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| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Joy of Cookies Cookie Monster, 2018-04-10 In life, there is one thing we can all agree on: cookies. And there is no greater expert on this endless source of joy, warmth, and crumbs than Cookie Monster. In The Joy of Cookies, Cookie Monster offers deep thoughts on life, friendship, baking, and the love of cookies. He serves as our guide to all things cookie and shares how best to fully experience the joy cookies bring us. This is a book to get us through the dark times and celebrate the good times, and to help us more fully understand who we truly are as both cookie lovers and as people. It’s the perfect gift for friends, family, and fellow monsters—the gift of cookies. An Imprint Book Fans of the big blue guy will love this title, which, just like a warm chocolate chip cookie, oozes joy and happiness. —School Library Journal For more fun from folks who live on Sesame Street, check out Oscar the Grouch's The Pursuit of Grouchiness and Bert and Ernie's The Importance of Being Ernie (and Bert). |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Cookie Monster Lonnie P. Anderson, 2023-12-06 Criminal behaviors take place everyday. It is up to us to heal from them. Naturally, physical assault can lead to much depression, anxiety, and durable fiascos. Eternal joy is a promise for all who come to Jesus Christ enlisting his assistance to fill all the holes dug in the wrong places. The Cookie Monster is a tale about beauty arising from destruction, probably the only notable work of this kind. Lonnie P. Anderson takes you on a journey through forgiveness and overcoming, never giving up on the faith, joy, and hope that are ours for the taking. Workmanship and steady philosophical hope takes place throughout an incandescent and provocative emblem of desire. Love is a reward for those who search for and find the companionship of the Lord Jesus. Belligerent denial of obstructive cantankerous situations miffs the truth of good opinion and disastrous deceit, where leaning on lies sends you down to the bottom. History depletes natures of soliloquy and pardonable, individual complications of remorse. Repercussions give grace to interludes of stress and overcoming, where faith complies with nature and becomes spiritually renewed. Antagonism resists our efforts to destroy evil, yet we can resist those most ignoble forces of destruction patterned after lost or suicidal redemption. Cookies were made for cookie monsters and cookie kings. Let this elaborate epic saga grace you in learning about the “baker”, our Father in Heaven and the cookie monster whose attributes refine and conclude with victory. Baskets of cookies roam our world today. See first hand what a cookie monster can do. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Being Patient with Cookie Monster: Sesame Street Monster Meditation in collaboration with Headspace Random House, 2021-06-29 Cookie Monster learns simple meditation techniques and plays a fun game to help be more patient--based on the popular Sesame Street Monster Meditation video on YouTube made in collaboration with the mindfulness app Headspace. Sometimes everyone needs to slow down and take some cleansing belly breaths--even Cookie Monster! This terrific board book features Cookie Monster learning a calming game to help pass the time as he waits for his cookies to finish baking. The game is a fun and simple one that all young boys and girls can easily play whenever they need to be patient. This is Book 1 in a series of 6 books, all inspired by the popular Sesame Street Monster Meditation videos on YouTube, that will help young girls and boys learn mindfulness techniques along with their favorite characters. The videos are made in collaboration with Headspace, the mindfulness app. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics for families around the world. |
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| cookie monster deep thoughts: Valley of the Shadow Elizabeth Stone and Erin Stone, 2014 I found her in the closet; that is how the nightmare began . . . The nightmare is suicide, teen suicide by overdose. Valley of the Shadow provides a rare and intimate window on one family's life thrown into a tailspin by their daughter's suicide attempt. Written with candor, hope, and even some humor, the authors share their story of grief, crisis, recovery and renewal from both the family's and victim's perspectives. Walk with Elizabeth and Erin Stone and their family through this valley to find hope and healing. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: My sweetest temptation i.s.a. bella, 2024-12-31 Gigi He was the devil I craved. I knew I was screwed the moment I caught his eye. He’s sexy, cunning, and cruel—a ruthless killer disguised as a prince. Despite every warning sign and instinct telling me to stay away, I found myself drawn to him in a way I couldn't resist. Our chemistry ignited a forbidden romance that simmered with intensity and danger. But then Nico shattered my heart, leaving me at the mercy of his enemies. In the end, I was just another pawn in a deadly game. Nico She was the angel who brought peace to my chaos. The first moment I saw her, she was mine—a soul to possess. Innocent and beautiful… everything opposite in my world. She held the power to unravel my defenses. Until, through her deceit and betrayal, she shattered it completely. And now, she has been snatched away from me, leaving me hollow and raging. My enemies will face my wrath for taking what's mine. I will burn this world down and stop at nothing to bring my angel back home. This is a dark romance that contains dark themes that may be triggering to some. TWs listed inside the book and on my website. