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Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids as they slowly transitioned from being a married couple to single people (someday) living separately. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition,...
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While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern stories for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her with glazed over eyes and said, "Why don't you write this stuff down?" Thus was born Miss Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle. If the genesis for a book is to shut your wife up, I guess that's as good as any. On top of that, Olivia's mother had burdened her with one of those Southern middle names kids...
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In this insightful collection, an accomplished essayist and humorist offers a class in "Tyranny for Beginners;" warns about the snares of dinner parties; explains the mind-set of barbarians; suggests the perfect gift for Mother-a wildebeest-and tells what happens when his dog's barking drives him to thoughts of murder. Roger Rosenblatt forces us to laugh at the silliness of the world we have created, refocuses our minds on what really matters, and...
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There are hundreds of books written by women for women. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. If men are supposedly from Mars and women from Venus, why do women get the bigger planet? Women are already responsible for about 80% of all retail spending and have most of the financial and emotional control in relationships. Guys everywhere are getting SCREWED, not just a little, but a lot. It is time for the shocking truth to be, told! WARNING: This book is by men...
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Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti's essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today. Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbors - but that doesn't stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can't quite navigate. Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school....
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Never mind the Real Housewives of Orange County-Marla Jo Fisher is the woman everyone can relate to, complete with bad parenting, rotten dogs, ill health, and fashion faux pas. For nearly two decades, in the Orange County Register and many syndicated papers, readers have delighted in Marla Jo's subversive humor, cranky intellect, and huge heart on her journey through broke, single, after-40 motherhood, when she adopted Cheetah Boy and Curly Girl,...
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Parenting; How hard could it be? It turns out that it's not the cakewalk that many believe it is. I started my musings as a way to cope through therapy and I have collected the funniest anecdotes of my life as I survive parenting a toddler and teenager simultaneously. Inside you will find the entire collection of my cathartic tales as I take you on the funniest journey through my failures at motherhood. You will laugh, cry, and scream as you navigate...
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“A string of cheap lights can turn the ordinary into something shimmering and magical, the drab into the dazzling. Christmas lights remind us that the ordinary is extraordinary if viewed in the right light."
Funny and poignant, Santa's Little Helper Wants To Eat Your Children & Other Holiday Musings is a collection of holiday-themed essays and recollections from award-winning writer Rob Errera that looks at the family, friends, feasts, fantasy,...
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During an afternoon of coffee and conversation, a friend of Erin McHugh's pointed out that she frequently invoked quotations and memories from her mother. Then Erin started noticing how many other people did the same. It also became clear how humorous, moving, and unusual these gems were so she decided to do something about it. In Like My Mother Always Said, McHugh, author of the successful Abrams Image feel-good title One Good Deed, collects the...
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Finalist Pacific Book Awards 2018! A celebration of one of the most simple joys in life: the unwitting comedy of children.
Is there anything more likely to make you laugh and put a smile on your face than the innocent and funny remark of a child? Ever since Art Linkletter first published Kids Say the Darndest Things in 1957, people have laughed and been delighted with the things kids say. The Danes have a word for the feeling of happy delight that...
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Trust father of three William Shakespeare for all the advice you need for any parenting dilemma, in this witty and erudite guide-a handy collection of wisdom drawn from his most beloved works, from Hamlet to King Lear to Much Ado About Nothing.
With a series of cunningly extracted lines from his best-loved plays and sonnets, hilariously illustrated in a simple, almost child-like style, James Andrews proves once again that Shakespeare-expert on love,...
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A pediatrician shares accounts of the humorous and heartwarming things his young patients have said to him over the course of his career.
"Hey, doctor, I want to tell you something!"
For fifty-four years, kids have shared with pediatrician Arnold Tanis stories, questions, and bold pronouncements about their childhood worlds. In between treating them, the good doctor wrote down what many of them said. Three generations of patients offer memorable...
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A collection of crowd-sourced quips and quotes from real-life dads-from the profound to the hilarious.
The author of Like My Mother Always Said... presents a new volume that focuses on fatherly advice-gathered from contributors around the world. Dads may come from different places and have wildly varying personalities, but sometimes their wisdom is universal. Other times, it's just plain bizarre...
"You can have as much freedom as you can pay...
14) You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
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The author and humorist Sam Levenson is quoted hundreds of time each day on Twitter, and his sayings appear on everything from t-shirts to inspirational signs. To read through and savor You Don't Have To Be In Who's Who To Know What's What is to discover much of the source material for his timeless wisdom. It is a treasure trove of topics ranging from family ("Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children") to perseverance ("Don't watch...
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The beloved humorist and author Sam Levenson finds that some of his old worldviews don't fit the new one he now sees. Levenson's grew up the youngest of eight children in a large Jewish immigrant family in New York. He evolved from a Spanish teacher in Brooklyn to working the Catskills circuit as a comedian. By the 1950s, Levenson was a fixture in American homes as television personality, appearing and guest hosting numerous times on classic shows...
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In this timeless classic that topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1966 and 1967, Sam Levenson recalls his childhood with the warmth and affectionate humor that endeared the author and humorist to millions of Americans. He describes the cramped New York tenement which he shared with his parents, his six older brothers, and his sister as a "a life of plenty"-plenty of relatives, neighbors, boarders, janitors, hugs, slaps, books, music, weddings,...
17) Telling Tales
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This entertaining collection of short stories is based on Sheila McMillan's experiences as she was trying to fit in as a 'proper' clergy wife in a country town in Northern Ireland, from her first experience of presiding over a meeting of the Women's League to the consequences of a burglary of their family home. It was during the 1970's, a time when the Troubles cast their shadow over every corner of the province, but the unrest is touched on only...
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Panoplie de textes savoureux
Quelques rimes humoristiques et distrayantes qui présentent des aspects du monde moderne vus par un soit-disant « vieux monsieur », habité par la joie de vivre !
Machisme, rires, bagarres, sport, amour, mariage, argent, religion, shopping, parentalité, amitiés, santé, langue moderne, politique, fatuité, tatouages, robotisation, musique, informatique, trafic, le paradis, la retraite...presque tout y est pour vous...
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Extrait: "Mes lecteurs ne seraient que très imparfaitement satisfaits, si, les introduisant de suite et sans aucuns préparatifs sur mon théâtre agreste, ainsi que dans tous les secrets de mon BELVÉDÈRE AÉRIEN, je ne les préparais d'avance à ces augustes mystères. Il en est de même de tous les plaisirs de la vie ; le prélude, ainsi que tous les détours enchanteurs par lesquels on arrive au cœur d'une jolie femme, composent la majeure...
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Extrait: "Recueil historique contenant un grand nombre d'événements tragiques, rendez-vous galants, intrigues piquantes, comiques et romanesques; mystères et secrets étonnants, soit en fait de galanterie, soit en complots criminels, dont ce BOIS FAMEUX n'est que trop souvent le théâtre".
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