Silly Yaya

Silly Yaya

Author: Violet Favero

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-22

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781512133004

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What do you call your grandparents? Silly Yaya is a children's picture book written for children who do not call their grandparents the traditional grandma and grandpa. Instead, Silly Yaya tells the story of why "Each one (grandparent) needs their own special name. From family to family, they are not always the same." Explore the book with your child or grandchild to see if the names they call their grandparents are listed in the book. Find the special spot at the end that makes Silly Yaya a Keepsake Book.


Zoo City

Zoo City

Author: Lauren Beukes

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0316267937

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A new edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite kind of job -- missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives -- including her own.


No Touch Monkey!

No Touch Monkey!

Author: Ayun Halliday

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1580056024

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Zine queen Ayun Halliday confesses the best-and worst-of her globetrotting misadventures. "I laughed hard on nearly every page of this shockingly intimate memoir and deeply funny book." -- Stephen Colbert Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerrilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. On layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district -- eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam, and is forced to explain tampons to soldiers in Kashmir -- "they're for ladies. Bleeding ladies" -- that, she admits, "might have looked like white cotton bullets lined up in their box." A self-admittedly bumbling vacationer, Halliday shares -- with razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effect -- the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell. Includes line drawings, generously provided by the author.


A Mind Apart

A Mind Apart

Author: Mark S Bauer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-11-14

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 0190450630

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"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid anthology--the first of its kind--psychiatrist and poet Mark S. Bauer considers mental disorders from multiple perspectives and challenges us to broaden our outlook. He has selected more than 200 poems from across seven centuries that reflect a wide range mental states--from despondency and despair to melancholy, mania, and complete submersion into a world of heightened, original perception. Featuring such poets as George Herbert, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Weldon Kees, Lucille Clifton, Jane Kenyon, and many others, A Mind Apart has much to offer those who suffer from mental illness, those who work to understand it, and all those who value the poetry that has come to us from the heights and depths of human experience.


Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo

Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo

Author: Ayun Halliday

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2009-05-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423113522

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What is it about zoo residents? Is it because they're cooped up all day with nothing better to do? Is it because they lack the appropriate clothing for their unusual size and shape? Is there no laundry service? Whatever the reason, whenever you go to the zoo, what can you be sure to see? Heinies, and plenty of 'em. From demure to bodacious, Ayun Halliday and Dan Santat are finally willing to show us the true appeal of the zoo--There are always heinies, and lots of 'em.


Love Junkie

Love Junkie

Author: Robert Plunket

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0811238482

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The “diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny” (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the agony of romantic disillusionment. Adored by the likes of Amy Sedaris, Madonna (who optioned the film rights), and Gordon Lish, Love Junkie is Robert Plunket’s cult novel of the heady heyday of gay New York at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic: scandalously long out of print, it is now gloriously reissued for a new generation of readers. Mimi Smithers, a modern-day Emma Bovary, is a fortyish suburban housewife who has an eye for décor and dreams of hosting lavish cocktail parties. Reflecting on her time in Tehran with her Union Carbide executive husband, she says, “In the waning months of the Shah’s regime, entertaining became more and more difficult. Hams—always a problem in Islamic countries—were as rare as hen’s teeth.” After their move to Westchester, a party she hosts for Mrs. Rockefeller goes south, and she falls into a deep funk. But then life takes an unexpected turn when she stumbles down into the gay rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society and meets Joel, a porn star with a chest “as smooth as a Ken doll.” Soon she’s helping him with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, “verbal abuse audiotapes”), and her real dreams and adventures begin.


Great Apes

Great Apes

Author: Will Self

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0802193366

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Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend’s loving arms. Much to his dismay, however, his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. To add insult to injury, the psychiatric crash team sent to deal with him as he flips his lid is also comprised of chimps. Indeed, the entire city is overrun by clever primates, who, when they are not jostling for position, grooming themselves, or mating some of the females, can be found driving Volvos, hanging out on street corners, and running the world. Nonetheless convinced that he is still a human, Simon is confined to the emergency psychiatric ward of Charing Cross Hospital, where he becomes the patient of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, medical doctor, anti-psychiatrist, and former television personality—an expert at the height of his reign as alpha male. As Busner attempts to convince him that “everyone who is fully sentient in this world are chimpanzees,” Simon struggles with the horrifying delusion that he is really a human trapped in a chimp’s body. Written with the same brilliant satiric wit that has distinguised Self’s earlier fiction, Great Apes is a hilarious, often disturbing, and absolutely original take on man’s place in the evolutionary chain. In a strange and twisted tale that recalls Jonathan Swift and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Will Self’s comic genius is impossible to ignore.


Zoo City

Zoo City

Author: Lauren Beukes

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 085766056X

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WHERE NO ONE ELSE DARE VENTURE… Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit – and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her lastpaycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons An astonishing second novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed Moxyland. FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Black Magic Noir / Pale Crocodile / Spirit Guardians / Lost Stars]


Unkie Munkie Lives at the Zoo

Unkie Munkie Lives at the Zoo

Author: Violet Favero

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781518841132

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Does Unkie Munkie live at the zoo? Explore the story as told by two year old Lu, who went to visit her uncle who she believes lives at the zoo. You'll have to decide if it's false or if it's true. And the answer to that and the ending of the story are left up to you. Read the story through and look for the clues. Parents should engage in a conversation with the reader to discuss why they think the story may or may not be true.


THE BOOK KARAMEL JUNKIE

THE BOOK KARAMEL JUNKIE

Author: WILLIAM C. OKEKE

Publisher: tredition

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 3347136632

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An exciting novel that happens to be true...Read, learn and enjoy! A great work of dialogue and argument. A grand theory of character that can be compared meaningfully with marriage relationship. Okeke reveals that only by exploring the whole of human behaviour can we see why action and reaction are the twin coin of good and evil. Life changing project. A gripping and truly original story of life and living. Remarkable. Forget sugar! Karamel is in!!