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Cookie Monsters Erika J. Kendrick, 2023-01-17 A fun, fast-paced novel about friendship, family, fighting for what’s right, and standing out from the crowd while standing up for yourself. Twelve-year-old Brooklyn Ace is ready to take the Valentine World Scouts by storm and build her own cookie empire. She nearly won the top cookie selling spot last year and is determined to make her mom—who recently passed away—proud by coming in first this time around. With her fabulous best friends by her side, Brooklyn knows she’ll become Santa Monica’s District Cookie Queen. The crown is practically in the bag. Then Piper Parker arrives. Piper has a rich dad, a fancy hotel, and a goal to steal the cookie crown right off Brooklyn’s head. Before long, most of the seventh grade is under Piper’s spell. But Brooklyn is in it to win the biggest cookie war the school has ever seen. With the help of her cookie squad, her rockstar grandmother, her super cool therapist, and a lot of self-love and inner growth, maybe—just maybe—Brooklyn can end up a winner after all. For more adventures at Valentine Middle, don't miss these school stories from Erika J. Kendrick: Squad Goals Instafamous |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson, 2017-05-30 Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Death Metal and Music Criticism Michelle Phillipov, 2012-03-15 In this book, Author Michelle Phillipov Combines original analyses of death metal with accessible overviews of popular music studies as a field. By doing so, Phillipov demonstrates how the premium placed on political engagement in popular music studies serves to circumscribe our understanding of the complexity and specificity of death metal. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: A Fire Upon The Deep Vernor Vinge, 1993-02-15 A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these regions of thought, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Among Heroes Brandon Webb, John David Mann, 2015-05-26 Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Brandon Webb’s personal account of eight of his friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. “Knowing these great men—who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for—has changed my life. We can’t let them be forgotten. We’ve mourned their deaths. Let’s celebrate their lives.”—Brandon Webb As a Navy SEAL, Brandon Webb rose to the top of the world’s most elite sniper corps, experiencing years of punishing training and combat missions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan. Along the way, Webb served beside, trained, and supported men he came to know not just as fellow warriors, but as friends and, eventually, as heroes. This is his personal account of eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comrades and their country with remarkable valor and abiding humanity: Matt “Axe” Axelson, who perished on Afghanistan’s Lone Survivor mission; Chris Campbell, Heath Robinson, and JT Tumilson, who were among the casualties of Extortion 17; Glen Doherty, Webb’s best friend, killed while helping secure the successful rescue and extraction of American CIA and State Department diplomats in Benghazi; and other close friends, classmates, and fellow warriors. These are men who left behind powerfully instructive examples of what it means to be alive—and what it truly means to be a hero. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: At the end Jay Cook, 2023-09-19 For centuries, mankind has speculated how the world would end. For Manhattan resident, Jenny Lowe, that time is now. The Earth is dying. Jenny finds herself through one catastrophe after another and with unexpected help along the way, at the end the unimaginable truth is revealed. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Monster's Proof Richard Lewis, 2012-12-11 Livey's younger brother, Darby, a math genius, brings his imaginary friend to life through a mathematical proof. Bob is a creature of pure math, and he hates chaos and disorder. Now Livey, Darby, and some very unique allies must band together to find a way to stop Bob-before he fixes our disorderly world for good. Monster's Proof brings horror and math together in an unforgettable novel that will forever change the way you look at an equation. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Far Side of the Desert Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, 2024-03-05 A terrorist attack—a kidnapping—the ultimate vacation gone wrong Sisters Samantha and Monte Waters are vacationing together in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, enjoying a festival and planning to meet with their brother, Cal—but the idyllic plans are short-lived. When terrorists' attacks rock the city around them, Monte, a U.S. foreign service officer, and Samantha, an international television correspondent, are separated, and one of them is whisked away in the frenzy. The family mobilizes, using all their contacts to try to find their missing sister, but to no avail. She has vanished. As time presses on, the outlook darkens. Can she be found, or is she a lost cause? And, even if she returns, will the damage to her and those around her be irreparable? Moving from Spain to Washington to Morocco to Gibraltar to the Sahara Desert, The Far Side of the Desert is a family drama and political thriller that explores links of terrorism, crime, and financial manipulation, revealing the grace that ultimately foils destruction. