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- Dave's breakfast blast off! / by Hendra, Sue.; Wildish, Lee.;
LSC- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Cats; Animals; Hunger; Gluttony;
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- The glutton : a novel / by Blakemore, A. K.,1991-author.;
Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this slender, frail man is the one they once called The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon. Before, he was just Tarare. Well-meaning and hopelessly curious, born into a world of brawling and sweet cider, to a bereaved mother and a life of slender means. The 18th Century is drawing to a close, unrest grips the heart of France and life in the village is soon shaken. When a sudden act of violence sees Tarare cast out and left for dead, his ferocious appetite is ignited, and it's not long before his extraordinary abilities to eat make him a marvel throughout the land.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Appetite; Gluttony; Nuns; Peasants;
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- Pig the monster / by Blabey, Aaron.;
LSC- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Stories in rhyme.; Pig (Fictitious character from Blabey); Dachshunds; Dogs; Halloween; Gluttony; Sharing;
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- The aerosmurf / by Peyo.;
In "The Aerosmurf," the Flying Smurf must use his new flying machine to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel. In "The Masked Smurf," when Smurfs start getting hit in the face with cream pies, every Smurf wants to solve the mystery of the masked Smurf. In "The Firesmurfs," there's a heat wave and a fire breaks out in Smurf Village--call in the Firesmurfs! In "Gluttony and the Smurfs," has Gargamel finally found the one thing Smurfs cannot resist? In "The Smurf and His Dragon," when lonely Timid Smurf befriends Grumpf the Dragon, has he unknownly placed all the Smurfs in danger? Finally in "Jokey Smurf's Pranks," how long can the Smurfs put up with Jokey's pranks, and what happens when Jokey discovers he can't quit pranking?- Subjects: Smurfs (Fictitious characters); Fantasy comic books, strips, etc., French; Graphic novels;
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- The undertow : scenes from a slow civil war / by Sharlet, Jeff,author.;
"One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war-a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace and understanding. Political rallies are as aflame with need and giddy expectation as religious revivals. Framing this dangerous vision, Sharlet remembers and celebrates the courage of those who sing a different song of community, and of an America long dreamt of and yet to be fully born, dedicated to justice and freedom for all"--- Subjects: Polarization (Social sciences); Religion and politics; Right and left (Political science);
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- All things are too small : essays in praise of excess / by Rothfeld, Becca,author.;
A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of their idiosyncrasies and darknesses. We take up mindfulness to do the same thing to our heads, emptying them of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are. In the bedroom, a new wave of puritanism has drained sex of its unpredictability and therefore true eroticism. In our fictions, the quest for balance has given us protagonists who aspire only to excise their appetites. We have flipped our values, Rothfeld argues: while the gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, we strive to compensate with egalitarianism in art, erotics, and taste, where it does not belong and where it quashes wild experiments and exuberance. Lush, provocative, and bitingly funny, All Things Are Too Small is a subversive soul cry to restore imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment to all domains of our lives.- Subjects: Essays.; Equality.; Excess (Philosophy); Income distribution.; Orderliness.;
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