Cook, Julia
Summary: When "One of a Kind" is laughed at by Purple One and called a name by Green One, is the Tease Monster to blame? This tale teaches readers the difference between friendly teasing and mean teasing, and why some teasing can have a negative bite if it's meant to be hurtful and cause embarrassment.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COOYamada, Kobi
Summary: "How will you know what's possible if you don't try? This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a beginner, or had doubts, or worried they weren't good enough. It's a story for those who have experienced the pain of trying something new and not having it turn out as they had hoped. So, in many ways, it is a sotry for every one of us. Because at some point in our lives, we will all fail....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: When Tommy is sent to a special camp to make him into a "winner," he discovers that his fellow campers are competitive to the point of obsession, and that a particular teacher, Mrs. Maargh, takes winning very seriously.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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Summary: Meeting at a vast Hudson River estate, two couples become estranged by unexpected successes and reactions that shape the lives of diverse friends and family members over the course of two decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Spencer 2017Tillman, Nancy
Summary: An illustrated, rhyming celebration of everyday accomplishments and milestone events, from the viewpoint of an adult who always believed the child would succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019
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Summary: A woman who supported her musician lover as he worked his way to rock-star status suddenly finds herself dumped for a Brazilian supermodel, causing her to seek solace in a sisterhood of women who have been jilted by successful men--and are out for revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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Summary: When her life of privilege is upended by a terrorist attack that ends her parents' lives, a college senior struggles to rebuild on her own terms, learning uplifting and heartbreaking life lessons throughout a series of relationships and opportunities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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Summary: Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes for ever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEITait, Kimberley
Summary: "Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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Summary: When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STECook, Julia
Summary: RJ's way of doing things isn't working out for him. His teacher is upset because so many of his assignments are missing or incomplete, but RJ blames other students for distracting him. He learns how to ask for help and stay on task, and discovers that by doing things the right way the first time, he no longer has to do them over and over again.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Paperback, Call number: JE FIC COOWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: Brooke Alter supports her husband Julian in his efforts to become a successful musician, often working two jobs to make ends meet. One night Julian becomes a star while playing in a new artist showcase, and soon the pressures of his instant celebrity threaten to rip their marriage apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: Shows readers how to do a better job of asking for permission, and making an apology. RJ learns that using these skills means a lot fewer trips to the "time-out" chair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2012
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Summary: A down and out former business executive is rendered unconscious in an automobile accident and transported back in time where historical figures give him the seven key decisions essential for personal success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANDSathian, Sanjena
Summary: "An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sathian 2021MacMillan, Lindsay
Summary: Single Wall Street banker Rae, searching for Mr. Right before her thirtieth birthday, meets Dustin, a fellow poetic soul trapped in a business suit like her, and as their relationship progresses, his struggles with depression test her resolve as she tries to let love breathe on its own timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction MacmillanGregory, Philippa
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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Summary: When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESimpson, Mona
Summary: "The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSteel, Danielle
Summary: "Heads always turned when Rose McCarthy walked into a room. Nearly six foot tall, she was ramrod straight, and impeccably put together with faultless style, long graceful legs, her snow-white hair cut in a chin-length rounded cap. Her piercing blue eyes missed nothing. She could terrify anyone with a few, well chosen, soft-spoken, eloquent words, or comfort and delight a young employee with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House 2021
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Summary: "The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: Nicole 'Coco' Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother's stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father's work ethic and diligence, she has the world at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it the summer job of her dreams working at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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Summary: "The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love--"Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIKaplan, Isabel
Summary: From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears the vision of success. She has landed an entry-level position at a leading TV network that thousands of college grads would kill for. And sure, she has much to learn. The daughter of a prominent feminist attorney, she grew up outside the industry, better versed in gender dynamics than box office hits. But she's resourceful and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022