Halley Feiffer
Author
Language
English
Description
Ella is a precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose aims in life are making her famous playwright father proud-and becoming famous herself. In the aftermath of a boozy, drug-fueled evening when Ella's father is particularly hurtful, she flings herself into the arms of a young director with whom she begins to collaborate on a one-woman show . . . about her father. Halley Feiffer's dark, probing, and much-anticipated new play is a fierce, funny,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheel - a pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely, finding ways to fill each other up and to tear each other down. But when a horrible accident turns their reality upside down, they find they must decide...
Author
Language
English
Description
"I've been single for so long, I've started having sexual fantasies about my vibrator," riffs Karla for her captive, cancer-ward audience. The patients-her mother, who's recovering from surgery for ovarian cancer, and her roommate behind the curtain, aren't laughing-or even awake-but there's someone else in the room . . .
In Halley Feiffer's new play, a foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian and a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty divorce are...
Series
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Description
The "Diary of a Worm" reveals how a young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world. "Anatole" is a very content, happy, sophisticated French mouse - until he hears how much humans dislike mice. The humans change their tune after Anatole becomes the cheese taster and cheese rater for the Duval Cheese Factory. A boy may be a mischievous rogue, but he still knows...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
Series
Duck (David Shannon) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
Knuffle Bunny too : This is the story of how Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend.
Wallace's lists : Wallace, a mouse, can do almost anything, as long as he has a list. Then he meets a new neighbor, who loves music and adventure, and he discovers the world outside...
Author
Language
English
Description
A proud caterpillar and a curious polliwog become unlikely friends in this delightful picture book by beloved author, illustrator, and cartoonist Jack Kent!
A transformative tale about a caterpillar and a polliwog who can't wait to grow up and turn into something else!
13) All Is Bright
Author
Language
English
Description
Rene (Paul Rudd of Anchorman: The Legend Continues, 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Dennis (Oscar®-nominee Paul Giamatti of Sideways, John Dies at the End) prove Christmas is the season for a good con. A low-level convict fresh out of prison, misanthropic Dennis is unable to find work because of his shady past. Furthermore, he discovers his longtime partner in crime, Rene, has begun a relationship with his ex-wife. Despite their growing animosity toward...
14) It Had to Be You
Author
Language
English
Description
Sonia is a quirky, neurotic jingle writer who has always dreamt of a big and exciting life. Surprised by a sudden proposal and subsequent ultimatum from her easy-going boyfriend, Chris, Sonia has three days to decide whether she'll join the ranks of her married friends or take a leap and pursue her fantasies. Blinded by anxiety, and pulled towards a fantastical idea of becoming the kind of woman she always idealized in films and literature, Sonia...