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Daniel Silva |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Jane’s Patisserie Jane Dunn, 2021-08-05 The fastest selling baking book of all time, from social media sensation Jane's Patisserie 'This will be the most-loved baking book in your stash!' - Zoë Sugg 'The Mary Berry of the Instagram age' - The Times Life is what you bake it - so bake it sweet! Discover how to make life sweet with 100 delicious bakes, cakes and treats from baking blogger, Jane. Jane's recipes are loved for being easy, customisable, and packed with your favourite flavours. Covering everything from gooey cookies and celebration cakes with a dreamy drip finish, to fluffy cupcakes and creamy no-bake cheesecakes, Jane' Patisserie is easy baking for everyone. Whether you're looking for a salted caramel fix, or a spicy biscoff bake, this book has everything you need to create iconic bakes and become a star baker. Includes new and exclusive recipes requested by her followers and the most popular classics from her blog - NYC Cookies, No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake, Salted Caramel Drip Cake and more! Jane Dunne, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024 |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 25th Anniversary Edition Laura Joffe Numeroff, 1985-05-09 If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim.... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge, 2007-04-01 Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep, for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifteen years... Amidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness In the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. This new Tor Essentials edition of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In the Sky includes an introduction by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton, author of Among Others. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Storyteller Tanya L. Orr, 2023-08-30 The Storyteller is a sweet and lovely tale about Curtis and Penny Hansin who, over the years, due to the many responsibilities which they now have, as well as trying to keep up with the daunting challenges that come with family life, have forgotten the importance of not only remembering the events of the past but also passing on those ancestral stories to the next generation. That is, until ten-year-old little Samuel reminds them. And so, after being taught by his great-grandmother Abigail from the moment he could speak, Sam makes use of his strong determined will, which he inherited from her. And with the heart of an explorer and the soul of a storyteller, he is determined to prove to his parents just how important it is to keep the conversation going. So sit back and watch how the past makes its way into the present while on its way toward the future. Streaking across timelines and long-ago memories like a comet. Carrying within its tail the many colorful souls whose dreams were once realized and whose lives were lived and who, by the gift of storytelling, will never be forgotten. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes Joe E. Meisel, 2025-03-15 The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes dives into the mystery and wonder of the daily lives of saltwater fishes. Joe E. Meisel introduces readers to the fascinating behaviors, remarkable adaptations, and complex life histories of the many species that call the oceans home. From the shallows, where penetrating sunlight encourages bright colors and extravagant patterns in fish, to the abyssal depths, where extreme conditions are countered in bizarre ways, this book illuminates the staggering diversity of ocean life. Discussions of unique characteristics and lifestyles are accompanied by narratives from scientists and fish lovers, with detailed illustrations throughout. Meisel also explores the challenges facing global fisheries today, connecting the book's featured species with questions and opportunities surrounding food demand, aquaculture, and sustainability. Each fish has a story to tell in The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes, and through each story readers will discover an awe and a fascination for the oceanic inhabitants that we so rarely get to witness. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: All You Never Wanted Adele Griffin, 2012-10-09 With my eyes closed and Alex's core friends all around me, it was like I'd become my big sister, or something just as good. And so who cared if they were calling it Alex's party? One thing I knew: it would be remembered as mine. Alex has it all—brains, beauty, popularity, and a dangerously hot boyfriend. Her little sister Thea wants it all, and she's stepped up her game to get it. Even if it means spinning the truth to win the attention she deserves. Even if it means uncovering a shocking secret her older sister never wanted to share. Even if it means crying wolf. Told in the alternating voices of Alex and Thea, Adele Griffin's mesmerizing new novel is the story of a sibling rivalry on speed. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery Quan Xie, Liang Zhao, Kenli Li, Anupam Yadav, Lipo Wang, 2022-01-04 This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The book can be useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2021 17th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2021, 24–26 July 2021, Guiyang, China). All papers were rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the areas. