Everybody Say Cheese

Everybody Say Cheese
Author: Betty Bates
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Christy Hopper won a hundred dollars in a contest and now must decide how to stretch her winnings to satisfy everyone.

Horace and Morris Say Cheese (Which Makes Dolores Sneeze!)

Horace and Morris Say Cheese (Which Makes Dolores Sneeze!)
Author: James Howe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689839405

The timing could not be worse for Delores the mouse when she develops a food allergy to yummy cheese right before the Everything Cheese Festival.

Author: Joel Schnoor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1449010334

Uses humor to illustrate common mistakes that people make with English grammar and usage.

Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke
Author: Richard T. Kelly
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571278868

An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions - Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain - attracted great controversy. But he was greatly admired by his fellow professionals: 'He became the best of all of us', Stephen Frears observed after Clarke's untimely death in 1990. In his work Clarke explored working-class lives and left-wing themes with unflinching directness and humour. He forged alliances with gifted writers and producers, and his facility for encouraging stunning performaces (from Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Ray Winstone) made him a hero amongst actors. As a man, Clarke's wit, vigour and generosity were legendary. Yet he retained a privacy which made him enigmatic and imbued his work with much of its austere radiance. This volume is a tribute to Clarke, made out of the thoughts and memories of those who worked with him and knew him best, and includes a celebatory essay by eminent critic, David Thomson.

Time Out

Time Out
Author: Suzanne Trauth
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1601837216

KNISH OF DEATH The amateur actors at the Etonville Little Theatre may be known for chewing the scenery, but restaurant manager Dodie O’Dell has something more appetizing for them to sink their teeth into. She’s been taking bows in her small New Jersey town for her theme menus, designed to complement the local productions. This fall, the community theatre is staging Arsenic and Old Lace, set in 1940s Brooklyn, so Dodie is serving up hot dogs, Italian ices, egg creams, and knishes at the weekend food festival. All is going well until Antonio Digenza, the ex-Off-Off-Broadway director of the show, dies dramatically while noshing on a knish. As rumors of food poisoning quickly spread, Dodie scrambles to rescue the Windjammer restaurant’s reputation. But when clues point to foul play, she’s faced with a cast of suspects all auditioning for the part of DiGenza’s murderer. She’ll need to act fast to shine a spotlight on the killer—before it’s curtains for another victim . . .

Featherless

Featherless
Author: A.G. Mojtabai
Publisher: Slant Books
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2024-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1639821791

Plato famously defined a human being as a “featherless biped.” It’s hard not to sense the ironic humor in this definition, a reminder that, for all our talk about human dignity, our condition is contingent, vulnerable, and at some level even comic. Perhaps that’s why the writer A.G. Mojtabai—known for her dry, understated, subtly humorous but ultimately honest and courageous depictions of the human condition—chose the name for her latest novel, set in the confines of Shady Rest Home for the Aged. Mojtabai offers us a varied cast of characters at Shady Rest, including: Eli, who fancies himself a ladies man; Elora, anxious about her wayward nephew; the aloof but lonely scholar Wiktor; and Maddie, a bit eccentric, true, but more wise and compassionate than most. At the center of it all is Daniel, an old soul in a young man’s body, with a strange gift for caring for the elderly. Featherless is one of those rare books that brings us news from the final frontier, the end of life. Its unflinching but humane gaze—informed by the author’s own experience—serves as a fitting capstone for a literary career of uncommon distinction.

Mysteries in Our National Parks: Deadly Waters

Mysteries in Our National Parks: Deadly Waters
Author: Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 142630966X

The Landon family is Southbound—headed for Florida to investigate a mysterious illness plaguing endangered manatees in Everglades National Park. Jack, Ashley, and their friend Bridger soon find themselves in deadly waters with a seven-foot shark, an injured manatee—and a mystery to solve. Who was the stranger in the speedboat who snatched Jack's camera? And what does he have to do with the manatees? Join the heart-stopping chase through a maze of mangrove islands to find out!

Play For Today

Play For Today
Author: Irene Shubik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719056871

Writing from first-hand experience, the author describes the role of the producer in the making of an original television play, from the initial discussions with writers to the transmission. Irene Shubik worked on "Play for Today" for the BBC and was also a drama producer for ITV.

Wild & Hexy

Wild & Hexy
Author: Vicki Lewis Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451412584

Dreading a return to Big Knob, Indiana, after her weight gain of twenty pounds, former Dairy Festival Queen Annie Winston discovers that her hometown has been turned upside down by unconventional matchmakers Dorcas and Ambrose Lowell, who use magic to come up with Annie's perfect match--shy computer whiz Jeremy Dunstan, who has long yearned for Annie. Original.

The Last Chance Library

The Last Chance Library
Author: Freya Sampson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593201396

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick A Library Reads Pick June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way. Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened with closure, June is forced to emerge from behind the shelves to save the heart of her community and the place that holds the dearest memories of her mother. Joining a band of eccentric yet dedicated locals in a campaign to keep the library, June opens herself up to other people for the first time since her mother died. It just so happens that her old school friend Alex Chen is back in town and willing to lend a helping hand. The kindhearted lawyer's feelings for her are obvious to everyone but June, who won't believe that anyone could ever care for her in that way. To save the place and the books that mean so much to her, June must finally make some changes to her life. For once, she's determined not to go down without a fight. And maybe, in fighting for her cherished library, June can save herself, too.