And Now For Some Light Relief...The Genuinely Funny Joke Book

Author: Peter FitzSimons
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742754090
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
Australia’s best-selling author’s favourite wisecracks, tall tales and rib-ticklers. Two drunks were walking home along the railway tracks. The first drunk says, 'There's a hell of a lot of steps here.' The second drunk says, 'I'll tell you what's worse, this hand rail is low down.’ Peter FitzSimons has collected the biggest, bestest, funniest, downright groan-inducing,rib-ticklers, one-liners, knock-knocks, shaggy dog stories and limericks and collated them into the ultimate book of jokes.

The Remake

Author: Clive James
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Een Britse astronoom tracht een filmster te winnen.

Kaapse bibliotekaris

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Starting with Goodbye

Author: Lisa Romeo
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1943859698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
Starting with Goodbye begins with loss and ends with love, as a midlife daughter rediscovers her enigmatic father after his death. Lisa has little time for grief, but when her dead dad drops in for “conversations,” his absent presence invites Lisa to examine why the parent she had turned away from in life now holds her spellbound. Lisa reconsiders the affluent upbringing he financed (filled with horses, lavish vacations, bulging closets), and the emotional distance that grew when he retired to Las Vegas and she remained in New Jersey where she and her husband earn moderate incomes. She also confronts death rituals, navigates new family dynamics, while living both in memory and the unfolding moment. In this brutally honest yet compelling portrayal and tribute, Lisa searches for meaning, reconciling the Italian-American father—self-made textile manufacturer who liked newspapers, smoking, Las Vegas craps tables, and solitude—with the complex man she discovers influenced everything, from career choice to spouse. By forging a new father-daughter “relationship,” grief is transformed to hopeful life-affirming redemption. In poignant, often lyrical prose, this powerful, honest book proves that when we dare to love the parent who challenged us most, it’s never too late.

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Author: Annabel Pitcher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316201855
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. !--StartFragment-- To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together. !--EndFragment--

Something to Remember Me by

Author: Saul Bellow
Publisher: New Amer Library
ISBN: 9780451168702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Brings together three of Bellow's works of short fiction--"A theft," "The Bellarosa Connection," and "Something to Remember Me By."

Dial M for Merde

Author: Stephen Clarke
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453243569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
This international bestseller from the author of A Year in the Merde “combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond” (Publishers Weekly). When the glorious oceanographer Gloria Monday convinces Paul West to travel to the swank beaches of southern France—where she’s investigating caviar-smuggling cartels—he assumes he’s about to have the time of his life. But for West, France has always been full of surprises underfoot, and this trip is no exception to the rule. He’s soon dragged into an undercover investigation that goes all the way to the top and leaves him feeling sometimes like James Bond, sometimes like Inspector Clouseau. Dial M for Merde is a comic caper that pokes fun at French society at every level, from pompous politicians to grumpy waitstaff.

Hunger: A Novella and Stories

Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393344770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
“A masterwork of enormous power.” —Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko The searing debut of “one of the most influential writers in American letters…Hunger is a masterpiece, a necessary haunting” (Justin Torres, author of We the Animals). A powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family into poignant tales of love and loss. Celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang illuminates the lives of first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and emotionally uprooted from their homeland, who mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment—and shows how their choices shape their children. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary collection, “a work of gorgeous, enduring prose” (Helen C. Wan, Washington Post), are caught between the burden of their past and the fragility of their unchartered future.

Fuck Off, I'm Coloring

Author: Dare You Stamp Co.
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
ISBN: 1604336617
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Color the shit out of this new stress-relieving swear word adult coloring book! With daily stresses like annoying coworkers, red-faced bosses, endless traffic, and whatever shit you have going on at home, sometimes all you need to tell everyone to “fuck off.” Now you can say it in color! Relieve some stress with easy and beautiful art—that also happens to feature your favorite profanities. Feel the “zen” wash over you as you color in or outside the lines however you damn well please. Take your defiance up a notch with more complex patterns, or take the easy route when you unwind. Do whatever the fuck you want.

The Spectator

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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