That's Not My Hamster

That's Not My Hamster
Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9781409539728

This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory awareness and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

You're so Basic

You're so Basic
Author: Angela Casella
Publisher: A.R. Casella
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

It’s harder to run from love when you’re living with it. Danny I don’t want a new roommate. I especially don’t want a new roommate who’s loud, mouthy, and so painfully hot I can’t keep my eyes off her. Not that I’m interested in Mira Evans. She’s made it very clear that she agrees with the ex who famously broke up with me for being “too basic.” But Mira breaks her ankle a few hours after moving in, and a couple of days later we're stuck in an elevator...in the dark. Secrets are revealed; lines are crossed. Now, this woman I wanted to avoid knows more about me than some of my best friends. Mira I'm a workaholic who can't work, and staying cooped up inside is driving me crazy. Not to mention my no-good ex-boyfriend took Halloween a little too literally this year and got a psychic to hex me. I might not believe in magic, but I can't deny I feel like I've been hexed. I have a broken ankle, and I'm falling for my roommate, a man who seems as adventurous as a pumpkin spice latte served up in a hand-knit sweater. But getting stuck in that elevator with Danny proved to me there's much more to him than there appears to be...and I'm not the only one who's noticed. Maybe cabin fever has amped up my paranoia, but I get the feeling we're being watched. **An interconnected standalone in the Finding You series.**

The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead

The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead
Author: Adam Sharp
Publisher: Seven Dials
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2023-10-26
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 139871593X

Know your tater trap from your sniffle herring in Sharp's journey around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense - the perfect gift for Christmas 'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith - you will LOVE this book' Kit de Waal 'Extremely entertaining and very useful for new insults' Russell Kane 'Utter genius' Marian Keyes 'Brilliant' Brian Bilston Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig), how to hurry someone up in the US (You're going as slow as molasses in January) and what they call a shark in Vietnam (fat fish). Full of fascinating, ridiculous and hilarious translations from around the world, Adam has rounded up the very best of what every corner of the globe has to offer. Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)

Thoughts of a New Old Mum

Thoughts of a New Old Mum
Author: Karen Louise Hollis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-04-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1291397779

Karen Louise Hollis became a mum in 1990 aged 20 & had 3 more babies by 1996. She enjoyed being a young mum & having kids close in age. However in 2010 aged 41, Karen began a new relationship & they decided to have a baby. How hard would it be for her to conceive in her 40s? Would pregnancy & birth be different in the 2010s, some 20 years since her eldest was born? Thoughts of a New Old Mum follows Karen's journey from trying to get pregnant through the pregnancy & birth of their son & his 1st year. How had things changed since her experiences in the 1990s? Would she find it hard being an older mum? How would her other children react to their much younger sibling? This book covers a huge change in Karen's life. As she enters 2013, another happy event is just around the corner... The book is written in a friendly, chatty style which anyone who has a child will relate to. This is an open & honest account of the joys & love, worries & stresses, the explosive nappies & sleep-deprived nights of motherhood.

Not My Fault

Not My Fault
Author: Cath Howe
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1788005325

Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is running wild, and Rose doesn't know what to do. Now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school journey. But will the trip - and a life-threatening adventure - fix their relationship... or break it for good? An uplifting story of family, forgiveness, and finding out who you are, from the author of the highly-acclaimed Ella on the Outside. Praise for Ella on the Outside: "A perfectly-pitched, thoughtful story with a big heart." - Katherine Woodfine, author of The Clockwork Sparrow "It's impossible not to root for Ella to be brave and make the right decisions, and the urge to find out whether she will powers this warm, considered and entertaining novel." - BookTrust Also by Cath Howe: Ella on the Outside How to be Me

Lost It

Lost It
Author: Kristen Tracy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-06-20
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1439106924

What would you do... ...if your best friend were plotting the annihilation of a small, furry neighborhood poodle? Or if your parents up and moved to an Outward Bound-type survival camp in the middle of the desert? How about if your grandmother bought you new bras and underwear -- and you actually thought they were a teensy bit, umm, sexy? Most people would not react well. Tess Whistle's junior year of high school is off to a fairly bizarre start. One might even say her life is spiraling out of control. But with her sense of humor firmly intact and her first real boyfriend on her arm, Tess is dealing with the ridiculous twists quite well, thankyouverymuch. Just wait until her shoes explode.

It's Not Your Fault

It's Not Your Fault
Author: Laura K. Connell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757324738

A guide to help readers uncover the subconscious reasons they hold themselves back along with an exploration of the ways negative childhood experiences have impacted their lives and fed into the problem. We are sometimes our own worst enemies, sabotaging our success and with it our chance for lasting happiness and opportunities for personal and professional fulfillment. It’s Not Your Fault helps readers uncover the subconscious reasons they hold themselves back. These blind spots were often created in childhood as coping mechanisms in response to trauma. Rather than teaching tactics that ignore or give surface attention to adverse childhood events, the book lovingly guides readers to explore the ways these events have impacted their lives and how this knowledge will help them access true transformation. Readers will be relieved to discover that it's not a lack of willpower that has held them back, but a lack of self-knowledge instead. Those who have been let down by traditional therapeutic techniques know that behavior modification doesn’t work for everyone. Simply doing things differently while staying the same on the inside might help for the short term, but before long old patterns emerge. Once they decide to get serious about change, however, and stop tweaking habits in the hope it will result in lasting transformation, they can create a life by design instead of default. It takes work, an internal excavation, and Laura comes alongside the reader as a trusted guide who has been where they are now. She provides the tools and anecdotal evidence to show them how to overcome the pain of self-sabotage and create the life they desire.

Is My Hamster Wild?

Is My Hamster Wild?
Author: Rain Newcomb
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1600592422

Discover the wild animal living inside your pet.

Ribofunk

Ribofunk
Author: Paul Di Filippo
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497613248

Tackling genetic engineering, “Di Filippo’s effervescent prose can provoke both hilarity and haunting reflections on our species’ possible fate” (Publishers Weekly). Ribofunk contains eleven masterful and surprising works of imagination. In all of them, biology is the science that drives the engine of life and of story: the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene‐splicers; part‐human sea creatures live in the Great Lakes and clean up toxic spills; a river has become sentient; there is a bodyguard who is part wolverine and a thrill‐seeker climbs a skyscraper and gets stuck, literally.

Shorties

Shorties
Author: Louis S. Rupnick
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this reflective, light-hearted memoir, author Louis S. Rupnick chronicles his life’s journey, beginning with his childhood on Long Island and ending with the discovery of his life’s purpose, teaching. Long before his teaching career, however, a recently graduated, eighteen-year-old Lou takes off on a cross-country, Jack Kerouac-style road trip, with his trusty canine pal, DOG, and his ’56 Chevy, affectionately named Raunchy. As young Lou puts on more miles, he gathers more memories, wacky stories, and life lessons than he would ever imagine. Now almost sixty years later, Lou takes stock of his most significant experiences, from the humorous to the poignant to the downright extraordinary. About the Author Louis S. Rupnick was born and raised in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York. Rupnick was an auto mechanic and Child Protective Services investigator and case worker for many years before entering academia. He served on a minesweeper in the USN from 1964 to 1968. He served as Professor of Psychology and Sociology at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York. Now retired, Rupnick resides in Amelia Courthouse, Virginia.