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: College Misfit Justin Palmer, 2014-11-24 Hello, I just want to quickly state that YOU'RE AWESOME! Not only have you found my book among the millions on this site (or your finger might've slip clicked on this book by mistake), you were intrigued enough to see what this book is all about by reading my summary! This book is a somewhat biographical retelling of my life in college. But don't worry, it's got jokes! Silly jokes, immature jokes... it's all in there! This book has the off-kilter humor that I don't see too often; humor that is immature but never is dumb for the sake of being dumb. Have I sold you yet? Well, I should point out that the e-book costs only $1.99! I mean, that's the cost of two snackers! Hopefully I got your attention now. I truly am proud of this book, flaws and all. It isn't perfect, but considering that this is the first book I've ever written, hopefully, you go into it knowing it won't be as polished or professional-looking as other books, but I honestly believe it is worth your time and money. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: What Big Teeth Rose Szabo, 2021-02-02 A Strand February 2021 Book of the Month With a layered mystery, a haunting setting, and thrilling tension, What Big Teeth has an otherness to it that pulls you in and forces you to keep reading. —Tricia Levenseller, Publisher’s Weekly-bestselling author of The Shadows Between Us Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds. Eleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together—in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her. Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark fantasy novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. This exquisitely terrifying and beautiful tale will sink its teeth into you and never let go. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Steel Toe Review: Volume 2 M. David Hornbuckle, editor, 2013-03-15 The second annual anthology from Steel Toe Review, an online literary magazine based in Birmingham, AL. Steel Toe Review gives special attention to writers from the South and writing with Southern themes, but we publish quality writing on any topic from writers all over the world. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Dinosaur Lake Kathryn Meyer Griffith, An ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake …and it’s hungry. Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways. First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry. And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat. And it can come up onto land. So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men, must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again. *** dinosaur, Crater Lake, thriller, suspense, horror, SF, romance, paleontologist, mystery, paleontology dig, Kathryn Meyer Griffith |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Takomiad Surazeus Astarius, 2017-09-24 Takomiad of Surazeus - Goddess of Takoma presents 125,667 lines of verse in 2,590 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1984 to 1992. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Deep-Sea Countdown (The Backyardigans) Nickelodeon Publishing, 2011-04-20 Count with the Backyardigans as they discover the treasures of the deep sea! |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Cookie Monster's Storybook Emily Perl Kingsley, 1979 Cookie Monster relates four of his greatest schemes to secure cookies. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: 14 Days Terry Pappy, 2007 14 Days--Loving Life with the Love of my Life, a memoir, is a love story based on the author's relationship with her husband, Chuck. How they managed through six years battling cancer after only being married three, and together what they learned about the ultimate fear.The story weaves through the early days of their relationship and includes Chuck's inspiring journal entries. 14 Days will leave you with a greater understanding and appreciation of how precious life, and true love, is. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Five Hurdles to Happiness Mitch Abblett, 2020-07-14 A practical approach to becoming aware of the five hindrances--the negative qualities that inhibit living the awakened life--and to breaking free of them in order to live more mindfully, effectively, compassionately. Five obstacles stand in between you and true happiness. What are they and how can you overcome them? Buddhist traditions teach that there are five negative qualities, or hindrances, that inhibit people from living an awakened life. Here, Mitch Abblett gives this teaching a modern, secular interpretation and helps you identify the hurdles that are blocking your contentment—desire, hostility, sluggishness, worry, and doubt—and how you can take your first steps to overcoming them. Combining traditional wisdom with contemporary psychology and using examples from his psychotherapy practice, Abblett uses the hurdles as a frame for engaging you in a process of contemplating your own life and learning to lean into your experience rather than merely repeating bad habits. By doing this, you can break free from the hurdles and live more mindfully, effectively, and compassionately. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Trouble With Love Rosemary Dun, 2025-04-28 Is loneliness worth the price of freedom? Polly Park thinks so—until she meets Spike, who’s set to leave for Australia in six months. No strings, no mess. But falling in love—and a surprise discovery after he’s gone—leaves Polly’s life forever changed. Three years later, Polly is a single mum to her daughter, Rowan. She’s dating Max and may finally be ready to open her heart again. Then Spike reappears with a glamorous girlfriend, throwing Polly’s world—and her emotions—into turmoil. As old feelings resurface, Polly must navigate where her heart stands with both Spike and Max, and consider what’s best for her daughter. The Trouble with Love is a witty rom-com that tackles love’s messiness. But can love truly conquer all? ‘Quirky, charming and laugh-out-loud funny. Polly and Spike are my favourite romantic couple for a very long time... It's a feel-good book for Renaissance Women and Men everywhere.’ Julie Cohen |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Sesame Effect Charlotte F. Cole, June H. Lee, 2016-03-10 The Sesame Effect details the wide-ranging work of Sesame Workshop and its productions across the world. With an emphasis on impact and evidence from research on projects in low- and middle-income countries, the book tells the stories behind the development of an international family of Muppet characters created for the locally produced adaptations of Sesame Street. Each chapter highlights the educational message of international co-productions and presents the cultural context of each project. Readers will understand the specific needs of children living in a given locale, as well as gain insight into the educational drivers of each project. These projects often deal with difficult issues, from race relations in the United States, to HIV/AIDS education in South Africa, to building respect across cultural divides in the Middle East. Readers will see how local productions have helped build a new mindset that values the importance of early childhood education, and how Sesame Street promotes a brighter future by building children’s academic skills, encouraging healthy habits, and by fostering attitudes that counter negative stereotypes and create appreciation of and respect for others. The Sesame Effect shows how, when magnified across the millions of children touched by the various international programs, Sesame Workshop and its projects are making a difference around the world. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 7 Daniel Arthur Smith, S. Elliot Brandis, Ian Garner, Hank Garner, |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: Omnibus No. 2 Daniel Arthur Smith, Ernie Howard, Will Swardstrom, Hank Garner, S. Elliot Brandis, Kevin Lauderdale, Ian Garner, Jessica West, Artie Cabrera, Michael Patrick Hicks, Samuel Peralta, |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen, 2012-09-13 Allusions are a marvelous literary shorthand. A miser is a Scrooge, a strong man a Samson, a beautiful woman a modern-day Helen of Troy. From classical mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this revised and updated third edition explains the meanings of more than 2,000 allusions in use in modern English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rambo to Rubens. Based on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate usage, drawn from sources ranging from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to Bridget Jones's Diary. In addition, the dictionary includes a useful thematic index, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out how her name is used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of Revenge and find, alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo. Hailed by Library Journal as wonderfully conceived and extraordinarily useful, this superb reference--now available in paperback--will appeal to anyone who enjoys language in all its variety. It is especially useful for students and writers. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Playing Fast: A Secret Crush Baseball Romance Melanie Scott, 2016 She never worried about her crush on baseball’s bad boy until he landed right in her lap Eva Harlowe always figured her crush on Finn Castro would never be anything but her deepest fantasy. Until the Saints send him down to the minors after one too many scandals. And given Eva works for the Sarasota Springs Preachers, that means now her job is dealing with the fallen Saint way too up close and personal. Finn might as well have ‘bad decision’ tattooed on his forehead and she knows she has to resist. Which would be easier if meeting the gorgeous Finn face to face didn’t make her want to learn all the wicked things he can teach her. He's trying to learn his lesson, but she makes him want to play dirty Finn knows he’s on his last chance. Three strikes and the Saints have exiled him to see if he can reform his ways. He needs to keep his head down and prove that he deserves a second chance. But Eva would tempt even a true saint and he’s not even close to that. When the two of them strike a bargain for a strictly one season fling, it seems the perfect solution. But hearts don’t always follow the rules and as their clock starts to run out, they either have to face their feelings or lose everything they are. Playing Fast is the fifth book in the New York Saints series, a steamy sports romance series. This series has billionaires, baseball, strong heroines, team drama, the occasional cute pet, and sexy times. Enjoy! Author's note: For tropes and CW, please check the author's website. KEYWORDS: Baseball romance series, steamy sports romance, secret crush, office romance, just a fling, professional athlete hero romance, baseball hero, strong heroine romance, contemporary romance, sensual, sexy, modern, kissing books, swoon, emotional, |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Christmas Eve Club Brooke R. Bonomi, 2024-08-25 Sixteen-year-old Janie Ridley is a varsity soccer player at Chuck Yeager High School doing her best to not think about the pressure she is receiving from her teammates, who all made a pledge by Christmas Eve to score a lot on the field and at least once off the field, to lose her virginity before she turns seventeen. Justin Alito, along with other boys, is all too happy to assist any of the girls on the soccer team in fulfilling their pledge to be in the Christmas Eve Club and has already initiated a few of the girls to prove his point. As Janie downs alcohol in an effort to tame her nervousness and inhibitions, she experiences an internal battle that does not end that night. But as the boys become “men” and the some of the girls attempt to fend off bullies and stand up to peer pressure, fate steps in to intervene. Will a mysterious geeky classmate be able to stop Janie from losing her virginity before it is too late? The Christmas Eve Club is a tale of forgiveness, faith, chastity, and relationships as a high school girl is pressured to lose her virginity before her seventeenth birthday. