A Little Me

Author: Amy Roloff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1948080982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
From the star of TLC’s hit reality show Little People BIG World comes a revelatory memoir that will inspire those who have long followed the Roloff’s and newcomers alike. “A Little Me by Amy Roloff is a feel-good, inspirational memoir about a remarkable woman who addresses challenges head-on with a positive outlook and deep faith.” – New York Journal of Books Whatever package you come in, life isn’t easier or harder than another’s because you are different physically. There may be more challenges, but still, everyone has challenges. “God doesn’t make mistakes.” For Amy Roloff, star of TLC’s hit reality show Little People, BIG World, her father’s words would repeatedly serve as an anchor, reminding her of her inherent worth and purpose, whenever feelings of insecurity and inadequacy surfaced and threatened to overwhelm her. In A Little Me, Amy shares what it was like growing up with achondroplasia dwarfism, how she struggled to overcome obstacles both physical and emotional—navigating the average-size world as a little person, dealing with a serious illness as a young girl, bullying, and issues of body image and unachievable beauty ideals—while learning, as we all must, to accept herself for who she is. Finally allowing herself to be vulnerable enough to open up to others, she learned that it’s worth risking possible rejection for a chance at genuine relationships. Amy’s memoir is an inspiring and at times heart-wrenching account of resilience and the strength of the human spirit to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Big Earth, Little Me

Author: Thom Wiley
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780545092258
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
Provides illustrations of children doing things to help the environment, including cleaning the yard, recycling, turning off the water, and using a lunch box.

Little Me

Author: Patrick Dennis
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030741910X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another. For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. A runaway bestseller that made its way to Broadway, starring Sid Caesar in 1962 and Martin Short in 1998, Little Me is now reprinted--with all of the 150 historic, hysterical photographs depicting the funniest scenes from Belle's sordid life, including cameo appearances by the author and Rosalind Russell. Considered a collector's item, the first edition of Little Me was like a performance in book form. Now this glittering spoof of celebrity is gloriously reincarnated for connoisseurs of all things chick and cheeky.

Little Me

Author: Matt Lucas
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The hilarious, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas. Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for Baldy! - which is what people used to shout at me in the playground (not much fun), G is for Gay (because I'm an actual real life gay) and T is for the TARDIS (because I'm a companion in Doctor Who now). You get the sort of thing. Anyway I hope you buy it at least twice. Thank you.

Weight Off A Little Me

Author: Sharita Ann Edge
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304953246
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
Join me through my journey and transformation with health issues and obesity. Obesity is not something that you are born with it's acquired through life's challenges. Time to take back charge of your life, you can do it. Believe in yourself as I believe in YOU! I wrote this book in hopes that it may save someone else's life as it did mine.

Uncle Mame

Author: Eric Myers
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786747366
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
Under his pseudonyms of Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans, Edward Everett (Pat) Tanner III was the author of sixteen novels—most of them best sellers—including the now-classic Little Me and Auntie Mame. Tanner made millions, became the toast of Manhattan society, and had his works adapted into wildly successful plays, musicals, TV shows, and films. But he also spent every cent he made, worked incognito as a butler to the wealthy, and constructed a persona so elaborate that not even his wife and children ever quite knew the real Pat. Based on extensive interviews with coworkers, friends, and relatives, Uncle Mame is a revealing, intimate portrait of the man who brought camp to the American mainstream and even in his lowest moments personified—even in his lowest moments— the glamour and wit he captured on the page.

Being Special

Author: Patricia Liggins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105269205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Soniya and her siblings have been through so much in their lives, but they had finally managed to find a routine. Just when things had just calmed down enough for them to say that life was "normal" Soniya meets an unexpected stranger who flips her and her siblings' lives upside down.Now Soniya is learning things about her past that she had never expected. Things further unfold on her journey with her unexpected stranger and she soon falls into a place where she least expected to fall. Love. Now she must not only deal with the life threatening changes that come into her life thanks to her new crush, but she also has to deal with the ridges that arise between her and her siblings because of it.

There's a Song for Everything

Author: Maria Lissa Borce
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796005312
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
It seems that there is not enough singing in pre-school these days, while we as educators get caught up with the demands of preparing children for formal schooling. Young children love to sing and move. They respond to repetitive rhymes and action. The songs in this book are a great resource to compliment their learning across all the curriculum areas. This song book will bring out the natural singer in every early childhood teacher, student and parent. When I teach children a new lesson, a young child will ask me “is there a song about...?” My answer is “yes,” because there can be a song about anything and everything, and if you are still searching for those songs, this book offers many possibilities.

Pangea

Author: Talaiya Safdar
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890220
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
After the catastrophic World War III that nearly destroys the human race, the future is now Pangea, run according to The Principles: 'We will survive as one world, one country, one race.' True harmony can only exist if everyone genuinely believes in the Pangean way. So, anyone who holds deviant beliefs is ‘washed’ of their memories and implanted with a more Pangean disposition. Seventeen-year-old Suni is about to begin the perfect Pangean life when her wash is reversed, returning her memories, and she discovers everything she has known about herself is fake. Unable to live that lie, she joins a ragtag group of rebels. On the run, she must come to terms with the man she loved and what he has become, as she struggles to find out who she really is.

Big Deal

Author: Kevin Winkler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199336806
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and was a key figure in the rise of the director-choreographer in the Broadway musical. He also became the only star director of musicals of his era--a group that included Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd, and Harold Prince--to equal his Broadway success in films. Following his unprecedented triple crown of show business awards in 1973 (an Oscar for Cabaret, Emmy for Liza with a Z, and Tony for Pippin), Fosse assumed complete control of virtually every element of his projects. But when at last he had achieved complete autonomy, his final efforts, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, written and directed by Fosse, were rejected by audiences and critics. A fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical considers Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades. It traces his early dance years and the importance of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins on his work. It examines how each of the important women in his adult life--all dancers--impacted his career and influenced his dance aesthetic. Finally, the book investigates how his evolution as both artist and individual mirrored the social and political climate of his era and allowed him to comfortably ride a wave of cultural changes.