKEY! Monkeys taking a trip around the world, and everywhere she goes she introduces herself in the native language of the country shes visiting. Kids can join her and learn to say my name is in seven different languages: French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Hindi. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible - first by setting a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world -- in the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong....
66) Noah & Dexter
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
BABY BOOKS. Vivid retro-style design ensures that the adorable "My Best Friend & Me" board books are great to look at, but it's the special added feature that really makes them stand out. Each one includes a super-cute animal finger puppet that interacts with every page! Children will want to hear the story of Noah and his monkey Dexter over and over again as the two friends travel to the jungle. And little ones will be thrilled as the friendly plush...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H.W. Bush comfortably in the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this heartbreaking and shocking expose, one of Dynasty's biggest stars lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her in this powerful depiction of a mother's love and determination. "I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone." In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her twenty-year-old...
74) Here with me
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
David Walker's sweet and reassuring writer-illustrator debut Here with Me, about the everlasting bonds of love, is sure to be a modern children's classic. If you could be a different kind of you, what would you wish to be? A monkey in a tree? Would you be a fluffy fox? A slow-moving sloth? Or maybe, if you had the choice, you wouldn't be different at all because maybe, right here with the ones you love is the best place in the world to be.
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers. Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement,...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to...