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: The Night in Question Nic Joseph, 2018-10-02 [A] unique and totally compelling mystery chock-full of desperation, greed, scandal and murder. A smart and compulsive read with a thrilling ending to boot.—Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good Girl In this gripping suspense novel, a brush with fame leads to far more than a celebrity selfie. Instead an average woman finds herself plunging down a dark road to blackmail—and maybe murder. When Paula picks up her last rideshare passenger of the night, all she sees is a few more dollars to put toward her husband's medical bills. But then she recognizes the quiet stranger in her back seat as a world-famous musician and realizes the woman waiting at his destination is not his celebrity wife. So, Paula does what any down-on-her-luck woman would do. She asks for money in exchange for silence. But a few days later, a woman is murdered, and Paula's knowledge of the celebrity affair could prove instrumental to catching a killer. And the more she learns about the suspects, the more dangerous her silence becomes. A sinuous thriller layered with privilege, intrigue, and suspense, The Night in Question is the perfect read for anyone who enjoyed Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter or The Passenger by Lisa Lutz. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Enough Grace to Make Things Right Janet Weiler, 2021-07-15 Joe came out of prison a changed man. There would be no more drugs and no more crime. He had lived precariously all his adult life, but he hoped to leave all that behind. He was starting over. Joe found his way to his grandfather's house in a small town. He faced his challenges head on, but there was one memory he couldn't shake. Coming out of prison, Joe discovered that he had a two-year-old son. Little Stevie was thriving with parents who loved him, and Joe wouldn't interfere. Long ago, he'd decided to never have kids. No sweet little kid deserved a dad like him. Joe went to church and joined a men's Bible study. Many of the people he met there reminded him about-but more importantly, showed him-God's love and grace. Compelled by this truth, Joe gave his life to Christ, and God began to use him. But then tragedy struck. After picking up the newspaper at the coffee shop, Joe shouted out in anguish at what he had read. His mind was numb. His heart was broken. What could he do? Joe didn't understand, but soon he would stand amazed as he watched God's plan unfold. |
| cookie monster deep thoughts: Blizzard in the Bluegrass Hallee Bridgeman, 2022-09-24 Gloria's son is lost in the Christmas blizzard. Will she and Jeff find him in time? Or will the season of joy turn into a tragedy? Despite an ex-husband who abandoned them in the wake of their son's autism diagnosis, GLORIA SUTTON has her life under control. She has a successful large animal veterinary practice in small town Charula, Kentucky, shuttles her son Noah to all of his needed therapies, and volunteers with the children at her church. Everything runs as smoothly as possible, even if at times she finds herself overwhelmed in the parenting alone department. Eight-year-old boys provide their own kind of unique challenges, and when you throw in a special needs, the whole single parenting aspect can at times overwhelm. She knows that there are days that only the strength derived from God can get her through another moment. Widower JEFF BROCK moves to Charula to escape the memories of his wife and daughter, leaving behind a prestigious position of doctor of internal medicine at the University of Louisville Hospital to take over his great-uncle's small town family practice. He has no desire nor intention to ever date again, until his inherited yellow Lab brings him together with his new neighbor and her charming son. Soon he finds himself wanting to let go of the past and, for the first time in years, seek out a future. When the storm of the century blankets Kentucky under several feet of snow and whiteout conditions on Christmas day, GLORIA and JEFF batten down at her father's house, counting their blessings and basking in the warmth of their love. Until they discover that eight-year-old Noah is missing. Will they find him before he succumbs to the elements, or will this day forever mark a tragedy in their lives? |
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The Compost Cookie, invented by Pastry Chef Christina Tosi of New York City's Momofuku Milk Bar, has become an Internet sensation. The recipe is easy to alter, so borrow from the original ...
50 Bar Cookie Recipes | Food Network
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (No. 1) Beat 2 sticks softened butter and 1 cup each granulated and light brown sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy; add 3 eggs and 1 1/2 …
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