Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593762526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants—all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales. “These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet’s writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” —Joe Meno

Author: Kari Schuetz
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1612117627
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Monkey babies are clingy children, hanging on to mom or dad for dear life. Some infants hug dad's belly. Others ride on mom's back. After you make your way through this book, you will be attached to the little creatures yourself!

Author: Deborah Blum
Publisher: Merloyd Lawrence Books
ISBN: 9780738202785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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A fascinating account of the controversial psychologist who revolutionized the study of love recalls his early experiments with primates to measure "affection" as well as his later work. 30,000 first printing.

Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617752843
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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A teenage girl and her brother fight for their family’s future in a world devastated by climate change: “Thrillingly scary . . . There is much here to enjoy” (The Washington Post). In a dystopian future brought about by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother, Sam, have come by ship to the Big Island of Hawaii for their parents’ Final Week. The few Americans who still live well also live long—so long that older adults bow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts from the corporates who now run the disintegrating society, keeping the people happy through a constant diet of “pharma.” Nat’s family is spending their pharma-guided last week at a luxury resort complex called the Twilight Island Acropolis. Deeply conflicted about her parents’ decision, Nat spends her time keeping a record of everything her family does in the company-supplied diary that came in the hotel’s care package. While Nat attempts to come to terms with her impending parentless future, Sam begins to discover cracks in the corporates’ agenda—and eventually rebels against the company his parents have hired to handle their last days. Now Nat will have to choose a side, in this moving and suspenseful novel by a National Book Award–nominated author. Winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People “A deep read, but fast; it lingers in your mind long after it’s been read.” —New York Journal of Books “A brilliant dystopian novel . . . Beautifully written, dark but ultimately hopeful.” —The Buffalo News “The details are terrific . . . and as the tension mounts it becomes a real page turner.” —The Independent “Vivid, moving . . . Will attract mature teen fans of Divergent, Hunger Games, and similar apocalyptic survival stories.” —Midwest Book Review

Author: Emily Gravett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442499729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Monkey and me, Monkey and me, Monkey and me, We went to see... A little girl and her toy monkey love imitating different animals, everything from jumping like kangaroos to waddling like penguins! Open this book and play along with them. Can you guess what animal they are now?

Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593763190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the soap, the toothpaste, and even tried to eat the plaster on her walls — a dietary adventure that ended none too well. This woman's story, covering decades and spanning continents, is tragic, yet she is curiously at peace, even happy. Despite a lifetime of neglect, physical abuse, and loss, she's incapable of perceiving slight or injury. She has infinite faith in the goodwill of others, loves even her enemies, and finds grace and communion in places most people wouldn't dare to brave. Lauded by both critics and readers, My Happy Life consistently surprises and excites with its original vision of a unique woman whose rich interior life protects her from the horrors of external reality.

Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: G.T. Labs
ISBN: 097880371X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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Recounts the story of Harry Harlow, a psychologist who speculated, explained, and conducted experiments on whether "love" exists, using rhesus monkeys as subjects.

Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780794521783
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Young readers may touch various surfaces on monkeys that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.

Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393635481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.’s wealthy elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless, myopic executives are tormented by their employees, and beastly men do beastly things. Fresh off the critical triumph of Sweet Lamb of Heaven (longlisted for the National Book Award), Millet is pioneering a new kind of satire—compassionate toward its victims and hilariously brutal in its depiction of modern American life.

Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062670670
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Hilda Snibbs has three little monkeys. Their names are: Tim and Sam and Lulu. Each day, Hilda comes home to find a big mess! Will these silly little monkeys ever learn to behave? This funny, chaotic, and utterly delightful picture book from renowned children’s book author and illustrator Quentin Blake and celebrated illustrator Emma Chichester Clark is a perfect story to treasure together.