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Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
6) Pinkalicious
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more. Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 4
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's time to pick a class president, and Mindy really wants to win--and she's basing her entire campaign on snacks and being kind, so how could she NOT be chosen? But there is one big thing that Mindy is not sure she can do--make a speech to her class about why she would be the best pick for president. Can Mindy face her fears and show the class--and herself--that she can be the best class president ever?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A humorist and honest look at a life in public service.
For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush", vanish into the background.
But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 6
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy is confident she and her dad can win the trivia contest at a local pizza place, but when her dad worries he might not understand the cultural references, they try to find a way to have fun together even if they don't win." - ABDO
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy is super excited to visit her grandparents in South Korea, but when the traditional meal she makes with her dad's new girlfriend has a few mishaps, she fears they are cooking up a big disaster." - ABDO
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed, and dreamed comedy. In this all-new collection of interviews, the sequel to the New York Times bestselling Sick in the Head, Apatow sits down with comedy icons...
Author
Series
Wildstone volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
363, 24 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A book to savor--and share." --Susan Wiggs, New York Times Bestselling Author
The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California...
Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures-and mistakes-included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never understood. So when Mindy shows up on Brooke's doorstep in the throes of a break-down with her three little kids in tow,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pet-sitting her friend's poodle for a week, an exuberant Pinkalicious is disappointed when the little dog is too shy and frightened to play with her, a situation that culminates in a surprise pink bubble bath.
20) The last present
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Uncorrected proof
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.