Groovy Chick Let's Party

Groovy Chick Let's Party
Author:
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2004
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780007166893

Groovy Chick takes the reader on a fabulous journey from party invitation to disco dance floor with simple fashion and beauty advice and lots of fun along the way. There's lots to see and do with an interactive element to enjoy on every page Bang on the Door's most popular character stars in a fabulous extravaganza of fun. Which shoes should she wear to the disco? Help decide with a selection of fantastic interactive flaps, a wheel or a tab to pull on every spread. Groovy Chick's wise style advice and beauty tips make this a must for girls with a passion for fashion.

Groovy Gumshoes

Groovy Gumshoes
Author: Jack Bates
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2022-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all. In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services. From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in Groovy Gumshoes take readers on a rollicking romp through the Sixties. With stories by Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White.

Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
Author: Sara Gibbs
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472274334

'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism would be to cure me of myself.' During the first thirty years of her life, comedy script writer Sara Gibbs had been labelled a lot of things - a cry baby, a scaredy cat, a spoiled brat, a weirdo, a show off - but more than anything else, she'd been called a Drama Queen. No one understood her behaviour, her meltdowns or her intense emotions. She felt like everyone else knew a social secret that she hadn't been let in on; as if life was a party she hadn't been invited to. Why was everything so damn hard? Little did Sara know that, at the age of thirty, she would be given one more label that would change her life's trajectory forever. That one day, sitting next to her husband in a clinical psychologist's office, she would learn that she had never been a drama queen, or a weirdo, or a cry baby, but she had always been autistic. Drama Queen is both a tour inside one autistic brain and a declaration that a diagnosis on the spectrum, with the right support, accommodations and understanding, doesn't have to be a barrier to life full of love, laughter and success. It is the story of one woman trying to fit into a world that has often tried to reject her and, most importantly, it's about a life of labels, and the joy of ripping them off one by one.

New Girl

New Girl
Author: Mary Ann Scott
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781550417258

After a lifetime of the same town and the same, well-known friends, Kat's a new girl. Everything's different. Faces in the hallways of the big-city school are every colour, and not one of them looks at her, warmly or otherwise.

American Mischief

American Mischief
Author: Alan Lelchuk
Publisher: Terrace Books
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780299192549

By turns hilarious and alarming, American Mischief is an ambitious attempt to define the disorders of American culture. Originally published in 1970, the novel takes on sexual anarchy, political madness, the collapse of monogamy, and above all the high cost of extreme behavior. These aspects of American culture are richly illustrated by the novel's two protagonists: Professor Bernard Kovell, a supreme and comical narcissist who dotes on lofty analogies while performing very low acts, and Lenny Pincus, a young radical fishing for more trouble than he can handle.

The Case of the Missing Boyfriend

The Case of the Missing Boyfriend
Author: Nick Alexander
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857896318

C.C. is living the urban dream—but where is the great guy she always thought she'd meet? C.C. is nearly 40, and apart from her real name—which she hates with a passion usually reserved for men with beards—everything in her life seems wonderful. She has a high-powered job in advertising, a beautiful apartment in Primrose Hill, and a wild bunch of gay friends to spend the weekends with. And yet she feels like the Titanic—slowly, inexorably, and against all expectation, sinking. The truth is, C.C. would rather be digging turnips on a remote farm than convincing the masses to buy a life-changing pair of double-zippered jeans, would rather be snuggling at home with the Missing Boyfriend than playing star fag-hag in London's latest coke-spots. But sightings of straight men that don't have weird fetishes or secret wives are rarer than an original metaphor, and C.C. fears that pursuing the Good Life alone will just leave her feeling even more isolated. Could her best friend's pop-psychology be right—are the horrors of C.C.'s past preventing her from moving on? And if C.C. finally does confront her demons, will she find the Missing Boyfriend, or is it already too late?

"G" is for Groovy

Author: Sean Black
Publisher: MMP
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

What do you get when you mix together an airhead heiress, a kooky cult leader, a giant plastic vajayjay, and an overly amorous English Bulldog? The latest hilarious outing featuring former child star turned Malibu Private Investigator Sofia Salgado. Readers say: "If you want to curl up with a book you can't put down and laugh this is the book for you." "Gives Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum a run for her money. "A fun read. I love the main character. She is smart, quirky and funny. I love women who can hold their own." "If you're looking for a lead character who is likable but also kicks some serious butt, you found her!" Sofia, Brendan and Aidan and the rest of the gang are back in this fun and funny mystery set in glamorous Malibu, California. Sofia goes undercover in a seemingly harmless cult called The Church of The Divine Goddess. At the same time she has to protect an overly amorous English Bulldog from crazed Aussie movie star, Bruce Brunt, who wants to do to Harvey what legions of women would love to do to Bruce––cut off his marble pouch!