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A decade after their wild boat ride adventure on the Thames river, J, Harris, and George reunite for another vacation. Older, richer, and fatter, but not wiser, the three men stumble through mishaps and surprises as they journey to Germany. First saying their goodbyes, J and Harris seek the approval of their wives, worried about leaving their kids. Their wives are supportive, secretly considering their husbands' trip from home as a vacation for themselves...
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In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies--the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary--that captured the imagination of the city. The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production...
3) The Cruise
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'Girl power for the over sixties!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Three women.One widowed.One unmarried.One almost divorced.All aged 63, but not ready to give up on life! Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives, three friends decide that now they're in their sixties, it's time they finally did something for themselves! Swapping Christmas turkeys and BBC reruns for crystal waters, white sandy beaches and smooth golden rum, Anne,...
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We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, "What the hell is wrong with Florida?" Somehow, the state has acquired an image as a subtropical festival of stupid, and as a loyal Floridian, Dave begs to differ. Sure, there was the 2000 election. And people seem to take their pants off for no good reason. And it has flying...
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Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.
Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O'Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain-embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity's diversity...
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Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.
Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O'Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain-embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity's diversity...
7) Bethesda
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Bethesda Residential Home for the Active Elderly is well on her way to becoming the UK South Coast's Residential Home of First Choice, all thanks to her formidable managing director, Veronica Puxworthy.
For the past four years, since unexpectedly inheriting Bethesda in 1975, Veronica and her motley crew of managers have worked hard to make it a success. But now, after a series of surprise attacks, that success is under serious threat.
Can Veronica...
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Adapted from the 2015 book Bad Uber, an unintentional antiwork novel. A true account of leaving a worthy career to join the gig economy.
As the Uber phenomenon takes over London with its minicab booking app, destroying the trade of the world-famous black cab, trampling history under wheel and smashing prices, Charles Brickfield brings us the life of an Uber driver.
This audiobook tracks his first fifty days - from complete novice, to the Christmas...
9) Free Country
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The plan is simple. George and Ben have three weeks to cycle 1000 miles from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland. There is just one small problem… they have no bikes, no clothes, no food and no money. Setting off in just a pair of Union Jack boxer shorts, they attempt to rely on the generosity of the British public for everything from food to accommodation, clothes to shoes, and bikes to beer.
During the most hilarious adventure, George...
10) The Only Way Is West: A Once In a Lifetime Adventure Walking 500 Miles On Spain's Camino de Santiago
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What would you do if you're given a €20 note in Greece with an email address scribbled on it:
Spend it?
Slip the suspect counterfeit bill into an enemy's birthday card?
Send an email, hoping it will lead to you finding everlasting love?
Brad, a hopeless romantic, chose the latter.
Two years later, his love life remains a disaster and his career is misfiring. As he's about to walk Spain's fabled Camino de Santiago to ponder some profound life changes,...
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Are you ready to meet The Bloody British? For fans of Very British Problems, Douglas Adams and Bill Bryson, it's the perfect gift for the socially awkward oddball in your life.
Being British isn't easy. Especially if you live abroad, where your countrymen aren't exactly famous for, well, blending in. As his beloved homeland goes Brexit bananas, bestselling humourist Paul Hawkins takes on Britishness - how it looks from the outside, how to be British...
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Sie wird von der Politik kaputtgespart und gleichzeitig als Klimaretter gepriesen, und vielleicht teilen wir ja alle dieses sonderbare Verhältnis zwischen Geringschätzung und Zuneigung, wenn es um dieses gute alte Verkehrsmittel geht: die Bahn. Wer hätte nicht schon geflucht, wenn sie mal wieder Nena-Style fährt (irgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann) oder uns mangels erreichbarer Anschlusszüge in Elsterwerda übernachten lässt? Und wer fühlte, andererseits,...
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Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.
Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O'Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain-embracing the people, their food, and especially their curiosities. His humor and infatuation with humanity's diversity...
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I had been in Asia just over two months--something like ten weeks, or if you're counting days, about seventy days.
Of course, if you're counting meals, like I was, think about two hundred and ten.
Add iodine-purified water, a permanent layer of dust on my tongue, and let's just say I couldn't always hold down what I did eat.
Food was becoming my meaning, my passion, my existence.
I dreamt up meals in my head: leafy salads, steak, anything without...
15) A Kilo of String
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After living in Greece for thirteen years, writer and reluctant olive farmer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he and his wife Penny found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all.
A Kilo of String is the story-so-far of this not-particularly-plucky couple's often bewildering experiences among the descendants of Sophocles, Plato, and Nana Mouskouri with occasional digressions into total irrelevances.
This is a book which...
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How do you go from pulling pints one day, to travelling the world, all-expenses paid the next?
For this author it involved a huge dollop of Ketchup, a little bit of growing up, and an extraordinary sequence of events that flings the author on a career path he'd never dreamed could happen. Throw in the patter of little feet, sharp teeth, amputations and a smattering of characters from their Tenerife bar days, and you have another serving of Ketchup...
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Number One AMAZON BEST SELLER, Bicycle Travel.
This is the true story of a young man's epic bicycle journey from England to India. Traveling more than eight thousand miles, he encounters all manner of adventure, from the curious company of a butterfly in the wilds of Iran to the aftermath of a coup in Kandahar, Afghanistan-from navigating the foreign yet welcoming Muslim world, where he learns the basics of Islam, to the journey's end in mystical...
18) Subiendo España
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Este libro va más allá de las montañas. Más allá de la complejidad de plantearse un reto y de llevarlo hasta el final. Más allá de personas habituadas a la naturaleza y de las que que sueñan con dar ese salto. Donde quiere hurgar el libro es en la necesaria obligación que tenemos de PASAR A LA ACCIÓN.
Subiendo España son 52 maneras de buscar motivación para acercarte a la montaña (al monte, a los senderos, a la naturaleza) y de comparar...
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A thoroughly entertaining motorhome odyssey around Britain and Ireland, lands of myths, legends, giants, monsters, leprechauns, heroes and villains.
From John O' Groats to Landsend, Scotland's North Coast 500, Snowdonia, Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way to the Jurassic and Pembrokeshire coasts. Visit magnificent cathedrals, imposing castles, historic pubs and enjoy the craic in Irish bars. Explore a rich heritage and encounter King Arthur, Robin Hood,...
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The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job? The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery....
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